From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 04:52:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA37A16A418 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:52:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogautherot@vtr.net) Received: from vtr.cl (mail.cgp.vtr.net [200.83.2.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E19713C46B for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ogautherot@vtr.net) Received: from [192.168.5.6] (HELO av5.vtr.cl) by fe2.vtr.cl (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.12) with ESMTP id 159150066 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:51:51 -0400 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1185335510-086a00110016-FBL6ss X-Barracuda-URL: http://192.168.5.6:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: mxfe4.cgp.vtr.net[192.168.6.5] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1185335510 Received: from vtr.cl (mxfe4.cgp.vtr.net [192.168.6.5]) by av5.vtr.cl (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 1B9876BC14 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:51:50 -0400 (CLT) Received: by fe4.vtr.cl (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 5.0.12) with PIPE id 159183162; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:51:50 -0400 X-NHContentFiltered: yes Received: from [190.160.233.20] (account ogautherot@vtr.net HELO olivierbb) by fe4.vtr.cl (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.12) with ESMTPA id 159183128 for freebsd-small@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:51:34 -0400 From: Olivier Gautherot To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool? Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:52:43 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20070725022141.GA17703@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20070725022141.GA17703@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707242352.43948.ogautherot@vtr.net> X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda1 at vtr.cl X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.00 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=3.5 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=6.7 tests= X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.1, rules version 3.1.23695 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: What's our standard "stripped-down FreeBSD" tool? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: olivier@gautherot.net List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:52:04 -0000 Hi Michael! On Tuesday 24 July 2007 22:21, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi, > > Been researching building stripped-down versions of FreBSD for flash > drives and suchforth. It seems that we have three big contenders in > this area: > > Freesbie > NanoBSD > TinyBSD I've had a good experience with FreesBIE so I would recommend it but I'm sure others will defend NanoBSD and TinyBSD ;-) FreesBIE may be more CDROM oriented so Nano and Tiny are probably better guesses for Flash but I don't have first hand experience. Cheers Olivier > > Are any of these particularly stronger than the other? If I was to > start over, or recommend one to someone else, which would be the best > these days? > > Thanks, > ==ml -- Olivier Gautherot Email: olivier@gautherot.net LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ogautherot MSN: ogautherot@hotmail.com