Re: [Trinux-talk] Trinux-talk Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

[Robert W. <rwh...@ra...>]

I'm Game, count me in...
 
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>    1. Let's build a new Trinux version (Tom?? Vondra)
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> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:35:01 +0100
> From: Tom?? Vondra <wo...@vo...>
> Subject: [Trinux-talk] Let's build a new Trinux version
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> I use Trinux on my old laptop, mainly for wifi scanning and network
> monitoring.
> It is much more useful that Win98 in those tasks :-) The computer won't run
> any newer version of Windows and I can't afford to run X on it. Therefore,
> distros like Backtrack or Knoppix-STD are unsuitable for me.
> Trinux with its console interface, nice toolset and low requirements is
> simply ideal. However, it is grossly outdated. It has become nearly
> impossible to build any new software for it because of old library versions
> (I wanted Links with SSL and auth support and failed).
> 
> I wanted to offer the admin of the Trinux project to take the project over
> and build a new version, however Mr Matthew Franz is nowehere to be found.
> (none of his 3 e-mails work)
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> As far as I know, under such circumstaces a project ending with -ng is often
> built.
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> Who would be interested to help me develop it?
> I'd like to base it on Debian 3.1 sarge, or maybe 3.2 etch to make it last
> longer. - We'd stay with the naive tgz packaging for now.
> In the first phase, I'd recreate a basic Trinux distro exacly as the old
> one, but with newest versions of the software. Next, I'd need packagers and
> testers, who would add tools and test them. In the next version, we could
> tweak the init scripts (did you find those bugs as well?), update floppy,
> CD, USB, network distros, write some HDD install scripts, modify packages
> and so on.
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> Who is going into it with me? Reply to this mailing list or directly to
> wondra (at> volny.cz
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