John, I believe what Philip posted was meant to be sarcasm (which he confirmed before I could send this message).
I've been after Kris to do a new release since November. For several reasons that has not happened. I'm trying to do unofficial released based on what's in trunk (although I haven't updated those recently either--hope to do so later today and will post when I do). One of the things holding back the official releases is the image format. All officially released images to date have been ext2 disk images which must be installed to a CF (or other media) via dd. For over a year now, Kris has been using images which are squashfs based and are alot easier to manage. These are booted via a boot loader called "runnix". Runnix is really a micro version of Linux that has the sole purpose of locating and loading the target image. It's powerful and allows you to more easily upgrade from one version to the next. You would simple copy the image files to the "os" directory on the runnix prepared compact flash. (I've tried to document most of this on the http://www.astlinux.org web page.) Since these images are currently squashfs (but could easily be ext2 or several other formats), the content of the images is not modifiable without using unionfs. (well you could modify the files, but all changes would be lost at reboot if you're not using unionfs). I guess I'd like to hear end user's opinions on the image format. I'm particularly interested in the opinions of those who have actually tried using the runnix based images. Someone mentioned adding a -dev list. It's probably a good idea. Kris, can you take care of adding that on the Source Forge page? Regards, Darrick John Novack wrote: > What it means to me is I have no idea how to even BEGIN to build an > AstLinux from trunk or use other than an img file > I suspect there are others in my position, who's eyes glaze over when > someone starts going on the way postings to the list have for some time now > > Please don't think because everyone can't build a system, that no one > is, or will be, using it. > I have several people running the 4.8 system quite well on HP thin > clients. I had a friend fix a serious flaw in the php script which > allowed one to edit rc.conf with the FS set to r/o, which there was no > interest in distributing. All of these are used in a private collectors > network of antique telephone switches worldwide. One is in use in AU > now, two others in the US with two more waiting in the wings, and > interest in more, along with others using in a more conventional > computer setup. > > Let's not be so negative about AstLinux there IS interest. Not everyone > wants or needs to be on the cutting edge, or jump into the Asterisk 1.4 > tar pit quite yet. > AstLinux is a great product. I am forever grateful for it and those who > are smart enough to package it. > > Just one persons opinion > > John Novack > > Philip Prindeville wrote: >> > [...] >> >> So, since no one else seems to be using trunk besides you and me, does >> that mean AstLinux is done and development can be stopped? :-) >> >> You must have fulfilled everyone's want and desire if no one needs to be >> running trunk... Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com Small Business IT Specialists Office: 920.547.4535 Cell: 920.901.3113 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
