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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Single Application Operating System Post 302506403 by Lakris on Sunday 20th of March 2011 03:16:15 PM
Old 03-20-2011
Hi!
This may not be what You want to hear but there are so many stripped down OS-distributions already. Maybe it's part of Your work but I personally wouldn't go through re-inventing the wheel for every hardware that You will need support for. Unless that IS Your goal with Your studies.

FreeDOS, Linux, or BSD based. The have most of what You need for hardware support and fit on anything from a floppy to a credit card sized CD. And on lots hardware architectures. The first thing I would do is to take any of those, maybe even a normal distro, auto login a user (from inittab or tty1.conf) and start the desired application. No window managers or other fluff. Maybe You don't need a GUI? Even easier. Determine what You can remove in terms of services and unused programs. Most drivers are modularised. But all that is with regard to disc space, if it ain't running, it won't consume any RAM or CPU.

And please be aware that there is a big difference between what comes with the OS and the user environment, that's usually what makes the distributions unique. The OS (kernel and drivers) doesn't contain very much "user friendly mess". And that is a good thing!

Best regards,
Lakris
 

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dxproctuner(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    dxproctuner(8)

NAME
dxproctuner - Manages and monitors system processes SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/X11/dxproctuner OPTIONS
Process Tuner accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options, which are documented in the OPTIONS section in the X(1X) refer- ence page. DESCRIPTION
The Process Tuner application, dxproctuner, is used to monitor and manage processes. Use Process Tuner to: Display a list of processes and their characteristics Display the processes running for yourself or all users Display and modify process priorities Send a signal to a process The Process Tuner application can be invoked from the CDE Application Manager from the following categories: Application Group: System_Admin System Admin Subgroup: MonitoringTuning EXAMPLES
To start Process Tuner from the command line, enter: dxproctuner You can view the Process Tuner online help volume without running the application. To open the Process Tuner help volume from the command line, enter the following command: /usr/dt/bin/dthelpview -h /usr/dt/appconfig/help/C/Dxproctuner.sdl FILES
Contains user preferences that control the appearance of the application Contains the Process Tuner application executable Contains the Process Tuner help volume Contains the default values for the application's X resources SEE ALSO
Commands: kill(1), ps(1), X(1X) System Calls: exit(2), kill(2), sigaction(2) Files: signal(4) dxproctuner(8)
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