I'm wondering how much of an issue it is to have a system that will fit on a floppy. I would think that being able to boot off of a USB drive or a CD/USB combo would be more pertinent today given as few machines even come with a floppy as standard equipment anymore. USB booting would eliminate the futzing around with non standard disk sizes and would be a lot more reliable and as well. I have been running some variant of LRP/LEAF since the 2.x days both at home and for various work related uses and the most common failure is mechanical i.e. drives or fans. I switched to booting off of CF cards and fanless power supplies a couple of years ago and am much closer to my goal of having a solid state appliance that I can install and ignore. Even buying the smallest CF cards available I still need only a small fraction of the card to boot LEAF. The world has moved on from the floppy drive and I think trying to keep future versions of LEAF small enough to boot from a floppy is largely an artificial constraint now. If for some reason the use of a floppy is required then older versions of LEAF are still available.
-----Original Message----- From: Erich Titl [mailto:erich.t...@think.ch] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 6:41 AM To: Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Project Admin Hi Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp. wrote: >> Erich Titl (etitl) promoted to project admin, and Jeff Newmiller > > For those of us on the user list only, any comment on a 2.6 branch? :) Mhhhh.... 2.6 is a bit fatter than 2.4, it has more recent drivers and most of the development is there. I am not particularly hampered by the bigger footprint of 2.6 but it might go against one of the early goals, the floppy size. Also, I believe, maintaining two branches is quite a task for the core developers team, which is only worth the trouble if the need really exists. > > Congratulations Erich. Thanks, have not found out what the real difference is. cheers erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
