> Hardware depending, I should have a RiscPC up on the Internet in some
> capacity sometime in the next week or two, and then a grand recompile of
> RedsHat's `Rawhide' source RPM set can begin, giving all ARM Linux users
> from armv3l upwards a bang-up-to-date set of packages, compiled using the
> latest ELF toolset and glibc 2.1.
>
> In the meantime, if there are any requests for specific RPMs (e.g.
> fileutils, or whatever), mail me and I'll see what I can do about getting
> them cross-compiled on inkvine.
>
Not personally being a linux genius, can you clarify this...Does this mean
that we're gonna have a nice whizzo new distribution, with newer apps and
compilers, so that those of us without the knowhow (or patience :) to get
things like ELF etc working can now just install them from the rpms and not
have to 'fiddle' things. And how large will this new distribution be? Will we
finally be able to install a decent linux setup 'out of the box' like the x86
distributions seem to be able to do? There seem to be rumours floating around
about new distributions, is there any official news on this (other than the
above)?
Any info for the 'linuxly' challenged like me would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
John.
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