@landley I mean it was merely an idea to get a clean boot from ROM into RAM kinda system...

• Where it would've made @OS1337 a viable #RescueSystem to embed...

@lumi Cortana from Halo 4 voice: I can tell you so many reasons why #GPLv3 would be a horribe decision and inevitably enshure that said Kernel can't retain compatibility longterm nor share code...

• @landley went through all of this and came to the conclusion that #Copyleft doesn't work!

Plus doing so would basically create only unnecessary and redundant labour whilst not providing any real, practical benefit to the end-users...

Espechally since #Linux is galaxies ahead in terms of #documentatation, #developers, #support and #support

• I might rather see @OS1337 being embedded in #BMC's & #iKVM systems to provide a #minimalist "#RescueSystem" / "#RescueLinux" to recover data and/or fix issues and/or install other distros from image files...

@SweetAIBelle @OS1337
So instead of relying on some non-#reproduceable system images for cheap SBCs, why not make something like #OS1337 that is compact enough that one can easily build everything one wants for it to get at least started with something.

• After all, rarely does a project call for a fancy, hardware-accelerated GUI desktop with a Cube-Style animated Virtual Desktop switcher.

Sometimes one just needs to bood a system, check it's hardware and #ddrescue something off the internal harddrive because one doesn't have any other system that can run it...

• Or have something to #netboot into as a #RescueSystem because #DisklessWorkstations and #DisklessServers are a thing espechally in big hosting envoirments where everything is done in seperately scalable layers and abstracted to APIs and Oroticols like #iSCSI...https://github.com/OS-1337/netboot

@landley I guess I'm just trying to force myself into mastering this because a working #1440kB sized #Linux that does more than #cat text files is nifty...

Even if it just works as a means of being a #RescueSystem or #SSH #terminal...

Maybe I've to really focus on just getting it done...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwUPs5N9I6I&t=375s

And I think that a #minimalist #embedded / #desktop & #server #Linux has a lot of merits.

Because it can be flexible and useful even if a System does have plenty of resources to handle something bulkier than OS/1337.

And lets face it: Having some self-booting #minimal Linux that starts a #SSH server and allows to act as #RescueSystem or do basic #Setup if not #Backup & #Restore would come in handy regardless if one has a #BMC with #LOM & #iKVM or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0&t=2545s

#OS1337 #toybox

@smyth But as some versatile #RescueSystem one can blindly let a machine boot into and do basics like SSH into, wipe and/or recover data and #chainload other OSes like an Install ISO from a different drive...

Kinda like the #Foreman #iPXE bootdisk, but better, since it can be used interactively and non-interactively...