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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by danieldk on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:43AM (#22847043)
I guess that the task is really underspecified (maybe intentionally to have different speed runs). It makes a huge difference whether you have a kernel with a TCP/IP stack, a C compiler, a C library with the socket API, etc.

The point of the shell example is, that once you have some way to easily open a socket, you can bootstrap a more complete system very quickly. You download a more complete root image from your favorite distribution and override / with that, etc.

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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by anthk on Sunday April 12, 2020 @09:42AM (#22848187)
True. Or as I said, a busybox from a Gopher mirror to an FTP server which mirrors Ibiblio itself. Chmod'ing +x it is dumb easy from C.

OpenBSD's netcat without socks and proxy support can be very barebones and understandable and writable in an hour. With that tool you could fetch busybox in a second.

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