ttylinux

2012-01-25

I have been informed by a legal professional that ttylinux is in violation of the GNU Public License by:

⇒ providing binary code without making available all the comprising source code (does anyone not know where to get the GCC source code?)

⇒ not being obviously clear what source code comprises the binary code downloads

Since I personally pay DirectNIC for space and bandwidth to host this website, I cannot simply add all the versions of Linux kernel, GCC, Alsa, Glibc, etc. source code distributions used by all the ttylinux variants, at least not before studying the costs.

Bear with me while I decide upon one of the various ways to comply. Please remember: ttylinux is solely developed and maintain by me, douglas@ttylinux.org, for my own fun, from which I get no other benefit; I earn no money from it, my employer doesn't like me doing it, and my wife and children want my time. whine, whine, whine...

NOTE I do not have the build code for ttylinux version 5.3, the last release to work on an 80386 processor, and I am not sure what source code packages were used, so it will not be coming back.

Until I re-launch the binary distributions, please make use of the ttylinux source distribution, if you are so inclined. I will try to get a reorganized site back together some time in February.

PS Expect a BeagleBone ttylinux distribution in the near future, as I've recently ordered one.

Source Distribution

The ttylinux source distribution is the comprehensive build system. It has the complete build process with all configuration and build scripts.

Be aware that the ttylinux build process begins with building of at least one cross-compiler; this will download the necessary Linux, Binutils, Glibc and GCC source packages.

Oddly, the source distribution has no source packages; the source packages are downloaded by scripts within this source distribution with a "make dload" command.

ttylinux source distributions

Filename	Size	md5sum
ttylinux-src-mp9.tar.bz2	13M	692f14c8f901b4a5aa47916e69270e6c