I'm not working on embedded systems, but I do have an interest in the
software that works on embedded systems. I've been investigating
lightweight, well-designed applications that would work well on
low-resource or older computers. While I've been searching for Open
Source applications that fit this criteria, I keep running into
software used by embedded systems. Would like to get in touch with
other developers and find out more. There were a couple of topics on
elinux.org that I found particularly interesting. Was hoping someone
on this list might know more about some of these topics or give me
some pointers as to forums, mailing lists or best places to discuss
this sort of thing further.

This sounded like a really useful idea:
http://elinux.org/Busybox_replacement_project
Would be curious as to the status of this project. I've been looking
at (and testing out) various BSD and/or MIT style licensed
implementations for some of these types of tools from projects like
PicoBSD, Minix and other sources. Would be interested in comparing
notes with others on this subject.

Am also interested in NanoX:
http://elinux.org/Multimedia#NanoX
I've experimented with building a few FLTK applications using NanoX
for the XFDOS project. I've also compiled NanoX on Cygwin and tried
building a few applications with it on that system. Would be curious
to know more about using NanoX as a replacement for X Windows on Linux
and/or FreeBSD systems. Am particularly interested in building FLTK
1.3 and SDL applications in conjunction with it.

Any pointers to places to find out more or discuss these types of
topics would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

On 10/11/2012 06:00 AM, LM wrote:> This sounded like a really useful idea:

http://elinux.org/Busybox_replacement_project
Would be curious as to the status of this project. I've been looking
at (and testing out) various BSD and/or MIT style licensed
implementations for some of these types of tools from projects like
PicoBSD, Minix and other sources. Would be interested in comparing
notes with others on this subject.

The leading contender for an implementation for this
project was 'toybox'. It made a lot of progress in the last
year, and is usable now for some tasks.

See http://www.landley.net/toybox/about.html

The CE Workgroup decided not to fund this project. Individuals
and companies may get involved directly if they wish. A few have.

-- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment
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