Recently Dave Cinege contacted me about doing some work with him on the new
packaging format for Butterfly. Since I've been banging my head against the
existing LRP packaging scheme already, I told him I'd probably be willing to
help. To get things going, Dave called me, and I wound up chatting with him
for about an hour New Year's Eve.
The good news is the packaging system sounds like it will address a lot of
the problems I've been running into (trying to make CD-ROM boot LRP systems,
and LRP systems that boot natively off a HDD w/o a ramdisk), and will remain
primarily shell-script based (with perhaps a function or two added to
busybox for speed) so it will be small.
I'll post more about what's going to be new and different as I get time and
more details from Dave. I guess the current 'executive summary' is
something like:
Dave C. wants to build a tiny, flexable linux disto
I want to build small, secure, application specific linux boxes (including
things like a firewall/router as well as stuff like a DNS server, SMTP
server, web-server, etc. Remember, I currently use LRP as my web and DNS
server, running on a 486 no less!)
I was getting ready to start hacking up the packaging system on LRP to more
gracefully support my CD-ROM efforts and booting directly from a HDD (both
of these boot methods are required for LRP systems I maintain)...I will now
likely help Dave C. in his efforts to do this.
I'd still like to see a good set of firewall scripts...Dave C. and I agree
that the firewall stuff doesn't belong in the core OS, but should really be
a package. I may get around to working on a 'new & improved' set of
firewall scripts soon. Since each of the several LRP systems I currently
have installed required major hacks to the firewall rules, and I'd like to
have one 'master' scriptset (to make my life easier), I may simply 'start
from scratch' rather than try to fold all the mods together. Anyone want to
collaberate on this? I'd like to pound out some ideas for specifying &
controlling the firwall rules (the coding part is easy...the hard part is
solving the problem).
Finally, I'm headed back to TX until the 12th (I leave in about 6 hours).
I'll probably be doing a fair amount of LRP stuff while there, as I don't
think I'll be too busy, and the 'work' I'll be doing is related to migrating
our current network structure (and it's LRP boxes) to a new facility a few
miles down the highway.
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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