Embedded linux

[Ahmed Kamal]

oh you want to optimize for cost, http://www.raspberrypi.org/ thank me later
:)

2011/6/5 Islam Hassan <eng.islam_hassan at hotmail.com>

>  First, thanks for the info. Second, Panda board is awesome but it has too
> many features that I don't need right now that makes it too expensive (174$
> without shipping). For example, I don't need HDMI video or audio, and I
> don't need Bluetooth. What I really need is the processor, RAM, ROM, USB
> hub, SD/MMC card slot and the ability to add more features when I need.
> Ain't there any simpler ready made boards containing only
> the necessary resources ?!!!
>
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> From: email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 21:24:00 +0300
> Subject: Re: Embedded linux
> To: ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> wrt hardware, I heard great things on panda board
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Board
>
> 2011/6/5 Islam Hassan <eng.islam_hassan at hotmail.com>
>
>  @ Ahmed Kamal: Thanks for the link, I'll check it out as soon as I can.
> @ Osama Mongy: Thanks for the info about busybox.
> @ Mohamed Nour El-Din: Thanks for thanks for correcting our info about busy
> box.
>
> @ every one: My main interest is Linux development in general, that's why I
> intend to try LFS to understand how Linux operate. My interest of embedded
> Linux came from the intro of the LFS book where they talked about stripped
> low footprint versions of Linux capable of running on embedded systems with
> low resources cuz it'll benefit my graduation project. What I need to know
> is :
>
>    1. How to obtain hardware capable of running Linux with reasonable
>    price to experiment on.
>    2. How to get or build a linux version capable of running on that
>    hardware.
>    3. How to deal with the drivers.
>    4. How to use that as a controller for other hardware (probably this
>    means writing a driver for that  hardware.
>
> What I need is material to learn how to do this and if someone has previous
> experience in any of these fields and can give me an overview, provide any
> help or want to work with me on this, I'd like to meet him so we can talk
> about it.
>
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