On Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 11:53 AM, LM wrote: > 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?
Hi Laura, Absolutely. I've been doing my own distro for a bit now. It stalled somewhat recentlyonce I started looking at these sorts of alternatives and realized that there's a good deal of non-GNU possibilities. For the moment my bootstrap scripts use musl libc and busybox. I'm looking forward to when toybox become more stable and have been watching it's progress heavily. If you're interested at all, the scripts are in github, here, they might give you some ideas. https://github.com/jhuntwork/lightcube-bootstrap-musl The author of toybox hangs out in #toybox on freenode, and there's a good community of generally GNU-less devs in #musl too. Always good for some insights. Thanks, JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
