static linked uclibc

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:58:20AM +0800, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > necessarily make fixing 1 impossible
> 
> my init replacement can open a login console in less than a second
> after kernel starts. fbdev  and fbconsole is compiled in and
> everything starts up in parallel.
> 
> kernel and post kernel start is already there. what remains to be done
> is the pre kernel and kernel loading part. the x86 is basically a
> 16bit 16mhz machine at that time. the supidity of that never fails to
> amaze me.

Actually a 16-bit 3000 MHz (or whatever) machine. :)
Despite the crappy 16-bit mode, the machine does run at full clock
speed from startup.

> suspend can help here until linuxbios or openbios can run on my
> hardware or i can get hardware that can run them. if i can remove many
> unneeded bits from the kernel then i might actually try porting
> linuxbios to my motherbord.

I'm very interested in linuxbios but I get the impression that bios is
very motherboard-specific these days, not like the old times where
anything would work.. :(

> no. 5 is easy. look at dhcp for example or OLSR or ipv4 zeroconf.

Oh I thought you meant crap like redhat's automatic hardware detection
or windows pnp...

> > No idea what you mean by 2.
> 
> 2 is basically being asked to condense the meaning of concepts and
> ideas in a short cryptic name. and i mean files humans needs to deal
> with directly. folders and files belong in the same soup. a full text
> inverted index would help. i tried doing that and found out that it
> can work without me knowing what the file name is. of course i did not
> have a ui when i was playing with it but was better than grep by
> orders of magnitude. i gave up though when i tried to go beyond text
> files. that really got me stumped. i never really figured out how to
> edit them in place either...

Still kinda confused what you mean..

> i sort of tried to put all me notes in one file as an experiment and
> vi's search seems ok.  but there is no spell check and there is no way
> to send snippets via email from there. but i think its what i need in
> a nutshell. if there only a way to add other functionality via
> plugins. or maybe just use an editor like interface and use a compound
> doc engine underneath or maybe an object container of some kind. the
> interface can be the view and controller connected to different object
> containers for the documents. see my drift?

Sorry, no.

> > 3 is  fixed by not turning off the machine (obviously); use suspend if you
> > need to. No idea what you mean by 4.
> >
> 
> suspend is a good remedy. but im an environmentalist. so uhhhh....

Well, even a fully-powered idle machine uses much less energy than a
refridgerator, and a machine in suspend only uses a tiny fraction of
that (or none at all with suspend-to-disk).

> i sometimes forget to save my files and i hate manually managing
> backups so i tried automatic backups for everything but that got
> really complicated very quickly. its also a  big problem with the
> servers i manage. one is in amsterdam and the other in manila. and i
> live in manila. now i am scared of making changes in the amsterdam
> server that has to be undone by my colleague who is a non techie
> windows user... and i cant go on a vacation where there is no internet
> access or phone coverage. im the only linux guy in the company. im
> worried they might think of migrating everything to windows.

Yes..

> if i solve all of the above then our cto can manage the system himself
> if needed and he is an old man who hates his windows laptop, but use
> it anyway because he has no choice, for exactly the same reasons i
> enumerated above.

Windows boots in less than 1 second? Wow I know common linux distros
had fallen behind in performance, but not by that much! :)

Rich