Thursday, October 08, 2009

Mini Linux, embedded tools, and free virtual machines

ttylinux 8MB ISO
Tiny Core Linux 10MB Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk, flwm, download firefox 3.5
GNU/Fiwix 20MB -> 60MB
SliTaz GNU/Linux LiveCD 30MB image -> 100MB system, BusyBox, Openbox, firefox 3.0, network problem in VirtualBox
ByzanineOS 32MB CD-ROM BusyBox, Metacity
Damn Small Linux DSL USB flash 50MB Fluxbox, freeze in VirtualBox, Firefox 2.0 in VMWare
TinyMe Linux
Puppy Linux 100MB X.Org or Xvesa, JWM, Seamonkey, network problem in VirtualBox and VMWare

ReactOS based on the design of Windows XP/2003
Syllable Desktop AmigaOS like
Haiku BeOS

Comparison of netbook oriented Linux distributions

OpenWRT
PUD xPUD Chinese

BusyBox The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
Zile (Zile Is Lossy Emacs) lightweight Emacs clone

KDrive TinyX Xvesa freedesktop.org Xserver X.Org Server
Openbox
JWM

Dropbear SSH server and client (OpenSSH)

uClibc A C library for embedded Linux (GNU C Library)
diet libc
Red Hat newlib C library intended for use on embedded systems

uClibc++

Disk image: Virtualization: .vmdk for VMware, .vhd for Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V, .vdi for Oracle VirtualBox,
VirtualBox native VDI images, OVF image, can also use VHD and VMDK
VMWare Player, EasyVMX! creating VMDK image, can also use VHD, run vhd under vmware, not working?
VMWare Server
QEMU KQEMU accelerator
XenServer linux host only

*How To Run Ubuntu in Windows 7 with VMware Player VMPlayer, run as administrator and use iso image
*WMware: Supported Guest Operating Systems - Linux (Debian, Fedora Desktop, openSUSE, Ubuntu)

bagvapp Virtual Appliance Repository, SliTaz cooking, TinyMe, localized PUD, Hiweed (Ubuntu)
-Some VMWare images CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Ubuntu
VMware Appliances
TuxDistro torrents sorted virtual machines
OVF Open Virtualization Format Appliances
VirtualBoxImages
VirtualBox Images DSL, Haiku, Moblin, PuppyLinux, ReactOS, SliTaz, Syllable, TinyCore

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