DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) Live Xfce is an open source distribution of Linux that provides users with a free solution for deploying Linux OSes across multiple hardware platforms. It uses the Clonezilla software for cloning disk drives.
Distributed as 32-bit and 64-bit Live CDs for PAE and non-PAE systems
It is distributed as three Live CD ISO-hybrid images, one for the 32-bit (i486) architecture, one for the 32-bit (i686 PAE) hardware platform, and another one for the 64-bit (amd64) instruction set architecture.
Boot options
You can use the boot medium to start a locally installed operating system (if available), run a memory test using Memtest86+, boot over the network using iPXE, run the FreeDOS DOS-compatible operating system, and start the live environment with default settings.
In addition, you can also start the live session with safe graphics settings, in failsafe mode, with default settings using KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), as well as to copy it entirely in RAM (requires at least 512MB).
When booting the live environment, you can choose a default language for the system, a keyboard layout, and a preferred mode (0 for starting the graphical session, 1 for configuring the video card manually, and 2 for configuring the graphics card from the command-line.
Features the Xfce desktop environment and includes standard apps
The live session is powered by the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, which comprises a top panel for switching between virtual desktops, accessing the main menu, and interact with running apps and the system tray area, as well as dock (application launcher) located on the bottom edge of the screen.
Default applications include the Iceweasel web browser, Wicd network manager, Xfburn CD/DVD burning software, GParted disk partitioning utility, Midnight Commander two-panel file manager, Thunar file manager, Leafpad text editor, Xarchiver archive manager, as well as ISO Master and Bulk Rename utilities.
Bottom line
Overall, this tiny Linux-based operating system provides users with a systemless and diskless computing environment that uses distributed hardware resources for installing Linux on multiple machine simultaneously.
What is new in this release:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/May/27).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.9.2-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.10.14-drbl1. qemu-kvm and qemu-utils packages were added.
- A "ocs-img-2-vdk" testing program was added.
- It can be used to convert a Clonezilla image to a virtual disk file.
- A "drbl-live-hadoop" testing program was added so that it can be used to deploy a Hadoop environment.
What is new in version 2.4.3-20:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/May/27).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.9.2-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.10.14-drbl1. qemu-kvm and qemu-utils packages were added.
- A "ocs-img-2-vdk" testing program was added.
- It can be used to convert a Clonezilla image to a virtual disk file.
- A "drbl-live-hadoop" testing program was added so that it can be used to deploy a Hadoop environment.
What is new in version 2.4.3-18:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/May/27).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.9.2-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.10.14-drbl1. qemu-kvm and qemu-utils packages were added.
- A "ocs-img-2-vdk" testing program was added.
- It can be used to convert a Clonezilla image to a virtual disk file.
- A "drbl-live-hadoop" testing program was added so that it can be used to deploy a Hadoop environment.
What is new in version 2.3.2-3:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/May/27).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.9.2-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.10.14-drbl1. qemu-kvm and qemu-utils packages were added.
- A "ocs-img-2-vdk" testing program was added.
- It can be used to convert a Clonezilla image to a virtual disk file.
- A "drbl-live-hadoop" testing program was added so that it can be used to deploy a Hadoop environment.
What is new in version 2.2.2-12:
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Mar/16).
- The Linux kernel was updated to 3.13.5-1.
- Syslinux was updated to 6.03-pre9. drbl was updated to 2.7.35-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.9.42-drbl1.
- A graphic mode "KMS" was added in the boot menu.
What is new in version 2.2.2-3:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded.
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2014/Feb/11).
- The Linux kernel was updated to 3.12.9-1.
- The package drbl was updated to 2.7.24-drbl1, and Clonezilla was updated to 3.9.22-drbl1.
- parted is used instead of fdisk in makeboot.sh to show the destination disk partition layout.
What is new in version 2.2.0-22:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded.
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Nov/12).
- The Linux kernel was updated to 3.11.6-2.
- The drbl package was updated to 2.6.9-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.8.8-drbl1.
- A slash was added to the sshfs command to avoid a remote issue.
- This release was built with live-build 3, so the live-boot was updated to 3.0.1-1.drbl3, and live-config was updated to 3.0.23-1.drbl2.
What is new in version 2.2.0-22:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded.
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Nov/12).
- The Linux kernel was updated to 3.11.6-2.
- drbl was updated to 2.6.9-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.8.8-drbl1.
What is new in version 2.2.0-16:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded.
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Oct/16).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.5.13-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.7.15-drbl1. Samba was updated to 4.0.10.
- A slash was added to the sshfs command to avoid a remote issue.
- An issue where some services were not disabled successfully when the live system was created was fixed.
What is new in version 2.2.0-8:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Oct/08).
- The package drbl was updated to 2.5.9-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.7.6-drbl1.
- In some cases, the network card modules were not loaded in initramfs, so the DRBL clients failed to boot via PXE; this has been fixed.
What is new in version 2.2.0-3:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Oct/03).
- The drbl package was updated to 2.5.4-drbl1, and clonezilla was updated to 3.7.3-drbl1.
- This release was built with live-build 3, so the live-boot was updated to 3.0.1-1.drbl3, and live-config was updated to 3.0.23-1.drbl2.
- Due to this change, the live media mounting point after system booting is now /lib/live/mount/medium instead of the previous /live/image.
What is new in version 2.1.2-26:
- The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded.
- This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2013/Sep/26).
- The Linux kernel was updated to 3.10.11-1, drbl to 2.5.3-drbl1, and clonezilla to 3.6.20-drbl1.
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