Survey Date: 2000/03/23 Name of person providing information: Rick Collette E-mail address: rick@deeplinux.com Connection with this distribution: (note, survey information from distribution creators/developers will replace information from other interested parties, wherever available.) Author 1. What is the name of your distribution? DeepLinux What is the website for your distribution? http://www.deeplinux.com 2. What is the derivation of your distribution? _ SLS _ Slackware _ Jurix x Red Hat _ Debian _ rolled from scratch _ other (Please name: ) 2a. If you answered anything besides "rolled from scratch", do you still consider your distribution "tied" to its derivation, e.g., you release updates to your distribution based on updates from the original distribution? No, not at all. They will not be tied to Red Hat. Do you plan on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat? That was the intent with Spiro, but we found that, to do that, we had to lose some functionality. So, no, but we'll maintain the LSB and the FSH. 2c. If you answered "rolled from scratch" or other, do you use a package management system? If yes, which one? 3. What languages do you support? Please list, including English, if appropriate. English, Spanish and Dutch, initially. Other languages will be added later. 4. Would you classify your distribution as a "mini"-distribution? (This is a very flexible term, covering Linux distributions sized for a floppy or smaller, up through CD or disk-based Linux distributions that are on the small size. It is more a matter of perception, in terms of whether you define the distribution partially by its small size compared to generic distributions like Debian, Red Hat, et al.) _ yes x no Though some of its offsprings for specific purposes may be. 4a. If you answered yes to the above, please mark any of the following that are applicable: _ CD-based, e.g., intended to be booted from and run directly from a CD without requiring a hard disk. _ Disk-based, small, but intended to be run from a hard disk. Presumably too large for a floppy. _ Floppy-based How many floppies for the base distribution? How many floppies for supported add-ons? _ Flash-disk-based _ Other Please explain: 5. Hardware Support. Please mark all the hardware platforms that your distribution supports. _ Alpha _ IBM S/390 x Intel x86/Pentium initially x IA64 eventually _ NEC Mobile Gear PDAs _ Sparc x Sparc64 eventually _ PowerPC _ PowerPC G4 _ RS/6000 _ Microcontrollers _ Other, please list: 5a. For what hardware platforms do you provide optimized binaries, if any? Pentium, generic 6. Why did you decide to produce a Linux distribution? Initially, I don't know. I liked a little bit of everybody's distribution, but not any one completely? I really like doing the coding for an operating system where I don't have to answer to someone as to my reasons for using Drake instead of the Red Hat tool. 7. What is the target audience for your distribution? OEMs for the distribution, general population for the Deep End system, a hardware platform running a specialized version of DeepLinux. 8. Would you consider your distribution to be: _ general purpose, e.g., useful for servers, desktops, and requiring tailoring for specific purposes. _ special purpose, e.g., specifically tailored for a single functionality or a small group of functionalities. Multiple versions will be produced, so each could be considered special purpose, but between all of them, they cover most general purposes and remain tailorable. 8a. If you consider your distribution to be special purpose, below are a list of possible purposes. Please check all that apply and add any that are missing: x Appliances, such as: x Communications Server x Router/Firewall _ Web Cache x File/Print Server x DNS Server _ DOS/Windows support, as in running Linux under DOS/Windows _ DOS partition _ DOS/Windows install, separate boot _ Windows Users, accessible from Windows x Diskless Terminal support _ Education/Schools x Ease-of-use, for non-technical users Lord, I hope so. x Embedded Systems x High-end and Cluster computing _ Non-exportable crytographic support x Older, slower hardware (pre-Pentium, for example) To an extent. Low end 486 will be supported. _ Optimized performance _ Reduced memory usage ( <8MB ) x Rescue disk x Security Re-ignited relationship with Bastille Linux. x Targeted user market, such as: _ ISPs _ E-commerce sites _ Highly Experienced, Technical users x OEMs Will offer both a generic version and tailored versions for OEMs. 9. Who are the primary developers for your distribution? Please provide email addresses. Rick Collette, rick@deeplinux.com Steve Brock, rick@deeplinux.com 10. If this is a commercial distribution, what is the company providing the distribution? deepLinux, Inc. 11. What other Linux distributions do you consider to be most similar in design goals and target audience? Caldera is probably the closest. LinuxOne is about to become one of them. 11a. Of the above, which distributions pre-date your distribution? Caldera. 12. What version of the kernel are you currently shipping? A patched version of 2.2.14. 13. What C libraries are you supporting: x a.out x glibc x glibc2 13a. Which C library is the default for your builds? (Check only one) _ a.out _ glibc x glibc2 14. How large is your default installation? 86MB. 15. How many packages are provided, including both default and optional packages? Unknown. 16. What type of support is provided for this distribution? Commercial support. 17. Optional Description: An OEM co-brandable full distribution of Linux. 18. Optional Comments: 19. 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