Hi, I've been using CRUX for about 2 days (still getting my kernel panic, but I will resolve it soon) and I would like to get more people using CRUX, more people thinking as I am (I think the same as CRUX phylosophy). Now, I've got an idea. You probably know http://distrowatch.com... They have a distribution popularity rank (HDP or Hit Per Day). As I am talking, Ubuntu is 2357, Mint : 1622, Fedora : 1579, etc (in the last 6 months) . Unfortunatly, CRUX is ranking at 144 this month (less than 40 views!) . It's sad because it has almost no visibility, and people that could eventually try it probably think they isn't a lot of people (community). Thus, I have a suggestion. Change the home page of your web browser to http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=crux . This way, CRUX should go up =) This is only a suggestion, tell what you think! Bye _________________________________________________________________ 30 jours de prix : Hotmail vous simplifie la vie! Inscrivez-vous! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9729719
* justin domingue (justin.domingue@hotmail.com) wrote:
Hi,
I've been using CRUX for about 2 days (still getting my kernel panic, but I will resolve it soon) and I would like to get more people using CRUX, more people thinking as I am (I think the same as CRUX phylosophy). Now, I've got an idea. You probably know http://distrowatch.com... They have a distribution popularity rank (HDP or Hit Per Day). As I am talking, Ubuntu is 2357, Mint : 1622, Fedora : 1579, etc (in the last 6 months) . Unfortunatly, CRUX is ranking at 144 this month (less than 40 views!) . It's sad because it has almost no visibility, and people that could eventually try it probably think they isn't a lot of people (community).
That's a noble target but you should have a look at http://crux.nu/Main/About which says: (...) Unlike other distributions, the primary goal of CRUX is not to be the most popular (read: biggest number of users) or to put as many features as possible into the system. The idea is rather to build a streamlined distribution, targetted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. (...) regards, Thomas -- Bad user karma.
Hi, There! Am 24.05.2010 23:46, schrieb justin domingue:
I've been using CRUX for about 2 days (still getting my kernel panic, but I will resolve it soon) and I would like to get more people using CRUX, more people thinking as I am (I think the same as CRUX phylosophy).
I've been using CRUX for many years now for several servers and other devices on x86 and PPC. I really like the hands-on philosophy, but once you are getting busy with other tasks than maintaining your systems, one thing is really a pain: the manual upgrade process each CRUX release. (Imagine maintaining about 10..20 different machines in different locations.) So, my biggest wish for CRUX: go for Rolling Releases. That would it make it easier to use/maintain CRUX in production environments. Just my five cents. Regards, Clemens
Clemens Koller [2010-05-25 10:32]:
Hi, There!
Am 24.05.2010 23:46, schrieb justin domingue:
I've been using CRUX for about 2 days (still getting my kernel panic, but I will resolve it soon) and I would like to get more people using CRUX, more people thinking as I am (I think the same as CRUX phylosophy).
I've been using CRUX for many years now for several servers and other devices on x86 and PPC. I really like the hands-on philosophy, but once you are getting busy with other tasks than maintaining your systems, one thing is really a pain: the manual upgrade process each CRUX release.
Yes, that's a valid point.
So, my biggest wish for CRUX: go for Rolling Releases. That would it make it easier to use/maintain CRUX in production environments.
I'm just not sure how to do it. How to sanely handle handle ports renames, port removals, ABI breaks etc? :| 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?
Hi There! Am 25.05.2010 20:11, schrieb Tilman Sauerbeck:
Clemens Koller [2010-05-25 10:32]:
So, my biggest wish for CRUX: go for Rolling Releases. That would it make it easier to use/maintain CRUX in production environments.
I'm just not sure how to do it. How to sanely handle handle ports renames, port removals, ABI breaks etc? :|
Well, maybe it's worth looking over the fence how Arch does it? The user just sees the binary packages, but what's going on behind the scenes? (I'm quite new to Arch. I just check it out because they do Rolling Releases.) CRUX should be possible to build these core binaries on the system in a way to avoid ABI breaks. Maybe it needs rebuilding many dependend ports, but well... that doesn't matter. I can spend days of compile time for each machine but in some cases there is just no way to put in some installation media or access to a console to upgrade the system. Mounting the .iso and unsquashfs the packages from the installation media works, but it's IMO more a hack than KISS. (See: http://crux.nu/Wiki/UpgradeWithMinimumDowntime) Greets, Clemens
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