On 11/12/2012 11:28 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:

I see three basic options for the target:

  A) kernel + init system and we're done
  B) "boot to yum (with network)": a text-mode bootstrap environment on which
     other things can be added by hand (or by kickstart)
  C) a traditional Unix command line environment with the expected basic
     tools available

To me, 'C' is too wide for two reasons. First, it's too open for continual
debate, because different people might expect different tools. Second, it's

I was just working on a VMWare ESXI hypervisor which basically is a minimal Linux install, including a kernel running their virtualization hosting environment, and a busybox session.

I found that there is a shockingly large amount of functionality in that busybox: we needed some network diagnostic tools, and discovered that it includes nc/netcat and ssh, as well as the usual ping/traceroute/nslookup/etc.

I don't know if that is what you're after, because busybox duplicates the functionality of individual packages (and may have some limitations in how well it duplicates, I'm sure). All the same, I would definitely consider including it---it's of course available as a Fedora package.
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