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Aloofix
A high-level introduction to aloofix.
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- Slide 1: Aloofix
v0.6
Kevin Johnson
aka Aloof Schipperke
http://www.aloofschipperke.com/aloofix.html
- Slide 2: What is it?
A build kit for creating a minimalist Linux
distribution optimized for running in a virtual
machine
- Slide 3: History
● “multi-core crisis” conversations
● “Pile of Lamps” conversations
● Idle hands over a Christmas vacation
● SourceForge
● ...
- Slide 4: Features
● Tuned for virtualization
● Minimalist
– Small footprint
– Fewer moving parts
● Tested on VirtualBox, VMWare Player,
Qemu
● GPLv3
- 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
- Slide 6: Add-on Packages
● Make
● GCC
● Binutils
● IANA-etc
In the pipeline:
Patch
Strace
Ncurses
Bash
- 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
- Slide 8: Installing
● Boot ISO
● Install
● Reboot to HD
- 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 ∞
- Slide 10: Links
●
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aloofix/
●
http://blip.tv/file/675775
●
http://aloofarchitecture.blogspot.com/
●
http://www.aloofschipperke.com/