CompactBSD for Embedded Projects

Posted by michael on Friday August 23, 2002 @01:28PM 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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How do the tools compare to WinCE's? by ObviousGuy · 2002-08-23 14:44 · Score: 1, Troll

Microsoft Platform Builder is a pretty good tool for configuring and building a Windows CE customized OS. It seems that CompactBSD's CLI environment is really a huge backstep in platform configuration tools.

Leaving aside any arguments about BSD and WinCE, of course.

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Any plan for a "Compact Linux" ? by Taco+Cowboy · 2002-08-24 03:00 · Score: 1, Troll

I know that there are lots of "tiny" Linux distros. But is there any that match or exceed that of "compactBSD" ?

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