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6 <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Aboriginal Linux?</a></h1></b> |
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10 <p>Aboriginal Linux is a set of tools to build custom virtual machines. |
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11 It lets you boot virtual PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and |
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12 <a href=screenshots>other exotic systems</a> on |
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13 your x86 laptop (using an emulator such as QEMU). These virtual system |
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14 images provide a simple development environment within which you can compile |
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15 software and run the result.</p> |
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26 reproduction sequence (wget source, build, run this test). This provides |
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27 the maintainer both a way to demonstrate the issue, and a native |
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31 (generally QEMU) and a system image to run under it. Configure and make |
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32 your package as normal, using standard tool names (strip, ld, as, etc). |
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34 access.</p> |
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35 </li> |
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37 <li><p><b>Build arbitrarily complex Linux distributions without messing with |
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56 even set up a cron job to build and test regular repository snapshots of a |
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66 ones work is too much trouble, and the new ones don't work because nobody's |
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68 catch up again, but only the most recent version accepts new patches, so |
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70 forks becomes the accepted norm, and developers stop even trying to get | |
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75 patches as we can get away with. We (intentionally) can't upgrade a package |
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85 <li><p><b>Provide a minimal self-hosting development environment.</b></p></li> | |
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87 <blockquote><p>Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, | |
88 but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery</p> | |
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91 <p>Most build environments provide dozens of packages, ignoring the questions | |
92 "do you actually need that?" and "what's it for?" in favor of offering | |
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95 <p>Aboriginal Linux provides the simplest development environment capable | |
96 of rebuilding itself under itself. This currently consists of seven packages: | |
97 busybox, uClibc, linux, binutils, gcc, make, and bash. (We include one more, | |
98 distcc, to optionally accelerate the build, but install it in its own | |
99 subdirectory which is only optionally added to the $PATH.)</p> | |
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101 <p>This minimalist approach makes it possible to regression test for | |
102 environmental dependencies. Sometimes new releases of packages simply won't | |
103 work without perl, or zlib, or some other dependency that previous versions | |
104 didn't have, not because they meant to but because they were never tested in | |
105 a build environment that didn't have them, so the depencency leaked in.</p> | |
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107 <p>By providing a build environment that contains only the bare essentials | |
108 (relying on you to build and install whatever else you need), Aboriginal | |
109 Linux lets you document exactly what dependencies packages actually require, | |
110 figure out what functionality the additional packages provide, and measure | |
111 the costs and benefits of the extra code.</p> | |
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114 <li><p><b>Document how to put together a development environment.</b></p> | |
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116 <p>The build system is designed to be readable. That's why it's written in | |
117 Bash (rather than something more powerful like Python): so it can act as | |
118 documentation. Each shell script collects the series of commands you need | |
119 to run in order to configure, build, and install the appropriate packages, | |
120 in the order you need to install them in to satisfy their dependencies.</p> | |
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122 <p>The build is organized as a series of orthogonal stages. These are called | |
123 in order from build.sh, but may be run (and understood) independently. | |
124 Dependencies between them are kept to a minimum, and stages which depend on | |
125 the output of previous stages document this at the start of the file.</p> | |
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127 <p>The scripts are also extensively commented to explain why they | |
128 do what they do, and there's design documentation on the website.</p> | |
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140 <p><a href=downloads/binaries>Prebuilt binary images</a> are available |
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160 <a href=downloads>Aboriginal Linux source code</a> and run "./build.sh" |
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174 compilers: we cross compile so you don't have to.)</p> |
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189 and for <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/aboriginal/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p> |
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194 maintainer's <a href=http://landley.net/notes.html>blog</a> often includes |
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