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I am not sure if this is still the case, but the FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) CD sets and DVD used to contain the full source code of the base system and it’s easy to

I am not sure if this is still the case, but the FreeBSD (and OpenBSD) CD sets and DVD used to contain the full source code of the base system and it’s easy to rebuild the system from source. BSD also works on relatively modest hardware.

elcritch 4y ago
There are also https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://bellard.org/tcc/ and https://github.com/jserv/amacc https://github.com/jserv/amacc that contain mostly complete C compilers.