Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:17:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com> To: Mischa Peters <mischa.peters@cacheflow.com> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The heart of the problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007250928370.8871-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> In-Reply-To: <20000725161944.B56036@high5.net>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Mischa Peters wrote: > > > * I believe that the current Pico kit needs to be thrown out and replaced > > with something entirely new. > > Personaly I think all the small bsd variants should be consolidated into one > small bsd version. I have seen a lot of people now on this list that either > have build their own, or modified pico/tiny bsd. > > And I think this energy can kick a lot more a** if we put everything > together in a way that most of the us can get out of it what they want. > A good router,cable,dialup,terminal,bridge version. > > > * Having made my own "Tiny" variant, I believe that I have a darn good > > candidate for 'something entirely new'. :) > > :)) One reason I'll argue my kit is a darn good candidate is that AFAIK, it is built to be extensible. It is rather easy to support multiple, different ways of building a small FreeBSD distro. The user selects a method by using the appropriate target_type directive in a device config file. For instance: target_type=disk # Build images for standard disks target_type=cd-rom # Build iso images target_type=pxe # You get the idea Other options in the dev conf file are dependent on the target_type. For instance, target_type=disk enables directives to specify how a disk should be sliced and labeled, whereas target_type=cd-rom might support directives to change how the build system interacts with the mkisofs program. The programmer wishing to add a target_type need only add another case for target_type in the config script. > > * I think that the small FreeBSD community, Pico, Tiny, or whatever > > exactly I would be the captain of needs more recognition by the outside > > world than Pico is currently getting. This means we need a better > > website, possibly accessible at its own domain name, and someone who will > > be the official maintainer of that. > > I wouldn't mind hosting that domain, my own servers are co-located at an ISP > in the Netherlands which is connected with a 34MB conenction to the dutch > internet exchange. A couple of people have offered. Once we straighten out our current situation, it'll be time to find some server space. > All for it... > > Maybe there could be a democratic vote somewhere, where people can add them > to a list of possible candidates to become the leader of this bunch ;) > And the rest of the list can go there and vote... or is this to democratic? > ;)) That sounds like a good idea. Would anyone be willing to provide that? If not, we can just use this list to declare candidacy and/or vote. =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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