Hello Erich, Andrea,
There are more important things to be done in the Bering branch, a
lot of packages contain old versions of programs with known security
flaws. The Bering-uClibc team did a lot of work to update and tweak
almost every source and improve the internals of all the packages and
the base system.
Note that with a newer kernel quiet a few (kernel related) Bering
packages will get broken, like f.e. iptables, tc, .... Also with
adding a big glibc you will hit other problems like initrd space and
system RAM (LEAF is enterily run in RAM) so a big flashdisk is not
the only requirement. And maybe not all the current Bering packages
are compatible with a newer glibc without recompiling?
I personal don't see anything against uClibc, but probably I'm biased
:-)
About webconf. Why not help Nathan to improve his webconf system?
Nathan did a great job to create an extendable framework for a
webconfiguration system in line with the modular nature of LEAF
packages. This means that you can extend webconf anyway you like.
With the base webconf system you can edit the packages like with
lrcfg but by using package specific "lwp" packages you can make a
nice interface to a package configuration and still have the choice
to do it the "old fashioned way" by using the CLI (lrcfg).
So the only thing webconf "lacks" now is some lwp packages to provide
a "nice" interface to the lrp packages (there are already some
created by Nathan)
For a few years I hear talking about a nice GUI or a new config
system on this list, Nathan actually builded a nice extendible and
advanced system which I believe can be better than f.e. m0n0wall and
solves the "config issue". So why not put our effort in helping
Nathan? What's wrong with his system?
my 0.02
Eric Spakman
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IMHO Bering needs (among others)
- a more recent kernel
- a more recent glibc
- a recent busybox
- a recent IPSEC implementation, I suggest to go the StrongSwan way
(development is done nearby :-) )
(FWIW I intend to go the StrongSwan way)
- and most important to cope with other security oriented embedded
distros (ipcop et al.) a powerful GUI.
Nathan did a great job with webconf, I believe we need something of a
GUI like m0n0wall has. This may force us to review the config issue.
my 0.02
Erich
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