On Monday 22 December 2008 10:36:23 Alain M. wrote: > Rob Landley escreveu: > >> I think some kind of "meta busybox" project could be started which could > >> accumulate people's knowledge in sense of supplement scripts and > >> configuration files used with busybox. > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > Can of worms. (Please don't try to turn BusyBox into a Linux distro.) > > I believe that it can work if implemented like a wiki. Busybox has a > nice comunity, that does give feedback. A wiki based user contibutions > site somewhere like wikia would be very nice...
You can start another distribution as a separate project, sure. Here on this list Vladimir Dronnikov has dvv and Christian Micon has detaolb, and there are plenty of others who just don't usually post about it here. (My own firmware Linux project is _not_ growing to become a distro, thank you very much. It has boundaries.) Some of them (like Puppy Linux) grow and prosper. The largest and longest lasting "one guy does this" distro is probably slackware. There are also collaborative projects. The uClibc developers spawned buildroot, and bits of that are used in openwrt, uclinux, and a bunch of others. Independent lines of development for the embedded world include gentoo embedded, and emdebian, and the ubuntu "mobile and embedded" project (although jeos is probably a better starting point), and even Fedora for Arm (strange but true). Here's a fun list of once interesting embedded linux open source distro projects, 80% of which have gone the way of the dodo: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4525882120.html If what you want is an informational resource, Linux From Scratch might be a better starting point. Before that, there was the "power up to bash prompt howto" and "linux boot disk howto". Why don't you try the buildroot list? Rob _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
