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Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye without a Desktop
Sheesh, live and learn. I didn't pay any attention to system requirements in the prior note [Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye]({% post_url 2022-12-29-building-sculpt-22.10-on-debian-11.6 %}). I just glibly provisioned using a small portion of my available resources. In this note, I've corrected this oversight. The system requirements are much, much more modest than what I originally provisioned. There is no need for the overkill.
This note is about building a bootable Sculpt OS 22.10 image using a Debian 11 "Bullseye" Guest OS running in VirtualBox without a desktop. If you were to include the desktop, expect that the system requirements would increase, but not by lot. I expect it would work with these same provisions, but would work better with more CPUs and RAM, as well as with a bigger allocation of hard disk space.
Bottom line - The image can be built comfortably, in a reasonable amount of time (call it 15 minutes to download the toolchain, and source code, and do the build), on a system with 512 MB RAM, 1 CPU, 12 GB HDD, but it's faster with more resources provisioned, where CPU seems to be the biggest factor - more is better letting us use parallel threads in make.
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operating-systems genode sculpt
Sculpt 22.10 - A Truly Alternative OS
This note is about installing and running Sculpt OS 22.10 in VirtualBox.
SculptOS is an operating system built out of components provided by the Genode Operating System Framework and as such it qualifies as a truly alternative operating system. These days, that's quite a feat. Most 'alternatives' are linux distros or flavors. This OS runs on a microkernel - Nova or any one of several other choices. It is decidedly not unix, windows, linux, haiku, beos, os/2 or any other mainstream os.
Sculpt OS is made so that it is relatively straightforward, if not easy, to provide a secure computing environment where applications and services are built on a Trusted Computing Base... that is an application is provisioned explicitly to depend on a tree of components that are known to be trustworthy, and are sandboxed. It is similar in some ways to Qubes OS, but significantly different in others.
The learning curve is steep. So, as I explore the environment and learn more about it, I'll post more of these notes.
Here's the OS running stuff.
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operating-systems genode sculpt
Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye
This note is about building a bootable Sculpt OS 22.10 image using a Debian 11 "Bullseye" Guest OS running in VirtualBox. This is useful as a starting point for building a custom image. My Thinkpad T430 runs Sculpt just fine, but wifi doesn't work, so I would like to add the needed firmware. This is work in that direction.
The note also applies, leaving out the VirtualBox specifics, to building Sculpt OS 22.10 on a Debian instance running on metal (confirmed working 12/28).