I've been looking at the code for projects like toybox, beastiebox, Elks, the Heirloom Project at Sourceforge, etc. Think it's a really interesting concept to use simple systems utilities that you can understand, maintain and modify yourself instead of the standard GNU tools. Was curious if anyone else has rolled their own basic operating system tools or is interested in that sort of thing. I'm looking into combining some of the tools under BSD, MIT and/or public domain licenses from some of these sources and trying to come up with a full suite of portable basic system utilities (enough to cover the basics when building applications from source). Saw some similar ideas on the Arch wiki such as base2heirloom ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2heirloom ) and base2plan9.
Am wondering if anyone else is interested in this sort of thing. If anyone knows of other resources besides the ones I mentioned (and busybox), would appreciate if you'd post about them. If there are any forums or mailing lists for this type of discussion, I'd really like to find out about them. Would love to discuss the topic further and possibly share code if anyone else is interested. Anyone else besides me think this is a cool idea? Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
