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Can we build a simple, cross-distribution installation framework?
by Dieter Plaetinck 13 Feb '11

13 Feb '11

Hi Cruxers, I'm the guy currently maintaining the Arch installation tools, I looked at your installation guide and noticed some similar goals, so this may be of interest to you: http://dieter.plaetinck.be/can_we_build_a_simple_cross-distribution_install… Dieter

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prologic is back :)
by James Mills 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hello all, Been slowly over the last few months getting back (interested and committed) into the development of the CRUX Linux distribution. My focus(es) have changed over the years, but I still feel that CRUX is the "right tool for the job" for many areas taht I work in. As some of you know, I personally deploy CRUX servers in favor of other popular distributions. My main focus will be the continued support of CRUX in the server environment and the x86_64 platform. I still run CRUX on my desktop at home, but I am seriously considering buying an iMac mainly for it's built-in accessibility (as I'm vision impaired) and because over the years I have grown tired of the freedesktop development team and Xorg where almost every 2nd release of Xorg breaks everything. Anyway, I'm back :) If someone wouldn't mind pointing me int he right direction to get sufficient credentials to contribute to the contrib repository, that'd be great :) Also I'd like to (obviously) contribute to the x86_64 repos (core, opt and contrib). cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method"

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avidemux-2.5.4
by acrux 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Because a cruxppc user asked to me about a working and recent port for avidemux I did it. But there are some issues with powerpc/altivec code thus i cannot use it but i guess it works fine on x86 arch. After some tests I hope someone could adopt and update it in contrib/ repo. available here: http://clinker.cruxppc.org/~acrux/avidemux.tar.bz2 cheers, -- acrux <acrux_it(a)libero.it>

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Initrd script changes
by Alan Mizrahi 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi, I have changed the initrd script to add support for installing or recovering from nfs. In the process I also made it a bit more modular. To boot from nfs one would share the CD via nfs (read-only is ok), and boot using these parameters for the initrd: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=x.x.x.x:/path/to/cd ip=dhcp If not using nfs, the script works just like before. Please review and let me know what you think. -- Alan

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retiring
by Lucas Hazel 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Sorry Guys, I've been putting this off. But I have to face the fact that I don't have the time I want to put into CRUX. My new job and a third child has pretty much eaten up all my free time. Thanks for all the great times and a great distro. -- Meddelandet har kontrollerats mot virus samt skadligt innehåll av MailScanner och förmodas vara säkert.

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[ANN] CRUX 2.7-test1
by Tilman Sauerbeck 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

Hi, here's the first test release in the 2.7 release cycle[1]. Please test and let us know if there's any problems. Thanks, Tilman, for the CRUX team. [1] http://crux.nu/files/pre-releases/crux-2.7-test1.iso (233252864 bytes) http://crux.nu/files/pre-releases/crux-2.7-test1.md5 -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Created 2.7 branches
by Tilman Sauerbeck 08 Jul '10

08 Jul '10

Hi, FYI, I have created the 2.7 branches for core.git and opt.git today. Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Configure script speedup due to dash for /bin/sh
by Tilman Sauerbeck 29 May '10

29 May '10

Hi, I made /bin/sh point to dash instead of bash and measure how this change speeds up a few randomly picked configure scripts. The speedup achieved is: pkg-config: 2% libarchive: 3% llvm: 7% gcc: 24% coreutils: 17% openssh: 9% htop: 13% Method used: cd /some/tmpfs bsdtar xf /the/package.tar.gz time ./configure # switch /bin/sh symlink rm -rf the-extracted-package bsdtar xf /the/package.tar.gz time ./configure Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[PATCH] pkgutils, update copyright date
by Juergen Daubert 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hello, attached patch updates pkgutils copyright date to current year. Greetings Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux

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prt-get 5.17 uploaded
by Johannes Winkelmann 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi guys, As discussed in flysprax #581, I've uploaded a new version of prt-get supporting the PKGMK_COMPRESSION_MODE option. There's some room for improvement by caching that value, since right now prt-get will check pkgmk.conf and/or /usr/bin/pkgmk for every package. Compared to the compilation, this time should be neglectable though. For now, I just figured I'd commit/upload the new version, to avoid blocking 2.7 preparation work :-). Cheers, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch

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