No, it's not a debian based distro.
I'm using apt-tools because I like them and I generate .deb files for it.
v0.x and v1.x are a minimized debian based distro, from v2.x I have built everything from the ground, so basically I took the LFS (and CLFS) books and I have built everything from scratch. In order to save space and to have faster binaries I have also used eglibc (instead of glibc) and compiled everything for the arm/hf architecture. It's also a rolling release distro (like arch or gentoo) so there's no need to upgrade or to move to the next stable. It's an heavy task but I'm doing it in order to get better performances from the underlying hardware. My approach is to have a fast and responsive os dedicated to an embedded machine but without the whistles of a general purpose distro, there're advantages and disadvantages for it. Main benefits comes from having a custom tailored kernel (with RT patches when needed), a small disk image, low memory consumption. Disadvantages mainly comes from building everything from scratch and make packages for everything needed, luckily I'm not (yet) interested in X or other graphical packages.
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Hello!
Can you confirm that the software packages you provide in your repository are based on Debian stable?
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No, it's not a debian based distro.
I'm using apt-tools because I like them and I generate .deb files for it.
v0.x and v1.x are a minimized debian based distro, from v2.x I have built everything from the ground, so basically I took the LFS (and CLFS) books and I have built everything from scratch. In order to save space and to have faster binaries I have also used eglibc (instead of glibc) and compiled everything for the arm/hf architecture. It's also a rolling release distro (like arch or gentoo) so there's no need to upgrade or to move to the next stable. It's an heavy task but I'm doing it in order to get better performances from the underlying hardware. My approach is to have a fast and responsive os dedicated to an embedded machine but without the whistles of a general purpose distro, there're advantages and disadvantages for it. Main benefits comes from having a custom tailored kernel (with RT patches when needed), a small disk image, low memory consumption. Disadvantages mainly comes from building everything from scratch and make packages for everything needed, luckily I'm not (yet) interested in X or other graphical packages.