Survey Date: 2000/03/30 Name of person providing information: Tom Oehser E-mail address: Tom@Toms.NET Connection with this distribution: Author 1. What is the name of your distribution? tomsrtbt What is the website for your distribution? http://www.toms.net/rb/ 2. What is the derivation of your distribution? _ SLS _ Slackware _ Jurix _ Red Hat _ Debian X 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? N/A Do you plan on maintaining compatibility with Red Hat? Absolutely not. 2c. If you answered "rolled from scratch" or other, do you use a package management system? No package management system. If yes, which one? 3. What languages do you support? Please list, including English, if appropriate. be.map dk.map fr.map is.map la.map pt.map sf.map cf.map es.map gr.map it.map no.map ru.map sg.map de.map fi.map hu.map jp.map pl.map se.map uk.map Other languages will be added later. dvorak 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.) x yes _ 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: x CD-based, e.g., intended to be booted from and run directly from a CD without requiring a hard disk. Note: The bootable CD tomsrtbt is downloadable only, actual CDs are not distributed. _ Disk-based, small, but intended to be run from a hard disk. Presumably too large for a floppy. x Floppy-based How many floppies for the base distribution? 1 How many floppies for supported add-ons? add-ons are only available via ftp and customization of the 1 floppy _ 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 _ IA64 eventually _ NEC Mobile Gear PDAs _ Sparc _ Sparc64 eventually _ PowerPC _ PowerPC G4 _ RS/6000 _ Microcontrollers _ Other, please list: 5a. For what hardware platforms do you provide optimized binaries, if any? -m386 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -s 2.7.2.3 6. Why did you decide to produce a Linux distribution? "yard" and "DLX" and "HAL91" were not what I wanted. I disagreed with the assertion that there couldn't be a "one size fits all" rescue floppy image. 7. What is the target audience for your distribution? System administrators and others who want a stand-alone shirt pocket tool for rescue, recovery, and emergency maintenance. 8. Would you consider your distribution to be: _ general purpose, e.g., useful for servers, desktops, and requiring tailoring for specific purposes. x special purpose, e.g., specifically tailored for a single functionality or a small group of functionalities. 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: _ Appliances, such as: _ Communications Server _ Router/Firewall _ Web Cache _ File/Print Server _ DNS Server _ DOS/Windows support, as in running Linux under DOS/Windows _ DOS partition _ DOS/Windows install, separate boot _ Windows Users, accessible from Windows _ Diskless Terminal support _ Education/Schools _ Ease-of-use, for non-technical users _ Embedded Systems _ High-end and Cluster computing _ Non-exportable crytographic support _ Older, slower hardware (pre-Pentium, for example) _ Optimized performance _ Reduced memory usage ( <8MB ) x Rescue disk _ Security _ Targeted user market, such as: _ ISPs _ E-commerce sites _ Highly Experienced, Technical users _ OEMs 9. Who are the primary developers for your distribution? Please provide email addresses. Tom Oehser, Tom@Toms.NET 10. If this is a commercial distribution, what is the company providing the distribution? 11. What other Linux distributions do you consider to be most similar in design goals and target audience? 11a. Of the above, which distributions pre-date your distribution? 12. What version of the kernel are you currently shipping? 2.0.37 13. What C libraries are you supporting: _ a.out x libc5 _ glibc2 13a. Which C library is the default for your builds? (Check only one) _ a.out x libc5 _ glibc2 14. How large is your default installation? 1722K. 15. How many packages are provided, including both default and optional packages? 2.0.37 3c589_cs BusLogic CVF DEC_ELCP EEXPRESS EEXPRESS_PRO EL2 EL3 EXT2 FAT FAT32 FD IDE IDECD IDEFLOPPY IDEPCMCIA IDETAPE ISO9660 JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMULATION MINIX MSDOS NE2000 NFS PROC RAM SD SERIAL SLIP SMC SR ST TR ULTRA VFAT VORTEX WD80x3 ah152x_cs aha152x aha1542 aic7xxx ash awk badblocks bdflush bzip2 cardbus cardmgr cat ce ce.help chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear cmp cp cpio cut date dd ddate debugfs df dirname dmesg dmsdos ds du dumpe2fs dutil e2fsck eata echo egrep elvis emacs extend false fdflush fdformat fdisk fdomain filesize find findsuper fmt fsck.ext2 fsck.msdos fstab grep gzip halt head hexedit hostname i82365 ifconfig ifport ile init inittab insmod kill killall5 ksyms length less libc.so.5.4.13 lilo lilo.conf ln loadkeys login losetup ls lsattr mawk memtest mingetty miterm mkdir mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mklost+found mknod mkswap mnsed more mount mt mv nc ncr53c8xx nmclan_cs ntfs pax pcmcia pcmcia_core pcnet_cs ping plip ppa printf ps pwd qlogic_cs qlogicfas reboot rescuept reset rm rmdir rmmod route rsh rshd script scsi_info seagate sed serial_cs setserial sh slattach sleep slip snarf sort split stty swapoff swapon sync tail tar tcic tee telnet test touch tune2fs umount undeb update vi vi.help wc 16. What type of support is provided for this distribution? Mailing list with searchable archive. 17. Optional Description: 18. Optional Comments: 19. Any questions specific to the distribution: