Linux on a Stick

Linux on a Stick is an attempt to make a Live-CD/USB-Flash server Linux distro. At its heart is a very small and simple Linux distro that boots off CD/Flash and runs from RAM (Ie no spinning hard drives of death).
This approach allows us to strip the OS to its very basic components, which minimizes the amount of resources required. This distro is targeted towards Server administrator who are familiar with Linux, its only configuration method is the command line.

New Release :

· Linux kernel 2.4.33 was replaced with 2.6.18.8.
· A USB booting problem that would prevent it from booting on some BIOSs (Namely AMI) was resolved.
· The ARDIS iSCSI target was replaced with the Enterprise iSCSI target (v0.4.14).
· The Open iSCSI initiator (v2.0.754) package with kernel modules is included.
· The distribution now boots on more than just Intel CPUs.
· Userland tools (v3.6.19) and kernel FS support were included for ReiserFS and XFS.
· The PHP CLI is included in php-5.2.0 in root.gz initrd.

Packages included with LoaS
LoaS comes with several pre-compiled packages.

Packages included:

BIND-9.2.2
MIDAS-2.3b
bridge-utils-1.1
dhcp-3.0p12
dhcpcd-1.3.22-p14
httpd-2.0.59
iptables-1.2.8
ipvsadm-1.21-11
iscsid-ardis-20040211
joe-2.9.8
jta-2.0
libssl.0.9.7
mdadm-2.2
messagewall-0.9.5
mod_auth_xradius-0.4.6
mod_line_edit-1.0
mysql-4.0.15a
net-snmp-5.1.1
ntop-3.0
ntp-4.1.2
openssh-3.7.1p2
openvpn-2.0
php-5.2.0
privoxy-3.0.3
proftpd-1.2.8p
samba-2.2.8a
squid-2.6
syslog-1.4.1
zebra-0.95a

All packages are compiled and linked using Slackware 9.1. Packages are simply BZip2'ed tar balls with a specific directory structure. This makes creating additional packages very simple.

You can download LoaS here.