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#TomsRtBt fam where ya at?

Linux en un disquette: tomsrtbt (Tom's Root Boot) es una distribución de Linux pequeñísima que ya no está en funcionamiento. podía leer sistemas de archivos de varios SO's: ext2/3, FAT, NTFS y Minix. La última versión es la 2.0.103 de 2002.
#retrocomputingmx #tomsrtbt

@lproven @neil @OS1337 I know #tomsrtbt and it does so by "superformatting" 3,5" FDDs to fit ~ 1.650 kB.

That being said we have #xz nowadays so #compression is helping.

Tangents aside, people are free to create forks and even branches that include #SystemD or use #BusyBox:

That is the #Freedom of #FLOSS and in fact for anything outside the 1440kB target we'd accept #SystemD since it works and solves a lot of issues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Granted OS/1337 isn't a #demo first but rather tries to take the concept of #tomsrtbt and @w84death 's #Floppinux and tries to make it something that is useable and can be extended to arbitrary complexity if one desires to...

It's about making a tiny #Linux distro that is #reproduceable and #auditable...

It won't replace @ubuntu or any other big distro, likely it won't even replace #mkroot from #toybox but it should be a clean and level foundation for small #IoT and #EmbeddedSystems projects and products...

Something that is easy to build and customize and port to other platforms...

And we're open for contributions:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/docu/ideas/architectures.tsv

@Yuki As of now the design goal is a single 1440kB FDD as something one can bootstrap to arbitrary complexity.

Inspired by @landley 's #mkroot and @w84death 's #Floppinux as well as #tomsrtbt.

Tho Ideally we'd not have #SLS / #Slackware - style #FloppyOrgies and preferably have a #Minimalist #Linux that pulls necessities from a mirror [cacheable!] if need be or from a mini-CD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NM-AfmZPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6GRLhVXYMk videos via @ncommander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt

@rory So think of #OS1337 like a new attempt at #tomsrtbt in terms of simplicity...
https://infosec.exchange/@rory/111630432435153899

@SweetAIBelle But then again I do want to develop @OS1337 into a solution that sits right in between @landley 's #mkroot and @yoctoproject 's #Yocto #Linux whilst being able to fit arbitrary restrictions like competing with @w84death 's #Floppinux in size and #tomsrtbt in terms of functionality and versatility.

But speaking of OS/1337, i really need to get crackin' on those open issues and start using the reworked scripts of yours so my old mess can get yeeted sooner than later...

#OS1337

@landley @whitekiba @OS1337 sry.

My quest is to see if something like #tomsrtbt can be done with modern versions of #Linux & #toybox.

I know #mkroot is meant to show a full #musl + toybox / linux system for each supported architecture without sacrificing features and drivers along the way whilst retaining readability and reproduceability.

So OFC it can't fit on #1440kB...

But what can fit is a shimmed-down system able to load additional tools and/or flash/write a bigger system onto disk.

@whitekiba Derselbe use-case wie #Tomsrtbt: Ein schlankes #rescue-system um Zeug zu fixen...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomsrtbt

@lupo the problem is that i already compress the hell out of stuff:
I literally chose #xz over #gzip and #lzma for both #kernel ans #initramdisk to get both as small as possible...

OFC I'll gladly accept any help in that way...
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337

And yes, the similarity to #tomsrtbt and #Floppinux is not an accident but desired:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/docu/acknowledgements.md#notable-mentions

And yes, this is why I do OS/1337:

I want a nice #minimalist #Linux I could reproduceably build and use as a #rescue system more flexible as #tomsrtbt and actually deliver something even more useful than #mkroot in that it is a clean slate or rather coffe table to build a #embedded #Linux from.