Hello,

I'm Etienne Charlier, I live in belgium. I'm sofware analyst/developper
since 15years
I've been doing Operating system development ( Assembler 370), C/C++ Windows
DNA applications, now, i'm working in a 10 people team developping software
for customers ( in .NET)
Please forgive my english a little bit ( Frenchie) ;-) .. good you can just
read me, not hear me ;-)


I follow this list since its beginining ( and before on the original lrp
mailing list) and I'm really impressed by the level of expertise of all the
developpers..


I have +/- 12 bering  installed ( some of them running from floppies), most
of them running from CD
6 are connected by pair through openvpn tunnels ( only vpn software that I
managed to configure when both
ends on the tunnel  are on volatiles IP addresses ( ADSL PPPOE))
squid, ..tinydns,...

I started customizing bering uclibc 2.0
- I managed to make a package with linux-igd ( upnp support) CVS version (
for now staticaly linked)
  thanks to the http://www.fastflow.it/floppinux/bering/index.html page but
by rebuilding the package myself
- I'm trying to master the bering-uclibc build environment and trying to
make a package with openvpn
 ( a little bit hard for a .NET /DNA developper/architect ;-) )
- I would also like to make run the dsl_qos_queue  program (
http://www.sonicspike.net/software/ )



- A few years ago ( my posts are on the list archive ) I started developping
an
alternate configuration system based on a unique configuration file stored
on the boot floppy ( outside of the .LRP) used to process configuration file
templates
( a call was made to a setup.sh or something like that at the end of the
linuxrc script). That script generated the actual configuration files that
overwrote the one from the packages.

- I'm really interested by contributing to the web interface/cdb
configuration system mainly for the soho release..
 something like the web interface of the router/accesspoint/adsl modem
appliances available in the stores ( usrobotics, linksys)
- I'll have some spare time ( but disconnected from the Internet) during the
End of year hollidays and I would be really interested by learning more
deeply the cdb stuff written by Eric & Chad


Now a survey ???

What would be the advantage and  drawbacks of  merging the Bering &
Bering-uclibc  distributions ?
What would be the advantage and  drawbacks of  keeping the Bering &
Bering-uclibc  distributions separate ?
IMHO, I think that we don't need 2 separate variantes of bering.
What do the others "gurus" think about that ???

Etienne Charlier
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erich Titl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eric Wolzak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] Bering Crew looks for expansion


Eric

At 23:31 17.12.2003 +0100, Eric Wolzak wrote:
>Hello everybody,
>As you might know , Jacques has stopped, and gave the "rudder" to me.
>
>My plans with Bering are.
>1. update kernel to 2.4.23.
>2. update packages
>3  revise the documentation and make some improvements.
>4  create a basic webinterface.
>5 cleanup linuxrc.
>6 create a "bering light" for the soho environment  with few options.
>7 Translate the Bering Documentation
>
>This all under the following conditions
>A I want to keep rather close to the bering-uclibc group.
>B A floppy distro should still be possible.
>
>But I  know I will need help with those plans :)
>Are there any volunteers for come aboard .

Looks like a major issue, I am interested to see this move on. I am about
to deploy a few boxes with specialised hardware based on Bering which
needed kernel tweaks anyway. Those have been adapted by Eric Spakman for
Bering uClibc. I was discussing the differences between the two
distributions with members of the Bering uClibc team. I believe the kernel
work could be a joint effort.

I will try to move my modified kernel to 2.4.23 anyway, based on Jacques'
2.4.20 config and on the kernel building description by the uClibc team. So
count me in for this.

I don't know to what level Jacques has standardised the package building
process. I believe the work done in the uClibc crew is remarkable, it might
well be worth the effort to use it for glibc based Bering too.

I believe closing ranks with the guys from the uClibc group is worth it,
most of your points up there may apply to both distributions.

Well what the heck, count me in with the limited time I have...

Erich

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