From owner-freebsd-small Tue Nov 17 05:09:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09167 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09032 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 05:08:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.47]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5B01; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:08:31 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981112180219.009e8580@mail.ra.pae.osd.mil> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:13:04 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Matthew Patton Subject: Re: Small/embedded set-ups Cc: picoBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message