From: Darren B. <fat...@ya...> - 2010-02-05 22:37:06
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There doesn't seem to have been any activity in the last two years. Is this project still alive? |
From: Alex de L. <ale...@xs...> - 2003-07-31 00:56:36
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Quoting "gia...@in..." <gia...@in...>: > I just spent a couple of hour playing with Morphix. > > While Knoppix is a bit more advanced (on my newest PC with a ASUS mobo > Knoppix > worked with the on-board graphic card while Morphix didn't) I liked very > much the idea of defining modules. Great! Glad you like the modular design, as thats the whole idea behind the project :) Trying to port Knopper's work each time is pretty error-prone, he's got the experience when it comes to hardware detection. We keep playing cat-and-mouse with eachother, but eventually all changes in knoppix flow into morphix. Recently patches are being sent, which really reduces the amount of time it takes... > I imagine a web front-end helping users build their custom ISO images and > letting them download the final ISO ready-to-burn perfectly suited to their > needs. > > This work could be shared with other projects developing "vertical" version > of > debian. > > Moreover a module-based distribution could simplify to a large extent the > management of the project. Indeed, I've been thinking about this from day one. However, your suggestion that the creation of iso's would have to be done server-side, which, alas, doesn't scale with the increase of modules (the current 7 mainmodules can have up to 4 different minimodules, will be expanded to 255 soon, of the available 16 minimodules, euhm, that are quite lot of different iso's. Did calculate once how much space a worst-case scenario would take up, and it wasn't pretty :) Clearly, the only possible solution for this is for iso's to be generated client-side. Which isn't too bad, but the user would have to use a script/application for mixing and creating the iso. Thats what i'm busy with now. First, all module/iso information is stored in a central xml file. This will idealy also include url's to different servers, and thus allow for a spreaded management of all module types (I don't want to do all the work, being pretty lazy, and there are quite a few excellent Morphix-modules out in the wild already that i'd like users to notice but I don't have mirrored): http://am.xs4all.nl/morphix/morphinfo.xml No DTD yet, as I'm still working the structure out, modifying it when I hit a new idea. But it does have all module and iso information. http://am.xs4all.nl/gfx/isomorphgui.png A screenshot of the GUI i'm building, which uses the remote xml file. As always, I'm trying to keep it simple and understandable for the user (even though there are enough who don't know what an iso is). No code in the cvs yet on this subproject, as it isn't nearly finished or working, but given enough time this monkey should produce something useful. An "apt-get" for livecd's? I hope so... Cheers, Alex PS. CC'ed to morphix-devel as people developing their own modules might be somewhat more interested. /'-'\ ( o o ) ------------oOO0--(_)--0OOo------------ Wouter Alexander de Landgraaf Student AI & CS VU Amsterdam Phone: 06-16844084 GPG: http://am.xs4all.nl/key_alex.asc WWW: www.alextreme.org & www.morphix.org .oooO ( ) Oooo. --------------\ (----( )-------------- \_) ) / (_/ |
From: Alex de L. <al...@de...> - 2010-02-05 23:57:43
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darren Benham wrote: > There doesn't seem to have been any activity in the last two years. Is this project still alive? Not really, to be honest. More of a coma though. We have a few daily autobuilds, but besides that our interests have moved on beyond live cds. You are welcome to try out the project, but if you simply want your own live cd you should try Debian Live and Ubuntu out first. cheers, Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktsrXQACgkQQeuQA5TF/UveqACcD0OLi5Bc8ZuYONd8zkCaaPjV r+gAn3m2Q/p5oDRpGz1ZIF7ob+rBwStE =xFUC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |