Formal apology
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 4:29 pm
Hello fellow WebDT owners. I need to take a moment to apologize to everyone because I fell off the face of the planet about a year ago. I had a pretty consistent effort going on the linux side of things and it all stopped when I relocated to Colorado. I think I could sum it all up with five words as to why I went on the missing. I met a girl and....
Well now that that's over.... I would like to try to fulfill a promise to myself. Get a "GOOD" custom linux distribution made for the DT. This is something I wanted to do for longer than I can tell all of you. Daunting as this may be it needs to be done. A year and a half ago I shipped a tablet off to the developer behind Nimblex linux asking for help. While he did give us a distro in folder form none of us could get it to boot from our DT's. A similar package was sent to another and while they helped out quite a bit in the form of a mentor the task still needs to be done. I am not impressed with how Puppy linux runs on the DT so I need to try to improve upon. That and I cant seem to bend my mind around the puppy way. The reason I got in to linux was because I could force the computer to bend around my way of thinking.
Don't get me wrong I want to see android up and running on the DT. That would be more than huge. However I need to get this done first before taking any more projects on or putting effort to existing projects. My inspiration for making a good distro was seeing the Slax project continued. Slax is now called Porteus linux. There is also a sister effort going on called Fido-Slax. I may touch base with the devs behind Porteus to see how recompiling a kernel would go in the livecd environment and how to do it exactly. If I can add the Penmount touch screen drivers to their distro its pretty much good to go. I just want to make sure all this old geode and via 6656/ intel2200/ cisco air0/ aes/ stuff gets natively supported in the kernel.
If not I will be trying to make my own version of Porteus. I have a kernel ready to go but the AUFS2 kernel stuff is a bit of a speed bump for me. If anyone has any tips or can lend a hand I would be most appreciative. So this is where I am at. I have been perfecting methods of compiling a custom kernel over the last week which is actually the easy part. Now on to making a live file system and then compressing the existing one over to lzma modules.
So I am sorry if I was gone for a while. All I did during that time was clear spam during my morning coffee. I will be checking in more regularly and hope to make some progress making a live distro for the DT. I will log my progress here and again if anyone has some tips for me on compiling aufs2 kernel support I am all ears.
quotaholic
Well now that that's over.... I would like to try to fulfill a promise to myself. Get a "GOOD" custom linux distribution made for the DT. This is something I wanted to do for longer than I can tell all of you. Daunting as this may be it needs to be done. A year and a half ago I shipped a tablet off to the developer behind Nimblex linux asking for help. While he did give us a distro in folder form none of us could get it to boot from our DT's. A similar package was sent to another and while they helped out quite a bit in the form of a mentor the task still needs to be done. I am not impressed with how Puppy linux runs on the DT so I need to try to improve upon. That and I cant seem to bend my mind around the puppy way. The reason I got in to linux was because I could force the computer to bend around my way of thinking.
Don't get me wrong I want to see android up and running on the DT. That would be more than huge. However I need to get this done first before taking any more projects on or putting effort to existing projects. My inspiration for making a good distro was seeing the Slax project continued. Slax is now called Porteus linux. There is also a sister effort going on called Fido-Slax. I may touch base with the devs behind Porteus to see how recompiling a kernel would go in the livecd environment and how to do it exactly. If I can add the Penmount touch screen drivers to their distro its pretty much good to go. I just want to make sure all this old geode and via 6656/ intel2200/ cisco air0/ aes/ stuff gets natively supported in the kernel.
If not I will be trying to make my own version of Porteus. I have a kernel ready to go but the AUFS2 kernel stuff is a bit of a speed bump for me. If anyone has any tips or can lend a hand I would be most appreciative. So this is where I am at. I have been perfecting methods of compiling a custom kernel over the last week which is actually the easy part. Now on to making a live file system and then compressing the existing one over to lzma modules.
So I am sorry if I was gone for a while. All I did during that time was clear spam during my morning coffee. I will be checking in more regularly and hope to make some progress making a live distro for the DT. I will log my progress here and again if anyone has some tips for me on compiling aufs2 kernel support I am all ears.
quotaholic