devel February 2007

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Language lists
by Karanbir Singh 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi Guys, We've been looking at the idea of starting off local language lists starting with German, Spanish and Portuguese. These, since we have had people ask for lists and we feel there are people around who can help moderate and monitor. While some work has already been done and there are already some ideas floating around, I'd like to ask everyone here on centos-devel what they think about this and if any suggestions they might have. One thing that would be really good is if we can somehow create the environment for local language / regional centos support groups to get started, and then use that common pool to work with all associated resources ( eg, regional / language lists, wiki, web forums, related irc channels (?) etc ) - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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ISA PnP in Plus kernel
by Hristo Benev 03 Feb '07

03 Feb '07

Hi, will it be possible to enable ISA PnP support in CentOS Plus Kernel? Many old machines have integrated ISA Sound cards and Kernel recompile is needed to get the sound up. Thank To Dev team for the great job. Foxb ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://auto-motor-und-sport.bg/ С бензин в кръвта!

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CentOS5 virtual machine image
by Nils Toedtmann 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Dear CentOS developers, there is a demand for ready-to-boot virtual machine images for distros like CentOS. Since i am an afinicado of CentOS and Xen, i would like to build and maintain a CentOS5-image. Is centos.org interested in hosting such a sub-project? Testing and tasting CentOS would get much easier, it would help making CentOS more popular. Planned features: * support for several VMMs (Xen3, VMware player/workstation/server, VirtualBox, UML, KVM, ...; maybe even VirtualPC ;-) * Click&Run for win32-users: 1. download & install vmplayer 2. download & unzip CentOS-desktop-image.zip 3. double-click "centos.vmx" * sparse flat disk image (most VMMs support this image format) containing two or three partitions (swap, /, maybe /boot) * kernels and initrds to run the image fully and para-virtualized * Firstboot script (setting root-password and hostname) * VMM config files, at least for the most popular VMMs (Xen/para, Xen/HVM, VMware player) * Documentation how to boot the image with those VMMs. Special notes on kernel-xen and virt-manager (CentOS5, FC6) * clean: never booted, empty /{tmp,var/{log,spool/mail,cache/*}} * all changes to the pristine image (like customized /etc/fstab, /etc/X11/xorg.conf) properly documented Different flavors: * arch: i386; maybe x86_64 * image: flat disk sparse; maybe flat filesystem sparse * scope: "minimal" (networking, sshd, yum, vim, cron, syslog); "standard desktop"; maybe "standard server" * archive: sparse-aware .tar.bz2; .zip for win32 hosts RoadMap: * wait for CentOS5-beta2 ;-) * create and post a minimal CentOS5-beta2 i386 image with xen- and vmware configs, wait for reviews/bugreport * create and post a standard desktop CentOS5-beta2 i386 image, wait for reviews/bugreport * if there are enough positive reports, repeat for CentOS5-final * release when/if centos.org is pleased with the (bugfixed) images Are you interested in such a project? I am eager for comments. Regards, /nils.

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