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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
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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. ;-)