Welcome to the Jackass! Project

The Jackass Penguin Spheniscus demersus is a flightless seabird indigenous to the coast of southern Africa. It has been named after a donkey because of the loud, braying noise it makes. Like many other Linux projects that are named after a species of penguin, The Jackass! Project has been named in honor of the Jackass Penguin.

The Jackass! Project is an Open Source Software Project. We are dedicated to the advancement of a free, bleeding-edge, source-code based open standards operating system.

Jackass! is founded upon Bob P's Stage 1 + NPTL on a Stage 3 Tarball method of building a highly optimized toolkit for the Intel Pentium x86 platform. This installation method is commonly referred to as a Stage 1/3^TM Install. Optimization is based on the logical use of selected CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for the x86 archtiecture, integrated support for the Native Posix Threading Library, and the generation of processor-specific code for each of the members of the Intel Pentium family of processors.

The 2007.0 toolkit features the GCC 4.1.1 compiler and Glibc 2.4. Threading is exclusively NPTL-based.

The 2006.1 and 2006.2 toolkits feature the GCC 4.1.0 compiler and Glibc 2.4. Threading is exclusively NPTL-based.

The 2006.0 toolkits feature the GCC 3.4.5 compiler and Glibc 2.3.6. Threading is exclusively NPTL-based.

As a result of these enhancements, The Jackass! Toolkits significantly outperform many other versions of Linux that run on the x86 platform.

Jackass! supports the following x86 sub-architectures. Each distribution file contains a Stage 3 tarball that is the equivalent of a pre-compiled Stage 1 installation for its associated sub-architecture.

Intel x86: Pentium Pro Pentium 2 Pentium 3 Pentium 4 Pentium-M AMD x86: Athlon-XP