From owner-freebsd-small Wed Aug 5 00:09:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29762 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl ([148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29711 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 00:08:59 -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 JAA17857; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:12:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:12:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG cc: dinesh@alphaque.com Subject: PicoBSD now runs in 4MB! 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 Hi, I'm almost finished with preparing the new release of PicoBSD, and I'll let you know when it's available for download... this is only to let you know what are some exciting new features :-) I prepared new type of PicoBSD floppy, namely a "router" - it contains only bare minimum needed to run the system, and modify it's networking parameters. It uses custom init(8), custom netstat, and even doesn't have a shell - only command-line interface. Thus far, you can't log-in to it over the network, but it's a matter of writing some 200 lines of code (volunteers are most welcome :-)) During tests, using 486DX/4MB RAM (though it will also run on 386SX :-) I was able to run that command-line interface on 3 vty's _and_ 2 pppd(8), and I was able to run ps, netstat, ifconfig, ping, traceroute, vmstat, mount etc... to modify its behaviour - in other words, it was working. Right after going multi-user there was over 600kB of free memory, and when I ran the next programs, it would decrease only by the amount of non-shared pages. Now, I'm working on adding a tiny webserver to it, and when I'm done with it, I'll roll the release. Stay tuned! Andrzej Bialecki +---------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ | | When in problem or in | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { | | Research & Academic | doubt, run in circles, | fetch("FreeBSD"); | | Network in Poland | scream and shout. | } | + --------------------+------------------------+--------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message