[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT for 21st century

[Mark Duckworth]

The RPM's on sparemint are somewhat current.  But you can't find current
coldfire packages there.  Also the kernel itself in sparemint is outdated.

Thanks,
Mark


On 01/18/2017 07:47 PM, WongCK wrote:
> Hi ya all,
> 
> So what does all these means?
> RPMS from SpareMint no longer current ?
> Must I get the most updated Kernel and RPMS from this Github ?
> 
> rgds
> WongCK
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 23:23, Mark Duckworth
> <mduckworth at atari-source.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     LOL This is *not* something I worry about.
> 
>     First the system has RAID5 and I get notified if I lose a disk
>     Second the system does daily backups to a local NAS that also has
>     backups.
>     Third git is inherently a complete copy by itself so everything in the
>     repos is on my local machine.
>     Fourth I develop with two separate local machines that always have the
>     latest pull.
> 
>     There are some other bits that don't go into the repos themselves but I
>     don't care much about that.  I don't trust cloud services much when it
>     comes to my business.  I've trusted both Amazon EC2 and Ramnode because
>     I'd be silly to try to host all of that myself.  At least the stuff on
>     there is compiled code and not commented source.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Mark
> 
> 
> 
>     On 01/17/2017 05:19 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 18 January 2017 at 01:06, Mark Duckworth
>     <mduckworth at atari-source.org <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org>
>     > <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org
>     <mailto:mduckworth at atari-source.org>>> wrote:
> 
>     >
>     >    I use a local install of gitlab for private stuff (just worried
>     about
>     >    the actual security of a private github instance)  I love it. 
>     There is
>     >    basically no maintenance beyond the initial setup and it just
>     works.
>     >
>     > Call me overcautious (or lazy :-)) but this still poses a threat when
>     > your server's disk dies, your IP has some trouble etc. The chance that
>     > github goes down, with its hundreds of thousands repositories and paid
>     > clients is much smaller.
>     >
>     > Not to mention that I have strong feeling that we would have trouble
>     > finding even a volunteer what that "initial setup" (FireBee guys fight
>     > with /exactly/ same kind of troubles now).
>     >
>     > --
>     > MiKRO / Mystic Bytes
>     > http://mikro.atari.org <http://mikro.atari.org/>
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