Thanks for your work, which I find very useful to get a minimal server RPI running quickly.
I was wondering if you were willing to share the "internals" of your work so than the community can collaborate ? I.e. releasing build script (or whatever is needed/used to build/configure your distro) as open source.
I think a lot of people would be interested, starting by me ;-)
Thanks again.
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I initially did it as a joke and for having a working Raspberry with my own custom stuff. It's nothing more than having an optimized debian up and running, I'm using a debian base because Raspbian folks, Debian staff and Raspberry Foundation did an excellent job and created a strong arm-hf support. I'm now trying to take a step further and I'd like to decide what should we do next. I'm now experimenting things with a fresh toolchain (alpha stage) with ARM-HF support and I'm trying to improve it a little bit more, less bloatware, optimized packages, a really small footprint (30Mb with uclibc, 60-70 with glibc) and 10-15Mb of used RAM.
I have limited time and resources and I need to decide what it's better for the community and for me. The target still remains a small and optimized distro (a Moebius strip is a simple but complex object) to use our Raspi for specific tasks and leave a full blown distro with XWindow and a lot of packages to someone else. Should I keep the debian base or completely fork it to a barebone distro ? I'm now compiling new stuff and I'm creating IPK packages with an essential dependency system. I'd like to contribute with all of you and I'm interested on your feedbacks to decide what it's better for US now.
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As far as I'm concerned (i'm the anonymous author above), I'm for the moment only interested in building / using a light server version of Raspbian (starting with no X server of course). I'm not interested in getting things "too much optimised" because I enjoy the choice and stability I get from Raspbian/Debian packages.
Further step for me would be to be able to choose packages (or maybe group of packages) before generating an image. Something like Umigumi (http://www.nexedi.org/workspaces/project/umigumi/homepage/folder_contents) which I've been using years ago to generate custom distributions.
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2012-11-19
I too prefer having the Debian base because of the flexibility it brings with the choice of Raspbian packages. It was the reason I chose Moebius over the official port of Arch Linux which lacks software on the ARM side of things.
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I've used debian for the same reason as well as for ArmHF support, there's an huge difference when dealing with sw floating point.
@Alexandre
current configuration is based on a simple script that deals with installed packages and does care about ssh only, it tries to remove everything else and whatever software is not strictly needed. I'm refreshing the whole project to have the 512mb model working as well
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Hi,
Thanks for your work, which I find very useful to get a minimal server RPI running quickly.
I was wondering if you were willing to share the "internals" of your work so than the community can collaborate ? I.e. releasing build script (or whatever is needed/used to build/configure your distro) as open source.
I think a lot of people would be interested, starting by me ;-)
Thanks again.
I initially did it as a joke and for having a working Raspberry with my own custom stuff. It's nothing more than having an optimized debian up and running, I'm using a debian base because Raspbian folks, Debian staff and Raspberry Foundation did an excellent job and created a strong arm-hf support. I'm now trying to take a step further and I'd like to decide what should we do next. I'm now experimenting things with a fresh toolchain (alpha stage) with ARM-HF support and I'm trying to improve it a little bit more, less bloatware, optimized packages, a really small footprint (30Mb with uclibc, 60-70 with glibc) and 10-15Mb of used RAM.
I have limited time and resources and I need to decide what it's better for the community and for me. The target still remains a small and optimized distro (a Moebius strip is a simple but complex object) to use our Raspi for specific tasks and leave a full blown distro with XWindow and a lot of packages to someone else. Should I keep the debian base or completely fork it to a barebone distro ? I'm now compiling new stuff and I'm creating IPK packages with an essential dependency system. I'd like to contribute with all of you and I'm interested on your feedbacks to decide what it's better for US now.
Glad to see you care about community feedback.
As far as I'm concerned (i'm the anonymous author above), I'm for the moment only interested in building / using a light server version of Raspbian (starting with no X server of course). I'm not interested in getting things "too much optimised" because I enjoy the choice and stability I get from Raspbian/Debian packages.
Further step for me would be to be able to choose packages (or maybe group of packages) before generating an image. Something like Umigumi (http://www.nexedi.org/workspaces/project/umigumi/homepage/folder_contents) which I've been using years ago to generate custom distributions.
Another example of what I think could be nice (applied to Raspian of course) : http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build
I too prefer having the Debian base because of the flexibility it brings with the choice of Raspbian packages. It was the reason I chose Moebius over the official port of Arch Linux which lacks software on the ARM side of things.
I've used debian for the same reason as well as for ArmHF support, there's an huge difference when dealing with sw floating point.
@Alexandre
current configuration is based on a simple script that deals with installed packages and does care about ssh only, it tries to remove everything else and whatever software is not strictly needed. I'm refreshing the whole project to have the 512mb model working as well