Re: {pico, tiny, nano}BSD, FreesBIE

Julian Elischer <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:59:06 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.small
Message-ID <452E826A.4050901__46245.8833856092$1160676903$gmane$org@elischer.org>
Matteo Riondato wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 02:07:15PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>     
>>> FreeSBIE is another option. it is designed to make not only a
>>> basic image but to include all sorts of packages and possibly
>>> configure them. Targetted at media the size of a CD.
>>> it builds everything from scratch and can this be very tailored.
>>> more flexible than tinyBSD, but more work too.
>>>       
>
> As one of the FreeSBIE developers, I would like to say a word:
> I agree with the above description apart from the fact that our target
> is CD/DVD: FreeSBIE can be stripped down to a 64MB or less image and
> put on a flash card or USB pen.
>
> Another thing I'd like to add: after having release FreeSBIE 2.0
> (around the middle of November), I'd like to add nanoBSD an miniBSD
> features to FreeSBIE and, if possible, import it in the base system
> and make it the "official" tool to build live/small FreeBSD systems.
>
> Best regards
>   

If we could make one that had the ease of use of the easiest, and the 
flexibility of the most
flexible and the speed of the fastest (etc.) then I doubt anyone would 
complain :-)

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