Kraken

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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