What is Levinux?
Levinux is a minimal Linux distribution that is designed for cloud computing research and development. It provides a basic, customizable Linux environment that can be used as a platform for experimenting with new cloud computing architectures and technologies.
Some key features of Levinux include:
- Lightweight - Levinux has a very small footprint and overhead, making it ideal for deploying large numbers of virtual machine instances for cloud testing.
- Customizable - It includes basic Linux utilities and packages, but allows extensive customization to add or remove components as needed for your cloud project.
- Open source - Levinux is an open source project, allowing you full access to view and modify the source code as you see fit.
- Compatible with popular hypervisors - Designed to work seamlessly with Xen, KVM and VirtualBox hypervisors.
- Minimal non-essential services - Levinux strips away many non-critical background services to reduce overhead and complexity.
The minimalist nature and customization options make Levinux useful for cloud developers who want to prototype ideas quickly without getting bogged down in OS configuration details. It can serve as a blank canvas on which you construct your ideal cloud computing architecture.