5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
9:04 a.m.
On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
We'd probably need to find a suitably minimal Linux install, or start from an existing minimal Linux VM image.
There is a german article [1] how to combine BusyBox [2] with a linux kernel to get a full (restricted, but small) linux system. Maybe this helps reducing the image size. There are english articles [3] on the web too. Cheers, Sebastian [1]: http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2009/12/156/ [2]: http://www.busybox.net/about.html [3]: http://www.google.com/search?q=building+tiny+linux+systems+with+busybox -- Underestimating the novelty of the future is a time-honored tradition. (D.G.)