Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development

[Sebastian Fischer]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> We'd probably need to find a suitably minimal Linux install, or  
> start from an existing minimal Linux VM image.

There is a german article [1] how to combine BusyBox [2] with a linux  
kernel to get a full (restricted, but small) linux system. Maybe this  
helps reducing the image size.

There are english articles [3] on the web too.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[1]: http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt/2009/12/156/
[2]: http://www.busybox.net/about.html
[3]: http://www.google.com/search?q=building+tiny+linux+systems+with+busybox


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