Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 11:01:41 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Nadia chaudhary <nadiach_4@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: minimum size bsd requird Message-ID: <20010505110141.A43798@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010505103349.16398.qmail@web12204.mail.yahoo.com>; from nadiach_4@yahoo.com on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:33:49AM -0700 References: <20010505103349.16398.qmail@web12204.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:33:49AM -0700, Nadia chaudhary wrote: > Hello, > I'm the student of BCS final year. Our project is to > make an embedded system providing the faciltiy of > email. and for that purpose we need small size OS. i > heard about BSD and therefore we need a small size BSD > .If you can help us to provide us wirh at least 1 MB > os that will be of great help. > bye > nadia What do you mean, "the facility of email"? A client, or a server? If you're talking about a client, I can get PicoBSD on a single floppy, and mutt is 1/2 MB; I'm not sure if this will compress onto a single floppy, but it sure gets close. Mutt provides SMTP, POP3 and IMAP support; you can't get better than that. Of course, you can always implement your own lightweight client, or try to strip mutt of IMAP to make it more lightweight. As one who enjoys cramming firewalls on single diskettes, I can tell you that PicoBSD will indeed get smaller than Linux. The reason is the ability to crunch binaries, which I haven't seen on a linux system. The only other small UNIX-like system I can think of is QNX, which can fit on a single floppy, and has a windowing system and at least a web browser. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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