Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-18 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question on building and extremely small distro with just a single app. I will do some in-depth research on all of the possibilities, especially the Yocto Project seems like a very interesting approach, to see if I can take the next steps forward on the proje

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-18 Thread Greg Land via arch-general
You could also go straight up embedded with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project . This would let you get a very very small image built. On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 01:26 riveravaldez via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general > wrote: >

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-17 Thread riveravaldez via arch-general
On 11/17/19, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 11/17/19 6:01 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >> The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux >> distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based bootable >> system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 b

Re: [arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-17 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 11/17/19 6:01 PM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux > distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based bootable > system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 but no real desktop running. > I want it to boot directly

[arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge

2019-11-17 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hi All, I am new to Arch Linux and am hoping that this might be the direction that I need to look for a demo project that I am eagerly seeking to build and I really hope that someone can help me towards the right direction. The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux d