On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:31:47 -0800 Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 07:43, Natanael Copa wrote: > > So my question is: Are there any interest in a new branch in LEAF? (I > > mean anyone more than Mike Noyes ;) > > Everyone, > Here is Natanael's description of Alpine, for those that may have missed > it when it was posted. I was more trying to find out if there were room for *anything* besides the main LEAF distro at this point... > http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07953.html Since you mentioned it... and since there have been discussion about booting off something else than floppy, here are a few things that has happened on Alpine since that post: * optional boot from floppy support (if your bios doesn't boot cd's or usb drive) * boot from usb drive (or boot from floppy and read packages from usb drive) * moved from initrd to initramfs * apk-tool supports remote package repositories over http/ftp/scp/rsync in addition to any mountable media specified in fstab * updating packages works (but merging conf's is still missing) * a few kernel generations. (2.6.14 is the current one) * moved to http://jv.lmdata.org/alpine/hardened/isoimages * backup config files to floppy or usbdrive. (you can run from cd and store all your local configs on usb) * usb hotplugging. The hardware detection works pretty well. It finds most of the hardware on newer dell computers I have tested it on, including wifi. The iso includes floppy images for running of cdrom or running from usb drive. (i think its just to copy over the contents to a vfat formatted usbdrive and boot the usb floppy image) To try latest (published) iso: http://jv.lmdata.org/alpine/hardened/isoimages/alpine-hardened-0.6.1-20060124.iso -- Natanael Copa ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
