I believe that's what u-root is:

- https://github.com/u-root/u-root

there are probably others.


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On Thursday, December 31st, 2020 at 4:40 PM, Kevin Chadwick 
<m8il1i...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/31/20 3:26 PM, L Godioleskky wrote:
>
> > It seems to me a Linux distro based entirely on GO would be another major GO
> >
> > milestone.  
> >
> > Is this do-able given the current capability of GO?
>
> It would seem not, unless you throw the unix philosophy out of the window
>
> completely wrt one tool, one job.
>
> You would likely need cgo for anything graphical currently, anyway.
>
> I suppose the best you could do right now with build size, would be a console
>
> system, busybox style. Calling e.g. cut, sed as command strings from one large
>
> binary. Perhaps the package manager could build the binary based on command
>
> selections?
>
> Alternatively, perhaps tinygo could be used to create small binaries and keep
>
> the unix phlosophy and packaging.
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