Weekly updates
Posted by Sayamindu 3 years, 8 months ago
Debian inside Gentoo
Gentoo never ceases to amaze me. I was looking for ways to play around with Componentized Linux (CL) - and it seemed that I needed to get my hands on a Debian system. My laptop runs Gentoo, and just for fun, I did an emerge debootstrap. Guess what!! I was inside a Debian chroot environment within half an hour. Wooo..
Componentized Linux for GRIND
For sometime, I have been thinking about using CL for the GRIND initiative. It’s modular structure with pluggable components, along with its use of the GTK2 based Anaconda installer, is ideal for the Indic l10n community. I wrote a short document outlining my thought - it is available here. Linux Journal is also featuring an article on a similar localised distro effort which is also based on CL.
Da Vinci Code
Finally managed to get some time to read Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown is definitely a skillful writer. Well, of course, the part where a Harvard professor of symbology fails to identify the first few numbers of the Fibonacci sequence, or the incident where he initially fails to recognise the famous posture of the “Viruvian Man”, or the portion where the professor, along with the royal historian, along with a cryptologist fails to initially recognise mirror writing is a bit hard to swallow, but from an overall perspective, the book definitely makes for an enjoyable read. I look forward to the movie (especially since Tom Hanks is going to act as Robert Langdon - the man is a superb actor).
Componentized has a small bit of problem, in that the packages are somtimes different from the stock Debian packages. Hold your horses for Progeny Debian release 1 sometime in December. There seems to be quite a bit of problems regarding stability, and then there is the eternal question of repositories. Are you going to use Debian repositories (bad idea), or Progeny repositories (are they available at all times ?) or do you want to roll your own repositories ? If the third option is to be considered, then are there enough resources with Indlinux ? WBUT isn’t going to support us forever, and moving repository servers is a messy thing. IMHO Progeny servers are not exactly trustworthy, and Debian repositories are always one step behind. Wait and watch !