projects/bootstrap-initrd

Small development environment capable of building a minimalist distro with the least amount of binaries involved and priority over straightforward bootstrap path to ease reviewability.

Constraints

Readable code

For example GNU code ends up excluded due to prevalence of layers of macros and horribly long autogenerated code which is difficult to regenerate

Clean bootstrap path

No historical versions or multiple stages with different patches. This is both to ease up reviewability and maintenance

Fast

Should build in few minutes total, not hours. After all if it takes hours for a computer to parse, it would be even worse for a human

Related

Own blog article from 2024-06-23 announcing bootstrap-initrd