How about the rootfs?¶

As explained in the introduction, SBXG does not care about the Root Filesystem (rootfs). The rootfs is completely out of the scope of SBXG, because it is a completely different class of problem that requires specialized tools, and a awful lot lot of community work. Luckily, we already have tremendous work made openly available:

  • Buildroot, to generate finely-tailored rootfs, mostly for embedded systems;
  • Debootstrap, to retrieve pre-compiled Debian rootfs;
  • DFT, a tool to heavily customize Debian rootfs.
  • Gentoo stages, to generate or retrieve distribution-levels rootfs.
  • And many, many more available choices…