Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
The good news:
The StormOS repository now has over 2,500 packages in it! 2,583 to be exact. Notable new packages include the latest version of Xorg, Qt4, GTK+, Glib (which appears to be working with our FAM port), APT, Dpkg, Python 3 and HAL, plus many more which I've since forgotten about.
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
With all of this talk about Nexenta possibly becoming an official Debian port now seems like to ideal time to announce some changes I've been working on in StormOS.
Mainly, I've been working on breaking up some of the monolithic sunw* packages and
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
Late last night I pushed a new batch of StormOS packages and we passed the 2000 mark (2030 to be exact). This includes gcc-4.4, perl-5.10.1 and a load of Perl/Java libraries needed to port the rest of Debian Sid over. I've also made some progress
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
"Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Ian Murdock's pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is based on now." Let's go through some interesting history of Debian.
Via: OSnews
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
StormOS will be taking a new direction. I've decided to stop backporting Jaunty and Lucid packages to our Hardy base and instead start pulling packages from Debian Sid. Yes, that's right - StormOS is rebasing on Debian Sid! This will make package
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Posted
over 13 years
ago
by
andy
The repos are now on the new server and the DNS has been sorted. To use the repos you need to add the following entry to your /etc/apt/sources.d/stormos.list file (/etc/apt/sources.list for Nexenta users):
deb http://stormos.org/apt/ hail main
You
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Posted
almost 14 years
ago
by
andy
RootBSD (rootbsd.net) have kindly offered to host StormOS for us. This means we can finally set up rsync for the repo and ISO mirrors and introduce some kind of infrastructure to manage the repository. I'll keep this space updated as I start to
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Posted
almost 14 years
ago
by
andy
I had been talking with TuxFamily about moving StormOS over to their servers but they have proven themselves to be... unreliable to say the least.
So if anyone knows where I can get 10Gb of hosting with git and rsync please say so.
I'm also looking for site moderators to help beat the Spam which has been greatly reduced but, is still a PITA.
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Posted
about 14 years
ago
by
andy
As part of our new license agreement with The Bordeaux Technology group Bordeaux has been ported to StormOS. Packages will be included with the next StormOS release and it will be added to the StormOS APT repository.
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Posted
about 14 years
ago
by
andy
_FINALLY_
The StormOS repo is finally 100% up to date, and the way updates are done has been overhauled so future updates should be fast and painless.
Mono goodness, etc, is all live.
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