[Pharo-users] Booting into Pharo!

The idea is to build a minimalist Linux based system which would boot up straight into a full-screen Pharo environment.

Why use a Linux underneath when you can do it in Smalltalk ;) Look at SqueakNOS - an operating system that was/still is able to boot from disk right into Squeak: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1762 Accessing devices/writing drivers in Smalltalk, etc.

Would like to know if it's some how possible to control external programs from within Pharo, essentially shell scripts for network setup, etc.

Check out the "OSProcess" package in Pharo. Bye T.