[KLUG Members] Can anyone say...Boogies?

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:40:10 -0500, Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:

>I don't know if what "we" made for Boogies could really be called a 
>distro, but it had some pretty nifty little apps that could be retrofitted 
>to just about anything (IMHO and as I recall).

The only thing it was really lacking was a well-packaged installer, and as I
recall, we didn't do a lot WRT probing hardware. However, it was a complete
Linux OS configuration, from kernel to window manager, and it had a well-
defined installation procedure that worked every time. If that's not a distro,
then it's a few man-days work away from one. Even in it's current shape, (and
I still have the CDs) it could be installed and gotten to work quickly, given
some knowledge of CLI, tar, lilo, and similar tools.

The effort could be repeated, with todays software... Boogies was done with
Red Hat 6.0/6.1 as I recall. Several QT 1.4 apps were written for that pro-
ject.
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