Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:13:04 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Matthew Patton <matthew.patton@ra.pae.osd.mil> Cc: picoBSD <small@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Small/embedded set-ups Message-ID: <XFMail.981117141304.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981112180219.009e8580@mail.ra.pae.osd.mil>
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Sorry for not replying sooner, work and illness, etc... On 12-Nov-98 Matthew Patton wrote: > Maybe I should study what pico-bsd is doing but frankly I can get all I > really care to run (httpd/ftpd/sshd) off of a single floppy boot using the > standard distribution building tools. Purhaps you can fill me in on what > great benefit I'm missing? picoBSD is a step further than a single disk... Sure enough we can make a disk, but we're aiming at embedded systems (flash and the likes) or low-level (old) systems. The reason I addressed the OpenBSD and NetBSD lists is that we want picoBSD to be a combined effort and not simply yet another FreeBSD project, which could mean we would be missing some insights our fellow *BSD developers might have... If ye want to take a look: www.freebsd.org/~picobsd regards, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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