Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:10:15 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> To: Jean Milanez Melo <jmelo@freebsdbrasil.com.br> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TinyBSD Call For Testers Message-ID: <44C1CD9F-98FA-4CA2-83C6-903F0B19A38F@anduin.net> In-Reply-To: <42DBF250.1060405@freebsdbrasil.com.br> References: <42DBF250.1060405@freebsdbrasil.com.br>
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On Jul 18, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Jean Milanez Melo wrote: > Hello gentlemen, > > In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ > category, ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant > to allow an easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It > is based on userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and > kernel build. > > We did our best to make the embedded system creation an easy and > specially fast proccess. The main (default) system generates an > embedded system image which is about 20MB in size, which is a very > generic approach, with a number of wired NIC support, and also the > most popular wireless support (including atheros), divert, bridge, > dummynet, firewall, etc; and CPU_ELAN (for soekris devices). If the > "generic" system gets tighten up the final result can be as low as > an 8MB embedded system. > > We are giving you this intro to ask you please to test TinyBSD out, > the most that you can, and send every possible feedback regarding > it. The main tinybsd goal is to make embedded systems creation a > process which must be > > 1 - fast > 2 - easy > 3 - 100% functional > > If you can test it, we would appreciate your thoughts. If you think > any of those 3 goals can't be reached for you, or could be > improved, also let me know. > > Thanks for testing Without having actually tried yet (time hasn't been very permitting lately), is it conceivable to use this tool to create slim-but- functional jails? Sans the kernel part, that is? /Eirik > > -- > Atenciosamente > Jean Milanez Melo > FreeBSD Brasil LTDA. > Fone: (31) 3281-9633 > http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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