Revision as of 21:06, 12 March 2007

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. Feel free to add in stuff you'd like to see in a ultra-tiny but still capable live cd.

Features

kernel

• 2.6.17-om1
  • builds
  • rumored unstable
  • 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

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

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
  • no kqemu for either kernel yet
• 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?

misc tools

• installed
  • nc thanks to busybox
• planned installed
  • nmap
  • scanrand
  • tcpdump
  • ngrep
  • ntfs-3g

Current Sizes

Kernel(2.6): 1.5MB Initramfs: 6.5MB Memory: 24MB