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Hi all...

Today our BTS is already up and working (have to test). The base problem was, that 2 of our disks gone wrong due overheating (the refrigeation of the room gone wrong). Fortunately there wasn't significant data loss. The disks were replaced with new ones, and a new hd controller card replaced the one on the motherboard. And this caused the second fault: something was wrong with card (or the driver), but caused nice failures. I had to reinstall the sys and put back to the integrated controller to get work the disks properly. Now we are working on the cleaning of the sys and re-syncing the raid arrays.

Sorry for the long failure.

BMH1980 started to create a live-creator script last week, based on linux-live.org's pkg. Created a livecd kernel, a chroot build environment. Here you can find them. The 32bit installation is delayed to the next week, maybe tomorrow or so ( i had no time and mood to do it ). If it's ready, i'll finish my scripts and will create the livecd. Everything depends on my workplace: if i'll have too many things to do, i'll be too tired to work at home and everything will be delayed.
So let's start jittering for us...
Other...
I think the new design of the homepage will be ready only next year, maybe in January. The new bootsplash is more important then the homepage...

I've been talking with VMiklos and we decided to rewrite the whole webpage. We are waiting for a new design. Till it is not ready, we were talking the new things. For example the pkg search page will be rewritten. The database will be redesigned, because the current version is a bit slow and a bit buggy. We would like to create a better and easier way to translate the page: using gettext (if it's possible).
As we were talking about these things, i've been thinking about the FwLive homepage. The new subdomain will be ready perhaps this night or tomorrow. The address is: http://fwlive.frugalware.hu . Here will be available the scripts I've written for the live configuration. This weekend i'll continue writing the scripts, next week i'll install the 32bit version of Frugalware and will test the scripts. If everything is ready, maybe after Christmas the LiveCD will be ready.

As some people know, I'm working on the Frugalware LiveCD, called FwLive.
Here's a small status report...

There was a "working" version, but not very good. That worked properly on my machine and when I started it in console-only mode, then on other machines. But I've had no time to continue it and that were a small probe, nothing else. Now I started to write the "setup" scripts (scripts that create fstab, xorg.conf, configure some things). The /proc/cmdline parser (this "file" contains the parameters that got the loader when system started) is quite ready and calls the xconfig script if we start with X. The /etc/fstab creator is also quite ready. I mean the core things are ready, just have to insert them into a clean i686 system to work properly. Everyone can try them here.

Caution! There is no warranty that these script work properly on your computer. Please be careful!