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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Clement" <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>
>
>  
>
> > I've found some small binaries that work with BasicLinux. There's 
> > everything from Busybox to zsh to vsftpd. I haven't tested all of 
> > them, but they should work.
> >
> > ftp://foobar.math.fu-berlin.de:2121/pub/dietlibc/bin-i386/
> >    
>
> Very interesting. ~90k for busybox??
I took a look at it, it's quite bare bones.

> That must have almost nothing
> compiled in. Although, a ~300k bash looks very promising, especially
> statically built.
>  
Yes it does. Maybe I should figure out how they compiled these and make 
some packages myself. :)

Plus, they have all the coreutils there. Plus stuff like vim, nano, etc. 
Very nice.

> David
>  
Stephen Clement