On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > Now that we have XS 0.6 in the "Stable", I'll raise the issue once > more. Are we at a point in development where we can reassess the issue > of basing the XS on other distros such as Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS?
It is definitely quite a bit more work to switch distros :-) Personally I am "over the hump" with Fedora skills -- my rpm knowledge came back after many (8?) years of neglect, and I now know a ton more than I ever did. If someone does repackage all the xs packages debian format, and shows that there is a workable means of building an installer and controlling the installation, I am all ears. An added bit of work will be to repackage and reimplement the kernel+initramfs magic that I plan to reuse from the XO OS team, so we can run XS on XO-1 and XO-1.5 -- those two will need very different kernels and initramfsen. And the "reimplement" bit won't be easy: initramfs implementations are in flux on both sides, guaranteeing a ton of fun and sleepless nights. The upside -- of course! -- is the path to LTS. I wish I knew where it was... m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel