Monolinux
Infrastructure
embedded linux distribution
SHOW HN2019
69points
17comments
#665of 2,195 in 2019
Top 31%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
Objections
Size claim is unclear; commenter wanted a size indication for a tiny distro
From 1 comment
As it is 'tiny' I think people expect some kind of size indication?
Gys on HN
Requests
Support for Raspberry Pi and ARM boards
From 2 comments
Cool. ARM?
xbhdhdhd on HNI'd love for this to be the case. I have a handful of raspberry pi projects that I just want to boot and run a single executable. I don't need or want the rest of the OS included…
mysterydip on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Alpine?
From 1 comment
What makes this different than Alpine?
rmdashrfstar on HN
Does it support ARM?
From 1 comment
Cool. ARM?
xbhdhdhd on HN
Alternatives named
Alpine Linux
From 1 comment
What makes this different than Alpine?
rmdashrfstar on HN
Buildroot
From 1 comment
There's also Buildroot which has a bit of a learning curve (it's still easier than Yocto/Angstrom IMO) but is capable of producing highly customized, tiny embedded Linux images.…
i_v on HN
ArchARM
From 1 comment
Have you tried ArchARM? It's pretty lean and fits into those old 512M SD Cards.
yyhhsj0521 on HN
minifs
From 1 comment
The readme isn't really up to date, but many years ago I started minifs to be the smallest, reproducible linux distro I can get away with. With extra tools like a 'cross linker'…
buserror on HN