Accelerated-KNOPPIX v1.1 20060612.1703

Accelerated-KNOPPIX



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We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty:the beauty of speed.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - Manifesto of Futurism -



Topics

Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.1.1 is out.

Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.1.0 is out.



You can experiece amazing high-speed boot!!

"LCAT" (Live CD Acceleration Toolkit) is out.



License: http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/gpl.txt

Accelerated-KNOPPIX and the Acceleration Kit for cloop Live CD was released under GPL (GNU Public Licence).



About

About Accelerated-KNOPPIX

Accelerated-KNOPPIX is a fast boot KNOPPIX by optimizing start-up part of live CD.

The development of Acclerated-KNOPPIX is developed by Alpha Systems Inc. and adopted as a "Project of Infrastructure

Building for OpenSource-Software 2005" by Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan. We evolve live CD to not only

trial, but the base of open source software.



"A LiveCD is an operating system stored on a bootable CD-ROM that can be executed from it, without installation into a

hard drive. Live CDs have a reputation for supporting advanced auto-configuration and plug-and-play functionality.

This is necessary so as to avoid requiring the user to configure the system each time it boots, and to make them easily

usable by those who are new to the operating system. " (Wikipedia.com)

It is not only KNOPPIX to benefit from the development of boot time improvement, but also other Live CDs which use cloop

file system.

The target of this project is to make the start time of conventional live CD below the half !

The mechanism of acceleration in the live CD

The visualization of access situation to cloop

A cloop profiler is developed in order to grasp the access situation of CD.



Rearrangement of a cloop block, and development of a driver for cloop

Although various files are referred to in Live CD in the case of a system startup, since each position of media is dotted

with the file, a lot of seeking will generate it at the time of reading. If the seek time of this CD is lost, it will be

said that data can be transmitted at a stretch from CD. Then, the seek time of a pickup is reduced by rearranging the file

read at the time of starting on a block level.



The optimization of entire boot sequence

Live CD performs automatic recognition of the peripheral equipment of PC at the boot sequence. Although the cache of the

file required for starting of a desktop are predicted and carried out in the meantime, if there are few memories which can

be used for cache, starting will become slow conversely. By this development, memory capacity is examining making it an effect

show up at least because the predicted data carries out the cache of the compression image of cloop as it is.





Project Road Map

2005/09/17 OSC2005/Fall concept publishment

2005/10/28 KOF2005 Ver.0.8 release !

2005/12/24 Ver.0.9 release !

2006/02/28 Ver.1.0 & Accelerated Kits release !



Download

Presentation

Yokohama Linux Users Group "Accelerated KNOPPIX - It aims at a true open source software base. -"

1,001,578 Byte (japanese)

Kansai Open Forum 2005 at Osaka Japan "The effort to accelerate KNOPPIX." 1,086,271 Byte (japanese)

Open Source Conference 2005 Fall/Tokyo Japan "Development of driver for CD/DVD boot Linux to accelerate."

1,001,578 Byte (japanese)



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->English version KNOPPIX can be used by inputting the following boot option. boot:knoppix lang=us



Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.1.1 | http://knoppix.alpha.co.jp/iso/

download page

1.0 -> 1.1 Changelog

OpenOffice.org version up (2.0.1 -> 2.0.2.).

MultiVNC1.4.1 is install. http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/multivnc/

RealVNC version up (4.1.1 -> 4.1.2).



Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.1.0 | http://knoppix.alpha.co.jp/iso/

torrent file download page

0.9 -> 1.0 Changelog

The base of KNOPPIX was changed to Version 4.0.2. Enjoy KNOPPIX that is increased start up speed!

The start sequence was reviewed. Not only the start sequence but also the block of the data of the application was read ahead.

The competition of the CD-ROM access generated in the data block lookahead has been decreased.



Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.0.9 | http://knoppix.alpha.co.jp/iso/

download page

0.8 -> 0.9 Changelog

The detection of the serial device was divided as part of boot sequence that executes concurrently in parallel with

other device detection. The service process runs parallel and is started. It uses the following command to "prelink"

the load module. It corresponded to an external drive that was not possible to start by the previous version.

Please input the option that's below when KNOPPIX start up by an external drive.

boot: knoppix usbboot

boot: knoppix fwboot



Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.0.8 | http://knoppix.alpha.co.jp/iso/

download page

!CAUTION! Accelerated-KNOPPIX Ver.0.8 can't boot from USB and Firewire CD-ROM drive



Live CD Acceleration Toolkit "LCAT"

LCAT

download page(sourceforge): : http://sourceforge.jp/projects/lcat/

LCAT manual (en)

download page (sourceforge): : http://sourceforge.jp/projects/lcat/



KNOPPIX Linux Live CD: http://www.alpha.co.jp/

KNOPPIX Japanese edition: http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/

IPA(Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan): http://www.ipa.go.jp/software/open/

KNOPPIX ML in Japan: http://www.freeml.com/info/knoppix@freeml.com

AlphaSystems Inc.: http://www.alpha.co.jp/



Acknowledgment

Alpha Systems Inc. greatly appreciate Linus Torvalds, Klaus Knopper, those who participate to develop Linux, and IPA, Japan.



Contact Us: knx-service@alpha.co.jp