CRUX-ARM is a Linux distro for ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi that follows the KISS philosophy. If you're looking for a minimalistic system you might want to have a look at the construction kit.

I'm using CRUX-ARM on one of my Raspberry Pi's. The installation fits on a 1 GB memory card. On the project's wiki there …

When updating the GRUB2 package on a clean install of CRUX Linux I recently stumbled upon the following error:

1# prt-get update grub2
2...
3Pkgfile: line 28: ./grub-mkfont: No such file or directory"

The solution for this issue was simple - the freetype package was missing. This package is needed for generating …

. Meanwhile there are plenty of operating systems available for the Raspberry Pi - including an ARM version of the source-based Linux distro CRUX.

So if you like handcrafting or think Raspbian is "too mainstream", you can have a lot of fun with a SD card with at least 1 GB of memory and a pot of coffee. 😉 …