From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 8 12:14:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA17677 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA17668 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 12:14:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from gnipahellir.ifi.uio.no (2602@gnipahellir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.86]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id VAA12607; Fri, 8 May 1998 21:14:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by gnipahellir.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 8 May 1998 21:14:11 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Ben Cohen , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 08 May 1998 21:14:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells"'s message of "Fri, 8 May 1998 10:06:47 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 30 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jason C. Wells" writes: > On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ben Cohen wrote: > > People keep mentioning PicoBSD. > > I assume that this is a small version of FreeBSD, rather than an > > alternative like NetBSD. > > > > Is it a version of FreeBSD that runs off a floppy? > Yes it is. Aw c'mon, Jason, you can do better than this... :) To quote the PicoBSD page (), PicoBSD is a one-floppy version of FreeBSD 3.0-current, which in its different variations allows you to have secure dialup access, small diskless router or even a dial-in server. And all this on only one standard 1.44MB floppy - no need to sacrifice over 100MB of your precious HDD space. In other words, you can build a floppy with a kernel and all the required binaries and configuration files to e.g. run a processor server or a firewall on a diskless computer. Actually, there's no reason why you couldn't use PicoBSD on a a computer *with* a disk - set up a 2 MB slice for the system and use the rest of the disk for swap. Great if you need lots of horsepower and RAM but very little disk I/O: RC5/DES/RSA/whatever cracking, "industrial-grade" raytracing, you name it. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message