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An attempt to provide a reproducible, automatic, complete end-to-end bootstrap from a minimal number of binary seeds to a supported fully functioning operating system.

41 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 4 stories, 37 comments · first 2021-02-01 · latest 2026-04-19

Mentions per year 41 mentions · busiest year 2024 (13)
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  1. ▲ 53
    Bootstrap a Linux system from a 512 byte binary seed with 170 steps
    story by chubot · 2024-08-25 · 9 comments
  2. ▲ 2
    Automated Bootstrapping from Source
    story by fanf2 · 2024-05-26 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 103
    Bootstrapping from Hex to Bison to GCC
    story by z29LiTp5qUC30n · 2021-05-03 · 19 comments
  4. ▲ 3
    Live-bootstrap: Use of a Linux initramfs to automate the bootstrapping process
    story by dane-pgp · 2021-02-01 · 1 comment