NOTICE: This is a Beta Release
A Linux distribution that tries to be as lightweight and small as possible while also being as secure and compatible with as many components as it can.
- CPU: Intel 80486, ARMv5, RISCV64
- RAM: 48* MiB
- HDD: 8** MiB
These metrics can vary drastically depending on the kernel config used and targeted architecture
- Make >= 4.x
- GCC >= 7 or LLVM >= 14
- Flex >= 2.x
- Bison >= 3.x
- Gawk >= 3.x/Busybox Awk >= 1.30.1
- Rsync (for Linux kernel headers)
- CPU: Doesn't matter. If it turns on and can read at least 2GiB RAM and at least 16GiB of storage, it will work
- RAM: 2GiB
- Storage: 10GiB
Before building PortaLinux, you must configure it. To do so, you must run
./configure.rb -p and the preset you want (The built-in presets are llvm
and gcc):
./configure.rb -p gcc # Example commandThis command will download and unpack all of the packages needed as well as apply any necessary patches and generate a configure file for the build system.
To build a toolchain, run the following:
./compile.rb -b toolchainThis will install a toolchain at ~/cross under its toolchain type, although
this might be changed to preset name in the future.
To build the PortaLinux root filesystem, run the following:
./compile.rb -b rootfsThis will generate a chrootable directory containing the PortaLinux root filesystem. It will be located in the output directory
To generate a bootable rootfs image, run the following:
./compile.rb -b boot-imgThis will generate a compressed cpio archive that can be booted with a Linux kernel that supports loading an external initramfs file. It will be located in the output directory
To build the Linux kernel, run the following:
./compile.rb -b kernelIt will prompt you for the default kernel configuration to be used and whether or not you want to configure it further. It will compile the kernel afterwards and put the bootable image, alongside any device tree blobs generated (if ARM target), in the output folder