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Update lots and lots of web pages for the project name change to Aboriginal Linux.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Sun, 02 May 2010 17:15:06 -0500 |
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<!--#include file="header.html" --> <p>Aboriginal Linux is a set of tools for building custom virtual machines. It lets you boot virtual PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and other exotic systems on your x86 laptop, and do development in them.</p> <p>Aboriginal Linux was written to serve the embedded community, but it has other uses as well - portability auditing and cross-platform regression testing, for starters.</p> <b><h1><a href=documentation.html>What is Aboriginal Linux?</a></h1></b> <blockquote> <p>Aboriginal Linux is a build system for creating bootable system images to be run under virtualization, intended to reduce or even eliminate the need for cross compiling.</p> <p>The build system is a series of bash scripts which create a small native Linux development environment for each target, runnable on real hardware or under emulators such as <a href=http://qemu.org>QEMU</a>.</p> <p>For a list of currently supported targets, see <a href=screenshots>the screenshots page</a>.</p> <p>For more information, see <a href=documentation.html>the documentation page</a>.</p> </blockquote> <b><h1><a href=downloads>Downloading Aboriginal Linux</a></h1></b> <blockquote> <b><h2><a href=downloads>Source Code</a></h2></b> <p>The <a href=downloads>Aboriginal Linux source code</a> is a series of shell scripts which run to create the various binary images. See the <a href=downloads/README>README</a> for usage instructions, and the <a href=news.html>release notes</a>.</p> <p>Several <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binary images</a> are available, based on the current Aboriginal Linux release. The <a href=downloads/README>README</a> describes each tarball. The release notes on the <a href=news.html>news page</a> explain recent changes.</p> </blockquote> <b><h1><a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/aboriginal>Development</a></h1></b> <blockquote> <p>The project maintains a <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/aboriginal>development repository</a> using the Mercurial source control system. This includes RSS feeds for <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/aboriginal/rss-log>each checkin</a> and for <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/aboriginal/rss-tags>new releases</a>.</p> <p>Questions about Aboriginal Linux should be addressed to the project's <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/listinfo.cgi/firmware-impactlinux.com>mailing list</a>, or the IRC channel #edev on irc.freenode.org. The project maintainer's <a href=http://landley.net/notes.html>blog</a> often includes notes about ongoing Aboriginal Linux development.</p> </blockquote> <!--#include file="footer.html" -->