Friday, April 29, 2016

Firefly failsafe image was updated

The following changes have been made:

  1. smf removed completely
  2. freebsd bootloader from the illumos loader project
  3. busybox provides init and many others commands
  4. network configuration script (/etc/init.d/netconfig) is included
  5. it's a possible to copy files over network using scp
  6. console has white background color
  7.  image size now is 58 MB


2 comments:

atar said...

Nice! Do you plan to make a SPARC version too?

alhazred said...

I need to go on Ebay first :)

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