From owner-freebsd-small Tue Aug 22 12:47:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za (cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725BB37B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pta-dial-196-31-185-52.mweb.co.za by cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FZP00H6ULLWH8@cpt-mailhost2.mweb.co.za> for small@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:47:14 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:42:25 -0200 (GMT+2) From: John Leuner Subject: picoBSD - features In-reply-to: <0008220932270Q.08161@tyr.dreamwvr.com> X-Sender: jewel@svetlana.mweb.co.za To: jewel@pixie.co.za Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I've been looking at various kernels which might be able to host a Java Virtual Machine to form a kind of Java-Based OS. So far nothing I've tried seems to be able to give me what I want. So what I want to ask is: Does picoBSD provide a pthreads implementation? Does it require some sort of root filesystem (mfsroot?) to boot? Will it be difficult to build a GRUB bootable image, especially one bigger than a floppy? Thanks John Leuner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message