Aloofix v0.6 Kevin Johnson aka Aloof Schipperke http://www.aloofschipperke.com/aloofix.html

Kevin Johnson

aka Aloof Schipperke

http://www.aloofschipperke.com/aloofix.html

What is it? A build kit for creating a minimalist Linux distribution optimized for running in a virtual machine

History “multi-core crisis” conversations “Pile of Lamps” conversations Idle hands over a Christmas vacation SourceForge ...

“multi-core crisis” conversations

“Pile of Lamps” conversations

Idle hands over a Christmas vacation

SourceForge

...

Features Tuned for virtualization Minimalist Small footprint Fewer moving parts Tested on VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Qemu GPLv3

Tuned for virtualization

Minimalist

Small footprint

Fewer moving parts

Tested on VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Qemu

GPLv3

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

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

Add-on Packages Make GCC Binutils IANA-etc In the pipeline: Patch Strace Ncurses Bash

Make

GCC

Binutils

IANA-etc

In the pipeline:

Patch

Strace

Ncurses

Bash

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

Edit some config files

make packages

make preinstall

sudo make aloofix.iso

Optionally:

make extra-packages

make extra-pkgs-preinstall

sudo make web-ipkgs

Installing Boot ISO Install Reboot to HD

Boot ISO

Install

Reboot to HD

Some Numbers

Links http://sourceforge.net/projects/aloofix/ http://blip.tv/file/675775 http://aloofarchitecture.blogspot.com/ http://www.aloofschipperke.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aloofix/

http://blip.tv/file/675775

http://aloofarchitecture.blogspot.com/

http://www.aloofschipperke.com/