Re: the bare necessities ...

2014-09-04 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2014-09-05 04:00, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: Hello Mayuresh Kathe, You may be interested in ideas from MirBSD, they run for 10 years without C++ in base. yes, i have heard of them, and interacted with thorsten regarding mksh, seemed like a good guy. i am also drawing inspiration from openbsd,

Re: the bare necessities ...

2014-09-04 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
On 2014-09-05 02:34, Matt Thomas wrote: On Sep 4, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: hello, due to unforeseen circumstances, i need to cut down on my budget for a machine to run netbsd on. How much of a budget? us$330. intended use of the machine; 1. re-write as many of the base

Re: the bare necessities ...

2014-09-04 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
Hello Mayuresh Kathe, You may be interested in ideas from MirBSD, they run for 10 years without C++ in base. There is mostly no low-power minimum, just get something usable, more power will help you. I like your idea of PCC and ANSI C. I think that NetBSD needs more features not reworked thin

Re: the bare necessities ...

2014-09-04 Thread Matt Thomas
On Sep 4, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > hello, > > due to unforeseen circumstances, i need to cut down on my budget for a > machine to run netbsd on. How much of a budget? > intended use of the machine; > 1. re-write as many of the base tree c++ tools/utils in c89 as required fo

the bare necessities ...

2014-09-04 Thread Mayuresh Kathe
hello, due to unforeseen circumstances, i need to cut down on my budget for a machine to run netbsd on. intended use of the machine; 1. re-write as many of the base tree c++ tools/utils in c89 as required for a functional system. 2. work at getting as much of a functional system as possible u