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Welcome to ROCK Linux - The Distribution Build Kit
| What is ROCK Linux? |
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| ROCK Linux is a flexible Distribution Build Kit. It can be used for building your own Linux distributions. Read more.. |
| Do you also have pre-compiled ISOs? |
| Yes. There are pre-compiled ISOs for some ROCK Linux based distributions at the Distribution Portal. But always keep in mind that ROCK Linux is a Distribution Build Kit and can be used to build a wide range of distributions. So you should consider carefully which ROCK Linux based distribution you want to download. |
| I just want a simple general-purpose distribution. |
| Then you should try Crystal ROCK. |
| Where can I find information about security updates? |
| We have a page with a list of Security Updates. You can subscribe to the rock-user mailing list as well and receive security information via email. |
| How do I build my own distribution using ROCK Linux? |
| The build process itself is easy and described here. |
| But when you want to create your own distribution you might need to add some features to ROCK Linux. The ROCK Linux internal APIs are described in the Manual. |
| Is it possible to build ROCK on non-ROCK distributions such as Debian, SuSE or RedHat? |
| Yes. But building on Crystal ROCK is the best tested scenario. |
| What architectures do you support? |
| Alpha AXP, ARM, HPPA-RISC, IA-64, MIPS, PowerPC, Sparc, x86 and x86_64. |
| But currently we only provide pre-built Crystal ROCK binaries for x86, x86_64 and PowerPC. |
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Why is it all written in shell?
Why not rewrite it in Ruby, Python, C++ or Java? |
We have chosen shell scripting as the programming language for the ROCK Linux Build System because:
So far it has been a good choice and we see no reason for rewriting it in any other programming language. |
| Is this the entire FAQ? |
| No. More FAQs can be found here. |
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Mission Statement
Read our Mission Statement and our Roadmap.
News / Recent Events
2008-10-15: New ISO image torrents of Crystal (Desktop) for i686 and bbs (Build/Bootstrap) for QEMU emulation of mips, mips64, sparc and x86_64 now available at isos.rocklinux.org
Older Events
[Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2007] - March 3. and 4. 2007
The ROCK Linux staff would like to say thank you to all helpers and participants for the fantastic organization and the pleasant atmosphere.
ROCK 3 released!
- 2006-08-01: ROCK3 addon packages uploaded
Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2006 | If you got a CD: Crystal ROCK CLT Version Errata
Documentation
All the available documentation is indexed in the ROCK Linux Manual.
Information on where and how to get the source code and binaries can be found on the Download page.
Join the Community
- Subscribe to the Mailing Lists,
- join the IRC Channel, or
- get a SubMaster account, send patches and vote on them.
Artwork
Big projects such as ROCK Linux always need a Logo and some other Artwork.
