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I wonder how many dependencies would actually be needed for a self-hosting (i.e. able to re-compile itself) Linux-plus-shell system. Some pointers: http://www.
by felixrabe 12y ago
I wonder how many dependencies would actually be needed for a self-hosting (i.e. able to re-compile itself) Linux-plus-shell system.
Some pointers: http://www.landley.net/ols/ols2007/tutorial.txt http://www.landley.net/ols/ols2007/tutorial.txt, found via https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linuxfromscratch%20tcc%20busybox https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linuxfromscratch...
- felixrabe 12y agoClarification: By "a self-hosting...system" I meant "the most minimal self-hosting system". Better pointers: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html via more googling: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=minimal%20self%20bootstrapping%20linux https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=minimal%20self%2...
- fit2rule 12y agoIt used to be, in the good ol' days, "about 4 floppies of kernel and drivers", and "12 floppies of baseutils" with your added "5 floppies for emacs" and "1 floppy for vim" .. but those days are long over. Nowadays, the most useful 'self-building' OS/bin stack is debian with build-essentials.
- justincormack 12y agoWell not Linux, but all the BSDs are self hosting. Recommend NetBSD as you can cross build it from Linux it doesn't take too long.