From owner-freebsd-small Mon Oct 12 05:51:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA16716 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:51:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA16707 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:51:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from localhost (graeme@localhost) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA08314; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:50:46 +1000 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 22:50:46 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New utilities on PicoBSD WWW In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Attribution: gjc X-PGP-Key-ID: 702DB549 X-URL: http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > I uploaded two new programs to www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/tinyware. They > start new category - the software ported from Minix.. :-)). > > You may wonder why should anyone port from so old and simplistic system as > Minix. The answer is simple: size. Its programs are usually more limited > than normal FreeBSD versions, but the reward comes in size which is > usually 1/2 to even 1/10th. > > Currently the following are available: > > * msh - mostly compatible Bourne Shell. > * mined - small editor, smaller even than our 'ee' by ca. half. > > Almost done is also in.telnetd. Andrzej: You might want to have a look at the ELKS project (Linux for 80x6, x < 3). Last time I checked, people involved in that project were collecting a wide range of low-memory programs for an ELKS distribution. At the very least, it would provide a useful 'shopping list' of commands that are readily available for low-memory embedded apps. Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University Random thought #137 (Collect all 235) I love cats ... they taste just like chicken! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message