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Re: what is ecos
- To: Robert Lee <rlee_1900 at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] what is ecos
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:29:03 +0100
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20011018054001.47278.qmail@web9003.mail.yahoo.com>
Robert Lee wrote:
>
> How to run X on ecos? It doesn't seem trivial to me.
> Running an MPEG player on ecos looks like a big job.
> Could you mount NFS? run Netscape? I guess ecos is
> not meant to be a software layer for general
> interactive systems. While running Linux on a palm
> pilot makes sense, running ecos does not.
Yes, eCos is (deliberately) not intended for that type of market.
Jifl
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