I downloaded a RAM version of Linux, SPBLinux, written in St. Petersburg by, I believe a German speaking Swiss who worked there for a time. The site no longer works, so I won't pass it on. The developer, Christian Ostheimer had the web site www.8ung.at which is defunct. Google turned up his name in a driver conference in April 2002, so I sent him an E-mail asking if he had SPBLinux available anywhere.
SPBLinux was intended for diagnosing problems in Linux systems that wouldn't boot. Very much like the Win98SE emergency boot disk it booted to a minimal system, set up a RAM Disk in memory, and decompressed a selection of tools there. It could also be configured to run a network server without a hard drive, such as, perhaps, a firewall. Choppy At 03:05 PM 11/9/02 -0600, you wrote: >Anybody know of a *NIX distro that runs from a RAM drive? What would the >performance gain be? > >I just read about a RAM drive card on /. that can do 2GB, but the cost is >nutz. So I was thinking that since RAM is fairly cheap now and mobos are >supporting >larger amounts of RAM it would be cool to have a distro where the entire >filesystem in a big RAM drive. Permanent storage could be achieved by >writing the
