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File manager for Icadyptes

2009-04-15T12:44:34Z

Today I was a bit surprised, why we don't have a some kind of file manager in a distributive? Even in ...

Bugs, errors, inaccuracies

2009-03-27T13:27:48Z

I'm not sure, whether I chosen a correct part of forum for this, but it seems that we don't have a topic for reporting bugs and errors in distro.
So, i decided to make one

Ok, I just installed Icadyptes 0.2 and got some interesting messages during setup process:

1. "Warning! Your mke2fs.conf file does not define the ext3 filesystem type. You probably need to install an updated mke2fs.conf file."
2. "Loading package data...Checking dependencies...
Warning: dependency cycle detected
Warning: tzdata will be installed before its glibc dependency

And during the boot process:
1. Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus-type methods
2. Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus-type methods

Software License for Icadyptes

2009-03-26T21:00:53Z

Icadyptes will certainly stay open source, but I was hoping for some feedback in regards for what to license the distro as a whole (or parts of it) under. Currently it is on the GPLv3, but I think we may want to put some things into the public domain, such as basic RC scripts.

This isn't totally intuitive, so I will explain how I think distribution licensing works (IANAL). Licensing a distribution applies to the custom portions of the it, such as the init scripts, build scripts, patches, and custom code. Of course the packaged software keeps its own licenses, but we (probably mostly Arch) wrote the PKGBUILDs. At first glance, I think the build scripts are very valuable to someone looking to profit off of a distribution, since there are hundreds of quirks and little things that must be done for the system to work (you can't just ./configure;make;make install to all source tarballs and expect to have a booting system).

I personally like the GPLv3, LGPLv3, and public domain. Some of the Creative Commons licenses look nice, but I haven't researched them too much. Between those three I think we could license the distro into portions. I think stuff like our makepkg hacks should stay under Pacman's GPL, but I'd like most short scripts to be public domain. I don't want to require that people give credit in the source (or binary product) due to some 10 line scripts. On the other hand, I would not like to see the distro as a whole be copied, have a couple tweaks and a name change, and have it closed off and be sold.

Any thoughts or suggestions for this?

Thanks!

Hello Icadyptes

2009-03-26T20:23:15Z

Heya sega01, B!

Stopped by to see how Icadyptes was coming. Love this new forum. Keep up the good work. I'll be drifting in and out as usual. Let me know if I can do anything for you.

Zeq

Tags are cool

2009-02-12T19:45:21Z

Don't you agree?

Tag testing

2009-02-11T23:27:44Z

Yes, it's a testing post for the new tags feature. What did you expect?

ZOMG ZOMG NU KERNAL

2009-01-24T12:11:09Z

When are we gonna see kernal 2.6.29-rc2 .

This distro is so outdated

Icadyptes 0.2 is released!

2009-01-16T02:03:54Z

And I'm too tired to do much more than link to a blog post. Many thanks to everyone :-).

Cheers!

New Forum!

2009-01-14T07:29:22Z

Icadyptes is getting somewhere. If you've been around for long enough, you may remember the old ad-ridden free forum host we used which got about two topics, but we intend to put this one to good use.

PS: PunBB is win.

Cheers!