OSDev.org

OT: could someone suggets a lightweight Linux distro for really old computers? Preferably one with apache's httpd on the CD.

Wilkie wrote:Very jealous. Verizon is too scared to tread on Comcast's turf here, so I'm stuck with sharing the worst maintained connection in the world.

Bwhahahaha!! Mine is probably worse:

Also, if you are willing to use git and a git-based source host (and please attempt so!) This can help get around the learning curve when you start out. We also have a tutorial on our wiki. Don't let the weirdness deter you.

Troy Martin wrote: Bwhahahaha!! Mine is probably worse:

That's abysmal! But more importantly, and very off-topic, but you are from Vancouver, eh? This is really stupid, but I've always wanted to go to the Vancouver Art Gallery so I'd have a ticket. That way I could be very immature and say that I have a ticket to the V.A.G. Or maybe a shirt that said something like "I went to the V.A.G. and all I got was an appreciation of art and this lousy T-shirt." Or maybe if they had a fountain, I could get near it, snap a photo. The caption: "Getting wet at..."... you get the picture: I'm a terrible person. Seriously, same thing with naming your children, consider the initialisms!

Sounds silly, but that has been my honest motivation for getting to Vancouver for the last 3 years. That and I've heard it is pretty.

It's been pretty up until the last month. We're ranked worse than southern L.A. in gang activity recently.

The snow went away and came back, but it stopped after about an inch or so of the with fluffy evil.

darn i have a small problem
apache forbids me to see the website didn't happen yesterday

Gentoo allows you to set the target architecture yourself; i.e. you can go for i586 or even i486. But of course you wouldn't want to compile on the target machine, so you'd have to build everything on a faster box, then tarball the whole thing and get it installed on the target somehow.

Damn Small Linux - i think it can do a pentium mmx

My project is hosted on berlios ([url]developer.berlios.de[/url])
It give you everyithing you need:
svn or cvs repository
bugs management
mysql database.

Is very similar to sourceforge, and the accept Open Source OS's (the usually reject it saying: that they not host linux distributions, but if you reply them that your OS is not a Linux distro then they accept it, i dont' understand why they think that an Open Source os should be a Linux Distro).

The site and the forum are self hosted on a Dedicated Server that i share with few friends and we have root access.

finarfin wrote:i dont' understand why they think that an Open Source os should be a Linux Distro

Because Open Source == GPL == Linux.

At least in the minds of most.

I have my OS's site hosted at asmhackers.net, but the source is hosted at Gitorious. I also have a home server which is a PIII 700MHz computer with 512 MB of ram running Ubuntu. It hosts my bug tracker and my build server. That is just a PHP script that I have cron run at 5:00 am every morning that updates its git tree, checks if it has a successful build for that revision, and if not, it builds the kernel and then copies the resulting CD image and a source tarball to the web directory. It then inserts the results into a MySQL database that the web page draws from.

I may end up expanding the software that powers the build server and release it as well.

Also, one of my long term goals is to use dpkg and apt-get of my operating system's package manager, so I'm looking at setting up an apt repository on there as well.

All of my stuff is hosted on a Linode. Before it got restarted (by Linode - probably a host update), it had ~177 days of uptime. It does everything I could ask of it and I have absolutely no complaints with either the service*

* Well, aside from the fact that I get jealous of it's awesome connection speed :p

berkus wrote:ps/ and please, never ever use sourceforge, the world's worst project hosting service.

I've heard this more than once now, so why is sourceforge rated so badly?
I've been hosted there since 2007 and haven't had a problem yet so just wondering why people in the forum don't like the server.

SourceForge has a history of:

• unexpected, unannounced downtimes of undisclosed length (as in, "we'll be back, try later");
• a horrible, horrible user interface;
• an even worse administration interface;
• which changes every now and then, but not for the better;
• a hostility towards non-GPL-compatible projects that pi**es me off.

Those are only my gripes; other people might have others.

Solar wrote:SourceForge has a history of:

• unexpected, unannounced downtimes of undisclosed length (as in, "we'll be back, try later");
• a horrible, horrible user interface;
• an even worse administration interface;
• which changes every now and then, but not for the better;
• a hostility towards non-GPL-compatible projects that pi**es me off.

Those are only my gripes; other people might have others.

I agree. At first I thought SF.NET was the best but that soon changed, especially after I met Google Code and other hosts. Next to that, SF.NET is so slow, especially the downloads. Most of the downloads (doesn't matter what server) mostly don't even reach 200 kB/s here.

Combuster wrote:I have a dedicated computer of my own at home that's online 24/7.

Might be a topic full of selfhosters, but we here in Belgium fail with this. Most of the providers restrict you from hosting your own private servers at home, like Telenet (common ISP here in Belgium). Though some other providers still allow it. Still, I think it's pretty sad that they're forcing you to buy some companies server (or something equivalent) just to get you to pay for it. I have a couple of computers here perfectly capable of being a 24/7 server but noooooooooooo. So I'm pretty much forced to use a free host.

SF.net use to have an at least OK user interface, then it underwent the great switchover where they moved all their servers and decided to switch to a new interface as well(which I would never try to do at the same time) and now it's just a horrible javascript mess. There is so much crap that firefox freaks out half the time with the "unresponding script" thing here(though this computer isn't all that fast)

I tried getting hosted by them and got rejected because they are afraid your OS will become something more than a hobby and as a result you'll end up using SF for package management and such(which can take a lot of space)

I believe there is that 100 megs free host that supports subversion as well. For me, google code SVN is hella slow(taking like 3 minutes to do a commit and much longer to check out any decent size project)