Книга: Source-Based Linux Distributions: Sorcerer, Gentoo Linux, Source Mage Gnu|linux, Gobolinux, Linux From Scratch, T2 Sde, Lunar Linux, Crux

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sorcerer, Gentoo Linux, Source Mage Gnu/linux, Gobolinux, Linux From Scratch, T2 Sde, Lunar Linux, Crux, Draco Gnu/linux. Excerpt: CRUX is a lightweight, i686 -optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The distribution is delivered by a tar.gz -based package system with BSD -style initscripts. CRUX also has a ports system to install and upgrade applications. Although the word 'Crux' in Latin means 'cross', the choice of the name 'CRUX' itself has no meaning. Per Liden created it for 'sounding cool', using an ending '-X' to evoke Linux and Unix . Current release is 2.6. Releases version: date References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Draco , or Draco GNU/Linux , is a semi source based operating system inspired by Slackware and NetBSD intended to be lightweight and simple. Draco uses pkgsrc as the default package manager. It is developed by Norwegian Ole Andre Rodlie. History In 2006 hotstian (Stian Andreassen), a member at a Norwegian forum, posted that he was looking for someone to make an improved Slackware distribution with. Ole Andre Rodlie joined and they made eSlack . They rewrote the package manager and added other packages Slackware did not have at that time. At the end of the year the project was ended, as it was too big for two persons. After half a year Ole Andre Rodlie continued the development under the name Draco Linux, this time as a one-man-project and with a new package manager. References (URLs online) ...