Today I tested btrfs and nilfs as a replacement for a union file system for a pen drive based Linux. btrfs failed completely. The system lost responsiveness. The creation of an empty directory took about one minute! btrfs seems to reorganize its disk structure on every simple operation. nilfs on the...

@xant: The new Simplux version is currently based on the 2.6.29.1 kernel and xorg 1.5. All software packages are up to date (to Gentoo standards ...) It now supports new (network) hardware used in actual netbooks. Yesterday my students made some first tests (with my own pen-drive). I will release a ...

I now have a first usable version of the new Simplicity compiler that will be used in the upcoming Simplux version. Today I started the development based on the new 2.6.29 kernel. A first public version will be released before the end of May. Future development will be more continuous than in the pa...

I closed down the Simplux forum because it was overwhelmed by spam posts. :-( Currently I work on the new Simplicity compiler and hope to finish the first version supporting the whole language by the end of October. It will surely take another month or two until I have a new set of standard librarie...

Today I had the chance to run Simplux on an Eee-PC. It worked out of the box without any manual configuration! Sound, movies everything worked fine! Only nuisance: the USB-transfers are very slow. In another project I'm running Windows XP under VirtualBox on Simplux. It's a bit tricky to install but...

I have tried my simplux setup on my desktop PC - I usually work on my laptop - and I was very surprised that there be no network. I work with an ethernet cable which shows as eth0. I tried /etc/rc.d/rc.network restart ... The current version of Simplux insists of connection to an DHCP-server for ne...

I still had a couple of issues - wrong X11 resolution and impossible to fix it from the Nvidia menu, ntfs mount that needed replacing of the existing mtab link to /proc/mounts with a real text file (just copy pasted the content from "mounts" and called it "mtab"), shutdown from ...

I fixed several small bugs and added a tool for manual network-configuration. Btw, the new initrd script for me hangs at the module library checking at bootup time There were two errors ... First, it's not the same whether you try to force a link overwrite ( -f option) or if you remove the link and ...

One of my students reproduced your problem! It's easy to solve: * boot an old configuration of Simplux * remove the symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.24.4 (don't forget to save this change permanently using merge_ramdisk or a clean shutdown) Reboot with the current configuration - it should work! I hop...

I had the problem with the hang , too - but only once and was unable to reproduce it. The hang is not very severe - just press ctrl-c. (The module initialization is done in a separate thread, so if it hangs it does not really hang the system itself.) As to my knowlegde, I have replied to your person...

The new configuration files will allow for any window-manager! You will be able to overwrite each /etc/ config -file with a corresponding /root/. config -file! To modify the default-configuration, you just have to copy the file from /etc to /root and make the modifications you want! No future update...

I want to revice the configuration files during the next weeks. At the end Simplux will be delivered with an empty /root -folder, so updates will not destroy any user defined settings. The /root -folder and any user directories under /home will then be stored in separate save-files. This will allow ...

Today some of my students tried the update. All of them who made no mistakes in the update procedure succeeded ... Yesterday I found a bug in the Simplicity-compiler. A bug fixed version is already available. The yesterday version of stage2 -initialization did not start klogd and syslogd - this is a...

For those of you who dare to look into the mouth of a lion - the new Simplux-update-system is ready for testing! http://simplux.org/wiki?simplux_update The update procedure described in the wiki will - when installed - allow for extremely simple updating - just enter: update_simplux It supports seve...

Simplux Alpha 2 still uses layers (with aufs as the union-filesystem). But it is completely incompatible with any version of Puppy Linux! Simplux contains the gcc-suite, perl, python ... php and lots of other languages can be easily installed using emerge . Alpha 2 supports two base-layer sfs-files:...

The first (very alpha!) version of the Simplux-wiki is online:

http://simplux.org/wiki

Feel free to fill it with contents! Currently Geman and English pages are completely intermixed - sorry for this inconvenience.

What do you mean when you say "it hangs"?

Does the boot process halt? Does X reject to start?

The problem is creating the ISO s in the first place. First this takes rather long time because I do this by * deinstalling all unneeded software * splitting distribution files and personal files into a new base image and a new save-file * reinstalling the before uninstalled software Also for users,...

I think you made a small mistake with the machine name, as in /etc/hosts there are localhost and puppy linked to 127.0.0.1 There were several things wrong about hostname. Not sure whether I fixed it now, but I rewrote all initialization code, so it surely will not be the same error anymore ... ;-) ...

I don't want to promise anything, but I will try to create an update procedure for updating Alpha 2 to my current version. This won't be very easy, because kernel, initrd and initialization scripts must be updated all at once. The new init-scripts are very short and do not support any special hardwa...