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Following that site, I find https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ > GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapp

Following that site, I find https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/ > GNU Mes is a Scheme interpreter and C compiler for bootstrapping the GNU System. https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots... > The Scheme interpreter is written in ~5,000 LOC of simple C, and the C compiler written in Scheme and these are mutual self-hosting. Mes can now be bootstrapped from M2-Planet and Mescc-Tools. This is important work these folks are doing. I'd love to see some distros pick it up and periodically show that they can start with some files on disk and a ten-key. USB drive and a UEFI console?

pabs3 4y ago
They got a lot further than GNU Mes now. The process starts with stage0, ~512 bytes of machine code. Their live-bootstrap project is another focus of work. Another thing being worked on is using the Fiwix kernel as a step towards getting Linux bootstrapped. Also higher-level languages like Ocaml are getting bootstrapped. https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/ https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/ https://www.fiwix.org/ https://www.fiwix.org/ https://github.com/Ekdohibs/camlboot https://github.com/Ekdohibs/camlboot I'm not aware of any overview/documentation of the entire process though, best check out their site and wiki and join the IRC channel.