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From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Introducing barebOS
To: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 11:02:29AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> barebox more and more comes in the area that is has everything an
> operating system needs:
> 
> - support for all kinds of storage devices
> - support for various different fileystems
> - Cooperative multitasking with the poller mechanism
> - memory management in form of malloc/free and iospace resources
> - drivers for Networking, MMC, USB, UARTs, Framebuffer devices, (S)ATA,
>   SPI, I2C, W1, Keyboard, EEPROMs, LEDs
> 
> I therefore decided that it's no longer necessary to have the overhead
> of Linux at all. The project will be renamed to barebOS in the next few
> days. Support for booting Linux will be dropped as soon as some the
> remaining missing features are added, like for example a working vi
> applet and nodejs integration. I'm looking forward to your feedback!
> 

damn, I don't have a thesis for my master degree anymore.

- Alex

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