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Post by pharrisire on Jul 15, 2010 10:25:28 GMT -5
Your wrassle-ing with the BSD folks on version 8.1 got me athinkin....
Is there gonna be a way to update KNOS without burning a new disk
(Or, in my case, KNOS installed on stick and, hopefully, my main
hard drive)
each time an update is issued?
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Jul 16, 2010 4:01:21 GMT -5
Your wrassle-ing with the BSD folks on version 8.1 got me athinkin.... Is there gonna be a way to update KNOS without burning a new disk (Or, in my case, KNOS installed on stick and, hopefully, my main hard drive) each time an update is issued? As a "frozen OS" KNOS is a complete ISO which does indeed have to be replaced with each build until we release. If it's a concern and your pucks are costly, do what we do - use a REWRITABLE disk instead of a "one-shot." Eventually, once we have the funding to do all the necessary additional work, we're hoping to come up with an installable version once we can fully protect a hard disk like we're able to do with the USB sticks. When we get there, then of course we can do whatever updates in a saner way much like they do with "regular" BSD although we would need to be a LOT friendlier as BSD is more "user-hostile" than Linux by quite a long shot. It'll be a HUGE project to get us there and we'll need quite a few people to be able to do it all. So for now, the answer is yes ... at this time, we're expecting to release an official "release candidate" rather than a "beta 2" but that all comes down to this build and how it tests on our end and whether or not we anticipate needing to do another test build after this next one which we are HOPING to be a "final." That we don't know quite yet. |
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Post by pharrisire on Jul 16, 2010 10:35:56 GMT -5
It's not a problem - just being lazy again.
I want to keep both the disc and the stick ready for duty -
even after I get the installable versions!!
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