TinyBSD Call For Testers

Jean Milanez Melo jmelo at freebsdbrasil.com.br
Mon Jul 18 18:17:14 GMT 2005


Hello gentlemen,

In the last saturday a new port has been added under sysutils/ category, 
ports/sysutils/tinybsd. TinyBSD is a tool which was meant to allow an 
easy way to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD. It is based on 
userland copying, library dependencies check/copy and kernel build.

We did our best to make the embedded system creation an easy and 
specially fast proccess. The main (default) system generates an embedded 
system image which is about 20MB in size, which is a very generic 
approach, with a number of wired NIC support, and also the most popular 
wireless support (including atheros), divert, bridge, dummynet, 
firewall, etc; and CPU_ELAN (for soekris devices). If the "generic" 
system gets tighten up the final result can be as low as an 8MB embedded 
system.

We are giving you this intro to ask you please to test TinyBSD out, the 
most that you can, and send every possible feedback regarding it. The 
main tinybsd goal is to make embedded systems creation a process which 
must be

		1 - fast
		2 - easy
		3 - 100% functional

If you can test it, we would appreciate your thoughts. If you think any 
of those 3 goals can't be reached for you, or could be improved, also 
let me know.

Thanks for testing

-- 
Atenciosamente
Jean Milanez Melo
FreeBSD Brasil LTDA.
Fone: (31) 3281-9633
http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br



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