From: Michael Garriss <mgarriss@...>
Date: 2003-10-23T06:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-oriented Linux distro?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:15PM +0900, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 2:48 pm, Michael Garriss wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> 
> Snap. Infact djb's daemontools were the inspiration for my ruby init-script 
> and shares many features. I also use djb's dnscache, tinydns and qmail ;)
> 
> >
> > I might be able to help as I have good experience with LinuxFromScratch and
> > I've built some distros for diskless nodes.
> 
> Excellent. Do you have bitkeeper, cvs, cvsup and rsync installed? (and ruby, 
> obviously...)?
> 

Working on this now, I'll let you know.  I have a new box (well it's on
brown truck somewhere headed my way) that I could experiment on. 

I also have some experience with cross compiling toolchains (don't try
this home kids).

Regards,
Michael Garriss