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First steps towards collaboration with Debian 25 Oct 2011 | 05:03 pm
A few months ago StormOS joined the Debian Derivatives Exchange . This means that StormOS is now on the Debian Census and the repository is being diffed against Debian proper to create a full set of p...
hosting sorted 5 Oct 2011 | 12:30 am
I mentioned in my last post that due to the APT repositories growing faster than I had expected that I was running out of space and would likely not be able to host the StormOS Pre-Alpha ISO myself. S...
Calm before the storm 12 Sep 2011 | 07:10 pm
I have been able to generate working StormOS Flash ISO that appears to be fully functional (if you don't mind getting your hands dirty - that is) so I think it's getting close. If all goes to plan Sto...
stormos introduces multiarch support 21 Aug 2011 | 06:54 pm
StormOS now has multiarch support! Support for multiarch in StormOS has been achieved by porting dpkg and gcc-4.6 from Debian Wheezy and backporting multiarch support from binutils 2.21.X in Wheezy ...
Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support 27 Jul 2011 | 11:25 pm
Debian has announced that they are going to introduce multiarch support for Wheezy (7.0) in 2013 which I think is great news. The original plan to solve the need for both 32/64bit on StormOS Flash (wh...
Setting the bar low: StormOS Flash Pre-alpha checklist 18 Jul 2011 | 04:37 am
I will be releasing a pre-alpha version of StormOS Flash in next few weeks. For those that don't follow the dev blog, StormOS Flash is a distribution based on NCP4 (NCP4 combines Debian Squeeze with I...
And we have Xorg.... on NCP4 7 May 2011 | 05:01 am
After a lot of hacking I finally got Xorg running on NCP4. Xfce hasn't been ported yet so I didn't have a lot to test but qtdemo seems to work flawlessly ;) read more
StormOS sticking with Nexenta, inheriting illumos kernel and slowly becoming 64bit 16 Apr 2011 | 12:40 am
For the last few months I've been working for Nexenta Systems on the next release of their free OS Nexenta Core Platform 4 (NCP4). NCP4 is pretty much a port of the base Debian Squeeze (not quite Debi...
Comments and Forums offline 5 Jan 2011 | 11:38 pm
Due to the massive amount of spam being posted to this site I have no choice but to disable both the forums and comments. Sorry.
ISO delayed but some good progress made. 15 Oct 2010 | 01:32 am
The good news: The StormOS repository now has over 2,500 packages in it! 2,583 to be exact. Notable new packages include the latest version of Xorg, Qt4, GTK+, Glib (which appears to be working with ...
