DetaolB v0.5 is released

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 functional desktop distro which can help developping software or compile 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:
detaolb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

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)