This topic has been dead for a few days…how’s the project coming?
It’s actaully progressing quite well. The holdup is because I am in the
process of moving to another city for a new job(ruby job of course
and my
linux boxes are packed up until April 10th But There will be a
release in
April for sure. I have also ditched ubuntu as a livecd base to work off
of.
Morphix allows for a much nicer automated build process and is itself
designed to build custom debian livecd’s with and these livecd’s can be
installed to HD and augmented with a flash drive. So you can install
extra
packages and whatever else you want and it will be able to back these
changes up to your thumb drive so you ca re-graft your changes back onto
the
livecd when you reboot it or take it to another computer.
There have been many great requests and I got a ton f good config files
for
various programs so this will be a fun cd. I will be sharing the entire
build script and tutorial so folks can build their own versions if they
want.
So I guess i need a new name Any suggestions?
Cheers-
Ezra Z. [email protected]
“Rubyists don’t throw rocks at dogs”
Dòa Streda 22 Február 2006 07:48 Gregory B. napísal:
The problem is, the Sun Java is classified as non-free, so I don’t think
you can bundle that in an “official” Debian-based distribution - don’t
know if Ubuntu loosened their licencing restrictions on the issue.
why not just use ubuntu’s free-java-sdk which wraps around the GNU
tools and acts as a replacement for sun’s SDK.
it’s in universe on breezy
You don’t need the SDK for eclipse, you need the JRE. It seems they got
Eclipse to run using the GNU tools (this would be GIJ, I think), and
compile
it too. The problem would be if RadRails or any other plugin tried to
use
classes the GNU Classpath or whatever is used doesn’t have - I’d have
severe
doubts about anything added in Java 1.5, and even worse for anything
using
5.0 language features.
My point is that it might work, but requires testing that would not be
required with the Sun JRE - ergo, the lazy man I am, I would go with the
latter if possible.
Also, if you have enough space, I think you should not only target
developers but also people who haven’t yet switched to Ruby. For that
purpose, you would need to install cool apps that demonstrate the power
of Ruby. For example, you could install Typo for Rails, Alexandria for
Ruby-GNOME2, games in Ruby/SDL etc.
Maybe you could also start a project on Rubyforge.
Good to hear that the project is alive and kicking!
Name Suggestions:
“Mobile Ruby” (though that sounds like a phone app)
“RIMP” (Ruby in my Pocket) (too bad is sounds like “GIMP”)
“*Ruby” (instead of *nix)
“Ruby Live” as suggested by another poster also sounds pretty good,
though, in my opinion, “Live” sounds a bit generic since it’s a common
distro title. As you can see though, I’m not comming up with anything
better.
As for a logo, the normal tux colored ruby red sitting on
traintracks/rails would look pretty damn sweet.
I was just about to say that the most obvious name for a Ruby-centric
Linux Distro has to be Rubix, then I got to the bottom of the thread.
Unfortunately, Google revealed that it already exists:
This doesn’t really speak to me, but how about “RubyReady?”
Have you considered adding SVN and Mongrel to the Distro?
Yes these will be included for sure along with some nice
lighttpd.conf files to load balance between mongrels. I won’t have my
build system until the 13th of April(i just moved and it is on the
truck until then) After I get my equipment in order I will be making
the initial release. So sometime before the end of the month this
will be out. Sorry for the delay but I took a new job and had to move
accross the state
But There will be a