Re: [Trinux-talk] It's been a while / Reviving Trinux / Ubuntutrinux :)

[Matthew F. <md...@gm...>]

>
> I've learnt a lot from fiddling with Trinux.  Have often thought about
> trying to extend/update it myself, but always come back to the fact that

Apart from "meeting" folks around the world, the learning was much of
the motivation. I've already learned a lot just in the past week or so
about the new kernel ramdisk, cpio and lot's of cool new stuff in
Busybox.

> even though it is still useful, it really is a relic which is better
> replaced than updated.

Well I'm completely starting from scratch -- well actually from the
Debian/Ubunut initramfs scripts then gradually ripping everything out
to the minimum.  I guess the key challenge (and where I can use a lot
of help) is narrowing down which features are most useful and
important to potential users.

I'd like to find a niche for Trinux again, knowing full well that the
distribution landscape is quite different now that it was in 2000.

I really don't think it makes sense for a revised Trinux to try to
compete with the Knoppix STD and similar projects.

My current thought is that there is some need in the 10-50MB distro
space for a distribution (or distribution toolkit) that allows easy
creation of special (single?) purpose appliances. I haven't done a lot
of research about competitors

- Bleeding edge kernels. Perhaps a small distribution that only hosts
virtual environments or uses advanced networking features?
- Quick (less than 10 minute) builds of system images
- What else?

>
> > It has run old hardware (these days PIII is old hardware) and
>
> That's not old - I still use a PII-400 as my daily machine!

Sorry I've gotten spoiled with my Core 2 Duo Macbook  and Pentium D
server at home but still have a P5-133 as my firewall.

- mdf

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Matthew Franz
http://www.threatmind.net/