I guess my question is do you guys pick and choose what you're going to be using from that distribution, or have you been successful using it wholesale?

The former (at least in my case). The 'problem' (actually, an excellent feature) with empeg is that it boots from flash which, if I understand it correctly, contains not only the kernel, but image of the memory in as late a stage of boot process as they could get away with. The result is very fast, but also, shall we say, unconventional boot sequence, that makes it impossible to simply run unchanged Debian distro on it. However, once init process gets control (and you replace it with something of your own), you can do whatever you want, within relatively narrow confines of empeg's physical memory and swap.


Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
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