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Does FreeBSD have the equivalent of “-slim” in Ubuntu/Debian speak. I see that NanoBSD exist but ~~(a) it looks abandoned and~~ (b) its target use case is rout
by tiffanyh 5y ago
Does FreeBSD have the equivalent of “-slim” in Ubuntu/Debian speak.
I see that NanoBSD exist but ~~(a) it looks abandoned and~~ (b) its target use case is routers, not general servers, because it creates an immutable base.
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/
EDIT: I stand corrected. It is maintained. Thanks for info.
- xenophonf 5y agoHow do you figure NanoBSD is unmaintained? The GitHub mirror shows commits to that part of the source tree less than a month ago: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/tools/tools/nanobsd https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/tools/tools... https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34241 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34241
- kryptiskt 5y agoOccamBSD is a new script cutting down FreeBSD to a minimum, the README has some links to other alternatives: https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd https://github.com/michaeldexter/occambsd
- alberth 5y ago> "This script leverages FreeBSD build options and a minimum kernel configuration file to build the minimum kernel and userland to boot FreeBSD under jail(8) and the bhyve and Xen hypervisors." Does that imply that OccamBSD cannot be installed on bare metal?
- ink_13 5y agoThe opposite. OccamBSD is just small enough so that you can run a "full" FreeBSD installation in a jail, or start VMs with bhyve or Xen, and basically nothing else.