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a small statically-linked linux system

18 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2020-06-04 · latest 2026-09-15

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  1. Setting up Oasis < https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis > taught me more than LFS personally. Everything being statically compiled makes it less magic.
    comment by myaccountonhn · 2026-09-15 · in Linux from Scratch
  2. https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis is also a a small statically-linked linux system using musl and the like. Curious about your thoughts on that?
    comment by hyperbrainer · 2025-02-22 · in Suckless.org: software that sucks less
  3. See https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis for a proof of concept. No dynamic linking locks you out of Clang+LLVM (mostly: static clang isn't an officially supported configuration, but it can probably be forced to exist. I haven't properly…
    comment by machinestops · 2024-12-16 · in Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre operating system
  4. https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis It's not perfect, but it's clean and moves in this lua direction.
  5. Oasis is one: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
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    story by smartmic · 2024-01-26 · 277 comments
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    story by ingve · 2022-08-14 · 219 comments
  8. Not a big issue for someone who maintains his own Linux version, https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis .
  9. …that the author maintains without pulling in a huge number of dependencies to build a C++ compiler. https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis https://sr.ht/~mcf/cproc/
  10. If you're into very small linux desktops- I've had a lot of fun with Oasis: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis The full desktop image is 77mb
  11. …fallacy[2] perhaps you can talk about this point. [0]: https://www.system-transparency.org/ [1]: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
  12. I think there are only experiments. From what I know Oasis Linux is furthest along https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis Another resources is https://sta.li/ I thought there was a Archlinux-based attempt, but can't find references to that.
  13. Such a thing exists - https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
    comment by washbear · 2021-05-27 · in Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
  14. https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis >"A major goal of oasis is to build with cproc, a C compiler which is much stricter about the ISO C standard than gcc or clang, and orders of magnitude smaller. Although this is a work-in-progress…
    comment by peter_d_sherman · 2020-12-02 · in Cproc – a C11 compiler using QBE as a back end
  15. …or command snippets to extract source lists from the upstream build system. Here's an example: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis/blob/master/pkg/mpv/gens... One of the main motivations for the oasis build system is that it is often very…
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    Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system
    story by varbhat · 2020-12-01 · 160 comments
  17. …linked Linux distribution that is actively developed is my own project (inspired by stali), oasis: https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis
    comment by mforney · 2020-06-26 · in Dynamic linking
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    Oasis: Small statically-linked Linux system
    story by aria3 · 2020-06-04 · 0 comments