Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-07 Thread Rob Hillis
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 03:01, Charlie Brady wrote: If we take axonlinux as a project that has travelled this path already, they built a new distro iso. To be very brief they essentially took a disto (SGI XFS) and added all the e-smith rpms that the distro did not include by default.

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X]

2002-02-06 Thread Darrell May
Damien Curtain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And thats going well... At least they tried. No one else has done better. Im not sure how in touch people here are with kernel development, because I wouldnt be rushing to stick the latest and greatest 2.4 kernel on any machine other than crash and

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X]

2002-02-06 Thread Brandon Friedman
Damien Curtain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And thats going well... At least they tried. No one else has done better. What has happened to axonlinux? -- Regards Brandon Friedman Product Manager Tech-Knowledgy Advantage Ph: +27 (011) 486-0626 Fax: +27 (011) 486-0629 Cell: +27 (083) 408-7840

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X]

2002-02-06 Thread Les Mikesell
: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:44 AM To: Devinfo@E-Smith. Org Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X] Anecdotal Evidence (tm) says that the RedHat 2.4.9 (includes patches) is the most reliable. (ie less panics _and_ page faults) I think

RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re: [e-smith-devinfo]krud? + X]

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote: Damien Curtain [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And thats going well... At least they tried. No one else has done better. What has happened to axonlinux? Disappeared without a trace. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote: If we take axonlinux as a project that has travelled this path already, they built a new distro iso. To be very brief they essentially took a disto (SGI XFS) and added all the e-smith rpms that the distro did not include by default. After that

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Charlie Brady wrote: So you are suggesting a project fork. That's a lot of work, and fragments the community. So you should have very good justification for proposing is. Sorry - for proposing it. To put it another way, what's wrong with this scenario? I don't like

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread phm1a
Just to put in my $0.02 worth (heavily over-valued actually), I've been happy with the direction so far. opinion I have always seen this server as the Swiss Army Buzzsaw of Linux distributions, and really enjoy the ability to do the add, subtract, modify, delete routine for any and all

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Darrell May
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So you are suggesting a project fork. That's a lot of work, and fragments the community. So you should have very good justification for proposing is. Well it is only a project fork if Mitel does not join in and follow along with the community ;-

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Darrell May wrote: Comments have been mentioned that 2.4 kernel has limitations. So what. Isn't that what a development project is all about? I am not talking about a production release here. I'm talking a bleeding edge development release. We've been hoping to get

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Greg Zartman
sufficient hours to it. Why should Mitel's owners fund this development, if they don't see it as a pressing business need? This topic must be on Mitel's roadmap? Mitel can't possible hope to stick with the 2.2 kernel for the long term. Correct me if I'm wrong Darrell, but it appears that

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Greg Zartman wrote: sufficient hours to it. Why should Mitel's owners fund this development, if they don't see it as a pressing business need? This topic must be on Mitel's roadmap? Mitel can't possible hope to stick with the 2.2 kernel for the long term. Yes,

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread w9ya
Hey Gang; Time for me to speak up I guess. I think the idea of creating a list of wanted and needed features and capabilities of the next releases IS part of what a developers mailing list should be about. I also feel that Mitel and its representatives should support this affirmatively, even

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Karl Ponsonby
My only idea. ( dont have many) A distro that at install time, asks what bits you want. As example we have a ESSG box behind a firewall/gateway so don't need masq. Also same for appletalk protocol. Dial up same. Karl -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Brady
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Karl Ponsonby wrote: My only idea. ( dont have many) A distro that at install time, asks what bits you want. As example we have a ESSG box behind a firewall/gateway so don't need masq. This choice you get when you choose serveronly or servergateway (at initial boot