Regarding the matter of the pre built distro, I spoke our guys regarding
where we were at, and I was told that the project was still sitting on the
back burner, and the big reason for this was the guys found them selves
repeatedly reinventing the wheel.
I asked what they thought would or could rectify this and they unanimously
agreed that the lack of a search engine on freevsd's web site made it very
cumbersome and irritating to search through the mail archives.
I think that this may be the big reason why most of us just post the
questions to the list, how long will you give to searching the list for
something ? at least with a search engine, we could bring up all relevant
matches and not have to look through everything.
Someone had mentioned using an LFS, we no longer use LFS, we are
contributors to the Flux Operating System ToolKit wich is produced by the
Dept. of Computer Science at the U of Utah. Those of you who are into LFS
should try this instead.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit
before jumping into this, just remember there is no technical support :)
We were going to use Debian as the base system for our FreeVSD project as
we are able avoid bloat, and we could use the apt system instead of cvs to
allow users to just simply run apt-get update and so on...
I spoke with the partners about this, and as we have never produced a GPL
project we would consider doing this under the GPL and some how separate
from FreeVSD, in some type of partnership agreement, possibly a GPL project
with a world wide hierarchy of developers, all of this would have to be
arranged in some degree with Idaya, and our selves, and of course a group
of you would need commit to also donate time to create and fix etc.
Please feel free to contact me via my personal email, at this point, we are
looking for interest from the FreeVSD users to support a debian based
installation or even non-architecture specific version.
Should we feel that the support group would be there, we will approach
Idaya with our intentions.
Regards,
Kevin Druet
