CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Project Overview

In recent years a powerful and innovative UNIX work-alike has emerged its popularity is beginning to rival that of its UNIX predecessors.

The Linux operating system includes features from both Berkley Software Distribution (BSD) and Unix System V but departs from UNIX in several significant ways. The core of the operating system, like kernel is implemented completely independently of both BSD and System V.

The continuing development of Linux is taking place through the combined efforts of many capable individuals throughout the world and Linux puts the power of UNIX within easy reach of business and personal computer users.

There is a rich selection of applications available for Linux-both free and commercial. There is also a wide variety of tools: graphical, word processing, networking, webserver, web page creation and many others.

Vaamana Linux tiny distro is proposed to be an Unix-like (Almost like Linux) distro or can mention it as a tiny Linux operating system which will be in very small in size , can be able to run in minimum requirement systems and can be portable through a flash drive ,or via a CD or via a Memory Card It will be a complete bootable distro which runs in the computer’s memory, rather than loading from the hard disk drive ( can be also possible to install on Hard Disk). It can run on a computer lacking secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive, or with a corrupted hard disk drive or file system, allowing users to rescue data.

The base install is competent enough for a variety of tasks. That may include, a cluster of useful tools included as a part of the minimal install, including a paint tool (like gimp, a simple raster/bitmap graphics editor), a PDF reader, multimedia players and a text editor. If you feel the need to expand out of the minimal applications, our system will contain an Install/upgrade/update option for including other applications (from the already existing application packages).

Here the project has been given “Vaamana” as code name for the project because of its tiny structure in small size and is only requesting a few space first and has the ability of the distro to grow to an immense size by adding more and more applications further. Also it is an open source project which will be distributed in free in the future, and hoping that it will make an end to the supremacy of costly operating systems in the market (Like Vaamana suppressed the supremacy of Maha-Bali in Hindu Myth).

1.2 Team Profile

Here us ourselves called as GEN-X App Squad, where the word ‘GEN-X’means the “The Generation following the baby boom”, here it quote Linux were in a baby life through the 1990 to 2010. Now we are in a generation following that baby era, with God’s grace Vaamana will be in these generation fighting against the supreme leaders in the current era…

Here the team name “GEN-X APPS” coming from the first letter of our names as

GEN-X – GEETHU P P

A – AKHI M B

P – PRASEETHA P M

P – PREETHA M P

S – Mr. SIJO S VADAKKAN (Our Project Guide)

“Bring Experience… is our mantra, so just keep telling “bring… bring… bring …. The experience” while experiencing Vaamana