[cAos-devel] My recent spate of commits

[Greg Kurtzer]

On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:32 AM, Tim Leger wrote:

> Hey All,
>
>     Same here, I started with cAos 2 (used it to setup a 96 node
> cluster) end of last year.  Due to some newer hardware (chipset) that
> showed up which cAos 2 wasn't able to handle,

Michael did update the Caos2 installer fairly recently. He can give  
more specific details, but have you tested it recently?

> I tried out cAos 3 and was
> impressed with it's installation and bootup speed.  Speaking of which
> and out of curiosity, is there a newer installation/cinch version of
> cAos 2 planned for the foreseeable future or is everything going to  
> cAos
> 3?

Test out the latest version, and let us know if a newer build is  
still necessary.

> The lack of some libraries with cAos 3 has really slowed me down in
> setting things up the way I need them on this new hardware.

Agreed. I would like to bring in a bunch more packages into the Caos  
Ports system. We just need some contributions here.

> I've been
> documenting my progress with cAos 3 and contributing to the wiki with
> items I feel confident with like swatch and iptables.  Currently, I'm
> very busy with adjunct teaching and my own research, but hopefully  
> I'll
> be able to contribute much more to the wiki and cAos development  
> effort
> once the end of the quarter gets here the middle of next month.

Excellent! :)

> I've
> been using and administering Linux setups for the past 5+ years, but
> finding the time to track down the plethora of dependencies some
> applications take can be hard to do :) .

Agreed. If you post a list of the packages and/or Caos Ports that you  
wish to have imported we can work on them in parallel. Can you find a  
nice home for this on the wiki and startup a list?

Thanks!
Greg

>
> Later, Tim Leger
> ----------------------------------------------
> Grad. Research Assistant
> Dept. of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
> Wright State University
> Dayton, OH
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have missed my windows p2p app that got shut down, now amule sounds
>> interesting especially the daemon feature.
>>
>> Im new to caos and im blown away with caos3, its simple  
>> installation and
>> 100% reliability.
>>
>> Im just above newbie level and not a programmer but im happy to  
>> test and
>> feedback and will add more to the wiki when I can.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Martyn
>> Date: 14/02/2007 04:42:40
>> To: cAos-devel
>> Subject: [cAos-devel] My recent spate of commits
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Noone ever seems to be about on irc when I am, so I thought I'd  
>> strike
>> Up some discussion here instead...
>>
>> A friend of mine works as a .net programmer, and has decided to
>> Convert his home network (1 server for ed2k:// type stuff and 1  
>> laptop)
>> To Linux! (m$ must be getting bad if he's converting :-) )
>>
>> Of course I've suggested cAos and he's very interested, and I may be
>> Able to twist his arm on some packaging too, but so far in his
>> Installation I've been picking up bits (like foomatic and his printer
>> Driver) that he needs.
>>
>> As an emule user he's got a big interest in aMule, so, the current  
>> rev
>> Of aMule requiring libiconv, I've committed that so I can update our
>> AMule package that's nearly 2 years old...
>>
>> The main bonus of having him on cAos will be his asking me for  
>> desktop
>> Packages, where my work load is on the server packages.
>>
>> I'm still concerned about our lack of a cAos-3 desktop edition and  
>> our
>> Upgrade paths, can we get some discussion going here on that? I  
>> may be
>> Able to package some things, others like Xorg are out of my league.
>>
>> Okay, I've waffled enough for now, let's have someone else waffle :-)
>>
>>
>
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