hi Ricardo,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:07:16PM -0300, Ricardo . wrote:

>             I  know, don't  want to  make a  pressure  or something,

no worries :) sorry if i've been slow in replying because of several
things catching my time IRL (including earthquakes :/ ), but be sure
the topic you revamp stays in our minds, mine included.

> but... I was reading your posts on the pure:dyne mailing list,
> Jaromil (which, by the way, I totally agree with), and I really miss
> dyne:bolic, since I'm dealing here with new hardware. How are the
> plans for a new release going? Did you already decide which way to
> go? If with Blag, gNewSense or something else?

FYI, already in september 2007 (and before pure:dyne announced to go
debian) i told goto10 developers and other people involved with us
that my intention is to use debian as a binary base for future
development, for several practical reasons you can well imagine.

In fact since the 2.5.2 i personally stopped my LFS-based development
and started studying debian more actively. Still, unfortunately I
wasn't included in the pure:dyne development team, which made me
rethink my current role: i decided to wait that the new pure:dyne
development cycle gives some fruits - which are there by now and i'm
sure we can benefit from them.

meanwhile i also studied another 100% fedora based system which is
BLAG, not just to have an idea of different approaches, but also to
check if multiple compatibility for binary repositories is possible to
realise, as we had in d:b 2.x series with pkgtool, rpm and dpkg.

as of today i'm convinced that gNewSense is the best platform to start
dyne:III from: basically debian with the advantage of gnewsensers
taking care of most of the 100% free choices to be made. still i'm
kind of sad to leave the Fedora base out, since its also doing some
good progress, but well most of dyne-hackers know and use debian and
in some cases are even """official""" debian developers.

let me add that your question comes with a very good timing, since i
believe the linux 2.6.29 release is mature enough (some things went
quite wrong between this and the previous 2.6.18 which we used in d:b
2.5.2) plus more software has grown up to make an update of our
platform worth.

as of my personal schedule, i'm busy developing the FreeJ software up
to the 1.0, planned to be released in july this year - and BTW i do
enjoy writing code more than compiling other's people code, so i'd be
happy to hear proposals for a new dyne:III mantainer :)

ciao


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