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rubyx
Getting Rubyx
Stay with me here! I'm not going to bore you with starting ftp client and burning the iso but this subject deserves its own paragraph because this is in fact where the potential user collides head-on with one unique aspect of Rubyx: in order to even get Rubyx it is first neccessary to install White Water, a P2P application similar to Bittorrent but written especially for Rubyx and designed to distribute not only the whole isos but also the individual packages that make up the system. This was a creative solution to a common problem faced by many small projects: one of hosting and distribution. Rubyx was created by just one person, and the cost of hosting and bandwidth consumed by downloads quickly became too high for his pocket, hence this unusual approach. These days Rubyx is distributed solely from its creator's home ADSL connection, with help of others willing to contribute by running White Water proxies. So far this works quite well, but it does mean that in order to even contemplate getting Rubyx one needs to already run a Linux system that can download and compile White Water, which is only distributed as a source tarball. So Windows users need not apply at this stage, sorry!
well, i'm looking for white water packages..
anyone?
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