Welcome to Salvare

Introduction

Salvare (from the Latin "to rescue") is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.

Features

Salvare can be booted via:

Bootable CD-ROM (BIOS permitting)
Simple boot floppy [NB: in progress]
Network boot using a Salvare boot floppy [NB: in progress]
Network boot using PXE and another machine running Salvare [NB: planned]

It features:

Everything in tomsrtbt, plus...
OpenSSH (clients & server)
Links 2 text & graphical web browser supporting JavaScript, HTTPS and mouse control
Security tools such as: chkrootkit, nmap and tcpdump
apt-get: install additional software from Debian into tmpfs
bash (rather than ash or other lightweight shells in similar projects)
ncftp
(Almost) complete distribution of Perl
Sound support for playing of SoundTracker modules, MP3s etc is possible
Ability to run entirely from RAM, unlike other "live CDs"
...and more to come.

Getting started

Simply download the latest ISO and burn it to CD:

cdrecord salvare.iso

Then pop the CD in your drive and reboot.

Note that if your BIOS doesn't support booting from CD then you may find the work in progress on booting Salvare over a network interesting, or a floppy-based Linux system, such as tomsrtbt useful.

News

[News archive]

Salvare v0.1.5 (aka 0.5.0-pre1 aka "the delayed one") aflegg - 2004-10-31 09:49

Debian installer aflegg - 2003-12-02 07:03

v0.1.3 released aflegg - 2003-09-22 08:12

Salvare v0.1.1 released aflegg - 2003-07-18 02:43

Salvare v0.1.0 and roadmap aflegg - 2003-07-02 04:39

apt-get! aflegg - 2003-05-16 08:47

Things to do before 0.0.1 aflegg - 2003-05-06 03:24

Mailing lists

There are currently two mailing lists: salvare-devel and salvare-cvs. More details on these can be found on the developers page.