From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-06-12T03:53:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyx (provisionally named) linux distro. Made by and run by Ruby

In article <3EE6D9E4.9020105@walrond.org>,
Andrew Walrond  <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:
>I have developed a little script which creates a simple linux distro 
>from source. While not complete by any means, it does work and has some 
>nice features, such as a modern ruby based init system.

This sounds very cool.

>
>
>Features of Rubyx:
>	simplified (modern) directory structure

....not sure what you mean here.

>	new ruby based init script
>	Downloads and build all packages from source

kind of like gentoo?  Does it deal with dependencies?
	
>	Choose your preferred version of kernel, glibc, binutils, gcc

This sounds nice too.

>	Supports NPTL in glibc
>	powerful install and uninstall facilities
>


So is it sort of like Gentoo, but based on Ruby instead of Python?


Phil