LNX-BBC 2.1 review
DownloadThe LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape
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The LNX-BBC is a mini Linux-distribution, small enough to fit on a CD-ROM that has been cut, pressed, or molded to the size and shape of a business card.
LNX-BBCs can be used to rescue ailing machines, perform intrusion post-mortems, act as a temporary workstation, and perform many other tasks that we haven't yet imagined.
The LNX-BBC runs as a "live filesystem" CD. Nothing is installed, and the system returns to its previous OS once you pop the LNX-BBC out.
The LNX-BBC philosophy is "leave no trace". The LNX-BBC does not even mount your hard drives read-write.
To be a useful rescue system, it provides you with the tools to modify your hard drives. You must explicitly re-mount them read-write to take advantage of this.
We develop our own distribution specifically to fit in the space constraints of the tiny CD-ROMs. We compile everything from source code with -Os, and use an elaborate system of compression and pivot_rooting to make a 50MB CD-ROM hold all of the programs we include.
What's New in This Release:
2.4.19 kernel
large IDE disk support
more fonts
more DHCP clients
bittorrent
bittorrent downloads of ISOs from the Web site
bittorrent clients on the BBC
coroner's toolkit
security upgrades
openssh
openssl
new upstream versions of many software packages
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