stali For Linux

Stali (also known as sta.li or static Linux) is an open source project that aims to create and deliver a different kind of Linux distribution. It is created from scratch and contains some of the best command-line tools. All the tools inside Stali are statically linked.

The distribution is available for download as a root filesystem using the EXT2 format, as a bz2 archive. The user must download and extract the archive in order to access the rootfs of Stali Linux and deploy onto an empty disk drive.

The rootfs.i686.ext2 file has been designed for the 32-bit (i686) architecture and it’s a buildroot uclibc toolchain that contains a C/C++ compiler. In order to use it, you will have to first mount it using the “sudo mount -o loop ./rootfs.i686.ext2 /mnt”, “sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev”, “sudo mount -t proc /proc /mnt/proc” and “sudo mount -t sysfs /sys /mnt/sys” commands, and then use the “sudo chroot /mnt /bin/sh” command to chroot into it.

The operating system’s design is primarily targeted at creating a binary OS where all the executables are statically linked. It uses a binary format that is different than ELF (Executable and Linkable Format), which supports only dynamic linking of executables.

The distro uses a monolithic kernel that does not support modules. The bootloader used in this static Linux operating system is LILO and features no initrd. Because of the fact that it uses only statically linked binaries, the system starts faster than any other Linux distribution.

Unfortunately, stali is still in a design phase, which means that it cannot be used on production environments. Contributions are always welcome!