On 11/12/2012 11:28 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
I see three basic options for the target:
A) kernel + init system and we're done
B) "boot to yum (with network)": a text-mode bootstrap environment on which
other things can be added by hand (or by kickstart)
C) a traditional Unix command line environment with the expected basic
tools available
To me, 'C' is too wide for two reasons. First, it's too open for continual
debate, because different people might expect different tools. Second, it's
I was just working on a VMWare ESXI hypervisor which basically is a
minimal Linux install, including a kernel running their virtualization
hosting environment, and a busybox session.
I found that there is a shockingly large amount of functionality in that
busybox: we needed some network diagnostic tools, and discovered that it
includes nc/netcat and ssh, as well as the usual
ping/traceroute/nslookup/etc.
I don't know if that is what you're after, because busybox duplicates
the functionality of individual packages (and may have some limitations
in how well it duplicates, I'm sure). All the same, I would definitely
consider including it---it's of course available as a Fedora package.
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