CROSS 2010.1, CRUX based distro

[Seregenka]

Check this out:
sourceforge.net/projects/crosslinux

CROSS is a heavily trimmed down, Intel® Core™ x86_64 optimized Linux distribution, originally based on CRUX, and using it's ports system.

[Dapper Dan]

Says on that link... "As of 2010-01-03 0:00:00 GMT, this project is no longer under active development."

That was pretty short lived...

[Seregenka]

yea, i just don't know how to remove that nasty banner

[Dapper Dan]

Are you the maintainer? So work will be ongoing? Tell us more about what you are doing and more about Cross.

[Seregenka]

Yes i am a maintainer, and did it primarily for myself. Booting is similar to Riplinux without squashfs, only initramfs, which makes boot/install CD simpler. Unlike in CRUX the kernel is made possible to install as a package and you can use the distro right away after the installation. Some ideas are taken from Arch, like system config file, and separate kernel headers, some from Slackware, like integrating all HDD drivers & several filesystems into kernel. Some core packages are missing and also Xorg, but they are easily installable through ports (for example prt-get depinstal xorg).