Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-16 Thread George Metz
On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > I must say I've been surprised at all the excitement over Linux > 2.4. I've noticed that all of you kernel wizards are scrambling to > get Linux 2.4 installed on LRP, while glibc 2.1 gets ignored. Not entirely. I've got a newlibs.tgz sitting on m

Re: [Leaf-devel] Oxygen Directions

2001-05-16 Thread George Metz
On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > > I'm also considering the use of GRUB, but I don't know where exactly Out of curiosity, why would you want to use GRUB? Isn't that a little over the top, even for Oxygen? What advantage would it give/disadvantage would it overcome? > Anyone know wha

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-16 Thread David Douthitt
Pim van Riezen wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > > > I must say I've been surprised at all the excitement over Linux > > 2.4. I've noticed that all of you kernel wizards are scrambling to > > get Linux 2.4 installed on LRP, while glibc 2.1 gets ignored. > For me, it's

Re: [Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-16 Thread Pim van Riezen
On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Douthitt wrote: > I must say I've been surprised at all the excitement over Linux > 2.4. I've noticed that all of you kernel wizards are scrambling to > get Linux 2.4 installed on LRP, while glibc 2.1 gets ignored. > > To me, Linux 2.4 offers only this: > > * State

[Leaf-devel] Linux 2.4 versus glibc 2.1/2.2

2001-05-16 Thread David Douthitt
I must say I've been surprised at all the excitement over Linux 2.4. I've noticed that all of you kernel wizards are scrambling to get Linux 2.4 installed on LRP, while glibc 2.1 gets ignored. To me, Linux 2.4 offers only this: * Stateful firewalling We don't see question after question on

[Leaf-devel] Oxygen Directions

2001-05-16 Thread David Douthitt
These are my future directions for Oxygen - or things to do: * Debug and verify VFAT support * Create a bridge image using glibc 2.1 * Create an amateur packet radio image using glibc 2.1 * Make the glibc 2.1 image such that it can be used as a CDROM boot image with little or no changes * Investi

Re: [Leaf-devel] New Oxygen Release: Oxygen May 2001

2001-05-16 Thread David Douthitt
Mike Noyes wrote: > Also, when you're ready to release the new iso, send me email off list. I'd > like to avoid using the anonymous ftp area this time. Thanks. Alright. It looks like it'll take a little longer; I'm trying to update the glibc 2.1 version of Oxygen a bit. I'll probably tackle so

Re: [Leaf-devel] New Oxygen Release: Oxygen May 2001

2001-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
David Douthitt, 2001-05-16 10:50 -0500 >Announcing a new Oxygen Release! David, Congratulations! >Mike, could you patch up the announcement on the Home Page? Done. I'll release your new image in the files area as soon as I'm able to determine if the SF staff fixed the file release problem belo

[Leaf-devel] New Oxygen Release: Oxygen May 2001

2001-05-16 Thread David Douthitt
Announcing a new Oxygen Release! This release mostly fixes bugs, but has a few new things: * Segmentation Faults eliminated (finally!) for several applications (more, tftp, fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, ...) * Networking initialization updated and bugs fixed * Updated to Linux 2.2.19 with IDE and VFA

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
Ewald Wasscher, 2001-05-16 19:13 +0200 >Mike Noyes wrote: > >>Everyone, >>I'm going to create the following directories in CVS on Thursday, unless >>there are objections. > >It's a little late perhaps, but I wonder about the usefulness of using cvs >for storing tarballs and diff files. That woul

Re: [Leaf-devel] Website Problem

2001-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
Charles Steinkuehler, 2001-05-15 12:40 -0500 > > Charles, > > I think for now I'll link to your text version instead of integrating > > it into our phpWS. If there are no objections I'll make the change > > this afternoon. > > > > When the next version is released and we can verify this problem is

Re: [Leaf-devel] Proposed CVS Structure

2001-05-16 Thread Ewald Wasscher
Mike Noyes wrote: > Everyone, > I'm going to create the following directories in CVS on Thursday, > unless there are objections. > > /release + > + /eigerstein > + /ladybug > + /oxygen > + /quercus > > /script + > + /weblet > + (etc.) > > /pack