DetaolB aimed to be a "much-less-than-a-floppy" x86 linux live distro. Now, it's evolving more into "a-la-slax" type of distro.

In less than 40Mb, you've a small yet functional desktop distro which can help developping software or compiling the linux kernel.

DetaolB v0.5 has been released 17th,August 2007 on sf.net
=> http://detaolb.sf.net

Changelog:
- removed lzma patch (I've problems making a working c++ uclibc compiler)
- upgraded to linux-2.6.22 + SLUB, tickless, aufs 20070813 and squashfs 20070805
- added perl, tcltk modules
- upgraded to busybox-1.6.1, xorg/kdrive r7.2
- "improved" boot menu: still log in as root, then "xinit"
- vesafb-tng allows to change the resolution of the framebuffer without rebooting :)
- patches are included in the iso

This distro works in qemu, vmplayer, virtualpc 2007 and some real hardware... It also boot in colinux with a 2.6.17 special kernel. A USB port is on the way...

Detailed list of modules:

barebone:
- busybox-1.6.1
- bzip2-1.0.4
- coreutils-6.9 (lite)
- cpio-2.8
- diffutils-2.8.1
- e2fsprogs-1.40
- findutils-4.2.31
- gzip-1.3.12
- htop-0.6.6
- less-382
- ncurses-5.6
- tar-1.18
- uclibc-0.9.29
- zlib-1.2.3
editor:
- vim-7.1
interpreter:
- gawk-3.1.5
- perl-5.8.8
- tcl-8.4.15
scm:
- git-1.5.2.3
toolchain:
- bash-3.2
- binutils-2.16.1
- bison-2.1
- flex-2.5.33
- gcc-3.4.6
- headers-2.6.21 (to be changed soon)
- m4-1.4
- make-3.81
- patch-2.5.4
x11:
- some x11 fonts
- fvwm-2.4.20
- glib-1.2.10
- gtk+-1.2.10
- gvim-7.1
- libjpeg.62
- mrxvt-0.5.2
- tk-8.4.15
- xorg-7.2 (lite)

PROGRESS, BUGS, SUGGESTIONS:
  detaolb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net