Minimalist Linux distro Peropesis 2.7 comes with archive and ISO management tools

With a name derived from "personal operating system," Peropesis is a minimalist Linux operating system that has no graphical interface, relying only on the command line to interact with the user. Considered by its creators a project still in its early stages of development, specifically in open beta, Peropesis has reached version 2.7 earlier today. 

The new release works with 64-bit x86 processors and both BIOS and UEFI motherboards. It has about 282 MB in size and includes multiple software components, such as findutils, gc, grep, gzip, joe, mc, perl, openssl, rsync, tar, vim, and many others. The new programs that come with version 2.7 are the cpio archiver, Squashfs-tools, as well as xorriso. The latter is a tool that can be used to create, mount, and write ISO 9660 images with Rock Ridge extensions.

Peropesis comes as a live edition distro, designed to run from the system memory instead of a hard drive. The user manual webpage is a good place to get started even before firing up from a USB drive. Obviously, those who want to take things very seriously can also go for Daniel J. Barrett's best seller, Efficient Linux at the Command Line: Boost Your Command-Line Skills, which is currently available for Kindle at $34.99 and in paperback form, starting at $21.83.