Seth Schoen
writes:
I am pleased to announce to the general public a new
mini-distribution derived from the Linuxcare Bootable Business
Card. This distribution is called LNX-BBC, and you can see its home
page at
All of the original developers who created the Linuxcare
Bootable Business Card (Duncan MacKinnon, Thomas Crimi, and myself)
are now working on this project, with the co-operation of several
other long-time Bootable Business Card developers and
contributors.
The LNX-BBC system, like the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card,
is a rescue system designed to fit in a 50-megabyte bootable CD-ROM
in the size and shape of a business card. Thus, you can carry in
your pocket a complete bootable rescue system, including X11,
networking, cryptography, many file and disk diagnostic and
recovery tools, and much more. (Currently we use the cloop
compressed loopback block device driver, written by Rusty Russell
and maintained by Klaus Knopper, to increase the effective capacity
of the CD-ROM.)
This system is also useful for turning almost any system which
can boot CDs into a simple Linux workstation. We also aim to make
the system easily customizable so that you can use it as a starting
point for your own bootable CD-ROMs.
The need for a fork was first recognized after several of the
BBC developers had left Linuxcare. Several attempts were made to
gain access for them to continue working on the project. None of
these attempts were successful, and when nearly all the developers
had left the company’s employment, we felt that it was necessary,
in order to continue our development efforts, to create an
independent project.
We plan a release in time for LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in
August, where Duncan and I will be giving a conference presentation
on bootable Linux CDs.
We have a mailing list for users and developers. To subscribe,
or view the archives, see
http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/lnx-bbc/
My original announcement of this project, which contains some
predictions about new features and the future course of
development, is available at
http://zork.net/pipermail/lnx-bbc/2001-May/000003.html