From owner-freebsd-small Wed Jul 3 22:34:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D00237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gehicks.dyndns.org (adsl-20-181-84.asm.bellsouth.net [66.20.181.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852AC43E09 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Received: from mac (mac [10.0.0.13]) by gehicks.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g645fVZZ003265; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 05:41:31 GMT (envelope-from gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:34:09 -0400 Subject: Re: Perhaps a new "distribution"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org To: "Samuel Chow" From: W Gerald Hicks In-Reply-To: <002101c22315$83d03160$0501a8c0@intelex> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 12:44 AM, Samuel Chow wrote: > Hi there, > > I can see there are a lot of interest and expertise > in stripping FreeBSD down for a smaller storage > footprint. Perhaps it is a good idea to setup another > "distribution" to capture all these information for > other less experienced users? It could be modelled > like picobsd, but with less constrain and with more > "normal" FreeBSD feel. > > Just an idea. What do you guys think? > I dunno about a whole "distribution" :-) Most of what I've been interested in doing is to get the kernel (and other userland bits too) buildable from outside of the src/ hierarchy. I have a working (undocumented and unsupported alpha) protoype: ftp://gehicks.dyndns.org/pub/MiniBSD/MiniBSD-0.3.tar.gz Manuel and I had picked the same name independently; I plan to incorporate his work into what I've done and then leave it to him for a decision on where to go with it. I think a set of master/slave ports to build deviant versions of FreeBSD might have a chance of becoming a cohesive force instead of fracturing into thirty-odd unmaintained Small, Itsy, Teeny, Short, ScrawnyBSD variants. :-) Since we have the ports category 'picobsd' already it's my vote that such "distributions" be packaged as ports in the picobsd directory. To make this really happen we need to enroll an interested (and involved) ports committer to help us work out a good schema for extending the ports framework for this purpose. Cheers, Jerry Hicks gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message