[Asterisk-Dev] embedded os recommendation

[Bob Knight]

Patrice Vital wrote:

> Bob,
>
> Your only choice is Linux at this point of time.
> Last time I checked, I couldn't find any hardware complied to work 
> IAX2/SIP on a xBSD OS.
>
> Being a FreeBSD fan mysel, I hope to see some xBSD certified hardware 
> soon.
>
> I'm using RedHat 8.0 ( not by choice ) with an SMP kernel ( for dev 
> purposes so far ) and it's very stable.
>
> Pat 

I guess I should had made it a little clearer.
This is a stand along embedded widget. No PCI bus. No hardware will plug in.
I know for a fact netbsd will work, because I have built switches and 
routers with it.

I was just wondering if something like an embedded linux would make it 
easier
for integrating * code.

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> Bob Knight wrote:
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>> I am working on an IAX2/SIP type of external gateway.
>> The major hardware chunks are in place, now it is time to pick an os.
>>
>> Most of my experience has been with netbsd.  I have done some work
>> fixing very broke linux drivers.
>>
>> Here are my needs:
>>
>> 1.  good powerpc support (they all seem to have this)
>> 2.  lean and mean. Keep cost down but performance up.
>> 3.  easy to integrate with * code.    The goal is to compile major
>>     chunks of code from an * source tree.  Try to keep this widget
>>     as open as possible.
>>
>> There seems to be sooooo many choices.  My head hurts.
>>
>> netbsd, openbsd, freebsd, linux
>>
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