[svlug] DSL working with some weirdo hardware in a robot submarine

[Chris Miller]

On 2/3/07, David E. Fox <dfox at m206-157.dsl.tsoft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:14:34 -0800
> Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
> > What kind of stuff is "this" kind? This thread was about Damn Small Linux
> > being used in an embedded device, and there was a brief tangent regarding
>
> Well, I'm probably to blame; I misinterpreted Bruce's comments, thinking
> he was talking about a perceived overhead of Debian relative to DSL
> (digital subscriber line, not Damn Small Linux) (such a perceived
> overhead to me doesn't exist) when (as I found out soon enough) he was
> really talking about Damn Small Linux all the time (the overhead
> meaning the extra things Debian has, such as apt-get etc.)
>
> Oh well. My bad.

Yeah, I had a little bit of a hard time understanding what you were
talking about in relation to the subject line: "DSL working with some
weirdo hardware in a robot submarine"

Oh, and the sub itself is undergoing some huge modifications.  Right
now the software team has been told that the only thing we can count
on is that there will be a PC104 stack or something like that in the
sub which we can work with.

Beyond that we don't have much of a guarantee of there being anything
there.  DSL does sound like a good idea because of its tiny footprint,
and it brings all the features of Linux to bear (primarily threading
capabilities light years ahead of Windows')

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