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(GalaxyMaster | 21 Mar 00:15

no 2.0-stable ISO?

Hi,

Today I was asked for a recommendation what other person should install
on their office router.  No doubt I suggested Owl, but when I was asked
for an ISO image URL I figured out that I can provide them with the
Owl-current ISO only since Owl-2.0-release is too old and Owl-2.0-stable
has no ISO image at all:

lftp ftp.ru.openwall.com:/pub/Owl> ls -l 2.0-release | fgrep iso
drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp          4096 Feb 15  2006 iso
lftp ftp.ru.openwall.com:/pub/Owl> ls -l 2.0-stable | fgrep iso
lftp ftp.ru.openwall.com:/pub/Owl> ls -l current | fgrep iso            
drwxr-xr-x    2 ftp      ftp          4096 Jun 01  2007 iso             
lftp ftp.ru.openwall.com:/pub/Owl> 

Perhaps this is something to fix?

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Solar Designer | 21 Mar 02:02

Re: no 2.0-stable ISO?

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 02:17:43AM +0300, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
> Today I was asked for a recommendation what other person should install
> on their office router.  No doubt I suggested Owl, but when I was asked
> for an ISO image URL I figured out that I can provide them with the
> Owl-current ISO only since Owl-2.0-release is too old and Owl-2.0-stable
> has no ISO image at all:
...
> Perhaps this is something to fix?

Yes - but perhaps this is to be fixed for 2.1-stable (once we have it),
not for 2.0-stable.  That's because we only have the "make iso.gz"
functionality in -current (which the next release will be based on), not
in 2.0-stable, and we're being very conservative at getting changes into
2.0-stable.  I don't think we should change that approach now; I think
that it is more productive for us to concentrate on getting a new
release out sooner rather than later.

Right now, our users who want 2.0-stable should install 2.0-release,
then upgrade to 2.0-stable.  Indeed, this is not perfect - more work to
do and potential extra hardware support issues with the older kernel in
2.0-release.

Thanks,

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