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Linux Guitar Project is not a solo act (Linux.com)
Tina Gasperson
investigates Mark Kett's
Linux Guitar Project
on Linux.com.
"Recently, Kett had an idea for a travel guitar. "It would have an iPod running Linux plugged in, that would allow me to record the music that was played on it." He shared the idea with David Patrick, the proprietor of the linuxcaffe, and through some brainstorming came up with the idea for an "open source" electric guitar -- designed from the ground up by community consensus and fitted with Linux technology. "We hashed out ideas about what the ultimate guitar would be -- running a full Linux operating system and with all the capabilities of a recording studio.""
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Linux Guitar Project is not a solo act (Linux.com) Posted Feb 4, 2007 22:08 UTC (Sun) by bluefoxicy (subscriber, #25366) [Link] Why not Minix? Seriously, Linux and BSD are both monolith kernels; Minix is a new and interesting direction and nobody is following it. It's a microkernel, so it's probably good for extremely embedded situations at least; we can't run Linux on dust-sized devices with a few KB of RAM.
Linux Guitar Project is not a solo act (Linux.com) Posted Feb 6, 2007 3:09 UTC (Tue) by set (guest, #4788) [Link] hmm. well Minix is x86 only. Its minimum stated requirements are still4meg of ram. Its also apparantly hugely outperformed by Linux. http://lwn.net/Articles/220255/ (subscriber only though.) Also, Linux is being used by gobs of people in embedded devices already, runs on all the embedded low power arches, and has support for minimal configurations of that sort, whereas, it seems (I havent used it) that Minix is primarily a teaching/example/research OS, and comes with a reportedly comparatively primitive environment, with limited developement tools....
Maybe you can pare Minix down, but all the other limitation vs. Linux
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