Kraken
Kraken3
Development started Feb 27, 2009 when I got the bright idea to just try to boot a bootstrapped directory.
Current features
- Full 2.6.30-2 kernel
- 686, AMD64 support if needed
- Firefox
- flashplugin
- Thunderbird + Lightning extension + Enigmail
- Openoffice.org 3
- Qemu
- K3b
- Imagemagick
- Fluxbox
- Awesome
- Conky
- Pidgin + OTR extension
- Gparted with full fat*, ext* and ntfs support
- openvpn
- sshfs
- zsh
- subversion client
- screen
- rdesktop
- tightvnc
- nVidia drivers (could add fglrx, if I had a card to test)
- USB, CD, PXE versions
TODO
- auto mounter
- desktop icons
- cmdline options
- dhcp
- static ip
- alternative usb image path
- cron
- persistent file support
- usb
- gmailfs
- webdav
- ftp
- fglrx
Status
USB
- Disk: 404MB
- RAM: 70MB
Kraken2
This was a fairly short lived version. Basically, it used the debian kernel and a lot of the binaries with basic dependency resolving and hardware detection support. Kraken2 was developed for a week or so. Development pretty much stopped at the beginnings of a package manager.
Kraken1
Live cd, built from scratch for optimal size and speed (ricer mentality I know, but here it counts). All in all, it's running reasonable with no X server, but for all the extra fun enhancements, it looks like X needs to be loaded somehow.
Features
kernel
- openmosix
- 2.6.17-om1
- builds
- rumored unstable with openmosix
- userland tools don't work
- leaning towards this right now
- it's already built to my liking
- 2.4.27 has problems on some machines
- i'm not going to be clustering this that much anyway
- Waldo/Guerilla filesystem will work here just as well as 2.4
- 2.4.27-om1
- already compiled, meaning not as small as it could be
- ancient
- userland tools work
- 2.6.17-om1
- openssi
- 2.6.10
- hard to find
- working with 2.6 and openssi
- hard to get working
- very strange proc issues
- lots of userland tools need to be compiled with libcluster support
- overall, lots to deal with
- 2.6.10
basic system
- busybox
- used for majority of tools
- build by hand
- has almost everything needed
ssh/scp/sshd
- dropbear
- for ssh and friends
- currently a static multicall binary
- dependent on uclibc, glibc is already present due to busybox
- doesn't support dynamic proxies
- openssh
- it works
- not *that* big
browser
- links
- using version 2 for fb graphics
- blue screens (literally) on exit
- firefox
- bigger
- requires X
- more complient
windows compatibility
- qemu
- not fully tested
- not friendly with vga=791
- wine
- dependent on X
- don't need to login to the system to use the apps installed locally
window manager
- something small and quick
- fluxbox?
- joe's wm
- anything else?
- ratpoison?
- xmonad? (personal favorite) Jmcarthur 09:40, 29 July 2009 (CDT)
misc tools
- installed
- nc thanks to busybox
- nmap
- tcpdump
- ngrep
- ntfs-3g
- planned installed
- scanrand
- doesn't seem to go once started
- scanrand
background
-
it's perfect.
Current Sizes
- Kernel(2.6): 1.4MB
- Initramfs: 9.7MB
- Memory: 24MB
Status
Current rev 0.2.0b stuck on font issue for 0.3.0b
0.3.0b
- main
- hostname set at bootloader
- rdate run after network, specified at boot
- update fluxbox to the nice pseudo transparent one
0.2.0b
- packages
- firefox (done)
- vncviewer (done, added to base)
- rdesktop (done, added to base)
- main
- sshd (done)
- shared public keys (done)
- boot menu
- pretty logo (working on vesamenu.c32)
- no x (done)
- no network (done)
- packages (done)
- unionfs home directory usb thinger booya
- fluxbox time format (done)
- ntfs password app (done)
- sshd (done)
0.0.1b
Currently, Kraken is a 11MB live cd, working elements include:
- busybox
- 2.6.17-om (however the openmosix side of things is disabled)
- bash
- openssh
- Xvesa
- links2
- fluxbox
0.0.1b: a7ccb2456ef028a6b6f49f4f52f3648e https://the.narro.ws/~brimstone/kraken/kraken-0.0.1b.iso
Released: March 30, 2007
