From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Sep 11 08:41:04 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] Official Kernel and Tools releases From: Alan Hourihane To: Christian Hellmuth Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <1252671898.3088.8.camel@debian.rba.de> References: <1252671898.3088.8.camel@debian.rba.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:39:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1252672740.1046.6.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:24 +0200, Christian Hellmuth wrote: > Hello, > > on 5th OFAM (4th - 6th September 2009) Honza and me discussed about > future development for MiNT and we came to the conclusion that we NEED > at least an official kernel release. Better would be official releases > of tools like gcc, etc, too. > > The problem is that no one is on the same level of software like the > other and so there are strange things when you try to compile something > for an other kernel or with an other tool! > > Please consider releasing an official kernel everyone can rely to! Hi Chris, My Gentoo files are available at.... http://gentoo.atariforge.net/files/ And my current snapshot from FreeMiNT enhancements branch is at... http://www.freemint.org The thing I'm finishing up is the bootstrap and packaging into a user friendly installer service, but the above should be useable. Alan.