Hi guys, been interested on Plan 9, suckless.org tools and the philosophy behind both projects. I want to read LFS and learn how to make my own distro with simple, do-one-thing-and-do-it-right software and without GNU and other shit. I'm going to use many ideas behind sta.li (such as its filesystem) and Plan 9/9front, and other Linux distros such as Sabotage, Bedrock and Bootstrap. I'm also thinking about implementing both 9base and sbase. I don't expect it to be made in a few months, through, it's just an idea I have in mind.
I have checked your git page and sbase has no contributions since seven months ago. How usable is sbase? I have builded the current git version against gcc (not sure why tcc fails when statically building =( ...) and the musl library and the total size is 448Kb, with 2376+ 336 lines. That's pretty awesome. On the other side, Ubuntu's coreutils 8.13-3.2ubuntu2.1 package has 70709 lines (without counting the files under the lib folder), and that's a no-no. So is sbase mature enough to replace coreutils and similar packages? Of course there's busybox and toybox too, but I'm not fan of having one single binary to do gazillion things.