Someone asked me in regards to OS/1337 "why don't you just use mkroot from @landley ?"

https://landley.net/toybox/downloads/binaries/mkroot/latest/

And that is a valid question.

To sum it up:
1. #mkroot for #i486 requires 3MiB of storage and thus is not an option for the 1440kB target size of the current, minimalist system.

2. shure I could instead make a #Syslinux #bootFloppy but that feels like cheating...

3. In the end the idea of OS/1337 is to build a #TUI-based #Desktop that can be built to run on everything.

#OS1337

Whilst I work on #OS1337's #MinimumViableProduct aka. #CORE / #FloppyEdition, I'm thinking about the other, more featureful versions.
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/tree/main/docu/ideas

Besides a #BootFloppy to launch a #CDROM version there are a lot of tools I'd love to support:

1. a Package Manager so people can just install & update shit easily:
https://github.com/OS-1337/spm

2. Good default Configs for a System like NTP & DNS Servers unless those are being offered per DHCP.
https://github.com/OS-1337/conf.d