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axel77 · 10-12-2008, 04:58 PM

Also Linux (as operating system, as kernel!) has very decent "internet capabilities", the network stack sure is better than for windows. One can argue if the OpenBSD network stack is better, but I think you are eitherway confused between what the "internet capability" of an OS is, compared to what browser you got installed on a sytem.

Also the browser capabilities of the iLiad is nothing an upcoming coderelease of some closed parts of the iLiad could help us with. For this coding task the iLiad is already open enough. Also there are at least two 3rd party browsers available for the iLiad, did you try these?

And about CPU power, ericshliao is right, btw. did you know we today need 100times more CPU power to display a single html webpage than it was needed for mankind to land the first time on the moon?

ericshliao, linux is not only used because its free. Its used because its an excellent OS scaling really well also down onto embedded devices. The license costs for example for VxWorks are when I remember correctly 50€ per CPU, this is a considerable amount, buts its not 3 times the cost. However as e.g. VxWoks might be usefull in small devices with hard realtime needs, its just so far off from offering the same amount of features a GNU/Linux system can do.

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axel77 Fanatic Posts: 584 Karma: 914 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: iliad	Also Linux (as operating system, as kernel!) has very decent "internet capabilities", the network stack sure is better than for windows. One can argue if the OpenBSD network stack is better, but I think you are eitherway confused between what the "internet capability" of an OS is, compared to what browser you got installed on a sytem. Also the browser capabilities of the iLiad is nothing an upcoming coderelease of some closed parts of the iLiad could help us with. For this coding task the iLiad is already open enough. Also there are at least two 3rd party browsers available for the iLiad, did you try these? And about CPU power, ericshliao is right, btw. did you know we today need 100times more CPU power to display a single html webpage than it was needed for mankind to land the first time on the moon? ericshliao, linux is not only used because its free. Its used because its an excellent OS scaling really well also down onto embedded devices. The license costs for example for VxWorks are when I remember correctly 50€ per CPU, this is a considerable amount, buts its not 3 times the cost. However as e.g. VxWoks might be usefull in small devices with hard realtime needs, its just so far off from offering the same amount of features a GNU/Linux system can do. Last edited by axel77; 10-12-2008 at 05:13 PM.