Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:16:27 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, picoBSD <small@FreeBSD.ORG>, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trinux (+ a proposal) Message-ID: <89394.916262187@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:31:23 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901131316540.3476-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> Ah... You think of using ctk instead of libdialog? I'm using neither. The generic UI stuff (called HUI) uses turbovision or Qt, depending on what it sees as the appropriate choice. > Have you already done this special hack, or is this just a speculation? > :-) I mean, it would be very useful to have something like this anyway... No, a resizable MFS is a "project" for somebody. > I don't get it.. Where copied to? I meant that the pages are not needlessly duplicated, that's all. So you can run stuff out of MFS directly. > Not only that - I have yet to discover how to minimize the _contents_ of > standard system libraries, because they usually contain much cruft you > don't need in case of this particular set of programs. The reason is that If you're doing your own linking, it's also conceivable that you could pull pieces out of libraries selectively. I'm not saying it'd be easy, but anything the linker does you can also duplicate. :) > Yes, definitely. Given the fact that normal boot.flp undergoes certain, > uhm, crisis right now, perhaps we should finally join our efforts and come > up with something which will be able to build (almost) any kind of > bootable floppy. How about it? Well, I'm all for that, but there are some critical pieces of the technology that are missing first. :) BTW, a large part of the reason for using TCL is that you can actually do a _large_ number of things without ever involving an external binary if you plan your TCL toolset well enough. Ideally, it should be possible to do just about everything short of ppp and ssh without requiring anything but the bootstrap and a script, and if we could get our kernel ppp to be as robust and featureful as the userland ppp in some key areas (dial on demand, better scripting), we wouldn't even need ppp as an external binary - you'd set up the ppp connection through a TCL script. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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