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CompactBSD for Embedded Projects

Posted by michael on from the bsd-inside dept.

miggidy_mac writes "FatPort (a wireless Internet service provider in Vancouver, BC) just released CompactBSD. It's a set of tools that allow you to build your own customized, lightweight distribution of OpenBSD and then burns it onto compact flash (or similar) so that it can be run on an embedded PC platform (like FatPort's own FatPoint). CompactBSD takes the security and networking features of OpenBSD that we know and love, and combines them with ease-of-build and small footprint, which is great for embedded devices. Check out the project on SourceForge."

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  1. Let's hope... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... the leave out the experimental sshd code
    that openbsd loves to run by default, and
    contributed to a remote root explote. Me, I'd
    prefer old 2.x era sshd.

  2. ooh, just what I was looking for by jasonditz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gotta get this bad boy running on all those Javastations in my back room.

  3. Security by Rupert · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not sure you can claim that any given subset of OpenBSD has the same level of security as the real thing. Presumably they're only including code that's been through a security audit, but how tested is any given configuration going to be?

    --

    --
    E_NOSIG
  4. Re:Best operating system for the job? by fanatic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    windows ... but hard-crashes and hard-rebooting them wouldn't damage them as badly as the horror stories I've heard about *nix systems.

    I think Windows is just quieter about what it does in recovering from hard crashes than *NIX systems, which give you options during recovery that most folks have no use for. In any event, the journaling filesystems under Linux (and the Soft Updates for BSDs) largely addresses this. Unscheduled powerdowns are usually not much of an issue with ext3.

    --
    "that's not encryption - it's a new perl script that I'm working on..." - from some Matrix parody
  5. Re:How do the tools compare to WinCE's? by philovivero · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Leaving aside any arguments about BSD and WinCE, of course.
    Leaving aside arguments about BSD and WinCE? Yeh, this is like talking about moving dirt from one place to another, and not arguing about the relative merits of the pooper scooper and the Bobcat Compact Excavator.

    (oh, lordy, when will I ever learn to stop fanning the flames???)

    --
    fifth sigma, inc.
  6. Re:Elegy for *BSD by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 2, Insightful
    But then I realized,

    that your little poem,

    was nothing more,

    than *BSD trolling.

    http://www.apple.com/switch/