RE: [Trinux-talk] Wow, people still use Trinux?! / Trinux LiveCD Based on Ubuntu

[Mike P. <MPi...@lg...>]

Hi Matthew,

First off, glad to hear from you!

Next, a confession.  I have to admit that I haven't used Trinux as much
as I had planned when I first discovered it a couple of years ago.  I
had grand plans of outfitting all of our IDFs with old Compaq laptops
running Trinux.  I wanted to take advantage of the network monitoring
tools along with setting up serial console access to our 6500 switches
in each closet.  Unfortunately I never found the time to put the plan in
action, although I did give it a good try.  (I wasn't able to get the
serial support to work with my old Compaq laptops for some reason.)=20=20

Finally, my 2 cents.  Since I haven't dedicated as much time to Trinux
as I would have liked, I personally wouldn't feel good about asking you
to continue the project.  Not because I wouldn't love to see a new
version to play around with, but because I don't want to make requests
for your time without being certain that I can take advantage of it.
HOWEVER, I ENCOURAGE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO *WOULD* BE ABLE TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF AN UPDATED TRINUX TO SPEAK UP!  Mainly though, I wanted to
write to tell you that all of your work on Trinux is greatly
appreciated.  It's a wonderful toolset and a great way to keep old
hardware relevant.  I think any project with a focus on utilizing older
hardware is a noble one and has relevancy and importance for both the
developing world and for those of us who want to see old hardware in
use, rather than in trash heaps.

Thanks for everything!
Mike

P.S.  If you do develop a new version, serial console with minicom or
similar would be very important for my application :)


-----Original Message-----
From: tri...@li...
[mailto:tri...@li...] On Behalf Of Matthew
Franz
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:03 PM
To: tri...@li...
Subject: [Trinux-talk] Wow, people still use Trinux?! / Trinux LiveCD
Based on Ubuntu


http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=3D3301&ugn=3Dtrinux

I was shocked as hell today to see the download/web statistics on
sourceforge. Can this really be true? Daily web hits 1600 and 5000?
Must be an error. Downloads breaking 100?

Since I (and probably most everybody else) basically considered the
project dead, I figured it would be much much lower.  Maybe the Internet
has grown since '98 when I started this out.=20

Maybe Knoppix and all the Knoppix-knockoffs are getting 10,000
downloads a day and 100,000 web hits but this makes me think their
still might be interested in a stripped-down, no frill security
distro, and just maybe, the Trinux brand is worth preserving...

Yes, like everyone else in the security industry, I've become horribly
corporate over the past five-six years.=20

But enough late 90's nostalgia,  I've been thinking about doing a
stripped down (of course) version of the Ubuntu Hoary LiveCD that
contains all the old trinux tools and more.=20

Sure there are probably a half-dozen or more Knoppix-derivatives, but
who cares, I've got a few PII's that I want to be able to run Ubuntu
LiveCD on without X.

Current list of requirements (probably in order)

- No more than 250MB ISO Size (probably smaller)
- Fast(er), non-interactive bootup
- No X (of course)
- Easily support PII-class machines with only 64MB
- Floppy configuration variables
- Serial console


Thoughts, flames, eery silence, all welcome...

And if you haven't every used, Ubuntu check it out...=20

In it for the fun...

- mdf

--=20
| Matthew Franz                              md...@io... |
|              http://www.io.com/~mdfranz                   |


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