Re: [Trinux-talk] Let's build a new Trinux version

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I'm in too.

Valerio

On 20/01/2007, at 12.35, Tom=E1=B9 Vondra wrote:

>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 However, it is grossly outdated.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)
>
>As far as I know, under such circumstaces a project ending with -ng is
>often
>built.
>
>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.
>
>Who is going into it with me? Reply to this mailing list or directly to
>wondra (at> volny.cz
>
>
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