An LWN.net Distribution List update [LWN.net]

An LWN.net Distribution List update

Posted Apr 17, 2008 9:07 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: An LWN.net Distribution List update

Thats quite a few distros gone, I wonder if the people who started them or contributed them
are/have contributing their changes to the distros they derived from
(Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/etc). Might be nice to hear from the ones that were removed if LWN can
track down people who were involved in them.

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An LWN.net Distribution List update

Posted Apr 17, 2008 9:56 UTC (Thu) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]

I was involved with Libranet as an employee for Libra Computer Systems. Libranet was a Debian-based distribution that featured our own installer and administration (Adminmenu) tool. Unfortunately, the founder of Libranet (Jon Danzig) passed away. This was a blow to the company and everybody involved (including the warm and tight-knit Libranet community).

Nowadays, most functionality that Adminmenu provided is offered by Debian-based distributions through gnome-system-tools. From my personal perspective, I'd have preferred to make all custom code free software, but that was not my call to make.

After Libranet, I have mainly moved on to CentOS, and try to contribute the experience gained at Libranet to the CentOS project.

LNX-BBC

Posted Apr 17, 2008 22:12 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256) [Link]

I was peripherally involved with the development of the LNX-BBC (and the Linuxcare BBC which
was the brainchild of Duncan MacKinnon when he and I worked there).

So far as I know all of the core parties have been off doing their own things, pursuing their
various careers, being involved with family life, etc.

There is no shortage of compact ditributions which will fit into the "bootable business card"
format.  There are even BBC media in DVD densities which I think will fit a normal 650MB ISO
image in biz card format
(or pretty close to it).  I know that the mini-DVD blanks store 1.4GB. That means that a
normal Ubuntu disc can fit in small form factor on most reasonably recent equipment.

Additionally BIOS support for booting from USB thumb drives has improved considerably ... and
the capacity of those has gone through the roof (I have a relatively cheap 8GB thumb drive
that I use most).

So I can understand why the team have gone off and just let this one languish as a relic of
the past.

JimD