@cwebber precisely that!

A #shitposting - Program is anything but #reproduceable and I want #ReproduceableBuilds for #auditability, #security and #transparency.

• That's the whole reason I do @OS1337: To have something so fundamentally simple and compact that it is (at least in theory - at some point) financially feasible to crowdfund complete code audits of the entire system.
  • I don't want people to trust me blindly, but to earn trust in the few things I code.

That's why I treat any "#AI" / #AIslop the same way @dolphin treat any leaks from Nintendo:

• I'm not even gonna look at it!

@MinistryOfGoodIdeas This is really disappointing from @GrapheneOS because of all the #manufacturers, #Motorola literally fights #EU standards for #LongTermSupport of #firmware with tooth and nail...

• Like all their arguments against #Fairphone apply to Motorola too, if not harder!
  • Cuz I sincerely doubt Motorola will do even half of their "#security" demands and is even worse #AntiRepairDesign than #Google's garbage devices!

I guess #GrapheneOS need an #EgoCheck and instead #LineageOS and other #ROM|s really need to up their game...

• As for me, I don't trust any mobile phone - period!
  • And that won't change until I either get the entire #schematics and #reproduceable #firmware builds WITH the entire #SourceCode...

I eamn, we can see this #OpenWashing by #RedHat and others #paywalling #SourceCode access...

• Legally they can do that even with #GPLv2, but that doesn't make it morally correct, because the idea of #FLOSS is #trust throigh #reproduceable & #Auditable builds.

@cleantext thx.

Basically I looked at @landley 's #toybox & #mkroot and @w84death 's #Floppinux and decided 'this is a challenge worth the effort.'

• Having a #minimalist & #reproduceable #Linux #distro is certainly having an appeal for #embedded and sensitive computing even outside of NORAD...

It's certainly not for everyone but it doesn't have to be.

@mrmasterkeyboard np.

To me @OS1337 is just an attempt to a minimalist #Linux distro because I want some #reproduceable & #auditable #firmware for various other projects, and both @yoctoproject and #RaspberryPiOS 'lite' seem rather excessive to me.

• Also a proper minimalist #CLI-based #distro that can be used for an "#SSH-#Terninal" does have merits.

I just think that it can have serious benefits being less distracting and allowing me (and others) to just use basically any hardware to get work done...

• The rest of the component selection came because it was either dictated by necessity (Linux has the most driver support and biggest community), alignment with values & goals ( @landley 's #toybox is a clean & minimalist userland) and being better than #GNU stuff (i.e. @musl / #musl) by not bricking shit at random minor updates…

@leftpaddotpy "the #cloud" is a #mainframe for folks who don't have a sales rep / account manager at #IBM!

"#CloudNative" is just a short for "I can't be assed to make #reproduceable #standalone code and make tarballs!"

@LunaDragofelis @farcaller I guess that is an indicator that your backup strategy is in fact failed.

• You need to find a drive to test it!

Yes, unless #DisasterRecovery is #reproduceable, #backups are to be considered #incomplete, #inconsistent & #inaccessible!

@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

Tangents aside, people are free to create forks and even branches that include #SystemD or use #BusyBox:

That is the #Freedom of #FLOSS and in fact for anything outside the 1440kB target we'd accept #SystemD since it works and solves a lot of issues...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Granted OS/1337 isn't a #demo first but rather tries to take the concept of #tomsrtbt and @w84death 's #Floppinux and tries to make it something that is useable and can be extended to arbitrary complexity if one desires to...

It's about making a tiny #Linux distro that is #reproduceable and #auditable...

It won't replace @ubuntu or any other big distro, likely it won't even replace #mkroot from #toybox but it should be a clean and level foundation for small #IoT and #EmbeddedSystems projects and products...

Something that is easy to build and customize and port to other platforms...

And we're open for contributions:
https://github.com/OS-1337/OS1337/blob/main/docu/ideas/architectures.tsv