Core Components

Gujin

"Gujin is a PC boot loader which can analyze your partitions and filesystems.

It finds the Linux kernel images available, as well as other bootable partitions (for *BSD, MS-DOS, Windows, etc.), files (*.kgz) and bootable disk images (*.bdi), and displays a graphical menu for selecting which system to boot.

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rootz 0.3.1

"The software distribution system that works differently.
rootz mounts complete live distros over the web, and make them available locally.
Attach your local linux system to various mirrors and simply
run applications, without any installation or prior downloads!

Claude's Tab Window Manager

"The Window Manager for Smart Windows [...]

CTWM is an extension to twm, originally written by Claude Lecommandeur
(see README.Claude for his README), that support multiple virtual
screens, and a lot of other goodies.

You can use and manage up to 32 virtual screens called workspaces.
You swap from one workspace to another by clicking on a button in an
optionnal panel of buttons (the workspace manager) or by invoking a
function.

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Scheme Constraints Window Manager

"Scwm is the Scheme Constraints/Configurable Window Manager. It is a window manager with a powerful dynamic configuration language based on Guile Scheme. Scwm has many, many advanced features, often implemented in the configuration language itself. Scwm is now being maintained by Scott Lenser with help from Greg Badros and Jason Lowdermilk. It is in active development currently, and continues to improve.

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LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

"LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies."

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/

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Another Unionfs

"Aufs was entirely re-designed and re-implemented Unionfs. After many original ideas, approaches, improvements and implementations, it becomes totally different from Unionfs while keeping the basic features.

Unionfs is being developed by Professor Erez Zadok at Stony Brook University and his team. If you don't know Unionfs, I recommend you to try and know it before using aufs. Some terminology in aufs follows Unionfs's."

http://aufs.sourceforge.net/

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Splashy

"Splashy is a next generation boot splashing system for Linux systems. Unlike other splashig systems, it needs no patches to the kernel and it’s installed like a normal package. Make your boot process eye-candy with Splashy!

Some of Splashy’s most noticable features include:

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Bootloader

"The bootloader is the software that loads linux kernel + initramfs.

Similar project all uses syslinux/isolinux as the bootloader, mainly because it provides easy boot from local images like a cdrom file, an hard disk file (useful for usb boot) and the netboot capabilities.

But grub should be considered for nice features and not only local type of booting. (grub is used by dfsbuild)

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Smart Boot Manager

"Smart Boot Manager (SBM) is an OS independent and full-featured boot manager with an easy-to-use user interface. There are some screen shots available.

The main goals of SBM are Absolutly OS independent, Flexable and Full-Featured. It has all of the features needed to boot a variety of OSes from several kinds of media, while keeping its size no more than 30K bytes. In another words, SBM does NOT touch any of your partitions, it totally fits into the first track (the hidden track) of your harddisk!

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YAFFS - Yet Another Flash Filing System

"YAFFS, for Yet Another Flash Filing System, is a filing system optimised for NAND Flash chips, which are increasingly cheap and widely used. It is a log-structured (Journalled) FS which automatically provides wear-levelling and robustness on power failure. It also scales well for large Flash chip sizes, in terms of boot time and RAM usage. It is in use now in several real commercial products under Linux and WinCE, and has proved extrememly reliable.

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