Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Atomic Linux - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

I can not accept your project because we do not host distributions.
We do not have the resources to do that.

Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,

Rudy

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:52:03AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Stuart Longland <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Atomic Linux
> System name: atomiclinux
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> AtomicLinux (or Atomix) is a highly-customised GNU/Linux distribution aimed 
> at end users with skills ranging from the computer illiterate to the computer 
> expert.
> It aims to implement the upcomming Linux 2.6 kernel and include some of the 
> common drivers from nVidia, ATi and other companies (depending on licencing 
> -- not sure if these are 'free software' or not) along with some of the 
> lesser known systems such as the Zero-Install <http://zero-install.sf.net/> 
> package management system.
> Discussions of porting the 'ports' from FreeBSD has also be discussed and may 
> be attempted by this project, with the aim of extending it to allow building 
> from source or installing a prebuilt binary.
> It'll be a minimalist GNU/Linux distribution, including the basic KDE & Gnome 
> desktops, a few lightweight window managers & desktops, Mozilla, some instant 
> messenger clients (Gaim, EB-Lite, Ayttm, etc), IRC clients (XChat, BitchX, 
> KSirc, etc), OpenOffice, and other packages that would be useful for the home 
> user.
> It also aims to seemlessly roam between multiple networks, whether they be 
> dynamically configured via DHCP/BOOTP/RARP or statically.
> At this stage, there is no source code as yet, although it is likely that 
> AtomicLinux will be based on Linux From Scratch 
> <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/>.
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> Typical base system packages: 
> <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view/4.1/chapter04/packages.html>
> KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, anything else we include.
> 
> Other Comments:
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