On Tuesday 06 March 2007 07:22 am, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > And that's what I'm talking about. I'm not concerned about the > installer. But I do want to be able to formulate a recipe for a tiny > distro. That's a lot harder when "critical" pieces are implemented in > languages like perl.
When I first read you post, Garrett, it made we wonder some we could reduce some of the system by using a similar technique that BusyBox uses, where you would replace system utilities with leaner/meaner counterparts, such as tar, ls, etc..., symlinking the commands to the original binary. That will make sense for anyone that knows what BusyBox does. But at 38mb, it will not be a concern for most system, it's not as if we're having to ship Solaris/OpenSolaris on NAND. Even with the amount of contention I've had in discussions with Bruce Parens, I have to give him points for BusyBox, really helps out embedded development, and I've always marveled at such a powerful solution with such a simple implementation. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of Insourcing at Sun, hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
