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25 Sep 04 |
(Source: ruby-talk, Andrew Walrond, Oct 24, 2003) Rubyx is a ruby based linux distro. It is also the name of the script which creates Rubyx the distro and handles the package management
In light of the recent rubyx/lunar threads, I thought it sensible to make the rubyx source available for scrutiny by the ruby community. You can get it using Bitkeeper like this:
bk clone bk://ftp.rubyx.org/rubyx
cd rubyx
bk co
You'll see three files:
rubyx - The man script
init - The ruby based init script
strfile.rb - Some code shared by rubyx and init
Important! The build machine must be capable of running the generated code,
How it all works will require further discussion, but if you want to get involved, it would be a good idea to ask rubyx to download the sources. To get everything, you'll need 4Gb and broadband ;) For just the basics, it's a fraction of that but I don't have the figure to hand. Do this as root...
mkdir /my/rubyx/dir (or something like)
./rubyx --root /my/rubyx/dir --download base net disk (for the basics)
./rubyx --root /my/rubyx/dir --download all (for everything)
If you don't have broadband, you might want to use --dj 1 to reduce the number of parallel downloads.
I wrote this in part to learn ruby, so any comments/suggestions on the code or style are welcomed. Although I am writing this in Kmail on my laptop running Rubyx, rubyx is still very much work in progress, so don't expect too much.
Lots more to discuss, but this will do for starters :)
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