Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://equestria.social/@SweetAIBelle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SweetAIBelle</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>OS1337</span></a></span> shure.</p><p>I'm convinced that a fully-fledged image of that would be similar to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/toybox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toybox</span></a>'s <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mkroot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mkroot</span></a>, which is <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> 's reference implementation for a toxbox + <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/musl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musl</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> system.</p><ul><li>Last time I checked it came out just below 4 MB, but that was the premade image using only the stuff <a href="https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">toybox included</a> [and linux & being statically compiled against musl] like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/gzip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gzip</span></a> instead of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/xz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xz</span></a> for compression, so there already is room to shave a few hundred kB without reducing functionality out of the get-go as I've seen with my build tests of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/kernel666" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kernel666</span></a>...</li></ul><p>Either way, we're close to <a href="https://youtu.be/cz6iGrhnMKs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his reference matterial</a> AFAICT and I do think that OS/1337 can become a good and solid foundation for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/minimalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minimalist</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/embedded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embedded</span></a> systems.</p> <p>For comparison:</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/YoctoLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YoctoLinux</span></a> is <a href="https://www.yoctoproject.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">quite</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/THICC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>THICC</span></a> in comparison (using LSB & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GNUtils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GNUtils</span></a> for the most part!) and stuff like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OpenADK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenADK</span></a> seems to be overly complex...</p><ul><li>tho <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Viprinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viprinet</span></a> <a href="https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads#viprinux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hasn't updated their stuff in like 8 years</a> and I sincerely hope that's just them loginwalling access to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SourceCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SourceCode</span></a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grsecurity</span></a> to paying customers only and not them such old Kernels.</li></ul></li></ul> <p>Speaking of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/grsec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grsec</span></a>, I wounder if Bruce Perens actually sued them for <em>allegedly violating <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPLv2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPLv2</span></a></em> when in fact said license allows <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/paywalling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywalling</span></a> aka. restricting access to buyers of the product it contains.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS1337</span></a></p>