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  • From: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] new user - some questions on installing/security/grsecurity
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 18:39:43 +0200

Am Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:05:46 +0800
schrieb "Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <jfs.world AT gmail.com>:

> And if so, which one? And how about the "silver-thistle" isos in
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/sourcemage/iso/x86_64/
> - what are those for?

Last x86_64 installations I whitnessed were made from the thistles.
It's a simpler boot cd that basically contains a chroot tarball and a
script to ease extraction of that onto a partition and entering the
chroot for (re)building the system. You can also directly use a chroot
tarball and extract it onto a partition / filesystem for a vm...

Please note that the main problem with x86_64 support is the iso, not the
running system. A SMGL system tends to be installed once and then
updated for years - that may be a reason we are stronger in keeping
systems alive than creating new installations;-) Once you booted in
some sort of smgl on your x86_64 the casting of stuff works fine; we
have "archspecs" for the 64 bitters and are also taking care for them
in spells where it matters. There's also a smgl-emul32 spell that
installs a set of extra 32bit libraries to be able to run 32bit
binaries, as we don't do multilib (which is a _good_ thing imho).
We just lag in creating isos for fresh installs...

We don't have an iso for alpha systems (yet), but my XP1000 workstation
is happily running smgl - bootstrapped from a gentoo install, even.


Alrighty then,

Thomas.




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