ISO delayed but some good progress made.
The good news: The StormOS repository now has over 2,500 packages in it! 2,583 to be exact. Notable new packages include the latest version of Xorg, Qt4, GTK+, Glib (which appears to be working with...
View ArticleComments and Forums offline
Due to the massive amount of spam being posted to this site I have no choice but to disable both the forums and comments. Sorry.
View ArticleStormOS sticking with Nexenta, inheriting illumos kernel and slowly becoming...
For the last few months I've been working for Nexenta Systems on the next release of their free OS Nexenta Core Platform 4 (NCP4). NCP4 is pretty much a port of the base Debian Squeeze (not quite...
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And we have Xorg.... on NCP4
After a lot of hacking I finally got Xorg running on NCP4. Xfce hasn't been ported yet so I didn't have a lot to test but qtdemo seems to work flawlessly ;) read more
View ArticleSetting the bar low: StormOS Flash Pre-alpha checklist
I will be releasing a pre-alpha version of StormOS Flash in next few weeks. For those that don't follow the dev blog, StormOS Flash is a distribution based on NCP4 (NCP4 combines Debian Squeeze with...
View ArticleDebian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support
Debian has announced that they are going to introduce multiarch support for Wheezy (7.0) in 2013 which I think is great news. The original plan to solve the need for both 32/64bit on StormOS Flash...
View Articlestormos introduces multiarch support
StormOS now has multiarch support! Support for multiarch in StormOS has been achieved by porting dpkg and gcc-4.6 from Debian Wheezy and backporting multiarch support from binutils 2.21.X in Wheezy to...
View ArticleCalm before the storm
I have been able to generate working StormOS Flash ISO that appears to be fully functional (if you don't mind getting your hands dirty - that is) so I think it's getting close. If all goes to plan...
View Articlehosting sorted
I mentioned in my last post that due to the APT repositories growing faster than I had expected that I was running out of space and would likely not be able to host the StormOS Pre-Alpha ISO myself....
View ArticleFirst steps towards collaboration with Debian
A few months ago StormOS joined the Debian Derivatives Exchange. This means that StormOS is now on the Debian Census and the repository is being diffed against Debian proper to create a full set of...
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