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by raphcohn 4172 days ago
Perhaps - I hadn't yet even thought of dreaming the similitude of it taking off. Thanks (;-). But shellfire wouldn't be as invasive. Each shellfire script stands alone, a bit like a statically-compiled C executable. Of course, there are still call outs to third-party binaries - but that ordinarily shouldn't be much more than busybox or coreutils, grep, awk and sed, with may be curl. And one can, with shellfire snippets, even embed binaries in the shell script... although whether that's wise is another discussion.

The proof in the pudding will be trying to make libertine linux use it - a not even started project of mine to build a minimal, net-bootable linux with an immutable file system (upgrade == reboot a new image).

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Hey, if I can pack your future Linux distro into one (kernel+initrd) PXE/GRUB bootable file, system rescue just got a lot easier.
So, this is pretty cool. I am in particular impressed how thorough your curl wrapper is. Mine is pretty basic in comparison:

https://github.com/mietek/bashmenot/blob/master/src/curl.sh

Thank you. There's lots of good stuff in bashmenot. Is there anything you think you'd like to add to shellfire to make it even better?