<div dir="ltr">Hi all<br><br><br>For the porting efforts people can begin packaging the different software tools, provided by the XS, without waiting for all the OS support.<br>For example the upgrade server was originally developed for debian.<br>
<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrade_server">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrade_server</a><br><br>Just a though. :).<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Marc E. Fiuczynski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mef@cs.princeton.edu">mef@cs.princeton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br>
<br>
Fedora supports powerpc, right?! May I suggest that the XS folks<br>
first get the base software working and then worry about the Linux<br>
distribution. I just don't believe that at this stage it really much<br>
matters whether its Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever.<br>
<br>
Btw., I am just an XS list observer! Martin.. all the power to you.<br>
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Marc<br>
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On Aug 16, 2008, at 10:48 PM, <a href="mailto:s.boutayeb@free.fr">s.boutayeb@free.fr</a> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> One more argument for a debian based XS: Debian supports various<br>
> non-x86<br>
> architectures, which are good candidates for a compact, affordable,<br>
> and low<br>
> power XS server:<br>
><br>
> - The mipsel based fuloong mini ( <a href="http://www.lemote.com/english/" target="_blank">http://www.lemote.com/english/</a><br>
> fuloong.html )<br>
> engineered by the chinese Jiangsu Lemote Technology Corporation<br>
> limited (<br>
> <a href="http://www.lemote.com" target="_blank">www.lemote.com</a> ). Debian is fully supported. The installed<br>
> distribution<br>
> (rays, <a href="http://openrays.org/" target="_blank">http://openrays.org/</a> ,<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwah_Linux_" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwah_Linux_</a><br>
> (rays_Linux_Distribution) ) is debian<br>
> based. The people at lemote are very supportive. The fuloong units<br>
> I have<br>
> received have a 120GB hard drive and 512 MB memory.<br>
><br>
> - The powerpc based Bubba 2 (<br>
> <a href="http://excito.com/bubba/technical-specifications.html" target="_blank">http://excito.com/bubba/technical-specifications.html</a> ) engineered<br>
> by Excito in<br>
> Sweden ( <a href="http://www.excito.com" target="_blank">www.excito.com</a> ). They are very supportive too and are<br>
> ready to assist<br>
> us. The distribution is debian too.<br>
><br>
> - etc.<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
><br>
> Samy<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Quoting Pia Waugh <<a href="mailto:greebo@pipka.org">greebo@pipka.org</a>>:<br>
><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> I have a few projects I am helping support and was thinking about<br>
>> doing an<br>
>> Ubuntu based XS option. I wanted to find out whether anyone else was<br>
>> interested in this, and whether any work has been done. My reason for<br>
>> wanting to do an Ubuntu version is purely because it is a more<br>
>> familiar<br>
>> platform for me, and I though having easy to roll out XS deb<br>
>> packages might<br>
>> be useful to others. I'll also be doing a bunch of testing of the<br>
>> ds-backup<br>
>> packages and some additional functionality we need for some<br>
>> Australian/Pacific rollouts. I'll keep the list updated on our<br>
>> progress.<br>
>><br>
>> Martin mentioned that there are apparently 6 packages for the<br>
>> Fedora based<br>
>> XS project, so I need to find those out to port to Ubuntu please :)<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks all!<br>
>><br>
>> Cheers,<br>
>> Pia<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
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