3MX-rc2.1 now available

[SgtStoner]

I think that the 3MX Images should be distributed Via Bittorrent!!

That way every time a new user downloads and seed they are increasing the speed and availability of the images!!

What do you guys think?

I think its a great idea. There are Legal BitTorrent sites that allow sharing of Linux Distros such as:
http://www.linux23.com
http://linuxtracker.org
http://www.tuxdistro.com

[duttydea]

duttydea, was that rc2 or 2.1 you uploaded? Hopefully 2.1.  As rc1 and rc2 respectively should be considered 'dead'. Those were the first 2 initial releases and thanks to everybody who tried them, became bug testing releases.

It'd be great to have rc1.1, rc2.1 and the upcoming rc3 uploaded to faster servers and/or torrented. I just dont want old buggy releases floating around as it would confuse people (not that my naming scheme for each release doesn't confuse enough already.. heh)

Cheers.

It is RC2.1 (typo)

It downloaded @ about 202KB/s according to IE7!!

[scorn]

Hey Wicknix, this new rc is really good, and I'm very impressed with it. 
I'd like to contribute a few bits to it, but I'm having trouble getting my cross-compile and sysroot setup.
I have a working uclibc setup which works OK for basic static linked apps, but it's clearly missing with the shared libs.
Can you please post about how you put together your sandbox, cross-compiler and sysroot ? What is your platform and sources?
If we can establish a reliable setup, then many more people can help contribute apps, bugfixes and builds to this great little setup.

scorn.

[wicknix]

scorn, thanks. You'll really like rc3 then. Actually most of 3MX is a mix of debian etch and lenny packages, a few things taken from xenium (vlc for example) and the others i built using OE (open embedded). I basically started by extracting the default OS, stripped out the garbage i didn't want and added upon it.

My long term goal is to build a complete system from the ground up with open embedded and also include a package feed to go with it (would use ipkg). I've done this a few times before. I was a developer for jlime (jlime.com) and i built userlands for the HP Jornada 720 and the NEC Mobilepro 900c along with a few thousand packages. I just whipped together 3MX as a "quick fix" to tide myself and others over for awhile as i couldn't stand the default interface and lack of programs.

I have my current OE configuration files uploaded if you'd like to browse through them. They are far from complete, but work well enough to build some applications. Once i finish tweaking them i'll upstream them to OE to be included in it by default for these machines.

http://www.freeshells.ch/~wicked74/alpha400/OE/

Cheers.