Web site: www.brutalix.org (not active)
Origin: Spain
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Blackbox
Architecture: x86
Based on: Damn Small Linux
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 1.1 | January 25, 2005
Brutalix – a Damn Small Linux based distribution developed by Eduardo Fíat and several collaborators.
It’s a Linux distribution that runs without having to install anything on the hard drive (a live distro); everything runs through RAM and physical media (usually a CD, although it can also be a DVD, USB flash drive, etc.).
This distribution is based on DSL, a mini-distribution based on Debian, and has a 2.4 kernel (due to its size).
The idea was to create a distribution that was as small as possible but with the greatest number of features. The goal was to make it small enough to load the entire system into RAM, so that it would run smoothly even on older computers.
It has all the features required by a computer operator: a text editor, a browser, network monitoring tools, and many more (and a Tetrix). It also included tools for computer cloning, secure erasure, and hardware testing.
The distro doesn’t even reach 50MB, but it’s still a fully functional operating system.
It also has its own package manager in case we need additional applications, such as a development environment.
With newer computers, this kernel wasn’t sufficient (it doesn’t support SATA, for example).
A new project, BrutaliXL, was created, based on Debian-live (kernel 2.6), but with the same philosophy as BrutaliXL.
