I have not been very good about posting diary entries, my
last entry is aboutsix months old. Since
then I my old company had financial trouble, and I was laid
off.
I am now working for Scyld, doing development of
the Beowulf cluster operation system.
I am currently working
on our alpha distribution. As part of the project, I have
written a build system that allows for easy creation of a
Red Hat CD with updates. The existing ones that I found
were missing some important features, such as proper RPM
version comparison. Once I have it working on both
i386 and alpha, I will release it, and send it to the
redhat-cdrom-howto author.
After I get this version of the alpha distribution done,
I
am thinking about hacking on aboot to
give it options like syslinux,
so it can show user configurable messages at boot, have
named boot labels, have a timeout, and have different
default and timeout options. Aboot seems to be cleanly coded
(at least the C part), and I think that most of these
changes can be
integrated into the main distribution without too many
problems.
I am also hoping that linux 2.2.19 will be released
soon, as I want to get a new kernel ready for our next
release/errata, and don't want to try to track all the
patches done to 2.2.18. I also want to get the update done
for somewhat selfish reasons, as I want to get USB working
on my
laptop, and would like to try out ext3 and some other
patches that are not integrated into the main kernel
tree.