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ZyX   ZyX LiveOS Strains   ZyX

About

I am currently working on several niche LiveOS projects built with the VirOS toolset. Each strain has its own collection of VirOS 'traits' that define the contents of its distribution. Many traits are shared amongst several or all strains. Each strain either has the VirOS toolset trait installed, or available via online library. Thus each strain can itself generate the other strains, or new strains containing virtually infinite permutations of traits defined by the user, or available in the trait library. (In theory. In practice, the VirOS software still lacks sufficient documentation, and the important feature of upstream package caching, to be considered easy to use. But it does get better year by year...) If you'd like to keep up to date on releases of viros and these strains, just join the viros-devel mailinglist at sourceforge.

Taxonomy

ZyX   ZyX Sci   ZyX

Sci-ZyX is an 'Enterprise-6' descended x86, FOSS LiveOS distribution, featuring a unique rebootless installation method. The 1.4G live .iso can be burned to DVD(LiveDVD) or 2+G usbstick(LiveUSB). This installable, portable, immutable, compressed system image can then be rebootlessly installed into traditional uncompressed and mutable form whenever the user so chooses. This installation will not even interrupt the user's desktop session, which can then later be hibernated long after the LiveDVD/USB has been removed from the system. The VirOS toolset is even installed, allowing any user, with a single viros commandline, to spawn a brand-stripped descendent distribution, with as few or as many other mutations as desired.

ZyX   Guitar ZyX   ZyX

Guitar-ZyX is a LiveDVD/USB operating system distribution, that can immediately boot both your Nintendo-DS, and your x86/64 PC, into a guitar pre-amp f/x processing appliance, complete with wireless dual screen touchpad remote control. You can even velcro or embed the NDS in your guitar if so inclined. In addition to switching among 77+ different f/x presets, the NDS remote control's touchscreen can also linearly control any two of about a hundred independent f/x parameters in real-time. I.e. a very cost effective TouchScreenWhammyPad.


ZyX   ZyX ZyX   ZyX

Fork-ZyX is a VirOS(tm) produced, alternative to the ancestor(f12) standard desktop LiveCD. Eventually it will highlight how the VirOS toolset makes it extremely easy to produce your own derivative LiveCD distribution. Themed with whatever art you may happen to have. I happen to have some excellent work, and permission to redistribute it, from an artist who signs her work - Josie Wrath.


ZyX   E ZyX   ZyX

E-ZyX will be descended from CentOS-6 when it is presumably released later this year.

ZyX   G ZyX   ZyX

G-ZyX has not had a release for a few years, being superceded by Guitar-ZyX. But it remains, and will be updated, as a version of Guitar-ZyX with all the NDS devkit (ZyXdevSuite) traits, but without the music creation traits.

ZyX   ZyX ZyX   ZyX

D-ZyX , aka Dev-ZyX aka Dawg-ZyX will eventually be a fully self-hosting(/recompiling) superset of Guitar-ZyX and its siblings.

ZyX   ZyX ZyX   ZyX

U-ZyX , If I ever get around to adding debian/ubuntu support to VirOS, will represent a descendent of Ubuntu, primarily as proof-of-concept and an example for others to build on.