HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix

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HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix (Experimenal Version) is released.
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/xen/index-en.html
6.5MB ISO file: xenoppix_http_all_testing-20060105.iso (http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/xen/xenoppix_http/xenoppix_http_all_testing-20060105.iso)
MD5: 229fb45c224ca134285bac47321212d8
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HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix (http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/xen/index-en.html) is a combination of 1CD Linux "KNOPPIX", Virtual Machine Monitor "Xen" (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/), and network block device "HTTP -FUSE CLOOP" (http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/index-en.html). HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix enables to boot Linux as Guest OS and Plan9 (http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/) and NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/) as Guest OS with a 6.5MB bootable CD.
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/http-fuse/xen/http-fuse-xenoppix-cd-q.GIF

HTTP-FUSE CLOOP is a network block decide which re-constructs a block device from many small block files of HTTP servers.
Driver of HTTP-FUSE CLOOP is made from "cloop(Compressed Loopback block device) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloop)" and "FUSE(Filesystem USErspace) (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/)". Following Figure shows the implementation of HTTP-FUSE CLOOP.