Web-based Package Manager

[Giovanni Lostumbo]

Hi,

I was chatting in the  Unofficial Minix Group Discord the idea of developing a web-based package manager for MINIX 3, similar to https://tiny.slitaz.org/ , so that it could be easily repackaged for more custom builds, and found someone interested, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone else might be too. As many here know, 

"I knew that Intel had some potential interest in MINIX several years ago when one of your engineering teams contacted me about some secret internal project and asked a large number of technical questions about MINIX, which I was happy to answer. I got another clue when your engineers began asking me to make a number of changes to MINIX, for example, making the memory footprint smaller and adding #ifdefs around pieces of code so they could be statically disabled by setting flags in the main configuration file. This made it possible to reduce the memory footprint even more by selectively disabling a number of features not always needed, such as floating point support. This made the system, which was already very modular since nearly all of the OS runs as a collection of separate processes (normally in user mode), all of which can be included or excluded in a build, as needed, even more modular." https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

I think it would be useful for portable microcontrollers and super efficient userspace OSes, where a smaller MINIX could fit on a lighter chip, if using just a handful of apps. Like a portable LoRA chip that uses SMS and even SIP for communication. 

[Giovanni Lostumbo]

The idea could be similar to https://ubunlog.com/en/cubic-iso-personalizada-ubuntu/ , but on a much smaller scale.