CRUX

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CRUX is a lightweight x86-64 Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users and delivered by a tar.gz-based package system with BSD-style initscripts. It is not based on any other Linux distribution. It also utilizes a ports system to install and upgrade applications. CRUX emerged during a period in which a large number of Linux distributions were available, but many differed considerably in their approaches to installation, package management, system configuration, and software selection. Lidén designed CRUX around a deliberately minimal philosophy. The project's documentation describes its primary objective as "keep it simple", with this philosophy applying to the distribution's package system, initialization system, and selection of software. The original system used a simple tarball-based package format and BSD-style initialization scripts, while maintaining a relatively small collection of packages. Although crux is the Latin word for "cross," the name "CRUX" was chosen by...

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