Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote on squeak-dev:
In fact, it could be an extremely stripped down Linux focused exclusively on running Squeak (like Dan Ingalls did for his weather station). One advantage of that is that the boot time would be much smaller than what people are used to.
John Hylands wrote on squeak-dev
My brother and I have been experimenting with Tiny Core Linux, which is available on the Pi as piCore.
It boots in 12 seconds, from power on to login prompt, on a Pi 2. That gives you wifi plus an openssh server. It would probably add a few seconds to get a graphical shell running, which it also includes.
Note that for Pharo there is a project from Mike Filonov (owner of pharocloud.com) which was initially called "PharoNOS". It is also based on TinyCore Linux, here x86 based directly booting into Pharo. A description and an downloadable ISO is available on [1]. Runs fine on VirtualBox.
From the name often people thought it was a project similar to "SqueakNOS" (but SqueakNOS boots into Squeak and needed no Linux or other underneath as even the drivers were written in Smalltalk). I guess therefore Mike renamed the project to "Pharocloud OS" now, he also made the build scripts available on [2].
I also did some experiments with Pharo on the Pi - described in an article on [3]. The result was similar: directly booting into the Pharo environment/ a Smalltalk application - but on the Pi. There is Raspbian underneath. A video is available on [4]. However: if there is now some interest in having a fast and direct Squeak/Pharo booting on the Pi maybe this could be a shared effort between both communities as well. Beside squeak-dev I therefore CC the pharo-dev mailinglist as well. Bye T. [1] http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/mikefilonov/pharonos [2] http://os.pharocloud.com [3] https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/pharo-pi-9eef257b6a21#.qgqg6765p [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfxFqQIuawg