"nanobsd" prototype

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Thu Mar 11 12:20:05 PST 2004



On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403111202000.87340-100000 at InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
> lian Elischer writes:
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> >>
> >[...] 
> >> 	mkdir /usr/src/nanobsd
> >[...]
> >> 
> >> Feedback of all sorts most welcome!  And more documentation
> >> to arrive as it gets written.
> >
> >wouldn't it make sense to put nanoBSD in release alongside picoBSD?
> >(that still leaves us microBSD and milliBSD :-)
> 
> As I understand it picoBSD has never managed the 4.x->5.x transition
> and is scheduled to be removed if nobody starts paying attention
> to it soon.

I may be looking at it soon as it still produces a smaller system than
'nanoBSD' and works well for systems with old 8MB flash.
I've been using the 4.x version and may need a 5.x version 'soon'.


> 
> re@/scottl@ asked me to not put nanobsd in src/release as they would
> prefer it be kept for the "official release" stuff only, and to
> me src/tools actually makes a lot more sense after all.

hmmm then I guess picoBSD could probably move too.


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