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There's little sense in reinventing the proverbial wheel when it already exists. NetBSD can already be paired down to fit on a floppy disk. Userland can be comp
by johnklos 8y ago
There's little sense in reinventing the proverbial wheel when it already exists. NetBSD can already be paired down to fit on a floppy disk. Userland can be compiled in to a single crunchgen static binary.
tcc is a nice idea to add separately but wouldn't be ideal for making the tiniest kernel and binaries, since space optimization isn't quite as good with tcc.
- compsciphd 8y agoback when I was a grad student, I fit linux (+ handful of ethernet drivers), X, vncviewer and rdesktop on a single floppy. Simple OS project demonstrating that one can strip out unwanted symbols from shared libraries and get better overall storage resource usage than simply statically linking all of one's binaries. Basically a thin client on a bootable floppy.
- lodi 8y ago"Pared" down.