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RLSD, the Retro Linux-libre Software Distribution, is a small, "live" operating system with GNU/Linux-libre (http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/) and retro applications for the x86 and x86_64 architectures. It revives old hardware and the way computing used to be in the late 90's.

RLSD's development follows the guidelines in the project manifest described in MANIFEST.

RLSD consists of free software: software that respects the user's freedom. RLSD is free to study, modify and share. To read more about free software, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.

For more information, see the project homepage (http://rlsd.dimakrasner.com/).

Running

RLSD is available as regular, bootable ISO9660 images, or as a chroot environment similar to crouton (https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton).

To set up a RLSD chroot environment: wget http://goo.gl/fFZwXC sudo sh fFZwXC

Daily builds of RLSD are available through its homepage.

Building

RLSD is built from source. It is cross-compiled through Trisquel (http://www.trisquel.info/) 7 x86_64.

The whole process is automated; there's a script (http://goo.gl/8x9id4) that generates a clean, up-to-date build environment, then cross-compiles the entire RLSD inside it.

To build a 64-bit RLSD: wget http://goo.gl/8x9id4 sudo sh 8x9id4 ./rlsd-chroot sudo ls ./rlsd-chroot/root/rlsd/releases

Alternatively, to build a 32-bit variant, use setarch(1), e.g: sudo setarch i486 sh 8x9id4 ./rlsd-chroot

It is highly recommended to read the script first, as it installs debootstrap on the host. It should run on Trisquel 7, although it should work on any comparable distribution with debootstrap after minor adjustments.

Credits and Legal Information

RLSD consists of many packages; each has its own license, detailed under RLSD's /usr/share/doc.

The icons included in RLSD's file system skeleton were taken from the public-domain Tango Desktop Project (http://tango.freedesktop.org/).

The rest of RLSD (its build system, file system skeleton, etc') is free and unencumbered software released under the terms of the MIT license; see COPYING for the license text.

The ASCII art logo at the top was made using FIGlet (http://www.figlet.org/).