diff --git a/extra/tools/deploy/linux/authors.txt b/extra/tools/deploy/linux/authors.txt
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+James Cash
diff --git a/extra/tools/deploy/linux/linux.factor b/extra/tools/deploy/linux/linux.factor
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+USING: io io.files io.backend kernel namespaces sequences
+system tools.deploy.backend tools.deploy.config assocs
+hashtables prettyprint ;
+IN: tools.deploy.linux
+
+: copy-vm ( executable bundle-name -- vm )
+  prepend-path "" append
+  vm over copy-file ;
+  
+: copy-fonts ( name -- )  
+  "fonts/" resource-path swap copy-tree-into ;
+  
+: create-app-dir ( vocab bundle-name -- vm )  
+  dup copy-fonts
+  copy-vm ;
+  
+: image-name ( vocab bundle-name -- str )  
+  prepend-path ".image" append ;
+  
+: bundle-name ( -- str )  
+  deploy-name get ;
+
+M: linux deploy* ( vocab -- )
+   "." resource-path [
+       dup deploy-config [
+           [ bundle-name create-app-dir ] keep
+           [ bundle-name image-name ] keep
+           namespace make-deploy-image
+           bundle-name normalize-path [ "Binary deployed to " % % "." % ] "" make write
+     ] bind
+   ] with-directory ;  
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diff --git a/extra/tools/deploy/linux/summary.txt b/extra/tools/deploy/linux/summary.txt
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+Deploying minimal stand-alone Linux binaries
diff --git a/extra/tools/deploy/linux/tags.txt b/extra/tools/deploy/linux/tags.txt
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+tools