From owner-freebsd-small Mon Jun 29 11:56:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14457 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:56:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14311 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA04254; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:56:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:56:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Marc Nicholas , Dinesh Nair , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: picobsd on 386 (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199806291632.JAA00514@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > > > Anyway, I must admit it surprises me a bit :-) I thought it would take > > > significant amount of hacking to achieve this, and it seems we're that > > > close -><-. I put much hope in writing custom init(8), and getting rid of > > > the shell - instead writing specialized UI. This could fly in 4MB... > > > > I'd probably be willing to donate some resources to hacking-out a > > specialized init as my application really doesn't need a shell either. > > You might want to look at what the GnatBox folks have done > (www.gnatbox.com), as this is probably a long way towards what you're > looking at. Yes, I saw their product, and it's neat. But it doesn't mean that developing picobsd isn't a goal worth to pursue ... :-) Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message