[Classic-discuss] about tinysofa end of live

[Mikael Bak]

On Sunday 04 March 2007 17:54, Rolf Deenen wrote:
> dear list,
>
> First of all i want want to thank all contributors of the tinysofa
> distribution for the fine distro they´ve put together. I am very sorry it
> will dissapear. I recieved the notice in my mailbox just one day after
> getting y (home-) server running :-( . I have a few questions about the
> "end of life":
>
> - As it seems no updates will be made available. Will the current packages
> be available for download in the future?

I will still host the tinysofa master repository server. I still hope to 
collect some interest in continuing the development of this great 
distribution. 

Additionally the mirror in Budapest will be online. I don't think the other 
mirrors close down if we can announce that we'll continue development in some 
extent.

> - What happend to "tinysofa"? The last time i looked (long time ago) there
> were "tinysofa" and "tinysofa classic". I can´t find any trace of tinysofa
> anymore.

I don't know either. It just silently disappeared. At least I never saw any 
notice about it.

> - As tinysofa will cease to exist: What are the most obvious alternatives?
> Probably trustix, but perhaps anybody has idea´s about others to...
>

Perhaps Trustix, but as a matter of fact tinysofa and trustix have gone in 
quite different directions. If I were you, I'd still be on this list. As I 
said, I'd like to try to have at least bug fixes and security patches still 
online for quite some time. Maybe there will be no tinysofa 2.1 or 3.0 in a 
while but 2.0 with security fixes and patches should be possible to have 
going. At least this is my goal.

Therefore I suggest that everybody who is still interested in having tinysofa 
classic 2.0 updates and security fixes in the future send a request to me in 
a private email (so we don't spam the list) with some notes about skills and 
I try to talk to the developers about perhaps restructure the development 
process and lift most of the burden from the 2-4 developers doing all the 
hard work.
I think with a little help we can still have this boat floating for quite some 
time :-) At least I hope so.

> greetings,
> Rolf Deenen
>

Mikael
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