Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:19:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, picoBSD <small@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Subject: Re: Trinux (+ a proposal) Message-ID: <89416.916262346@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:34:53 %2B0100." <XFMail.990113163453.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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> Well, since kzip has been fubared by the ELF transition, do we have a > suitable replacement anyway for the unpacking? Or am I thinking in the > wrong unpacking terms? You're thinking in the wrong unpacking terms - we don't want to compress binaries since it makes their contents impossible to share. > OK, dumb remark mayhaps, but what would be the benefit of using different > scripting languages for every nook and cranny in the OS? I mean, we're > using Forth in the new boot{loader|strapper|configuration} and then we are It's not sufficient to the task. Forth is a fine language for small boot programs and such, but I wouldn't want to write complex UIs or anything else in it. And I would have been happy to use TCL in the boot blocks instead if I'd had a couple of hundred K to play with rather than just 20K or so. :) > Jordan, you are referring to the shrink/grow abilities such as VxFS and JFS > them have (JFS can only grow I thought)? No, I'm just referring to a resizable MFS. Don't get carried away. :) > Sorry, RTLD? Real-Time LoaDer? Run-time. UTSL. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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