Operating System Development in EasyOS: The Latest
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Start create woofV builtin to EasyOS
There are many Woofs, from the original "Puppy Unleashed", to Woof v1, then Woof2, then Woof-CE and WoofQ. Plus some other variants. In a nutshell, what they do is put together binary packages from a GNU/Linux distribution and create .sfs files, an intrd and vmlinuz, and put it into a drive-image or ISO file.
WoofQ started life in 2013 as a successor to Woof2, at the same time as Woof-CE. WoofQ was originally used to build Quirky Linux, then later, in 2017, EasyOS.
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woofV create initrd
The previous post introduces "woofV", which is the Woof build system, in this case for building from Void packages and builtin to easyVoid. Previous post:
https://bkhome.org/news/202401/start-create-woofv-builtin-to-easyos.html
There are some major challenges ahead, but one step at a time. I have implemented a script, 'create-initrd', that does what the name suggests. See commit:
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