@HauntedOwlbear makes sense...

I just am not a fan of #Tailscale as a centralized service and would rather evaluate #tinc (if #meshing is needed) and otherwise choose #WireGuard, #OpenVPN & #IPsec depending on the client(s) and expected throughput...

• In fact I did custom-built boxes that got them into colocation as "VPN Hubs" (similar to those #Viprinet ones ...

@SweetAIBelle @OS1337 shure.

I'm convinced that a fully-fledged image of that would be similar to #toybox's #mkroot, which is @landley 's reference implementation for a toxbox + #musl / #linux system.

• Last time I checked it came out just below 4 MB, but that was the premade image using only the stuff toybox included [and linux & being statically compiled against musl] like #gzip instead of #xz 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 #kernel666...

Either way, we're close to his reference matterial AFAICT and I do think that OS/1337 can become a good and solid foundation for #minimalist & #embedded systems.

For comparison:

• #YoctoLinux is quite #THICC in comparison (using LSB & #GNUtils for the most part!) and stuff like #OpenADK seems to be overly complex...

  • tho #Viprinet hasn't updated their stuff in like 8 years and I sincerely hope that's just them loginwalling access to #SourceCode like #grsecurity to paying customers only and not them such old Kernels.

Speaking of #grsec, I wounder if Bruce Perens actually sued them for allegedly violating #GPLv2 when in fact said license allows #paywalling aka. restricting access to buyers of the product it contains.

#OS1337

And yes, after considering the mountain of evidence I decided to choose a #permissive instead of #copyleft license.

In fact, I did choose the same license that @landley chose for #toybox: #0BSD.

https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Since #copyleft would not guarantee improvements as can be seen not only from #BusyBox but also @grsecurity and #Viprinet #VPN - #Routers.

["#Viprinux" is a botched and horribly outdated #OpenADK mess based off what they released on their website]...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230331121150/https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads

Also from my observation I can confirm @landley 's observations that #Copyleft doesn't help #Linux to the point that one can get archaic and long-outdated #Sourcecode like " #Viprinux " that is basically useless and is even older than #Floppinux.

https://www.viprinet.com/en/support/downloads

Also if #Viprinet still uses 2015-dated code then that's rather scary than anything to me as a #sysadmin.

Mit @viprinet@twitter.com hätte es das Desaster so nicht gegeben.

Beim nächsten Mal nehme ich es auf jeden Fall mit.

#NieWiederOffline
#Viprinet
#bpt192