[Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.5 is released

[Qemu-devel] ANN: DetaolB v0.5 is released

[Christian MICHON]

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:
detaolb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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

[Qemu-devel] Re: ANN: DetaolB v0.5 is released

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 17 August 2007 3:23:04 pm Christian MICHON wrote:
> 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.

As did Puppy Linux before it.

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.

[Qemu-devel] Re: ANN: DetaolB v0.5 is released

[Christian MICHON]

On 8/21/07, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> On Friday 17 August 2007 3:23:04 pm Christian MICHON wrote:
> > 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.
>
> As did Puppy Linux before it.
>
> Rob

I actually intend to keep uclibc at least, and later on propose, like
slax, different types of iso/editions.

If your tcc fork can compile the kernel, uclibc, I'll gladly remove
binutils and gcc :)

-- 
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu

[Qemu-devel] Re: ANN: DetaolB v0.5 is released

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 3:04:12 am Christian MICHON wrote:
> If your tcc fork can compile the kernel, uclibc, I'll gladly remove
> binutils and gcc :)

I'm working on that.  Currently I'm trying to strip down an "allnoconfig" 
kernel build to a something I can build from the command via three or four 
lines of shell script (a gcc invocation and whatever postprocessing the image 
requires), boot it in qemu, and have it say "hello world".  Then I'll try to 
get tcc to do that (tccboot did, but with an extremely old kernel), and work 
my way up from there...

But that's fodder for the tcc list, not here. :)

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.