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CRUX
The upstream project and foundation for the rest of the work: a deliberately simple, transparent and controllable Linux system.
Project family
CRUX
Work around CRUX Linux and its ports for alternative architectures, spanning the base system, package maintenance, tooling, automation and support for ARM and RISC-V.
01 / Overview
CRUX and VJML
CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution aimed at experienced users, built around simplicity, system control and a ports-based package model. My work around CRUX extends across different architectures, tools and processes used to build, maintain and experiment with the system.
02 / Family
Family
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CRUX-ARM
A CRUX port for ARM systems, bringing its philosophy and ports system to different devices and platforms based on the architecture.
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CRUX-RISCV
Work on bringing CRUX to RISC-V while exploring real-world toolchain, packaging, compilation and hardware-support problems on a still-young architecture.
03 / Work
Work around CRUX
The family extends beyond architecture ports. A significant part of the work is in the tools and processes used to build, test and maintain the system.
Packaging
Ports, package maintenance and investigation of build failures.
Architectures
ARM, AArch64 and RISC-V on real hardware and build environments.
Rootfs
Building and validating base systems for different architectures.
CI
Automated builds and reproducible testing across different runners.
Tooling
Tools that simplify, isolate and make work with ports safer.
04 / Tooling
Selected tooling
prt-snapshot
A tool for creating reproducible and safer environments around the CRUX ports system, used to build and test packages without depending on the state of the main system.
05 / Links
