[Vectorlinux-devel] Multi distro development

[Kocil <k0...@ya...>]

As you might have know ...
  I'm asked by the Indonesian goverment to make a Linux distro, special for Indonesian education, called Dewantara (DL).
  Obviously, I merge that with VL development.
  Thus, I've done these :
   
  1. Update the vectelopment to be able to build multiple distros. It was designed to build various VL flavours, such as dynamite and SOHO. Now it can build VL various flavour as well as DL various flavour.
   
  2. Make the GENERIC installer that is able to install any distro. This heavily change the CDROM layout !
   
  3. Simplify the first time configuration, now the system will be configured to a 'safe' settings without to much asking. User may use vasm for more detailed setting later. I incorporated the hwsetup and hwdata from Knoppix for this (dropped the binary only vlsetup, made by Tigger for the SOHO 3.2).
   
  IMHO, the changing that might bother you is number 2 because joe is developing the new installer. Should I send the new ISO (dynamite version ????) for your preview ?
   
  By the way ... who is the developer here that use vectelopment system ?
  It was available as a HUGE tarball that contains ALL VL SOHO 5.0 build tree.
  Unfortunatelly, the documentation was very poor and some were missing in the dead of our old WIKI and forum :(
   
   
  Best Regards
  Kocil
   
   

 
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