[CS-FSLUG] ICHTHUX Linux Test

Don Parris gnumathetes at gmail.com
Fri May 20 15:22:10 CDT 2005


On 5/20/05, Raphaël Pinson <raphink at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le Vendredi 20 Mai 2005 07:37, Christopher Rose a écrit:
> > I am testing ICHTHUX Linux again on my Compaq Presario 7478. Not bad. I did
> > notice one problem with it though. Namely it will not work in either my
> > gateway or dell machine. I think that it may be a case of the xconfig that
> > each machine needs. What is ironic about this is that Knoppix 3.7 will run
> > in those machines, but 3.8 won't. Any thoughts? Also, I noticed that
> > ICHTHUX doesn't seem to have an install option. I was hoping it would as
> > this wouldn't be a bad distribution to have installed on a computer with
> > only a few gb of disk space.
> >
> > Pax,
> > Christopher Rose
> >
> > Linux Counter User: #350477
> > http://www.counter.li.org
> 
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> The only ISOs released so far are only Live CDs. We now begin the "real work"
> on Ichthux, which is making packages, and later making an installer from
> Debian installer. The final goal of Ichthux is not to create a Live CD,
> although this is where we began.
> Considering the amount of programs I had to remove to make the Ichthux Live
> CD, it is possible that I lost some functionnality that were present in 3.8.
> I hope it's not the case, but you never know...
> I hope we're able to release a first installable version before the end of
> this year. We have more and more developpers and there is good will around
> this project. God willing, there will be an installable version soon
> enough :)
> 
> Raphaël
> 
> ------------------------------------

I'll be watching the dev list for an installable beta to be announced!
 I've got a box or two to test it on (450MHz boxes)  I can't wait!

Don
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