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

[Tony Gettig]

Bruce Smith 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).
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>>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.

Now that is an interesting thought...distro versus a set of packages. 
After thinking about for a bit, I would agree with you, Bruce. Kind of 
like LTSP...it can run on just about any distro you choose, provided 
dependencies are met.

But then again, you have things like the K-12 Linux distro, which takes 
a whole bunch of educational apps and LTSP, bundling it all together 
with a fairly standard installer (Red Hat installer slightly modified). 
I do think that project is considered a distribution.

LCCP - Linux Cyber Cafe Project
or
Cyber Cafe Linux

Neato. :)

> 
> 
>>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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> And/or TK/TCL apps.
> 
>  - BS