I find this fascinating. Long years ago after some preliminary work by Will at NIST, I authored a knoppix-emc CD and worked with Paul while developing the Morphix (take the red pill) version that became the debian BDI. A couple of things come to mind.
One of the concerns for me, being at the far end of many miles of very old copper is that updating and maintaining a large install like the ordinary Ubuntu is a time and resource consuming thing. At best I get about 3k dribbling into the basement. Yes times change. Long years ago that was FAST. But then long years ago I used to ask for large core on the IBM and that was a plain ordinary 512. We are a mixed bag of users here. Our motion control industrial roots suggest that we buy/build machine tools with dedicated controls. Our PC backgrounds expose us to all kinds of new ideas. Hell point-and-click was new not that long ago. I remember seeing it for the first time on a PC running unix and a predecessor of X11. That was a couple years before MS 3. So times and technology changes the nature of things. I think our current raft of developers/leaders were wise to choose Ubuntu. I didn't think so at the time but old dogs can occasionally find new fire hydrants. Ubuntu has most everything to satisify folk that are in process of migrating from the PC crowd. It certainly fits with the release often line of thought and provides a nice web path to keeping current -- if keeping current is your thing. At the way other end of the user spectrum, a stand alone machine tool control, I've built a few near embedded systems that start up in an EMC window with the last program reloaded and stop when you turn the power off. Now to the heart of my initial thoughts regarding reconstructor. Cleaning out unnecessary stuff after an install can be really time consuming. Building a bootable CD can be really time consuming. A good CD building helper will reduce the size of the step required to get into the business of building these disk images. If it works it can allow us to offer several levels of install along the embedded -> full blown continuum. And at this point I need to thank all for their contributions. We have an awesome OS project. Rayh On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:51 -0700, Andrew Ayre wrote: > The idea of respins is that you can create multiple different versions > easily. So you could have a minimal version and a minimal with network > version for example. > > Plus as long as you have network support in the respin, it is always > possible to use the repositories to install more software - just like > the LiveCD Ubuntu provides. > > Andy > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 29 November 2007, noel.rodes wrote: > >> Now that's a good idea. I (not being a programmer) would really like to > >> see > >> a 'skinny' Ubuntu EMC2 distribution. Skinny being not much more than what > >> is needed for EMC2 work. No office stuff, no media stuff, only the really > >> necessary apps and libraries and such. > >> Small enough to install on a dedicated computer with an SSD drive(s). > >> Anyway, just my 2 cents. > >> > >> Roguish. > >> > > I'd have to disagree with that a wee bit. Networking and a limited > > assortment > > of network tools, say firefox and IRCII, and of course vim, which is not > > currently included and has to be installed after the fact. The ability to > > go > > online and grab from the wiki is essential, as is an IRC session keeping a > > log of #emc, or the ability to ask a Q and get knowledgeable answers in > > real > > time is priceless. Although I'll have to plead guilty to not making as > > much > > use of that IRC log as I should. > > > > The SSD brings up the question of what file system to use as ext2-3 can > > wear > > out a flash a bit early. > > > > [...] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
