A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...

amigolinux has been gone for a long time now, but I only just found out the forum was no longer visible. I've been co-operating with a couple of other folks to bring a new distro to light, and was just e-mailing one of them to give the address of this forum to use for our development communication. then I didn't find the forum page listed with the other distros. But, having seen the sticky on the distro forum page, I read that it was not gone -just invisible. Somehow, I managed to remember the amigolinux-56 part of the address... and get back here.

And so, my esteemed Jeremy and moderators, I'd like to humbly re-up this forum for our project. It is in fact still under the banner of the amigolinux project which has been hosted on ibiblio.org since 2003 or so. This new sub-project is called KISS and is built from scratch to serve as the basis for small turnkey 'appliance' distros -for netbooks, tablets and other smallish devices. There will be a LiveCD version as well.

I've already 'talked up' the friendly folks, mature attitude and stability of LQ to my co-developers. We live on three continents, so the forum would provide a nice platform for our cooperation. And the other people involved are nice -nicer than me I'd say.

A Google search for "Amigo Linux" also brings up this forum, so it seems you are right, it has simply been de-listed from the "Distributions" section. In that case, I can't imagine it would be much trouble to re-enable it. If you haven't already, this might be the kind of thing you should contact Jeremy directly about.

I remember Amigo Linux, I think I may have even used some of the binary packages from it (I seem to recall a GTK 1.x build of Firefox that I got for an older machine) at one time. I believe it was Slackware based, correct? Certainly the packages were compatible, at least.

You say that this new project is a new distribution from scratch, so I assume it has no direct relation to Slackware? But given the name, can we assume it will have some Slack-like design concepts in terms of packages and system setup?

It is interesting, I have been mulling over the idea of putting together my own special-purpose live CD for some time, and I had been planning on simply starting with the next stable Slackware release, pulling out everything I didn't want, and adding in my new packages and scripts. But this new project might be a good fit as well, do you have any more concrete information or plans, or is this still in the planning phases?

Hey Gilbert

I got the link to the thread thanks
and I am working on an "optional" light fast Xdialog GUI pkgtool
that I have been using for a long time now just making some mods for KISS
It has dependency checking ,rebuilding of pre installed packages
*It will help "me" in the crossover too



Joe

So...it this project DOA? Was interested in hearing more about it, but doesn't seem like anything is happening. Certainly not making much of a case for putting Amigo back on the distro list.

If this is still live, Gnashley, it would be a better idea to write to Jeremy to get the forum reopened, that way you can discuss timescales and things.

Sorry guys, but not DOA. MS3FGX, I had written a really nice response to you and then opera pulled a crash on me. I've been working out some last kinks before beginning to upload material.
Xavier, I'll write Jeremy about getting the forum listed again.