What is InfiniTUX ?

InfiniTUX is an embedded Linux distribution designed specifically for system administration. It's based on uClibc and Busybox with extensive use of size optimitation to fit a two floppy disk space and for use with i386 machines with al least 8 MB of RAM.

It is intended to perform various critical tasks, such as:

• backups, CD/RW operations, USB mass storage transfert, massive ethernet transferts

• hard drive advanced partitioning, partition ghosting, RAID redundancy

• HW administration (PCI listing and setting, HD parameters, ...)

• remote shells, ftp server/client

• file editing, "chrooting", C code compiling, directory browsing

It allows also "normal" type of usage, like:

• WWW navigation, E-mail download/upload, games (!!!), WWW server

• complete micro-man pages included

• NTP client

4 August 2004

* Important bug/difficult ___ In some Windows machines, the "fdformat" program of "DOS_tools.tar.bz2" package doesn't work properly (physical damages to the formatted floppy has been tracked). What can I say ?!?! .......

Welcome to the WINDOWS world !!!

This is probably due to the fact that Windows doesn't make use of BIOS call during format process but wrap around with its own functions.

Solution: make use of Linux "fdformat /dev/fd0u1680 + dd if=disk*.img of=/dev/fd0u1680" as stated in the README file.

• Development of Version 0.2 started. Estimated delivery : October 2004

• First version of the Web site

• Here we are !!!  After two months of work, the first release is ready

• Version 0.1 is now available as beta, so your feedback to the bug-report section will be VERY appreciated at this stage of development

• Improvement on the boot process (faster with a smaller initrd)

• Increasing the diskette size to 1723 kB (diskette 1, bootable) and 1760 kB (diskette 2, tar filesystem)

• New version of each program with improvement size compiling

• FTP personal server with pre-compiled binaries to enlarge usage possibility via a custom network client

• Micro kernel usage (uClinux)

• Lighter (but less stable ...) C library adoption

• Give me suggestions about the features you would like to see into InfiniTUX

• Download the .tar.bz2 package of latest release at project file page

• Don't forget to check out the MD5 check sum of downloaded package; see the "Notes" file of each release to compare your result

• To get the source code used for a specific release, follow the links of this page

• I'm Valiani Massimo, the administrator of InfiniTUX (Perugia, ITALY)

• Contact me at: valianimassimo@hotmail.com

• Copyright (c) Massimo Valiani 2004

6 August 2004