Hi Natanael! > -----Original Message----- > From: Natanael Copa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Mike Noyes; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] 2.6.x kernel support? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Evolution is also (slowly) making things better by > developers filling > >up gaps (like webconf), provide missing packages, making "proof of > >concepts" for new technology or creating a new package format like > >Nathaneal did. But in the end it would be nice to bring it > all together > >instead of abbandon branches. > > > >
To start it's 'Bering' not 'Bearing' :))) > > Personally I think the bearing *concept* is very interesting. > Load runtime modules (lrp's) and run from RAM. After the > enlightening discussion about tmpfs I think it have become > even more interesting. > > Some people that I work with is interesting in pushing this > concept futher. What if we run squid from RAM (actually we > already do this)? what if we run a mailserver from RAM? what > if run LDAP, SQL etc etc, things you might want to do in > bigger environments. There is an RFC that strictly forbids the use of mail queues that run in a ramdisk, search the ML archives for the proper document. > Suddenly we are in the possition where we look for using this > run-from-RAM concept for solving other problems, targeting > other goals than LEAF/Bering is supposed to. No objections there, of course! > Now, I agree completely that forking and abbandon branches is > generally a bad thing, but sometimes the goals changes and > sometimes it changes fast. I dont expect that the > LEAF/Bearing team should change their goals just because the > needs in my environment changes. That was not my intention at all, i guess a lot of things I wrote were misinterpreted. > So instead of pushing my needs/goals to the current projects, > I start looking for other distros and projects. If there is > no-one suitable, I create something new or fork and while > doing so, I do everything that is in my power to make sure > that others have the possibility to benefit from my stuff. You can join LEAF with your GNAP based distro, as it is not that far apart from what we have now. And maybe we in a not So distant future can benefit from the things you have discovered and fixed in the meantime. > > -- > Natanael Copa Luis Correia Bering uClibc Team Member PGP Fingerprint: BC44 D7DA 5A17 F92A CA21 9ABE DFF0 3540 2322 21F6 Key Server: http://pgp.mit.edu ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
