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

[MPs]

never mind that, I was making a note to myself, sorry


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, MPs wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, 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).
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> Would it be possable to put the packages on a
>
> >
> > > 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
> >
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