From Bubble

Contents 1 About Bubble 2 Table of contents 3 Milestones 4 To Do

About Bubble

Bubble is a kind of mini Linux distribution designed to run a wireless RéseauCitoyen node.

Unlike Pebble which offers a full Debian environment, Bubble is rather small and designed to run on limited hardware -- typically without hard disk and in less than 16MB.

Also Bubble is designed to run as a diskless node. Once booted it does not need any disk.

Table of contents

• DiskLess: the version 1 of Bubble!
• Bubble overview / RC:DistributionBubble: a general overview (motivation, big picture)
• Install guide: How to install a Bubble node
• Bubble development: information about development environment (requirements, directory structure, utility scripts, ...)
• Bubble runtime architecture: description of the Bubble runtime architecture
• Routing and firewall: information about the routing and firewalling on the node

Milestones

Sep-05:
After a long quiet period, the development has restarted!

• Updated BuilRoot (some small changes again in the architecture)
• Setup Q-Emu for testing releases
• New OLSR package
• Floppy and Etherboot images have been successfully tested
• Utility scripts made to generate images based on meta-description

Dec-04:

• New version of Bubble in the make!
• v1.99 archived in the CVS
• New buildroot imported
• Wiki pages under revision

26-Oct-03:

• Dropbear is available -- it is now possible to have a ssh server on a single floppy distribution!

05-Oct-03:

• PCMCIA is now available
• Node Bulles is now running Bubble v1.99-cvs (migrated from DiskLess)

28-Sep-03:

• Bubble has now all the features of DiskLess (except PCMCIA). Obviously some testing needs to be done.

21-Sep-03:

• The package framework is now fully implemented (See BubblePackage)
• The first packages are released (Belgian keyboard ;) and Wireless Tools)

14-Sep-03:

• Not too much visible progress, but we can load and parse the ConfigFile from the boot device

07-Sep-03:

• We have a running core system!

31-Aug-03:

• CVS module created
• Imported the uClibc buildroot CVS into the new Bubble CVS

cvs import -ko -m "Buildroot 030831" ReseauCitoyen/Bubble/buildroot buildroot buildroot_030831

To Do

• Additional packages
  • iptables
  • ...
• Handling multiple interfaces
• User documentation to build images
• USer Interface to generate images
• User Interface to configure node
• Performance improvement in parsing configuration file
  The shell based version is rather slow on old systems
• ...