On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:47, Natanael Copa wrote: > Mike Noyes wrote: > > Another reason is, no one to my knowledge has successfully fit linux > > kernel 2.6 on a floppy. > > I have 1.44 floppies with 2.6 kernel + drivers to load the rest of the > system from either USB drive or cdrom. (one floppy with cdrom/ide > drivers and one with USB drivers)
Natanael, Excellent news. :-) > The proof-of-concept CD is downloadable from here: > > http://jv.lmdata.org/alpine/hardened/isoimages/alpine-hardened-0.6.1-20060124.iso > > Floppy images are on the ISO. > > Boot from either, CDROM, USB (like you are discussing here) or floppy. > If you boot from floppy, you can load the rest from either USB or CDROM. > > Its very inspired from from LEAF, running everything from RAM. Just a > little more advanced package manager (http://apk-tools.sourceforge.net) Our package management, or lack thereof, caused many discussions on our devel list. > udev/hotplug support > > built on Gentoo embedded/hardened, which means grsec kernel and > everything compiled with SSP (stack smashing protection) This itself is > against the LEAF anti bloat philosophy. Myself found out that I am > willing to sacrifice 3-5% size and speed to raise the security level. > Todays computers can handle it. We have sacrificed size to security in the past too. I believe we use grsec already. > Mike, I understand what you are saying and trying to do with LEAF, and I > agree. Thats why I decided to not do the LEAF stuff but go my own way. Natanael, Understood. I hope this decision wasn't a result of my poor response time to your prior requests. You're still welcome to join leaf as far as I'm concerned. > I don't know if i'm a little bit rude suggesting this, but if you would > like to join me (I'm 100% alone doing this so far) and build another > LEAF-like distro, something that fits better in in todays world, you are > very welcome. Thank you for the kind offer. :-) I doubt I'd be of much use. Since my accident I spend most of my time keeping my double vision at bay, and performing daily living tasks. :-( -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
