In 1999, FlyingLinux began at KTH in Stockholm, building wireless environments for mobile computing. Today, we translate that same pioneering spirit of open collaboration into practical, robust guidance for modern Linux infrastructure.
flyinglinux@kth:~$ cat /etc/flyinglinux-release
FlyingLinux .NET (The Wireless Distribution)
Version: 1.0 (Bambi-6.1 Base)
Features: MobileIPv4, WaveLAN 802.11, Kerberos V, AODV
flyinglinux@kth:~$ ping -c 3 mobileip.kth.se
64 bytes from kth.se: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=4.12 ms
64 bytes from kth.se: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=3.89 ms
--- mobileip.kth.se ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss
flyinglinux@kth:~$ █
FlyingLinux started in October 1999 within the Telecommunication Systems Lab at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). What began as a 12-week study using MobileIPv4 and WaveLAN PCMCIA wireless access cards for a hundred students evolved into a custom, mobility-oriented Linux distribution. Built on Bambi-6.1, it pioneered secure wireless environments with built-in Kerberos and OpenSSH.
Decades later, the landscape has changed, but our core mission remains: championing secure, open, and performant systems.
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