Emdebian Grip
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{{Infobox OS
| name = Emdebian Grip
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| developer = Embedded Debian Project
| working state = Unsupported/Discontinued
| source model = Open source
| released = {{Start date and age|2009|02|14}}{{Cite web
| url = http://www.emdebian.org/News/2009/20090214.html
| title = Emdebian Grip 1.0 (lenny) released
| date = February 14, 2009
| accessdate = February 4, 2014
| website = emdebian.org
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140222020841/http://www.emdebian.org/News/2009/20090214.html
| archive-date = February 22, 2014
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| latest release version = 3.1{{Cite web
| url = http://www.emdebian.org/News/2013/20130615.html
| title = Emdebian Wheezy-Grip updated to 3.1
| date = June 15, 2013
| accessdate = February 4, 2014
| website = emdebian.org
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140222015954/http://www.emdebian.org/News/2013/20130615.html
| archive-date = February 22, 2014
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| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2013|06|15}}
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| updatemodel = APT
| package manager = dpkg
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| kernel type = Monolithic (Linux kernel)
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| license = GPL and other licenses
| website = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825223722/http://www.emdebian.org/ |date=25 August 2019 }}
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Emdebian Grip is a discontinued small-footprint Linux distribution based on and compatible with Debian. Compared to Debian, it provides more fine-grained control over the package selection, size, dependencies and content, enabling that way creation of small and efficient Debian packages for use on resource-limited embedded systems. As a result, reduced installation size is one of the main benefits coming from the Emdebian Grip.{{cite web
| url = http://www.emdebian.org/grip/
| title = Emdebian Grip packages: A smaller Debian-compatible distro
| accessdate = January 20, 2014
| website = emdebian.org
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131130072443/http://www.emdebian.org/grip/
| archive-date = November 30, 2013
| url-status = dead
| url = https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0MDI
| title = Emdebian Grip: The Smaller, Embedded Debian
| date = July 14, 2012 | accessdate = February 5, 2014
| author = Michael Larabel | publisher = Phoronix
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{{As of|2014|07|13|df=US}}, the Emdebian Grip project is terminated with no available updates or planned new releases, leaving the version 3.1, which is based on Debian 7.1 ("wheezy"), as the no longer supported latest stable release.{{Cite web
| url = http://emdebian.org/News/2014/20140713.html
| title = Emdebian Grip halted
| date = July 13, 2014 | accessdate = August 5, 2014
| website = emdebian.org
| url = https://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2014/07/msg00003.html
| title = End of updates for Emdebian Grip
| date = July 13, 2014 | accessdate = August 5, 2014
| author = Neil Williams | website = lists.debian.org
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Overview
Emdebian Grip re-packs {{Mono|.deb}} package files made available by Debian, removing unneeded files such as man pages, info documents, documentation, and unwanted translation files. As such, Emdebian Grip is a Debian distribution builder; the {{Mono|emgrip}} command (from the {{Mono|emdebian-grip}} package) processes a {{Mono|.deb}} package compiled for any of the architectures supported by Debian and generates an equivalent Emdebian Grip package. That way, the binaries, maintainer scripts and dependencies of the original Debian packages are left untouched, but the overall size and the installation footprint of the packages are reduced.{{Cite web
| url = https://lwn.net/Articles/327898/
| title = Emdebian Grip 1.0: The universal embedded operating system
| date = April 8, 2009 | accessdate = January 20, 2014
| author = Koen Vervloesem | publisher = LWN.net
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Packages created by Emdebian Grip are not recompiled, so they are completely binary compatible with Debian. As a result, Emdebian Grip maintains as much compatibility as possible with Debian; it is even possible to mix Emdebian and Debian packages, or even to migrate an existing Debian system to Emdebian Grip.
Releases
Emdebian Grip provides complete package repositories for seven architectures: i386, amd64, powerpc, armhf, armel, mips and mipsel.{{Efn|These are the computer architecture names internally used by Debian.}} Included is support for standard Debian tools like {{Mono|debootstrap}}, {{Mono|multistrap}} and {{Mono|debian-installer}}, and there are no functional changes in Emdebian Grip when compared to base Debian releases.
Since version 3.0, all Emdebian Grip suites and codenames include additional "-grip" suffix, compared to their equivalent Debian suites and codenames.
On July 13, 2014, an end-of-life notice posted on the project's web site{{Efn|"As of July 2014, updates to the Emdebian distributions ceased. There will be no further updates and no further stable releases."{{Cite web
| url = http://www.emdebian.org/
| title = Emdebian – The Universal Embedded Operating System
| accessdate = October 13, 2014
| website = emdebian.org
}}}} announced that updates to Emdebian Grip are stopped, leaving the version 3.1, which is based on Debian 7.1 ("wheezy"), as the no longer supported latest stable release. The main reasons stated as the cause for ending the project were a lack of embedded devices that do not provide support for expandable storage, and too much work involved with preparing the updates and releasing new versions.
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See also
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- BitBake{{snd}} a make-like build tool focusing on cross-compilation for embedded Linux
- Comparison of Linux distributions{{snd}} compared by the features, support for different architectures, package management, etc.
- ebuild{{snd}} a specialized bash script for automating compilation and installation of software packages
- List of Linux distributions{{snd}} categorized by the major base distribution or used package management system
- OpenEmbedded{{snd}} a software framework for creating embedded Linux distributions
Notes
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References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.emdebian.org/}}
- [http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/tdebs.html Emdebian support for translation packages (tdebs)], November 19, 2014
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