Hello All, I refrained from mentioning this here for some time, but I figured that with our move to Redmine from Trac and with all of its collaborative tools, now might be a good time to mention this (sorry for the slight OT content).
My company has been hosting work for a distro based loosely on LFS. Its main goal is to provide a very simple, very lightweight web application server. Our main reason for doing this work has been to package up the builds that we have already been using on a few of our production servers. In the near future, there will be more systems we will be deploying with custom web applications, and a known environment tweaked just to our needs will be very useful. A real short list of its main goals / features: * A web application server (typical usage would be Apache, PHP, and probably MongoDB) * Support for optional lighttpd, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Python, Ruby, etc. * Use vanilla configuration everywhere possible - no obscuring of default configuration files in preference of custom configuration systems * Uses RPM for package management * Possibly auto-building a custom VM image for use as a web appliance To build the RPMS, first a build environment based mostly on LFS is created (minus some packages needed for booting and plus RPM and its dependencies). Once that's ready, chroot into that environment and the building of the core system spec files can begin using rpmbuild. Most of the core system is done. The two biggest tasks remaining are to build non-LFS packages (create their spec files) and to create some sort of proper install system. I don't intend to flood this mailing list with any further plugs for this distro, but I just wanted to make a one time announcement about the work happening on it. If anyone is interested in the concept, the project site is here: http://dev.lightcube.us/projects/lightcubeos and anyone is welcome to help out. Feel free to register there and poke around, ask questions, offer suggestions, whatever. :-) Thanks, Jeremy Huntwork LightCube Solutions http://www.lightcubesolutions.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
