Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov

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• 1 TIAMAT // May 20, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  O, f*ck! Yu made your own distrib! OMG!11

• 2 Leonid Mamchenkov // May 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm

  Yes, I did.

• 3 TIAMAT // May 20, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  Emm, did anyone download it?

• 4 Leonid Mamchenkov // May 20, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  There were a few users, I remember. But since it was mostly an internal development for Thunderworx, I don’t think there were ever more than a 100 users outside.

  The distribution itself was heavily based on Red Hat Linux (7.1, if I remember correctly). It was changed to fit on the single CD and bring only the stuff that we cared about - SMP kernel, KDE desktop, Open Office, Evolution with MS Exchange integration, Exim, latest updates, and stuff like that. I remember I had to patch Red Hat installer (Anaconda), which was my first experience with Python. I also wrote a few build scripts, which were later replaced by the community built tools. It was a fun experience altogether.

• 5 Leonid Mamchenkov // May 20, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  By the way, if you are interested in Linux distributions which were developed in Cyprus, you should check out Hazard’s WISP-Dist. It’s a much more serious development, with a few thousand users worldwide. It’s a bit narrow targeted though.

  Also, here are some pictures from his Final Year Project at Intercollege, which can give you an idea of the hardware on which it runs.

• 6 TIAMAT // May 21, 2008 at 12:28 am

  Impressive, very impressive.

• 7 Leonid Mamchenkov // May 21, 2008 at 12:41 am

  Indeed so

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