Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 23610
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1/19    Let's say I'd like to run a Linux router using a 100Mhz Pentium 32Mg,
        no HD, 1 3.5" floppy, 2 NIC cards. Can I fit the entire kernel and
        other routing shit on puny 1.4meg drive?
        \_ here's my linux 2.2.19 router:
        /> foreach i (bin etc lib mnt var boot dev initrd sbin usr)
        foreach? du -sh $i
        foreach? end
        2.0M    bin
        1.5M    etc
        13M     lib
        4.0k    mnt
        45M     var
        1.3M    boot
        64k     dev
        4.0k    initrd
        1.8M    sbin
        631M    usr
        (/usr has a bunch of stuff in /usr/src)

        \_ I think NetBSD might do this fairly well; another option is picoBSD.
        \_ http://www.linuxrouter.org  is one attempt.  (I haven't used it in
           a while.)
        \_ Hey, wasn't someone asking yesterday what to do with a spare 4G
           hard drive?...
           \_ a humming router? No thanks! (floppy is quieter)
           \_ If you're going to stick a HD in it then you might as well make
              it do something like dns, mail server, etc.  If you don't need a
              low end server then you should do the floppy-only thing.  Why
              make extra noise and heat and burn more power for nothing?
           \_ how about getting a CompactFlash->IDE adapter?
        \_ try PicoBSD
        \_ http://leaf.sourceforge.net I've been using this for six+ months.
           I have three NICs (outside, inside, DMZ). Of the distros included
           in LEAF, I use Oxygen. P133, 16 MB, 1.68MB floppy. --jsjacob
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www.linuxrouter.org
As of January of this year I have finally accepted the fact I will likely never be able to develop LRP into the operating system it could have been. A full 6 months later I'm forcing myself to update this page to reflect this. Aside from my general disgust at the computing industry and what the Internet has become, scrambling around for scrapes of work and praying for the next good money project that eventually ends suddenly in a few months, just isn't keeping food on the table. I've looked quite a bit for some stable work, but plumbers make more hourly then Sys Admins in South Florida. With LRP remaining an unachievable goal I don't even feel much desire to work with computers anymore. My many contributions to the computing community has reaped very little personal benefit for myself. As I now struggle to pay the bills I can not help but feel quite pissed off at the state of affairs, for myself and the other authors who contributed massive amounts of time and quality work, only to have it whored by companies not willing to give back dime one to the people that actually created what it is they sell. Acknowledgement and referral would have at least been acceptable. Care to tell me what Embeddix (for one) is based off of? Some 8 companies did contribute directly to the project. However a few thousand dollars or a few computers does not let a programmer eat next month. As desperately as I have tried for the last 4 years I have been unable to get any type of sustainable funding for LRP development or steady work which would allow such. I began to explore some ideas I previously had but thought were not realistic to pursue. This operating system had a good deal of specifications outlined for it and some preliminary proof-of-concept coding done. To this day I am only beginning to see very minor bits of what I had expected to have in production the summer of 2001. You see, unlike the current pile of Linux distributions which are based on 20 year old obsolete mechanisms, I was working on something that was from scratch. The full architecture for the packaging system was laid out. Oh yeah, and the base of this OS would have all fit in 8MB of space. The name of this operating system and it's specifications, shall still remain UNRELEASED. I'd like to hope someone with 6 figure$ to burn wants this to happen, but I need to grow up and move on instead of continuing to wait on the tooth fairy to show up to help me persue my artistic dreams. My thanks go out to the few people that did help to make happen the LRP that was released. Untrue to the opensource dogma, actually finding people to contribute work to a project is a task in and of itself. My special thanks to Phil Hands and Paul Russell who helped make the early days possible. I would have never learned to hate Bourne shell at a guru's level without your help. I wish at the time I had realized it's true worth, and encouraged you more with it. Charles Wright, the only guy who ever really helped with any needed coding of the LRP base. Vesselin Atanasov, we made portslave into something quite nice. My eternal disregard also goes out to those that thought they had something to do with LRP but really did nothing for it but complain on the mailing list, and to those that did do something with LRP and never tried to collaborate with me to further the project.
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leaf.sourceforge.net
An easy to use embedded Linux network appliance for use in small office, home office, and home automation environments. Although it can be used in other ways, it's primarily used as a gateway/router/firewall for Internet leaf sites. Project Goals: Create an inclusive environment for current developers of the Linux Router Project to release their modifications to the public. Support continued development of Linux Router Project derived LEAF images and packages. Affiliates We thank our 46 affiliates for their time and effort. Their cooperation with us greatly reduces the effort required to create releases.