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Hello all, |
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Hmm i'm interested in porting apps to dietlibc, for usage on a floppy. |
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After a small chat on #gentoo-embedded with several people working on |
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Gentoo-Embedded i found out nobody is interested in using Dietlibc, |
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people prefer uClibc for various reasons. Therefore my question is: IS |
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anybody interested in helping on this effort? |
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I've got little experience porting apps to Dietlibc with Dietlinux, |
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adding addons to it like Netcat. But, i'm willing to learn anything for |
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this purpose. |
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Why on a floppy? For me it's for a Free (non-profit) radio to allow |
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their current Windows boxes to be replaced by a Free OS running on a |
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floppy, doing exactly the same as they're currently doing: using |
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multiple boxes to stream from live input to an IceCast server. My plan |
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is to use LiveIce for that. I can think of various other cool reasons to |
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run Linux on a floppy, letting one decide what should be exactly on it, |
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using Gentoo. |
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Why Dietlibc? Because it creates smaller binaries than uClibc, making |
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it more suitable for floppies than uClibc. |
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My general plan is to integrate certain diffs with certain versions of a |
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program which do work. If a user selects Dietlibc in USE variable, |
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s/he'll get a perhaps older version, but it'll at least work using |
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Dietlibc. In the case of an important bug or security hazard the older |
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version will be patched against that. |
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I've found various diffs for Dietlibc and several apps |
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ftp://foobar.math.fu-berlin.de:2121/pub/dietlibc/diffs |
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http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~dreesen/diet_it/ |
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Is anyone interested using Dietlibc for Gentoo? In porting apps to it? |
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For floppies, for example? |
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Kind regards / met vriendelijke groet, |
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Jeroen |
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