Change of domain for the AGNULA project [LWN.net]

From:		AGNULA Announces <info-AT-agnula.info>
To:		announce-AT-lists.agnula.org
Subject:		Change of domain for the AGNULA project
Date:		Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:16:48 +0200

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     [Sorry for cross-posting.  Feel free to forward around]

Torino, 07/01/2007

Due to unfortunate circumstances  that we are still investigating, the
domain name "agnula.org" has  been "hijacked" by an  organisation with
no connection  whatsoever to the former members  of the AGNULA project
consortium or  or  to the  current  persons that  have  been and   are
contributing to the AGNULA project.

The domain name "agnula.org", and all subdomains thereof, now point to
a web page which does not contain any reference to the AGNULA project.

As  a  temporary measure,  the   "agnula.info"  domain name  has  been
registered  and  all the services  have   been configured to use  such
domain.

We  therefore urge all users to  replace all instances of "agnula.org"
with "agnula.info" until further notice.  For example:

- the website is now http://www.agnula.info/

- the mailing lists are not on http://lists.agnula.info/ and mail
  should be sent to users@lists.agnula.info,
  developers@lists.agnula.info, etc.

We are  still in the process  of fixing all  the necessary references.
Please report any domain-related problem you may encounter to

  <info@agnula.info>

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

On behalf of the AGNULA team,

Andrea Glorioso

--
Our mailing lists:                        http://lists.agnula.org/
Our web site:                               http://www.agnula.org/
"There's no free expression without control on the tools you use"

About AGNULA:   Agnula (acronym for   A  GNU/Linux Audio distribution,
pronounced with a strong  g) is  the name of   a project funded  until
April  2004  by    the   European  Commission   (number  of  contract:
IST-2001-34879; key action IV.3.3, Free Software: towards the critical
mass).  After the end of the funded period,  AGNULA is continuing as a
volunteer   based project,  aiming  to  spread Libre  Software in  the
professional audio/video arena.

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Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 8, 2007 19:44 UTC (Mon) by pbardet (guest, #22762) [Link] (1 responses)

Fix references... Like the signature ?

Looks like the link on the LWN front page does not work either. Need to add www. in front of agnula.info.

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 8, 2007 19:46 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Weird...that link did work when the article was posted. Now it seems to want the www., so I added it.

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 8, 2007 21:41 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (2 responses)

I don't know how appropriate it is, but it is related.

Obvously Agnula is designed to repackage existing distributions (in this case Debian for Demudi) to make them more suitable for multimedia work.

A sort of commercial flake off this project is something called '64studio' which is a commercial distribution doing the same thing (completely Free software) for Debian Etch.

It retains a high degree of compatability with Debian and I was able to do both upgrade from 64Studio's 1.0 release to current Etch and, on a seperate install, use 64studio's packages without issue on Etch and Sid.

This is very nice, IMO.

I applaud Agnula also.. A great deal of the packages they have created seem to now be a part of Debian Etch and their efforts have substantially enriched Debian as a whole as a multimedia/audio workstation OS.

(now if only Debian could upgrade their PAM to support the rtlimits stuff. (I know that's it's very difficult and unerstand the issues around it and debian (somwhat)))

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 9, 2007 8:01 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

Can you clarify what do you mean by "commercial"?

Is 64studio as free as Agnula, but with a company supporting it?

(or does it add non-free packages?)

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 9, 2007 21:17 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Commercial in this case means professional support for it. If you pay for it your paying the developers to work on it and you can get support from them.

So it's like Redhat in that manner, but they do provide no-cost downloads of their binaries.

I don't know how associated this company is with 64studio, but I found this that may be interesting to people.
http://www.lionstracs.com/store/

It's called a 'Mediastation keyboard'. It's a fancy midi controller with embedded PC hardware that runs Linux. I expect that it's something you can use to generate music, use live, use in the studio, and also as a controller for all sorts of different devices.

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 15, 2007 17:08 UTC (Mon) by JohnNilsson (guest, #41242) [Link]

This kind of thing has to be solved. The whole problem roots to the fact that the namespace is owned by the the named entity rather than by the user of the name.

Instead of a hierarchy of names to be sold and bought by the highest bidder names should be managed in some p2p way so that usefull names can't be hijacked by useless entities.

I guess DUNDi[1] is a start. Anyone know of some research in this area?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUNDI