Lilblue Linux

Lilblue Linux is a Linux Distro which is based on Gentoo Linux with the exception that it makes use of the uClibc C library. The distro derives its name from the little penguin of New Zealand which is little, and blue. Lilblue is a fully featured Xfce4 desktop environment for the x86 64 CPU architecture which makes use of hardening as well as other security enhanced features such as stack-smashing protection, PaX and position independent executables (PIE).

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Developer| Gentoo Foundation
OS family| Unix-like
Working state| Current
Source model| Open source
Initial release| June 3, 2013 (2013-06-03)
|Final release|Latest release}}| Rolling release / July 28, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-07-28)
Update method| Emerge
Package manager| Portage
Platforms| x86-64
Kernel type| Monolithic (Linux)
Userland| GNU
Default user interface| Xfce4, various
License| Free software licenses
(mainly GPL)
Official website| wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue

## Contents

* 1 Features
* 2 Package system
* 3 External links
* 4 References

## Features

Full desktop environment: Due to it being a fully featured desktop environment it sports over 800 packages needed for most desktop related tasks:

* Ephiphany, Claws, Hexchat for browsing, email and IRC.
* Abiword, Evince, Gcalctool, Gtext for your generic office suite related work.
* Gqview, Smplayer for multimedia
* Transmission for bittorrent.
* Userland utilities are provided by coreutils, not busybox.

Extremely lightweight:

* Currently, the entire size of the ISO is ~228MB.

Fast boot time:

* Roughly 14 seconds off of an SSD.

## Package system

Currently, Lilblue makes use of the Portage package system that Gentoo uses by default, but plans are being made to incorporate a binpkg hosting system to make up to 7000 precompiled binary packages available.

## External links

* Freecode

## References

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