Introduction

[bitpusher]

Hello all,

just wanted to introduce myself.

Until now mainly still using Windows (sometimes DOS - legacy systems and embedded at work) - looked at Linux around 1993 and decided that this thing was not really finish-worked back then - again used some hardware with Linux (Archos PM400 - anyone remember?) but only patched some scripts and sweared at the people making programs for this beast.

Now I have a new (to me) embedded system at work:
Custom made carrier board  with an PC-104 module (PM-LX2-800 from iEi)
I decided to go for TinyCore because I appreciate the read-only concept in order to prevent software self-destruction.

Some key points:
- use fpc/Lazarus for software development
- have to access proprietary CAN-Bus hardware (including having my own interrupt service routine)
- want to use all 5 serial ports in the system
- would like to have full UTF8 support for filenames (until now more a comfort issue)

Will come back later with some questions about all 5 points on my list I think...