1. Aloofix v0.6

• • Kevin Johnson

• • aka Aloof Schipperke

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

2. What is it? A build kit for creating a minimalist Linux distribution optimized for running in a virtual machine 3. History

multi-core crisis conversations

Pile of Lamps conversations

Idle hands over a Christmas vacation

SourceForge

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4. Features

Tuned forvirtualization

Minimalist

• Small footprint

• Fewer moving parts

Tested on VirtualBox, VMWare Player, Qemu

GPLv3

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. Add-on Packages

Make

GCC

Binutils

IANA-etc

In the pipeline:

• Patch

• Strace

• Ncurses

• Bash

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. Installing

Boot ISO

Install

Reboot to HD

9. Some Numbers 10. Links

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

http://blip.tv/file/675775

http://aloofarchitecture.blogspot.com/

http://www.aloofschipperke.com/

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