Hi Prakhar, congratulations also from my side. LFS is certainly always a thrilling experience. Concerning NGS I have just helped a PhD student we are sharing with our neighbouring institute to get QIIME packaged. He is a self-trained Ubuntu affectionado from India, actually :) The sources for the packaging are already on our subversion repository, but I am not steaming ahead and rather have this a training session with him, so it will take a bit longer to appear in the distribution...within your 3 months, though.
For your low-level bits I do not feel competent to help you much with. There have been some efforts to introduce parallelism during boot time that have swamped over from Ubuntu. I care more for the biological bits :) You never described what packages you are exactly working with or that you are preparing to package. This would most certainly be of interest for us all. My hunch is that you can compile the Debian packages all also for your distribution. I would not see why not, if only the basic tools like dpkg are available for LFS. This would actually be pretty cool, indeed. You would have you low-level-understood environment and can share the application side with the world. The community is out here to constructively comment on whatever you say or plain ask. Many thanks to Pjotr for the ping, all the best to you all Steffen On 06/28/2010 08:19 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Prakhar, > > Glad to hear you are still going ahead. Maybe it is a good idea to > start with LFS, since you appear to be acquainted with it. The Debian > route is smarter, long term, but we have covered that point. > > Are there packages in your distro that are not yet in Debian-Med? If > so, you could make the build scripts available so we can have a look, > assuming there is anything of interest. > > Pj. > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:24:29PM +0530, PRAKHAR gaur wrote: > >> Dear Sir, >> >> The effort is going on in full swing. I am about to complete the first phase >> of my LFS based distro. >> We did modify our plans a bit, now instead of a one size fits all approach, >> we are going for specific distro for specific problems. >> I am currently working on a distro based on LFS, which is specifically for >> Molecular Modeling and Simulations, its about to complete, we plan to >> publish soon. >> Next in line will be distro for Next Generation Sequencing(NGS), as we will >> have a lab opening within 3 months for NGS. So there will be a real platform >> to test it too. >> The Debian thing is going a bit slow though, basically due to my lack of >> knowledge. But currently attending classes on Advance Operating Systems at >> IIIT-Bangalore, to make up for that. >> I had planned to contact you as soon as this Molecular Modeling distro >> would be complete. >> Well thats the summary for the present work as of now. >> Would like to have your comments. >> >> Thanking you, >> Prakhar Gaur >> >> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ >> >>> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:18:20 +0200 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> CC: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Regarding a New Project idea for Debian Med >>> >>> Hi Prakhar, >>> >>> How is your effort going? Or did you give up? >>> >>> Pj. >>> >>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:56:52PM +0530, prakhar gaur wrote: >>> >>>> We want to have a Linux distribution based on Debian, dedicated >>>> for Bioinformatics research which would be useful for researchers >>>> and students. In India, high end hardware systems are at a >>>> premium, hence we want the distribution, to have low memory >>>> footprint. A variety of methods will be used to optimize the >>>> performance of the bioinformatics programs. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] >>> >>> >> >> > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
