[gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread basile
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It was suggested to me that I write this list about backporting something to gentoo from Tin Hat which is a distro derived from hardened gentoo. First a bit of history: Last year a group of us decided to put together a linux distribution which

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya Anthony, First off, it certainly sounds interesting and making it more accessible (simple ebuild setup and so on) seems like a good plan even if it doesn't get picked up officially. The best way to start development would probably be an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Advice regarding backporting to Gentoo from Tin Hat.

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Gaffney
basile wrote: Point 4 is what I think would be useful to Gentoo mainstream. The speed one gets from RAM totally beats a LiveCD using unionfs which has to periodically return to the slow cdrom. This is already possible. With current genkernel (genkernel- or genkernel-3.4.10.903), you can