Re: Knoppix 6 ?

[Gilles <gilpel@altern.org>]

Le 26 Mai 2006 15:46, Klaus Knopper a écrit :

> Well, I'm getting kind of impatient,

Ach so! You too?

> so I'll just take a git
> snapshot of 2.6.17. Who can predict that the final kernel-rc
> version will have less bugs?

Normally, it shouldn't. If the wait is not too long, maybe it's worth. 
I suppose, with this release, the mirrors will get red hot and  
uploading another 0.0.1 to the mirrors might upset them.

Just my 2 cents. 

> > With your present contribution to the Linux community, maybe you
> > could be late in 20 years from now but, you know, there's so much
> > noise about other Knoppix derivatives that somebody's got to say
> > that the interest is still there for the basic product. Some
> > people are eagerly waiting to see this latest release, in my
> > case, mainly that I'm thinking about installing a new LInux
> > distro pretty soon.
>
> If you plan an installation anyways, you don't have to wait for a
> Knoppix-release which is almost 100% pure Debian anyways. Just use
> Debian. ;-)

I could, but...

> Of course, the knoppix-installer should turn Knoppix into a
> standard Debian installation, too.

when you install Knoppix, configuration is minimal and you see what 
the final product will look like. It's a huge advantage.

As a matter of fact, all I've got left to do would be to find out how 
to reinstall my firewall, a stateful firewall that I wrote 3 years 
ago with Daniel Robbins' instructions on IBM's site and a few hacks I 
got on the net. With Slackware, it's very simple. You put the iptables
commands in:

/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall

then you:

chmod 700 rc.firewall

and you call it from:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet2

this way:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall ]; then
  /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall start
fi

System V is a little more complex, I believe. What's a good place to 
get to this kind of nitty-gritty info without having to skim through 
a 1000 pages?

I wish so much that this next version of Knoppix will ease things for 
beginners.

Gilles