Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?

From	Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
Organization	Deepwoods Software
Subject	Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time?
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Date	2015-08-15 08:21 -0500

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At Fri, 14 Aug 2015 21:26:27 -0700 (PDT) pureheart@pacbell.net wrote:

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> > Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933
> > Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
> > http://www.<snip>.com/  -- Linux Administration Services
> > heller@<snip>.com       -- Webhosting Services
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> Thanks for all the information. I had not realized that Android == Linux.
> (I have done some trivial C programming, so I like the '==')
> I really appreciate all that I have learned about Linux over the years from reading your posts.
> Questions like mine must seem tedious to you, but I sure appreciate it. Now if I could only *remember* all the things I've learned here over the years!

At this point there are only really three operating systems in use amoungst 
consumer equipment: MS-Windows, Linux, and *BSD.  And since Linux and *BSD are 
fully (or nearly so) Posix and are effectively 'UNIX' (for any meaningful 
meaning of the term), it really breaks down to two operating systems: UNIX (of 
two main flavors) and MS-Windows.  All else is 'window dressing' (eg a 'thin' 
'veneer' of user interface).  Once you get 'under the hood' the guts are 
pretty much the same, from many points of view (yes, the details of the *BSD 
kernel and the Linux kernel are quite different, but that is something of a 
veneer at the opposite side, at it were).  Almost all ARM based appliances (eg 
routers, etc.) run some sort of Linux (even if only a BusyBox based distro).

The only other O/S's out there, mostly for servers on non-'PC' (eg Intel/AMD
x86-ish) hardware, are highly specialized or are in fact also some flavor of
UNIX (or else are UNIX-like at this point): AIX (IBM minis), OS/390 (IBM 
mainframe), OpenVMS (HP on Itainium), AUX (HP on HP-US), IRIX (SGI on MIPS),
SunOS/Solaris (Sun/Oracle on Sparc), etc.  I believe Linux runs on all of 
these processor types.

> 
> pH
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Deepwoods Software        -- Custom Software Services
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Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-19 10:54 -0700
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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-19 21:14 +0000
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-19 18:21 -0500
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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 12:54 -0400
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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-07-20 13:44 -0400
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:28 +0100
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2015-07-20 07:55 +0200
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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-07-20 13:48 -0700
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-20 21:35 +0000
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-20 17:03 -0500
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-07-21 00:30 +0100
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Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? pureheart@pacbell.net - 2015-08-14 21:26 -0700
Re: Any single board computers ready for prime time? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-08-15 08:21 -0500

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