From owner-freebsd-small Thu Dec 7 21:53: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 21:52:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.mmcable.com (fe4.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6CBB37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from quark ([65.26.238.47]) by mail4.mmcable.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:50:53 -0600 Message-ID: <001301c060da$9c790dd0$2fee1a41@quark> From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: Cc: "Jonathon Tidswell" References: <20001208131517.A29977@cse.unsw.edu.au> Subject: Re: status / appropriateness query Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 23:49:20 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Im involved with a project that is currently being pushed into Linux in > an embedded space. > > I think Pico/Tiny BSD may be a reasonable alternative. > But the PicoBSD web pages are getting old and getting a coherent picture > from the freebsd-small list archive is hard. It seems to me like the status of the web pages reflect the status of PicoBSD itself (though I may just be blowing blue sparks through my output ports...) (i.e., it seems like a mess to me). For this reason, I don't see too many production situations where it would a win to use raw Pico. However, PicoBSD is great for learning how you can create your own customized solution with FreeBSD. That's what many have done here, including me, and let me tell you, it is SUPER EASY to create your own small FreeBSD distro. To learn how, I suggest: * Read the various scripts in /usr/src/release/picobsd * RTFM for all the programs involved * Get some aha!s from Greg's book "The Complete FreeBSD" * Ask questions on this list The list is welcome to correct me if anyone thinks I'm out of line. -- jss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message