From: Andrew Walrond Date: 2004-03-12T18:36:06+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Rubyx OS version 42 Ok, The new release is available. It contains loads of new packages; Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Epiphany, Gnomemeeting 1.00, Kde 3.2.1, Gnome 2.4.2, linux-2.6.3 ... There have been some important bugfixes and improvements to the rubyx script itself, so please upgrade! From an existing rubyx distro, simply do rubyx --configure rubyx version 42 --upgrade rubyx Rubyx is largely undiscovered as yet. It is the most progressive linux distro out there, with features people have yet to grasp. The package management system is, to say the least, revolutionary. Secure user-mode builds, packages installed to their own private directorys, Crazily fast parallel and distributed builds etc etc. And all written in Ruby, obviously! If you haven't tried it yet, please do! Due to the massive (and expensive!) bandwidth required to satisfy Rubyx downloads, the _next_ version of rubyx will sport WhiteWater, our very own distributed download system. WhiteWater is a bittorrent-like system where users help each other by uploading chunks of files to each other while downloading themselves, but has better facilities for handling whole directory trees of shared files (In our case, the Rubyx package source tree). I need some volunteers to test Whitewater before release, so if you would like to help, send me an email. Onwards and Upwards... Andrew Walrond PS Rubyx v42 script is available now; the ISO's are building as I speak and will appear sometime later today.