Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
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Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#2Interesting. How much "smaller" is this in practice than a stripped down Linux image?
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#3Interesting. How much "smaller" is this in practice than a stripped down Linux image?
It boots to a shell in about 5MB of RAM, with networking and USB. Both Linux and Minoca can get smaller than that depending on how much you're willing to strip. The goal was to start lean and clean and then go up or down depending on specific needs. (Disclaimer: I work on Minoca OS).
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#4Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#5Interesting. How much "smaller" is this in practice than a stripped down Linux image?
It boots to a shell in about 5MB of RAM, with networking and USB. Both Linux and Minoca can get smaller than that depending on how much you're willing to strip. The goal was to start lean and clean and then go up or down depending on specific needs. (Disclaimer: I work on Minoca OS).
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Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#6Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
We're hoping it can be, but we're also considering open sourcing it.
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#7Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower optimization level than pro.
It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited
Not sure what that means though, I didn't dig very far.
Found the above here: http://www.minocacorp.com/product/ - scroll down a bit to find the product comparison. I quickly checked each top level page and did not see any prices. Unless I missed something it looks like it's a contact us and we'll tell you situation wrt pricing...
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#8Is this a commercial product? If so, what's your business model? This looks really neat by the way.
Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower optimization level than pro. It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited Not sure what that means though, I didn't dig very far. Found the above here: http://www.minocacorp.com/product/ - scroll down a bit to find the product com…
Ooh I didn't see that menu item because the link was to the download tab and product was left of it
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#9Cool! Can you describe a user who would see this as a perfect fit?
Re: Show HN: Minoca OS – A new lightweight kernel, completely from scratch
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a quick review of the site - the "Product" page - shows a lite version and a pro. Lite has debugging symbols built in that can't be stripped. It is compiled at a lower optimization level than pro. It says for Access to Source: Lite - Limited, Pro - Unlimited Not sure what that means though, I didn't dig very far. Found the above here: http://www.minocacorp.com/product/ - scroll down a bit to find the product com…
Ooh I didn't see that menu item because the link was to the download tab and product was left of it
Yeah, the site seems to get right to the point on how to download and install it so I can see why the OP started with that link. As mentioned above price and details on what actually is different between the two versions is a bit lite on details but seeing the OP's comment below mine suggests they are working on it...
Looks like an interesting project though. Going for Posix compatibility and having a working sh, gcc and python to start with can only help garner interest.