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Crux 2.6
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Product Details
Platform: PC
Contents: 1 Install CD
OSDisc.com Sales Rank: #56
Date Added to OSDisc.com: September 13, 2009
Product Description
Crux is a lightweight, i686-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. Crux also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.
The primary goal of CRUX is to build a streamlined distribution, targeted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. Some of the characteristics of CRUX are:
- "Keep It Simple" concept is applied to both the system and the development process
- Source based package installation using a ports system
- Simplicity over automation
- Targetted at experienced users with compact, to the point documentation
- Native configurations over configuration abstraction layers (think: sysconfig)
- Slim, stripped of unneeded documentation and files (only supports the native language the programs were written in)
- Up to date features and packages, however no bleeding edge software in the main repositories
- Easy way to extend the system yourself
- Active community of contributors outside the core development team