Porteus

Hi folks
Maybe we should, just like eg. Debian, Blender, Wine, KolibriOS, also have our own git server to make it easier to develop Porteus together and for Porteus-related projects (with option to mirror projects to other sites, such as GitHub or public GitLab service)? What do you think about that?

Remember that Porteus is a free - as in beer - distribution.
So who will be paying for the hardware and hosting costs?
And who will have the will and time to administer things?

Right, however I also thought about that if independence from other git service provider is not crucial, there is also possible to put Porteus sources to some free git hosting (from such sites I know Github, Gitlab, Codeberg) and work on them there.
Although, maybe I'm asking kinda too much

Unless these sources are already shared in place unknown to me

i3slkiller wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 09:10

put Porteus sources to some free git hosting

https://github.com/porteux/porteux

rych wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 10:46

i3slkiller wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 09:10

put Porteus sources to some free git hosting

https://github.com/porteux/porteux

This is a slightly different project

i3slkiller wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 10:48

This is a slightly different project

Take a look at https://github.com/porteus -- it has one empty repository so far, made in 2013

Oh, but we can add stuff to its Wiki! I've already added a Welcome page and a random how-to note
https://github.com/porteus/porteusRepository/wiki

Seems anyone with a github account can modify it? Isn't it too liberal though?

In principle, I could populate it with my porteus md notes that I have in my local Obsidian... So at least Porteus would have an unofficial Wiki

By the way some time ago I only found some (very outdated) Porteus sources, I don't remember from where I got them
- porteus-current-20180623.tar
- porteus-current-20190413.tar.xz
I haven't found anything newer.

EDIT: Maybe I will upload that what I found here https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... folderlist these files should be here in a moment.

As a non-github user I tried the 2 github.com/porteus links above and found no links that showed me anything.

Added in 7 hours 52 minutes 47 seconds:
Oh, Ok. "loginctl poweroff" is part of the posting not a link.

Ed_P wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 23:57

Oh, Ok. "loginctl poweroff" is part of the posting not a link.

Yes, but

rych wrote: ↑

26 Jul 2024, 10:52

anyone with a github account can modify it

because someone forgot to wiki restrict edit permissions and no other can change it , and that means we can expect potential acts of vandalism there.

And Github repo wikis, especially lists of pages, always seemed weird and bit vague to me.

i3slkiller wrote: ↑

25 Jul 2024, 13:02

also have our own git server

we've had bitbucket git repo (free) for some years, but has been private.
might be time to make it public.
i'm currently dealing with some hardware issues, but when i get a chance, i'll open it up and post a link.