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Icadyptes
Icadyptes is a new Linux distribution in development; this is it's wiki. It is based on Arch Linux and is aimed at satisfing the greatest geek while being easily usable by an average user.
This is yet another project of mine (Teran McKinney/sega01). I want the development process to be as open as possible and open to change. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions to the way I am developing this, or for the distribution itself. Sorry for the lack of content, more should come soon.
bioe007 gave me some excellent advice to write a "vision" of sorts. I have finished a document that outlines what I am hoping for, though without any specifics. See: http://go-beyond.org/newdistro/vision.txt
Status
The torrent was just posted. For the curious or those interested in developing, who are not afraid to loose all data on their box: http://www.openbay.org/torrent/10/icadyptesdevel.iso . This is a console-only ISO with development packages. Note: this is a new tracker. I was having problems with the other one though I am still keeping it going. Please use this one instead.
I don't have much time to write about what it has exactly, but here are some things:
2.6.22.12 kernel with CFS patches and some other goodies.
coreutils and Busybox mixed into corebins (I think I have worked out all of the breaks).
`abs` uses rsync to my home server. `abs-arch` is the classic ABS and syncs from Arch to /var/abs/arch/ .
Lua :-)
No GPM or Perl *ducks from the flaming Perl arrows*
Hard to pronounce name (key feature too, but it will likely change :-) )
openntpd
netcfg2
And... well, you'll just have to see for yourself :-).
I will be handing out a few root-access and user-level accounts on boxen here with it installed.
IRC Channel and Forums
The semi-official IRC channel for this is #icadyptes on irc.freenode.net.
The forums: http://icadyptes.smfforfree3.com
Main things that need to be written and discussed
A new name for the distribution.
What is included in a default desktop and default server installation.
Goals of the project.
