LEAF Bering-uClibc 1.0-stable is ready for download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751
LEAF Bering-uClibc is based on the well-known Bering distribution from Jacques Nilo and Erik Wolzak. It provides the same features and functionalities. The main difference to the original Bering release, is that all binaries have been compiled with uClibc instead of glibc 2.0.7. The incomparable good and detailed Bering documentation, like the installation guide and user's guide, applies to almost every part of this release. The few differences that exist are documented on our forthcoming web pages. Why uClibc? uClibc is a modern, stable, highly compatible replacement for Glibc. uClibc is developed for embedded systems and is therefore intended to be complete but lightweight. Trade-offs between speed and size were decided in the direction of size. Therefore uClibc libraries are significant smaller than the comparing glibc libraries. This results in 190kb free space on the current Bering-uClibc image, with the same features as in the original Bering distribution. The uClibc libraries are actively developed and maintained, including bugfixes, security-related fixes and new features as well. Glibc 2.0.7 on the other hand is outdated and receives nearly no maintenance. To find more information about uClibc, look at www.uClibc.org The Floppy Image The floppy image comes with the same packages as Bering. All packages have been recompiled with uClibc. There are a few differences besides the complete change of the libraries, mostly related to the fact that uClibc is targeted at minimal and embedded systems. There are also a few enhancements, like busybox 0.60.5, and some cleanups. None of the above changes leads to less features. Extra packages In addition to the packages on the floppy disk, we have recompiled and rebuilt the most used LRP's and provide them in our cvs packages tree. This is an on-going effort. Sourcecode In the cvs source you'll find all sourcecode, patches and Makefiles needed to get the sources compiled with uClibc, just in case you are interested to do it yourself. In the cvs source tree you'll also find an early version of buildtool, which will be enhanced step by step to build a floppy completly from source. Currently it compiles and builds initrd.lrp, root.lrp and a few, but not all Bering-packages. Thanks to all leaf developers, uClibc developers and - you name them. Special thanks to the Bering Crew for Bering itself and Mike Noyes for all his work for the LEAF community. Have fun :) Your current Bering-uClibc team Arne Bernin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Spakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luis Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] KP Kirchd�rfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
