[sdiy] OT: Screw Linux.

[Aaron Bader]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 21:56:41 -0400
Matt Simpson <mr.threv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've heard Linux called
> "Fischer Price My First Unix"
>

Alright, I've been holding out on commenting to avoid increasing the
noise on the list further, but...

A) I agree with that statement.
B) Why has noone mentioned NetBSD? 

I've had bad times with Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD... and Solaris. And
IRIX. Through all my time with NetBSD (I've used it since 1.4.0) it has
just... worked. Perfectly. And not only that, it'll work the same way -
on everything - including your toaster.

http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm

To bring things back on topic, I've seriously considered buying one of
those embedded systems as they are slick and inexpensive, and offer
pc104 bus. My idea was a pc104 card with a full analog voice on it...

Then you could use the overpowered (for this application) cpu to make
all of the control signals in software, as well as use the leftover
power for software effects/waveshapers/processing. Vectored FM synthesis
with analog filters anyone? 

It could also be fully multitimbral without much fuss. Great for onstage
use.

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