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Date:      Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:38:27 +0100
From:      Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "nanobsd" prototype
Message-ID:  <20040310123827.GH40161@ares.wolfpond.org>
In-Reply-To: <40928.1078919852@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20040310113611.GA1241@abigail.blackend.org> <40928.1078919852@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:57:32PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20040310113611.GA1241@abigail.blackend.org>, Marc Fonvieille writes
> :
> >On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:16:37AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >[...]
> >> 
> >> Feedback of all sorts most welcome!  And more documentation
> >> to arrive as it gets written.
> 
> Not long ago I manually cut down a -current to run in 32MB but I
> admit that there were a fair bit of stuff missing :-)

I managed to put a really minimal version + a part of XFree86 in 16MB
myself.
See here: http://www.thinbsd.org/doc.html

This is a project to create small windows terminals with VIA mini-ITX
machines and a FreeBSD ramdisk. It is not really ready for the masses
yet, though...

> My main goal with this is to give us a common ground to work from,
> and avoid us all reinventing the deep plate and the hot water over
> and over again. 

This is great, I'm sure to put FreeBSD into more and more weird exotic
things now :)

-- 
Francois Tigeot



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