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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:06:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5a0vn6$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32B744C0.2DA9@wdc.net> <597m7n$abh@fridge-nf0.shore.net> <59c6mk$1jq@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33297 scottm@taliesin.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Michel) wrote: > The question was: Can FreeBSD, appropriately stripped down and a new > file system driver installed, be comfortably run in 4M? Unfortunately, the kernel suffers from ``a little bloat'' everywhere around. So even with all the optional stuff disabled, it doesn't get much smaller than a few hundred KB. If one of you ``embedded guys'' can come up with #ifdef options how to reduce some of the bloat, don't hesitate to submit it to us. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)