Hello; after the recent discussion about the floppy format, I agreed with the arguments, that a LEAF release has to been proofed with a floppy-only release.
So I invested some time to build a floppy with glibc 2.1.3 based on the latest Dachstein 1.0.2 floppy release. I changed a few things, e.g. updated to the latest e3, get rid of root.bb.links, use tinylogin and used the the latest glibc 2.1.3 (fixed buffer overflow). For testing purposes I had to remove dhclient.lrp and a few network modules - instead I added ppp, pppoe, seawall and the necessary modules. I also changed from weblet to the thin weblet release without lrpStat applet. It seems to work pretty well, with about 40k free on the floppy, I#m sending this mail booted from the floppy. I'm aware of the Bering work, and believe this will be the way to go for the future. But I consider Bering still and for a foreseeable time in an experimental stage, whereas Dachstein is stable for production environements. My proposal is, that we work on the experimental Bering release, as well as improving Dachstein, until Bering will replace it. If you, and esp. Charles, agree on that, I'm going to a build a new floppy of Dachstein with the above mentioned changes. Please note, that I'm only able to test a pppoe connection... If you think something new like Bering will be stable in the near future and we should concentrate our time and work to get it ready for prime time, I'll change direction and build just another CD update with the latest changes due to my personal needs and will start to work with Bering, or try to understand the work of Serge, or something else interesting within LEAF... kp _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
