[WBEL-devel] In the words of Mark Twain ...

[Pasi Pirhonen]

Hi,


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:37:21PM +0000, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:45:52AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> > We should, by now, know the parameters that John has set out.  He will
> > maintain the x86 versions, use it if you want ... there are other people
> > maintaining a x86_64 version.
> > 
> There was an email from John back on the 16th of December saying that he'd
> be happy to host the ports on whiteboxlinux.org so that the mirrors would
> pick them up, and laying out a list of things that the ports would need to
> do. As I understand it the ports have done most of those things, but
> there's still no sign of them on the mirrors. Again, you might be alright
> without non-x86 ports, but that doesn't stop it being a problem for other
> people.
> 

I think it's time for me to grawl out under the rocktoo. As i remeber it, 
i have never promised to maintain the x86_64 ot ia64 ports of whitebox. 
Those were intended to be 'first public test releases'.

I have made my own conclusions past over a month and most propably
won't do that either.

Sadly i am leaning towards Tao Linux which does have much better dialog
going on (and mybe even cAoS). Even tho there has not been formal
release notification yet, the ISO-images are mirrored on the official
site.

My only goal actually is to have free alternative for myself and my
employer which as side effect will produce it for others too. Sadly i
am lazy on the artwork, so it's much more easy for me to step just in
and complete the set of archs for some other already modified
distribution.

Most of the updates between all the free alternatives are cross
installable tho, but there are some differencies.

And please don't read between lines as wnglish is not my native
language :)


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