EmDebian - SLIND

SLIND is a system creation and configuration tool for embedded Linux. EmDebian Slind is an embedded Debian distribution produced at Siemens by Wartan Hachaturow and Alexander Shishkin. It uses dpkg-cross to build both glibc and uclibc versions of packages, and currently only supports targets which are capabale of NFS-mounting a filesystem and running dpkg. It currently has enough packages ported for a simple base system, and needs work to add more packages. This work essentially involves making the build rules of packages dpkg-cross aware. The built packages are installed to a filesystem which is NFS-mounted on the target in order to run the install scripts natively.

It is a system for the configuration and generation of an operating system (i.e. root filesystem). Kernel part hasn't been resolved yet. You should be able to have a proper kernel with NFS booting filesystem.

You can browse SLIND contents at: SLIND, also you could download the whole thing on a ISO image with its MD5.
There is also a torrent image for SLIND
Note that there is a bug on README file at line 127 it should say:

/usr/share/dfuibe_lua/main.lua option.booted_from_install_media=true

Slind is a small distribution targeted at embedded applications, which main feature is its close ties to Debian and Debian package management. Slind consists of two main parts: host part, which is basically a set of toolchains produced out of standard Debian gcc source packages for different architectures and target part, which is a debootstrappable set of packages compiled with all of the toolchains available from the host part. Also included is a snapshot of the slind-installer, the installation system for the Slind (or, rather, any Debian-style distribution), aimed at embedded targets. Slind-installer is currently at the development stage.

If you are interested on some part of SLIND, we point you to those parts:

The architectures supported by SLIND are ARM, PowerPC and i386. SLIND codename suffolk is uClibc/glibc capable.

At Extremadura Worksession, toochains for MIPS and MIPSEL where done by Alexander Shiskin. He has been kind enough to provide some documentation on how you could build your own toolchains.

To stay tuned, please visit wiki page.

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