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Re: A FORTH flavored Linux?

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Subject Re: A FORTH flavored Linux?
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
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Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Date 2011-10-27 11:49 +0000
Message-ID <2011Oct27.134951@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)

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Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> writes:
>I'm explicitly *NOT* looking for a Linux written in Forth.
>Rather I'm looking for a distro put together by someone with 
>a Forth mindset.
>
>It must be able to use packages from a standard/popular 
>repository (Debian preferred}.

It's a bit hard to know what you mean with "Forth mindset".  The first
thought I had was a Linux kernel with a Forth system as the init
process.  But if you want to be able to use a standard package format
and repository, that means you want to use an established
distribution.  If you prefer the Debian repository, use Debian.

>Small is good ;/

Then do manual package selection instead of the prefab configurations.
Only install the basic packages (which took around 500MB the last time
I tried it, so not exactly small, and still missing lots of things I
consider essential, especially ssh and Emacs, but also contains stuff
I don't need on most machines, e.g., xinetd), and then install only
those packages you need.

- anton
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A FORTH flavored Linux? Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2011-10-25 15:02 -0500
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    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? gavino <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 04:11 -0800
  Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-10-25 23:25 -0700
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    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-10-26 16:08 +0200
    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? David Kuehling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de> - 2011-10-27 12:52 +0200
  Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2011-10-26 05:35 -0700
  Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2011-10-27 11:49 +0000
    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2011-10-27 05:45 -0700
  Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2011-10-27 09:54 -0500
    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2011-10-27 21:41 +0200
    Re: A FORTH flavored Linux? Bee <forth@calcentral.com> - 2011-10-27 12:42 -0700
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