Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://equestria.social/@SweetAIBelle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SweetAIBelle</span></a></span> that's why I started <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@OS1337" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>OS1337</span></a></span> : I looked at <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Floppynux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Floppynux</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@w84death" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>w84death</span></a></span> and while it works with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/BusyBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusyBox</span></a> it doesn't do much beyond <code>cat</code> and <code>vi</code> and doesn't even have like drivers to store anything.</p><p>OFC <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OS1337" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS1337</span></a> isn't much better as of now but I do share the motivation that made <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.jp/@landley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>landley</span></a></span> start <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/toybox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toybox</span></a>:</p><p>A simple, clean, lean and adaptible, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/smol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> distro that can be the solid foundation for anything.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g&amp;t=1408" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/MkJkyMuBm3g&amp;t=1408</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Whilst <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mkroot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mkroot</span></a> is nice, I think there is some room for improvement and building an actual <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/distro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>distro</span></a>.</p><ul><li>Also he has made excellent documentation including a live demonstration on how to basically DIY a minimalist linux from scratch with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/musl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musl</span></a> &amp; toybox: <a href="https://youtu.be/Sk9TatW9ino" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Sk9TatW9ino</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></li></ul><p>I feel that <em>"Just chug in a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> with the <code>lite</code> Version of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RaspberryPiOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPiOS</span></a></em> seems quite overkill (it's a 350MiB (!!!) image) for most projects and espechally when it comes to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a>-related stuff like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Cryptofon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cryptofon</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PocketCrypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PocketCrypto</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LambdaCrypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LambdaCrypt</span></a>.</p><ul><li>I think that besides <em>"Don't DIY encryption! There are excellent implementations ready to grab and go!"</em> the <em><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/KISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KISS</span></a>-Principle</em> is key, cuz I'm a shit coder and I want to avoid having to fiddle around and instead make it easy to fix stuff just by updating versions from upstream.</li></ul>