SPB-Linux 2.1 beta

SPBLinux 2.1:

loads from USB storage or other boot devices
runs in RAM; after bootup no access to boot device required
modular:
• basic system fits on two 1.4 MB floppy disks (Linux 2.6 with midnight commander)
• all other components are added as addons: bz2 (and sqf) files in subfolders of folder spblinux on the boot device
• choice which addon subfolders are loaded is at boot time (grub menu and/or grub edit); command loadaddon allows to load addons manually when SPBLinux is running.
SPBLinux can be built and modified inside SPBLinux
• the command changebz2 your_addon.bz2 opens the addon with midnight commander
• if the gentoo chroot environment is installed, programs can be emerged and compiled
• more information is in the SPBLinux Wiki
targeted users:
• users who want to create their own customized system
support and documentation:
• read the release notes in the download section (click on the book symbol) and the readme files inside the zip archives
• SPBLinux Wiki
• the basic concept of SPBLinux is explained at the SPBLinux 2.0 site
• development of SPBLinux follows the needs of its users; if you need a hint how to add a feature to SPBLinux, feel free to use the email address at the bottom of this page
installation on fat formatted USB devices
• run SPBLinux and use the scrip makebootable
• to get a running copy of SPBLinux, you can download the iso image in spb2.1-install-cd_b13.zip

SPBLinux is not intended as out of the box solution; in this case you might want to try Puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org) which started to use USB boot devices some years ago, at the same time when SPBLinux did.

How does SPBLinux 2.1 look like?  

with XFCE: see the screenshots section of sourceforge
just with X: click on the picture in the middle on the top of this page (or here).

Read more... page down from info about SPBLinux 2.2 is on it's way...
http://spblinux.sourceforge.net/

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