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

[Bruce Smith]

> >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.

IMO, it should NOT be made into a distro.  It should be a set of
packages that can be installed on the user's distro of choice.

> 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.

And/or TK/TCL apps.

 - BS