[oe] Pull request from Dor?Development - New: Micro distro/image
Denys Dmytriyenko
denis at denix.org
Sun May 3 04:39:42 UTC 2009
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Martin Lund wrote:
> The "Micro" distribution/image is created because we feel that there is a
> need for a truly tiny and clean distro and image definition in OE for those
> users out there that needs a _very_ tiny Linux rootfs with virtually
> nothing installed except busybox, libc, udev, and a few init scripts. On
> arm the jffs2 image size is only 1 MB (uclibc based). No bloat allowed.
>
> The micro-image is ideal for users who wants this type of tiny Linux rootfs
> system with only a few custom applications added.
Hmm, about 7 years ago I was working on a project of a Linux-based DSL router,
which had a filesystem of about 1 MB in size with all the possible networking
apps plus some custom management, control and diagnostic apps... It was also
busybox and uclibc based, but was squash+lzma to squeeze every bit out of it.
And back then busybox didn't have all the networking tools integrated yet, as
it has these days...
--
Denys
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