If you want to replace stuff in a standard distribution with something else I guess it should have the same features as the thing you are replacing (except for the redundant and/or un-needed ones)
For fun, I have been trying to replace GNU with Busybox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2busybox Heirloom: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2heirloom Plan9port: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2plan9 in Arch. Stuff work surprisingly well when central parts of the OS:s innards are ripped out and replaced by something that looks similar (do not try on production systems though!). Unfortunately, some stuff are not found in Heirloom and Plan9port which means that one needs to fall back to Busybox in order to have a drop-in replacement of GNU coreutils. A possible foundation for sbase would be Goblin - a *nix/9base written in Go https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48413 (git://github.com/jdparent/goblin.git) Another possiblility that I do not know if it really is possible would be native compilation of Inferno. There is an experimental limbo compiler for posix systems: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acheron-l/ I have not tried it so I do not know how well it works. An extension of the scope of this one to cover the needed parts to replace GNU coreutils et al would be cool (one thing currently lacking: chroot) 2011/5/23 Bryan Bennett <bbenn...@gmail.com>: > I would suggest first re-writing the ones that 9Base has listed. It seems > a relatively exhaustive list and - with our case of NIH - we don't want to > be using anything from another OS entirely, now do we ;) > > I'm pretty excited by this proposition. The idea seems pretty good. > >