Re: is intimate dead?

trixter wrote:

>I am curious if intimate is dead. The mail archives go from Janurary
>2003 to dec 2004 with no posts on the intimate page, and in Dec it was
>me asking a question, 1 reply to that question, and 1 spam message
>(better than some lists I might add).
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Sorry to say it, but Intimate is pretty much dead. There's still a few
people lurking around on the IRC channel, mostly for historical
reasons.. and the site is still up on handhelds.org... but there hasn't
been any active development going on for over 12 months now.

>I had another idea for intimate, allowing it to work on more devices (ie
>those without cf/sd/etc cards) and having *no* dependancy on familiar.
>There are still a couple of things I have to work on to make this
>happen, but so far it looks really good.
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The problem for those without cf/sd/etc cards was always finding
sufficient space to cram debian into. The base image was over 65MB, and
a workable system soon grew to 300MB. Once you start trying to cut away
extra bits to gain space, you get to something like familiar.

The dependancy on familiar was removed a couple of years ago..but read
on...

>This would be more of a pure debian solution, would the intimate
>community want something like this or should it go elsewhere?
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The way intimate currently works and installs, it's pure-debian plus
some extra .deb packages on the hh.org repositary.

>My reasons for doing this are the awkward way that intimate is currently
>installed, relying on a different distribution to get to the point that
>you can install intimate.
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I won't argue that the install's not the most streamlined process
possible, but I think you might have been misled by reading the 'Install
instructions' document that you see when you click the 'Installation'
link on the lefthand edge of the website.

The problem here is that none of the people who were hacking on intimate
liked updating HTML pages... so the install instrcutions link on the
left still points to install.html instead of install-howto. I would fix
that right now, but I've long-since forgotten my password to log-in to
the server.

The new install docs that Chris wrote were actually the last bit of news
posted onto the news page and can be found at
http://intimate.handhelds.org/docs/install-howto/.

There's actually another small update after the last news pages since I
created a h3800 compatible set of install images with a 'dialog' based
ncurses interface which allows installation without a serial console by
using on-screen keyboard and menus :) You can find those install images
at http://intimate.handhelds.org/h3800/

There's no reliance on anything but the CRL bootloader and a CF card.

Hope that helps.. and sorry for being so slack.. If you want interactive
help, hang around on the IRC channel for 24 hours or so saying 'Tangent'
a lot :)

Cheers,

Jim/Tangent

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Received on Tue Dec 21 2004 - 17:56:40 EST