Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system

I cant speak much about the system, it just works, but the community was really nice when I interacted with them over IRC I had the plan to build oasis with bazel for some immutable OS images that could run as kubernetes nodes. I succeeded with a little pointing.

I ran a really non-scientific test before on startup speed between Oasis vs a slimmed down direct kernel booted Debian with systemd. Obviously I'm writing this because Oasis absolutely trounced it. So; Oasis is currently my go-to for small deployed VPS's. (here's the video if you actually care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Aw5SSqYFo you'll note that the systemd one was delayed by the network on start- some people are going to argue that this is an artificial delay, but this is the truth of…

Would be cool to get a bit of a "why this matters" intro on repos like this. I clicked through the details, but left wondering if I have any potential use for this. Can I compile this onto a USB stick and use it as a throw-away boot Linux for maintenance tasks? Can I cross-compile this for embedded devices? What is the statically-linked advantage here? Not trying to minimize the effort, I would actually love to see more such things…