iMedia Embedded Linux

• Installs anywhere: USB stick, USB harddrive, USB ZIP, Compact Flash, SATA, SCSI, etc
• VIA C3, Via C7, Geode, i586 or Pentium targets
• 2.6.20 kernel with performance patches(with preempt, low latency and other patches)
• Graphical boot
• Tiny CF distribution with journaling filesystem and embedded logging
• Eyecandy desktop based on XOrg 7.2 Xwindows with AIGLX and GTK2
• Menu driven installation
• Menu driven user and password administration
• Menu driven network installation
• Software updates via FTP.
• Size from 6Mb to 500Mb

iMedia Kernel Features

iMedia Kernel Features In the current state iMedia linux distribution works only on x86 compatible processors. We provide 2 x86 processor optimised builds :

• i586 with NSC Geode and older VIA C3 Eden support.
• i686 Pentium III/Celeron/Pentium III Xeon, VIA Nehemiah and newer VIA CPUs

To ensure better performance,stability, uptodate driver fixes and better behaviour in noswap enviroments we selected a few patches for the kernel:

• Preemptible kernel patches by Kon Colivas
• VIA and AMD/Geode hardware updates
• Unionfs2, SquashFS, and others

We also added some of our small modifications:

• silent graphical booting (a splash screen is shown on boot).
• EXT3 with custom journaling and tuned for Compact Flash use.
• various exports of symbols.
• modification of default running parameters

For 4.0 and higher iMedia releases our modified kernel can be downloaded from ftp://imedialinux.com/sources/

For older 2.4 kernel iMedia releases our modified reiserfs filesystem can be mounted on a stock 2.4 kernel above 2.4.22 version without any modifications.
Kernel sources can be downloaded from : ftp://update:4update@updates.mini-box.com/sources/kernel/