Re: [debian-knoppix] Integration of Knoppix in Debian
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Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2003 23:41 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:11:49PM +0200, baldyeti wrote:
> > According to the linuxtag program as presented in the "news"
> > section of debian.org, "Integration of Knoppix in Debian" was
> > the title of a talk given in Karlsruhe. Can someone in the know
> > shed some light on this? Is the intention to adopt knoppix as
> > a basis for a future debian installer?
It is the intention to have an debian or debotstrap some system, then to
knoppify it and burn it on CD.
I'm working on that and will soon upload my first efforts. (At the moment I
have commercial stuff to do....)
Cleaned like 200 lintian issues.
I'll try to get all packages sponsored into debian, beginning with the
usefulst.
It was a very interesting talk and ther can soon be gret things expected ;-).
cu
Fabian
>
> Google for Andreas Tille, as well as maybe for Knoppix and/or Debian; he
> has been spearheading that idea and, if I recall, gave previous talks about
> it.
>
> It certainly won't be the new installer as the installer has to work on all
> architectures of a release, which was six the last time and maybe a dozen
> the next time, whereas Knoppix, as we know it, only supports one.
... two now ...
Because of that FUD, I spent LinuxTag to hack it for PPC.
>
> If I recall, Andreas just wants to make 'making' Knoppix easier based on
> existing packages, and feed more of Knoppix back into Debian, and what have
> you. He leads the debian-med effort and remasters Knoppix, just like I do
> with Quantian, but as his attentian span in longer than mine, he thinks
> more deeply about infrastructure and tools.
>
> Andreas, please correct me whereever necessary :)
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
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