Build dibab

To build dibab (no binary will be available)

cd $HOME
install -d src
cd src
svn checkout http://dibab.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/2.0 dibab
cd dibab
make

• You can run ./configure as root to verify that all needed development tools are installed (optional)
• Select arch to build
• all packages form packages/list-$ARCH are downloaded then build
• kernel is build
• modules and iso are created
• you can run "make test"

Alternatives

See inside "config.ini" (written when selected ARCH)

You can :

• Use crosstool-ng instead of host toolchain
• build your own toolchain
• enable MENUCONFIG=YES to select your kernel options

Host tested

• Debian 6.0.4
• Mandriva 2010.0

Why Dibab ?

LinuxConsole 1.0 works quite fine, bus was designed in 2004 (then released in 2007,2008,2009,2010).

Dibab has been written to build LinuxConsole 2.0. Full documentation should be written here before first announcement.

Lacks of LinuxConsole 1.0:

• Build modules updates is not enough simple.
• Too much modules
• Not enough communication
• Only One developer
• Linux Games are not popular like Windows ones
• Low Community

Good things :

• One release every year
• Easy install from windows
• Home made configuration tool

Dibab Documentation

The name "Dibab" (means "choice" in Brezhoneg). With Dibab, you could write your own distro, not only for x86, without be root, and for any desktop (lxde,gnome2,gnome3,KDE,...)

Goals

• Fast
• Low disk space used (modules into squashfs/lzma)
• Can Build from many systems (mageia, debian, scratch)

Installs

• On liveUSB (with unetbootlin)
• On Hard disk (from Windows or liveUSB)

Boot

• From initramfs
• From Hard disk (to be faster)

Targets

• x86,x86_64,arm