Open Small Linux

Features

• BuildRoot — the whole system is built from source.
• Permissive software first — permissive licenses are preferred wherever possible.
• Built-in opkg — the package manager is installed in every image and ready to use; the official feed is coming with the repository (in preparation).
• For PCs — aimed at ordinary computers (BIOS/MBR and UEFI/GPT).
• CLI installer — osl-install: formats the partition, copies the system, writes GRUB by hand. No grub-install needed.
• Native tools — osl-sysinfo, osl-power, osl-net, written in C with no dependencies beyond libc.

# package management (the official feed is not configured in 0.8 yet,
# so `opkg update` will fail until the repository launches)
opkg install ./some-package.ipk   # installing a local .ipk file

# once the repository exists:
opkg update
opkg install <package_name>
opkg remove  <package_name>

# system tools
osl-sysinfo        # system information
osl-net status     # interfaces and routes
osl-power          # reboot / poweroff menu

# install the system to a hard disk (as root)
osl-install