[Trinux-talk] Wow, people still use Trinux?! / Trinux LiveCD Based on Ubuntu

[Matthew F. <md...@io...>]

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=3301&ugn=trinux

I was shocked as hell today to see the download/web statistics on
sourceforge. Can this really be true? Daily web hits 1600 and 5000?
Must be an error. Downloads breaking 100?

Since I (and probably most everybody else) basically considered the
project dead, I figured it would be much much lower.  Maybe the Internet
has grown since '98 when I started this out. 

Maybe Knoppix and all the Knoppix-knockoffs are getting 10,000
downloads a day and 100,000 web hits but this makes me think their
still might be interested in a stripped-down, no frill security
distro, and just maybe, the Trinux brand is worth preserving...

Yes, like everyone else in the security industry, I've become horribly
corporate over the past five-six years. 

But enough late 90's nostalgia,  I've been thinking about doing a
stripped down (of course) version of the Ubuntu Hoary LiveCD that
contains all the old trinux tools and more. 

Sure there are probably a half-dozen or more Knoppix-derivatives, but
who cares, I've got a few PII's that I want to be able to run Ubuntu
LiveCD on without X.

Current list of requirements (probably in order)

- No more than 250MB ISO Size (probably smaller)
- Fast(er), non-interactive bootup
- No X (of course)
- Easily support PII-class machines with only 64MB
- Floppy configuration variables
- Serial console


Thoughts, flames, eery silence, all welcome...

And if you haven't every used, Ubuntu check it out... 

In it for the fun...

- mdf

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| Matthew Franz                              md...@io... |
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