Re: What distribution / Version is Tomsrtbt based on?

> What distribution / Version is Tomsrtbt based on?

It is not based on a distribution.

It is its own distribution.

It is built (by me) from canonical (mostly) vanilla sources.

> If I wanted to replace ile and ash with bash (I haven't
> investigated space issues yet) where would I get them from?

Where would you get bash?

The canonical location for bash (I'm pretty sure...) is:

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash

Note, I do not distribute bash, and to run bash on tomsrtbt,
you have to either (A) compile it against libc5 or (B) link
it statically so it doesn't use shared libraries or (C) put
the glibc (libc6) shared libraries onto tomsrtbt.  FWIW, it
is not accidental that bash is not included- bash is larger
more than it gives you any new functionality.  Option (A)
requires you have a libc5 build environment against the old
libc5 c library, option (B) will make a very big bash indeed,
and option (C) requires many man months of full time work.

I am more interested, really, in hearing *why* you want to
replace ash+ile with bash- ash is very very good with bourne
shell scripts as far as compatability, and ile gives you the
rudiments of interactive nicities- is there some particular
feature of bash that is worth it?

Note- ash on tomsrtbt is 52025 bytes, the bash I am running
is 567208 bytes (stripped- before stripping, it is biggerer
still)- so, as you mention, "space issues"- space issues are
*always* the first thing to think about when considering a
customization to tomsrtbt- for bash, you probably should be
looking at figuring out what 500K of stuff to live without...

-Tom