[ANN] Rubyx OS version 42

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Ok, The new release is available. It contains loads of new packages; Mozilla,
Firefox, Thunderbird, Epiphany, Gnomemeeting 1.00, Kde 3.2.1, Gnome 2.4.2,
linux-2.6.3 …

There have been some important bugfixes and improvements to the rubyx script
itself, so please upgrade!

From an existing rubyx distro, simply do

    rubyx --configure rubyx version 42 --upgrade rubyx

Rubyx is largely undiscovered as yet. It is the most progressive linux distro
out there, with features people have yet to grasp. The package management
system is, to say the least, revolutionary. Secure user-mode builds, packages
installed to their own private directorys, Crazily fast parallel and
distributed builds etc etc. And all written in Ruby, obviously!

If you haven’t tried it yet, please do!

Due to the massive (and expensive!) bandwidth required to satisfy Rubyx
downloads, the next version of rubyx will sport WhiteWater, our very own
distributed download system. WhiteWater is a bittorrent-like system where
users help each other by uploading chunks of files to each other while
downloading themselves, but has better facilities for handling whole
directory trees of shared files (In our case, the Rubyx package source tree).

I need some volunteers to test Whitewater before release, so if you would like
to help, send me an email.

Onwards and Upwards…

Andrew Walrond

PS Rubyx v42 script is available now; the ISO’s are building as I speak and
will appear sometime later today.

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Hi, i 'am currently a gentoo user :slight_smile:
I like ruby and i want to try rubyx, is any way to chroot some stage1
like?
if it’s posible, where can I download that.
I can’t found any link in rubyx homepage.
Thanks in advance
Angel

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El vie, 12-03-2004 a las 10:36, Andrew Walrond escribió:

Ok, The new release is available. It contains loads of new packages; Mozilla,
Firefox, Thunderbird, Epiphany, Gnomemeeting 1.00, Kde 3.2.1, Gnome 2.4.2,
linux-2.6.3 …

There have been some important bugfixes and improvements to the rubyx script
itself, so please upgrade!

From an existing rubyx distro, simply do

    rubyx --configure rubyx version 42 --upgrade rubyx

Rubyx is largely undiscovered as yet. It is the most progressive linux distro
out there, with features people have yet to grasp. The package management
system is, to say the least, revolutionary. Secure user-mode builds, packages
installed to their own private directorys, Crazily fast parallel and
distributed builds etc etc. And all written in Ruby, obviously!

If you haven’t tried it yet, please do!

Due to the massive (and expensive!) bandwidth required to satisfy Rubyx
downloads, the next version of rubyx will sport WhiteWater, our very own
distributed download system. WhiteWater is a bittorrent-like system where
users help each other by uploading chunks of files to each other while
downloading themselves, but has better facilities for handling whole
directory trees of shared files (In our case, the Rubyx package source tree).

I need some volunteers to test Whitewater before release, so if you would like
to help, send me an email.

Onwards and Upwards…

Andrew Walrond

PS Rubyx v42 script is available now; the ISO’s are building as I speak and
will appear sometime later today.

3

I used to be a gentoo user :slight_smile:

Rubyx doesn’t have any stages, like gentoo. You just type one little command
and sit back while your entire distro takes shape.

If you can’t be bothered to do the build, download one of the iso’s (which
will appear shortly on ftp.rubyx.org). They contain pre-build basic distro
tarballs, not unlike a gentoo ‘stage’, which you can unpack and chroot into.
See ‘Installing Rubyx’ on the homepage for more information.

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On Friday 12 Mar 2004 14:02, Angel Martin wrote:

Hi, i 'am currently a gentoo user :slight_smile:
I like ruby and i want to try rubyx, is any way to chroot some stage1
like?

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Hi, i 'am currently a gentoo user :slight_smile:
I like ruby and i want to try rubyx, is any way to chroot some stage1
like?

I used to be a gentoo user :slight_smile:
:slight_smile:

Rubyx doesn’t have any stages, like gentoo. You just type one little command
and sit back while your entire distro takes shape.

Umm, that means if you want to install it without download the entire iso,
you must have a working system with a full install of ruby and
rubyx dependencies in it, no?
If I understood well the procedure is install rubyx(the package tool) in
your current distro, and do something like:
rubyx --root-dir /mnt/rubyx --install Base Net Disk --make-devices
and then chroot to /mnt/rubyx and you have a minimun system in that?

The other way appear to be download base and:
untar base-arch.tar.bz2 in a directory
I don’t find theese files so i can’t probe it myself so my question is?
Will be a minimun-i386.tar.bz2 for download to try the distro without
download a entire big ISO?
Maybe this is rescue iso you mention in rubyx.org doc?

If you can’t be bothered to do the build, download one of the iso’s (which
will appear shortly on ftp.rubyx.org). They contain pre-build basic distro
tarballs, not unlike a gentoo ‘stage’, which you can unpack and chroot into.
See ‘Installing Rubyx’ on the homepage for more information.

The comparison with gentoo stage1 I made is for the “logic” of:
I download stage1(~8Mb),copy to dir, untar, chroot,config and
"scripts/bootstrap.sh" and that’s all.

Thanks,
Angel

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El vie, 12-03-2004 a las 15:15, Andrew Walrond escribió:

On Friday 12 Mar 2004 14:02, Angel Martin wrote:

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I can think of no good reason why not, so I’ll make the tarballs available
with the isos. Give it a couple of hours and they will be on the ftp site.

Andrew

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On Friday 12 Mar 2004 16:54, Angel Martin wrote:

The other way appear to be download base and:
untar base-arch.tar.bz2 in a directory
I don’t find theese files so i can’t probe it myself so my question is?
Will be a minimun-i386.tar.bz2 for download to try the distro without
download a entire big ISO?