Re: Any new release?

Hello,

My personal target for the next release of Familiar is late October 2007, but 
like many opensource projects the real answer is "when it is ready".  :-)

On Monday 20 August 2007 05:28 pm, Rene Wagner wrote:

<snip>

> As far as I'm concerned, those particular plans date back to March/April
> 2007 (although the discussion started much earlier - back in March
> 2006) and heavily depend upon a few other things falling into place,
> most importantly a new toolchain and the availability of the new dev
> cluster.
>

The toolchain was completed the day before I left for LinuxWorld Expo and OSU.  
I just got into town a few hours ago and am heading off to bed, but attached 
is a photo of the new dev cluster systems.  It appears that all the parts 
have arrived to finish building the new servers.  I will make a more formal 
announcement on Friday.

> The basic idea was that Familiar would need to take a few steps back in
> order to make significant progress again. It would result in a major
> overhaul - leading us back to a package-centric development model
> (unlike the tree/snapshot based OE model) as well as towards a modern
> distro that's up to current standards (as defined by mainstream
> distros).

Agreed!


--George France

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