Ubuntu again

[David Bandel]

On 5/1/06, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> I have developed a tool written in Python which is intended for command-line
> configuration of standard conf files.
> If you're interested, I can make the latest version available (1.5).  It's
> heavily used in the BigBlock appliances, and separate tool, but never
> officially released to the community.  Honestly, I'm not sure how I'd do
> that, but it is GPL.

I appreciate the offer.  But Perl is pretty much required as a system
tool so is not an add-on.  Python is not a required system tool, so
would be an add-on.  I'm trying to keep this as small as possible. 
I'll be using the squashfs to keep things small.  This must all fit on
a CF disk, the smaller the better.

Monowall is based on FreeBSD, but they decided to use PHP (IMHO, that
was dumb) and rewrote everything (bootup scripts, etc.) in PHP.  I
don't even want to think about doing something that drastic.  I'm
looking at LFS and stripping out all the build tools, locale, etc.,
that's not needed and go from there.  Will add openvpn, cbq.init,
apache.  Not much more. Web pages will configure everything so even a
layman can do it.

>
> On Monday 01 May 2006 11:29, David Bandel wrote:
> > Everyone thinks they can build the better mousetrap. In fact, I need
> > a good distro that is aimed at WRAP boards. None are, and this niche
> > market is ignored. So I expect in the next two weeks to start working
> > on a non-AP firewall/router/VPN distro using Perl and Apache to handle
> > configurations.
>

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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