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James Miller wrote:
>
> Looks like I'll need to update the link at 
> my add-ons page as well,  correct?  

Probably not.  The problem was the internal link from 
the BL1 homepage to the download.  As long as your 
link is to the homepage (which is now OK) or directly 
to baslin18.zip, there should be no problem.

> Btw, does BL1 have a new maintainer now?

No.  However, I am sometimes tempted to drop BL2 and 
go back to BL1 myself.  I was able to do so much more 
in the BL1 ramdisk -- I really liked the way it all 
fit together.  The 2.0 kernel and libc5 are so much 
cleaner.

Now that we have a version of AbiWord that works on 
BL1, it would be nice to go back to BL1 and do a word-
processing package (with preconfigured lpd and gs).

Naturally, I would update the kernel to the latest 2.0 
version and perhaps update to the latest libc5 library 
too.  

The biggest change with the new BL1 would be the HD
installation routine.  It would be similar to the
installation routine on BL2.  But, instead of putting 
BasicLinux on HD, it would install a minimal version 
of Slackware 7.1 (or 8.1 or whatever) from CDrom or 
downloaded packages.

However, this is just idle speculation.  I don't
really see it happening.  Although, who knows.

Cheers,
Steven