Re: [Nolug] next month's meeting: embedded Linux

On 02/23/08 11:25, Matthew Dooner wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> On 02/22/08 17:43, Matthew Dooner wrote:
>> > I subscribed to this list earlier this week (Thanks for the help Joey)
>> > but things got busy and work and I never got around to posting an
>> > introduction. I figured this thread was an appropriate place.
>> >
>> > My name is Matt Dooner, I graduated from Tulane Computer Science a
>> > year ago, and now work for a Metairie startup called GrayMatter
>>
>> An offshoot of the team that almost(?) won the 2006 DARPA Grand
>> Challenge?
>
> Yeah we're the offshoot from the team that finished 4th in the 2005
> Grand Challenge. We also much less successfully competed in the Urban
> Challenge in October. We got eliminated from the qualifying event at
> the last test when we encountered some sort of GPS interference /
> outage.

Sorry to hear that.

>> > (http://www.graymatterinc.com). We build systems to drive otherwise
>> > ordinary passenger vehicles autonomously, and until about a month ago
>> > we had been using embedded linux on the computers inside our
>> > equipment.
>>
>> That sounds very ominous...
>
> We switched to QNX from BlueCat Linux because of cost, driver issues,

Do the h/w vendors write QNX drivers?

> and compatibility with the real time Java VM we use.

Real-time Java? Snide comments started being formed as I read that
phrase...

> I have managed to

Have, or have *not*?

> convince anyone else that rolling our own embedded linux was a good
> idea.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"(Women are) like compilers.  They take simple statements and
make them into big productions."
Pitr Dubovitch
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