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1. Slide 1: Aloofix v0.6 Kevin Johnson aka Aloof Schipperke http://www.aloofschipperke.com/aloofix.html
2. Slide 2: What is it? A build kit for creating a minimalist Linux distribution optimized for running in a virtual machine
3. Slide 3: History ● “multi-core crisis” conversations ● “Pile of Lamps” conversations ● Idle hands over a Christmas vacation ● SourceForge ● ...
4. Slide 4: Features ● Tuned for virtualization ● Minimalist – Small footprint – Fewer moving parts ● Tested on VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Qemu ● GPLv3
5. Slide 5: Base Packages ● Linux 2.6.24.x ● Grub 0.97 or Syslinux 3.61 ● Glibc 2.7 ● Busybox 1.9.1 ● iPKG 0.99.163 ● E2fsprogs 1.40.5 ● Chrony 1.23 ● Dropbear 0.50
6. Slide 6: Add-on Packages ● Make ● GCC ● Binutils ● IANA-etc  In the pipeline:  Patch  Strace  Ncurses  Bash
7. Slide 7: Building ● Edit some config files ● make packages ● make preinstall ● sudo make aloofix.iso ● Optionally: – make extra-packages – make extra-pkgs-preinstall – sudo make web-ipkgs
8. Slide 8: Installing ● Boot ISO ● Install ● Reboot to HD
9. Slide 9: Some Numbers Size of tarball 75KB Size of ISO Image 10MB RAM Used 8MB Disk Space Used 45MB File Space 10MB ext3 Space 35MB Build Time 1 hour 1.8Ghz Athlon XP 2200+, 128MB RAM Install Time 5 seconds Boot Time 10 seconds 3.4Ghz P4, Virtualbox 1.5.6 Fun ∞
10. Slide 10: Links ● http://sourceforge.net/projects/aloofix/ ● http://blip.tv/file/675775 ● http://aloofarchitecture.blogspot.com/ ● http://www.aloofschipperke.com/