Gerald Waugh wrote:
We have to do something since it looks like Qbalt is going noplace. I would like Ryan to at least deliver and iso that would allow you to easily install debian on a RaQ. That way some of us could paly with it. Maybe put bluepanel or other GUI interfaces on.
It's not going noplace. I hate to keep saying this, because I'm currently not delivering, but it's certainly not vaporware.
I've been working on that installer, and I've seperated out a userland without a GUI, but allows for virtual hosting (and adding users/domains via very basic bash scripts). I have situations currently, and have had for the last ~7+ months which make things extremely difficult. I'm having problems sorting this out, which is infuriating, and other parties are being increasingly problematic.
I'm sick of saying "it'll be sorted out soon", because quite frankly, I can't rely on other people anymore. Never trust people with decisions involving your time.
I apologise profusely to all. This has taken a long time (Qbalt was officially announced Dec 2002), and I understand that your patience has ran out.
I've been talking to flame (from bluepanel), and hopefully will be working with him to get bluepanel installable Restore CD style. Yesterday I finished a custom install CD of Debian for a wireless group I'm involved in; I'll be migrating that filesystem over to a whitebox, applying virtual host stuff (so postfix/apache/etc is preconfigured, along with /home/sites/<site>/ cobalt-style setups), tarballing it up, then getting a installer ready. It won't be elegant, but it'll work.
Qbalt isn't dead. Far from it. It's design is extremely complex, as almost everything is abstracted, and as a result, development is rather lengthy.
Again, anybody interested working on it, please contact me. In particular, those who have done xml (minidom?) stuff in python; your experience would be valuable.
R