[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:
address@hidden

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