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This comment doesn't make any sense to me - it's like responding to an article titled "So, you want to build a transistor radio from scratch?" with "No, I want

• drran 6y ago
  Article title doesn't contain "from scratch", so I will rewrite your example as "So, you want to build AM radio?" and my response will be "No, I want to build FM radio, because of tons of FM radio stations available to listen".
  • rfrey 6y ago
    The article isn't even close to being about building a linux distribution. It's about embedded electronics engineers moving from microcontrollers with custom embedded firmware to SBCs using minimal linux for embedded systems. So accepting your revision, the response would be "no, I want to buy a stereo system".
• bryanlarsen 6y ago
  There are lots of embedded systems beefy enough that Fedora is an appropriate choice.
  • jnwatson 6y ago
    Not really. Fedora IoT only supports x86_64, aarch64, and armhfp, which has some intersection with this space, but not a lot. Regardless, that wasn't really the point of the article.
    • bryanlarsen 6y ago
      There is lots of embedded that uses x86 or arm. Lots of embedded isn't significantly power or size constrained and volumes are very low so software development costs dominate over hardware costs. But agreed, those aren't the point of the article. "Embedded" is a big space.
      • admax88q 6y ago
        Something that is not power nor size constrained doesn't really fit most people's definition of "Embedded."
        • bryanlarsen 6y ago
          Example: the computer in a CNC machine.
  • NikolaeVarius 6y ago
    Just because you can doesn't mean you should