About TinyBSD

TinyBSD is a set of tools made up of shell scripts designed to allow easy development of Embedded Systems based on FreeBSD RELENG_5 ,RELENG_6, RELENG_7 and 8-CURRENT

TinyBSD is founded in three simple and direct factors, believing that a tool to build embedded systems based on FreeBSD should be be:

• An easy task

• A fast proccess

• 100% functional resulting system

The main helping factor for a fast image creation system based on TinyBSD is that the FreeBSD 5.X series comes by default with its entire binary base dynamically linked. In other words, all binaries need a predefined set of libraries to work, leading all binaries to be a lot smaller in size and eliminating the need of a complete recompile process if you only needed a part of the system remade. With series 4.X, some binaries are statically linked on the FreeBSD base, not needing any libraries for them to work, but making all of them a lot larger in size. For this reason, TinyBSD has been designed to work with FreeBSD 5.X, 6.X, 7.X and 8-CURRENT, being harder to accomplish the task with FreeBSD 4.X.

TinyBSD was designed by two brazilians, Jean Milanez Melo < jmelo@freebsdbrasil.com.br> and PatrickTracanelli < eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br>

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