How LSB compliant is the distro, because remeber that is one of major things that we are shooting for? Also, I recently contact a company that has a Linux distro about using their installer with our distro; I am just awaiting a response and I'll let people know when I get the aforementioned response.
Thanks,
Michael
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It's reasonably LSB-compliant. I've still got to work out the following issues:
1) init script installation/removal: we need to come up with a /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd and /usr/lib/lsb/remove_initd. A nice user-friendly SysV service manager would be nice too...I recommend chkconfig
2) init scripts (installed with various services) need some work on reporting service status.
3) cron jobs. LSB defines a whole interesting shebang on how to handle cron jobs, and I'm wondering how to get/set up a cron distribution to handle that. Right now I'm using fcron, but we may have to switch to a different cron daemon.
4) user/group mail (required by LSB) versus user/group smmsp (required by sendmail). the two share similar functions; how to manage them?
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Did you get my email about getting you help to work on the kernel? Because if you did, just email me and then I can send what you need out to a magazine that covers Linux and we'll get a big influx -- so I hope -- of Developers, etc.
Michael
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Forgot to mention, how are you coming with the following?:
Ingo Monlar's O(1) scheduler (last time I tried it, though, it b0rked on my SMP box. that was H6)
IBM's NGPT (NextGen POSIX Threads). I'm considering building our distro from the ground-up on NGPT; it basically consists of kernel updates and replacement pthread libraries. The libraries are not quite drop-in replacement ready though; what I've got is currently built using the standard LinuxThreads.
Michael
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Kelledin,
How LSB compliant is the distro, because remeber that is one of major things that we are shooting for? Also, I recently contact a company that has a Linux distro about using their installer with our distro; I am just awaiting a response and I'll let people know when I get the aforementioned response.
Thanks,
Michael
It's reasonably LSB-compliant. I've still got to work out the following issues:
1) init script installation/removal: we need to come up with a /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd and /usr/lib/lsb/remove_initd. A nice user-friendly SysV service manager would be nice too...I recommend chkconfig
2) init scripts (installed with various services) need some work on reporting service status.
3) cron jobs. LSB defines a whole interesting shebang on how to handle cron jobs, and I'm wondering how to get/set up a cron distribution to handle that. Right now I'm using fcron, but we may have to switch to a different cron daemon.
4) user/group mail (required by LSB) versus user/group smmsp (required by sendmail). the two share similar functions; how to manage them?
Kelledin,
Did you get my email about getting you help to work on the kernel? Because if you did, just email me and then I can send what you need out to a magazine that covers Linux and we'll get a big influx -- so I hope -- of Developers, etc.
Michael
Forgot to mention, how are you coming with the following?:
Ingo Monlar's O(1) scheduler (last time I tried it, though, it b0rked on my SMP box. that was H6)
IBM's NGPT (NextGen POSIX Threads). I'm considering building our distro from the ground-up on NGPT; it basically consists of kernel updates and replacement pthread libraries. The libraries are not quite drop-in replacement ready though; what I've got is currently built using the standard LinuxThreads.
Michael
Right now the O(1) scheduler and NGPT are on hold. They're mainly performance enhancers and as such are low priority IMHO.