From: <wo...@vo...> - 2007-04-22 19:37:21
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Greetings, Mr Franz, sorry that I wanted to take over your distro :-). I have started some research into boot diskettes and LFS, but I quickly ran out of time, being a first year university student. Maybe I would have done something over the summer... Anyway - feel free to ask me to do some testing, scripting or packaging. My vision is running Trinux on my laptop - Pentium 75 / 40MB RAM with Prism2 WLAN and 3C589 LAN cards, for the purpose of (W)LAN scanning and testing, as I do now, but being able to compile new software for it. Needless to say - it has no CDROM, USB or stable network; I boot from the HDD with loadlin. Besides that, I can put together various testing configurations from my ever-growing junkpile - anything in the range from 286 to Athlon64 (with the sad exception of PII). Regards, wondra -----Original Message----- From: tri...@li... [mailto:tri...@li...]On Behalf Of Matthew Franz Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:55 PM To: tri...@li... Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] It's been a while / Reviving Trinux /Ubuntutrinux :) > > 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 -- Matthew Franz http://www.threatmind.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Trinux-talk mailing list Tri...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/trinux-talk |