Hello Neil, Greetings!
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, that might be a little bit tight for a GUI based on Lenny, even with > XFCE. However, I read below that you don't need a GUI so 512Mb is plenty > of space. I'm still not sure what you want the device to do though > because amd64 is a powerful architecture and I can't imagine that you'd > get it to run without a fan or have much of a battery life if the device > is meant to be portable, which makes it hard to see the appeal of solid > state storage. I am not planning to target the portable device for now. > So why the solid state storage? Because the system that I am planning to do is an Asterisk PBX which I think is better if it is in a solid state storage. > You'll have noticed that the one via the Emdebian repository is a later > version. emdebian-tools in Debian unstable is frozen pending the Lenny > release but development of emdebian-tools continues in the Emdebian > repository. Installing emdebian-tools from Debian (testing or unstable) > adds the Emdebian repository to your apt sources so that you can have a > cross-building toolchain installed and maintained. Alongside the > toolchain, the repository provides updated versions of emdebian-tools > and other support packages. So the normal / right way is to install > emdebian-tools from Debian as normal, then get the latest versions at > the next apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade cycle. > > This pattern will continue after Lenny because it allows us to always > have the latest version of emdebian-tools in the Emdebian repository > even whilst supporting delayed uploads to Debian to allow time for > migration into testing. There have been many instances where I've made a > new release of emdebian-tools within the 10 day period needed to allow > the previous release to migrate into testing. That rate is slowing down > now but it is still a useful option to keep the Emdebian developers as > close as possible to the current state of Emdebian SVN. Ok, copy. > OK - the Eee PC port is more a set of tweaks rather than a complete new > architecture. Once tweaked, Debian Lenny does run nicely on the Eee PC > and the similar Acer Aspire1. Ok. > In which case, standard Debian will fit nicely. What version? I prefer to use the stable version for production use and in this case, it will be Etch. > http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/flavours.html > > Hence there is no particular role for Grip in Lenny, only against > Squeeze. You are welcome to try it out but you can also simply > delete /usr/share/doc/ and /usr/share/man after installation. Emdebian > Grip will retain the copyright files (compressed) for legal reasons of > distribution but you should be careful removing stuff > from /usr/share/locale/ in order not to disable your translation > support. Ok. Thank you very much for the information you shared. I really appreciate it. Regards, GNUbie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
