Re: [dev] Bifrost/Linux - statically linked distro

2011-12-06 Thread Paul Onyschuk
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:59:32 +0100 pancake wrote: > > Why --disable-pie? I think this is main security issue here. And its > even more dangerous because its used on static bins. > I played a bit with build system of Bifrost. Shell script (mostly grep) "B-configure-1" is used to pass building op

Re: [dev] Bifrost/Linux - statically linked distro

2011-11-24 Thread pancake
Why --disable-pie? I think this is main security issue here. And its even more dangerous because its used on static bins. Looks like an interesting project. I would like to see support for other static libcs. In fact you should be able to use bins against bionic or againsg uclibc in the same sy

Re: [dev] Bifrost/Linux - statically linked distro

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Onyschuk
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:58:24 +0100 Jens Staal wrote: > > Really cool! > > And apparently it is actively developed and binaries can be found > here: I booted Bifrost before sending this message, just to be sure that I'll not end up as being an idot. I actually copied binaries to hard drive - U

Re: [dev] Bifrost/Linux - statically linked distro

2011-11-23 Thread Jens Staal
Really cool! And apparently it is actively developed and binaries can be found here: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/bifrost/v7/ I also found it interesting with the talk linked on the page discussing the "guilty" components making it difficult to build an all-static system. f

[dev] Bifrost/Linux - statically linked distro

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Onyschuk
I searched mail archives, but I did not find anything related to Bifrost Linux, so I'm sharing this with you. Bifrost [1] is a small Linux distribution for USB media. What can be interesting for suckless folks is that it is statically linked (no /include and /lib contains only kernel modules and