From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-10-22T22:48:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-oriented Linux distro?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:03:19PM +0900, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 11:02 am, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 6:01:16 PM, Hal wrote:
> > > There's been some talk of something like this in the past.
> > >
> > > If a project materialized, would anyone here be interested
> > > in working on it?
> > >
> > > I'm not spearheading this myself, but I have friends who are
> > > very interested in it. I'll be an active participant in the
> > > project.
> > >
> > > Feel free to email me offlist.
> >
> 
> Sorry - missed the beginning of this thread, but it was I who spoke of this 
> before. Rubyx is the name, and I have yet to launch it publicly (Time... as 
> always)
> 
> However, Rubyx exists, works very nicely, and I'm using it in several 
> production environments.
> 
> It's currently light on packages (containing only those I've added), but 
> supports all the usual stuff; samba, cups, hylafax, apache, qmail etc, and 
> the kde desktop. Also a brand new Ruby based init-script system

I was playing with an idea like this awhile back.  I've always hated
that init.d or rc.d sytle scripts (I've since moved a lot to
daemontools).

I might be able to help as I have good experience with LinuxFromScratch and I've built some distros for diskless nodes.

Michael Garriss