DetaolB aimed to be a "much-less-than-a-floppy" x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into "a-la-slax" type of distro.
In less than 40Mb, you've a small yet functional desktop distro which can help developping software or compiling the linux kernel. DetaolB v0.5 has been released 17th,August 2007 on sf.net => http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=140321&package_id=155481&release_id=528334 Changelog: ========== - removed lzma patch (I've problems making a working c++ uclibc compiler) - upgraded to linux-2.6.22 + SLUB, tickless, aufs 20070813 and squashfs 20070805 - added perl, tcltk modules - upgraded to busybox-1.6.1, xorg/kdrive r7.2 - "improved" boot menu: still log in as root, then "xinit" - vesafb-tng allows to change the resolution of the framebuffer without rebooting :) - patches are included in the iso This distro works in qemu, vmplayer, virtualpc 2007 and some real hardware... It also boot in colinux with a 2.6.17 special kernel. A USB port is on the way... !! It does not work with VirtualBox: bug #512 has been filed. !! Please report progress, bug, suggestions to this Mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detailed list of modules: ========================= barebone: busybox-1.6.1 bzip2-1.0.4 coreutils-6.9 (lite) cpio-2.8 diffutils-2.8.1 e2fsprogs-1.40 findutils-4.2.31 gzip-1.3.12 htop-0.6.6 less-382 ncurses-5.6 tar-1.18 uclibc-0.9.29 zlib-1.2.3 editor: vim-7.1 interpreter: gawk-3.1.5 perl-5.8.8 tcl-8.4.15 scm: git-1.5.2.3 toolchain: bash-3.2 binutils-2.16.1 bison-2.1 flex-2.5.33 gcc-3.4.6 headers-2.6.21 (to be changed soon) m4-1.4 make-3.81 patch-2.5.4 x11: some x11 fonts fvwm-2.4.20 glib-1.2.10 gtk+-1.2.10 gvim-7.1 libjpeg.62 mrxvt-0.5.2 tk-8.4.15 xorg-7.2 (lite) -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu
