From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/14938 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Golovin Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [preview] Aalbus : a musl/clang/libc++ distro Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 12:09:11 +0200 Message-ID: <45478011573985351@vla4-fbefcb3b0074.qloud-c.yandex.net> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="162311"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" Original-X-From: musl-return-14954-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Nov 17 11:09:33 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWHUq-000g28-Jo for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:09:32 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 19741 invoked by uid 550); 17 Nov 2019 10:09:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 19723 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2019 10:09:23 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=golovin.in; s=mail; t=1573985351; bh=HRszK42MNIHawjTjzbu0RrP8ow0a6cmTV6yGCCtKc2U=; h=References:Date:Message-Id:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From; b=4TIufURHBLrODCpWZJYUVFf1+BJK4DgGyDJwRDZDJxrS4xYunXipbnbNJIdT+vcs/ A17oPs9QloW4gJVGijuo/8xk9BLOB7N2sS9F5ZDII8zULqXeyr+QKijT+zva3a7D6R 8d6g2241/iVy8vrmTA7b4P+OibQG2zCY4iEObLmo= Authentication-Results: mxback7q.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@golovin.in In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:14938 Archived-At: 17.11.2019, 11:32, "Jens Staal" : > Dear all, > > I recently got a direct e-mail asking about the progress of this hobby > OS and shared a preview archive: > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Vg1nJQulRWoOaqLKPY0fewDIwRHPCgWa > > It might be nice to get some extra eyeballs on it. The archive is > surprisingly big compared to my previous musl/clang/libc++ gentoo > stage 4. Perhaps due to pkgsrc (which also has a tendency to pull in > lots of dependencies for each package).. > > Brief background: > > Name/mascot: The name/mascot comes from the Lovecraftian giant albino > penguin Aptenodytes albus: > https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Albino_penguin > > Toolchain : musl/clang/libc++ + elftoolchain > Package manager: pkgsrc > shell: mksh > editor: vis (-->vi) > Several alternative libraries (libedit, gettext-tiny, netbsd-curses, > skarnet,...) > utilities: a mix of sbase/ubase, Heirloom and (Net)BSD (+freegrep) > man: mandoc+neatroff > > I had hoped to use nbase as major provider of general utilities but > when I managed to build it most binaries crashed with a core dump so I > went back to sbase. > > Some major TODOs still are to build/package syslinux and linux kernel > and figure out how to make a bootable live ISO. Wow! Impressive work. I have my own attempt on such distro, but it's a lot smaller right now, so less impressive. I've been working on it since 2014, but hasn't been active. The name is nenuzhnix, the main idea is not using anything from the GNU Project when building it. Here is the project's GitHub link: https://github.com/tpimh/nenuzhnix The full list of packages: base-files, curl, dash, dropbear, e2fsprogs, eudev, kbd, kernel-headers, kmod, libarchive, libedit, libgit2, libressl, libssh2, libusb, lynx, miniz, musl, netbsd-curses, opkg, pciutils, shadow, simplegit, toybox, usbutils, xz. As you can see, it's not much, but it's very easy to add new packages and I will be happy to accept pull requests adding new packages or improving existing ones. I use my own toolchain called ngtc to build all the packages. Here is the project's GitHub link: https://github.com/tpimh/ngtc It consists of clang, compiler-rt, libc++, libc++abi, libunwind, lld, llvm. Right now Alpine Linux is used as the host system to build all the packages, but at some point nenuzhnix should become self-hosting and be able to build itself. Also you can easily try it with docker by running the following: docker run -ti --rm tpimh/nenuzhnix /bin/esh -l Regards, Dmitry