VxWorks is just too good [LWN.net]

VxWorks is just too good

Posted Dec 2, 2005 19:16 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: VxWorks is just too good by larryr
Parent article: LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54GL (LinuxDevices)

If that were true, OpenWRT would work on the series 5 devices, and they wouldn't have had to make the "L" to keep people happy (or they wouldn't relate it to Linux, but rather to having a complex routing system). It should be possible to make it work, but it's not trivial (in fact, the OpenWRT developers have no plans to do it, even though lots of people seem to have the things and want to use OpenWRT), and a company can just hire VxWorks programmers.

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VxWorks is just too good

Posted Dec 2, 2005 19:48 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030) [Link]

for the amount of effort it takes to write software for VxWorks vs Linux they could get the memory footprint down under Linux;
If that were true, OpenWRT would work on the series 5 devices

This seems to suggest that implementing OpenWRT in a way which offers a compelling value proposition for its prospective users is comparable to implementing the minimum core functionality necessary for the box to be a profitable consumer product. I do not think they are comparable.

Larry