150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

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aforwardslash

Vaguely related, FreeBSD has a tool to generate custom small footprint variants, called nanobsd - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nanobsd&sektion=8&...

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ggm

Do the same for X! Well.. a layered addition maybe. I've always felt it's bringing swags of stuff which never gets used. A non accelerated fb or vesa binding would do for a lot of things.

I liked this piece a lot. Nice write up of how you explored the space.

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haunter

In there an “accessible” BSD on the level of live CD Linux distros, like Debian? Hey you can play around but also install it if you want right here right now with a DE

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yjftsjthsd-h

> Also keep in mind that You have entire static FreeBSD Rescue System available under /rescue dir.

If you have ZFS with boot environments, how valuable is that?

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crest

Wait until you run `pkg upgrade` and it takes several times the 150MiB...

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