From: Richard P. <rap...@ni...> - 2003-04-23 13:51:08
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Well, good and bad news. The good news is that it actually works. The ISO file is about 12Mb which includes the misterhouse source plus mhe. "Feature creep" which included the festival "flite" utility has brought it up to about 16Mb. The bad news is that after a few hours there seemed to be a problem with memory leaks even though it's running the compiled mhe.... hmmm...... I might leave that for the moment, and see if I can modify one of the more promising micro distributions such as http://womp.sourceforge.net. Failing that, I might try Morphix http://morphix.sourceforge.net (based on Knoppix http://www.knoppix.net/) - it's bigger again, but the advantage is that it does allow for the addition of other applications.... Cheers Richard P.S. Again, the intention of this is not to be used by people who want their pc running Misterhouse to do a lot of other things as well - effectively it's to allow people to try Misterhouse under linux without having to download a huge distribution, or have to modify their existing pc configuration. It may also allow people to use cheap & reliable hardware to setup effectively a "Misterhouse Appliance"(tm) that can just sit somewhere in a corner and be left alone to look after the more critical home automation tasks..... |