New distribution -- canabix
Submitted by mdmarmer on August 5, 2009 - 1:20pm
I'm looking at a new distribution called canabix. It will be based on debian testing with a Liquorix kernel. About 20 people are interested, most from the sidux community. Folks have become dissatisfied with sidux due to lack of support and arguments.
I started with a Mepis install and used smxi with testing repositories to dist-upgrade. Then I added the artwork and Liquorix kernel. I'm working on a .iso and an installer. The result is KDE 4.2, though there is also artwork for gnome and lxde.
Blog http://canabix.blogspot.com
Forum http://community.canabix.org
Liquorix kernel forum http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-34.html
To install Liquorix kernel, use smxi or deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main
Artwork http://cathbard.com/cathbard-repo-howto.html or http://community.canabix.org/smf/index.php?topic=7.0
We are looking at anaconda and acritox installers, or building an installer script.
Mike
Edit 8/18
First release will be lxde based and will include all multimedia (it will be hosted in Netherlands -- no legal problems ;-) -- It will include grub2, tho i'm still using grub for the trials i've built.
Devs are building an .iso builder (pyne cone) and an installer -- i'm using remastersys to build .iso and install http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/debian.html (remastersys also has a nice control panel for LXDE and also an LXDE lite distribution for old PCs). Remastersys works very well and makes it easy to build .iso with any kernel and to install from your iso -- they also have an easy backup function.
In retrospect, it's much better to build a new .iso from a clean install - it's surprising how much junk accumulates and how hard it is to find and track. Here are commands to find large files in your install
(from Remastersys Forum)
To list files larger than 10M:
find / -type f -size +10000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
To list files larger than 100M:
find / -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
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