http://www.simplux.org/ 2012-05-20T03:48:44+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/ http://www.simplux.org/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-03-05T20:07:57+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:concept&rev=1299352077&do=diff Boot Process Kernel Initialization The kernel has all needed drivers for disk devices and file systems builtin. A tiny patch removes the timeout for accessing USB-devices. So a USB-disk can be accessed immediately afters its initialization. Stage 1 The initial ramdisk (/simplux/siblo/iyymmnnn) contains a small Linux system that is used to prepare the boot of the main Simplux system. text/html 2011-07-06T23:36:00+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:feature_request&rev=1309988160&do=diff * working guest mode * mouse support within the initial ramdisk (for using setup) * encrypted save-images * stable and parallel version of mksquashfs * whether local time or UTC is stored in the hardware clock can be configured depending on the host PC * release of the Simplux Master version - this would make testing of new packages a lot easier text/html 2011-03-25T15:12:15+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:hardware_database&rev=1301062335&do=diff Simplux uses three hardware databases: * list of misbehaving hardware (/usr/lib/simplux/) * list of individual PCs (/var/simplux/mac) * list of identical PCs (/var/simplux/hwsig) List of Misbehaving Hardware Some manufacturers do not fill in correct hardware informations into their product's firmware leading to products that report wrong technical specifications. A system like Simplux relies heavily on recognizing the current PC's hardware during system boot. To prevent loading of wrong… text/html 2011-02-27T00:38:20+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:hardware_detection&rev=1298763500&do=diff Whenever you start Simplux, the current PC's hardware is automatic detected and a suitable configuration is loaded. If no configuration exists a new one is created on the fly. The whole hardware detection (and configuration generation process) takes less than a second! So Simplux boots really fast! text/html 2011-03-05T20:15:48+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:iparts&rev=1299352548&do=diff Each Simplux version contains several squashfs-image-files containing default configurations. These settings are copied to /usr/home and /root when they are created. After each update missing files in the user's home directories are added. On each boot the contents of /etc and (if the current user is guest) /home/guest are initialized from the iparts-files. text/html 2011-03-24T23:01:14+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:mcp&rev=1301004074&do=diff The MCP replaces the init-daemon of conventional Linux systems. It responsible the start and the shutdown of Simplux. It allows normal users the following actions * ping (for testing) * save_sound_settings (store audio settings) * shutdown * reboot * update_simplux (update the operating system to the most current version) * install_simplux (install Simplux on some external media) text/html 2011-03-23T14:06:22+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:package_request&rev=1300885582&do=diff Below is a list of requested software packages: Administration * rdesktop (to administer remote Windows Servers) Games * Frozen Bubble text/html 2011-03-25T15:05:16+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:start&rev=1301061916&do=diff Overview Simplux is an easy to use operating system that runs without installation on nearly every PC. Therefor it is well suited for the installation on removable disks or pen drives. Simplux is immune to nearly all kinds of malicious computer software. text/html 2011-03-11T08:31:36+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:technical_details&rev=1299828696&do=diff A Simplux installations stores the operating system and all user data in a relatively small number of image files. These image files are stored in the /simplux-folder on the boot device. The boot device itself is mounted on /mnt/initrd/boot. A list of which image files to load is stored in /simplux/versions/current_version. text/html 2011-03-06T00:09:19+02:00 http://www.simplux.org/doku.php?id=en:version&rev=1299366559&do=diff Early versions of Simplux were called Alpha 1, Alpha 2 and so on. Current versions (starting with 11.1.1) are numbered yy.mm.nnn where yy is the two digits year, mm is an up to two digits month (January is 1) and nnn is an up to three digits sequential number - starting at 1 each month.