Re: [Linux] Future HH releases... (now that Familiar .4 is almost ready).

/ jg_at_pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) was heard to say:
| There is one remaining question: does there need to be a HH v.22 release
| to ease this transition (in particular, with a new glibc to help the
| situation)? Remember that building/testing such a release comes out of
| our hide, and will slow conversion to Familiar. Or should we go directly
| to Familiar .4, and concentrate all our resources on getting a stable
| consistent environment?

As a complete novice (well, with iPAQs anyway, not Linux), I was able
to get both HH v.20 and subsequently Familiar/bleeding running with
little difficulty.

I suggest you go straight to Familiar v.4

| We particularly like the ipkg packaging system in Familiar, which should
| make it much easier for people to exchange prebuilt binaries.

Yes, indeed. On that point, I'd like to suggest that some of the
larger ipkgs (like Emacs :-) be configured to install in /usr/local/
instead of /usr/. Given the memory constraints of the iPAQ, I've
moved /usr/local/ onto a separate CF card.

Just a thought.

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