Spring Cleaning and More
Foster Git Repo Given a Second Chance Some time last year I accidentally pushed some source tarballs that created huge objects in the git repo for Foster. Our newest contributor repaired it but we lost revision history in the process. Since we’re still in pre-release and working out design still I’ve gone ahead and approved … Continue reading Spring Cleaning and More
Curious about Surro Linux?
This post is intended to provide a rundown of exactly what we’re doing and why, to comprehensively include all of our updates and ambitions as they currently are, as there have been some direction changes that are notably significant, and, it seemed like it would be good to create a view for people to see … Continue reading Curious about Surro Linux?
Breakthrough: Host Build Environment Abstraction
I’m not dead, really! Long break after some contract work. I have found a way to successfully abstract away the host’s build environment, allowing us to move a little faster. Rather than be informative and posting the link to the updates, I’m going to leave this announcement as is, mostly to give me time to … Continue reading Breakthrough: Host Build Environment Abstraction
New Mailing List and More
I’ve decided to go ahead and prop up the mailing list as a new communication path. I’m considering removing the bug tracker as while it was really productive for a while we just don’t have enough people until we get to release status. Not decided yet. I’m going to be doing quick bursts on the … Continue reading New Mailing List and More
Current State of Milestone 2 out of 5
I haven’t touched it since my last post. We’re currently on Milestone 2. I’ve been working on a closed source project called T-ORCH, an application-layer orchestration solution designed for large scale enterprise environments, as an effort to fund the SURRO Linux project. Once sold I hope to work on SURRO full time after we get … Continue reading Current State of Milestone 2 out of 5
Contact Info for Chris Punches
Some very interesting people expressed interest in the SURRO Linux project. Anyone curious on joining the team of greybeards or general inquiries feel free to reach out to me personally at punches.chris@gmail.com. I don’t think it’s any secret any more that this is one of my projects. -Chris Punches
Examplar Minor Release to 1.6 Beta
As mentioned previously, a new feature was needed to be added to Examplar to allow much greater simplicity in the Foster build to make its content more distributable and I could definitely see that affecting usage due to the removal of the need to hardcode paths in the various files. So, we’ve added it. Instructions … Continue reading Examplar Minor Release to 1.6 Beta
Foster Initial Run
Right off the bat I noticed that there are some features that will make the foster builds quite a bit easier. The most prominent feature I’d like to see added next will be a config file that sets any enviornment variables the user would like any executables that get called to have in their environment. … Continue reading Foster Initial Run
What are Units? What are Plans?
So you’ve got Examplar compiled and you’re ready to start automating the world. If you’re thinking “how do I configure this thing”, this article is for you. Definitions Units A Unit is an automation definition, written in JSON in a UNIT FILE. Deeper into Examplar’s internals, Units and Tasks have slightly different functions, but for … Continue reading What are Units? What are Plans?