Linux Router Project
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| Original author(s) | Dave Cinege |
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| Developer(s) | Dave Cinege, Charles Wright, Paul Wouters |
| Stable release | 2.9.8
/ September 12, 2000 |
| Written in | C, Bourne Shell |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://pigtail.net/LRP/index.html |
The Linux Router Project (LRP) is a now defunct networking-centric micro Linux distribution. The released versions of LRP were small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and made building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial.
History
LRP was conceived and primarily developed by Dave Cinege from 1997 until 2002. It began originally as a 'router on a floppy' and evolved into a streamlined general purpose network operating system.
The oldest embedded Linux distribution, LRP in whole or in part formed the basis of many other embedded system distributions and commercial products which followed it. Several parts developed or specifically enhanced for LRP are still found in common usage today such as POSIXness and BusyBox.
Pioneering Features
- Small base OS footprint
- A simplified packaging system
- Menu based system and package configuration
- Strict separation of volatile, non-volatile, Read Only, and Read/Write areas of the root hierarchy
- Unpacked and run from ramdisk or run directly from flash
- A system to commit configuration changes to a non-volatile medium (Disk/Flash)
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