AbTLinux infrastructure downtime on Halloween

Assembla servers will be down tomorrow, October 31, starting at 8:00 UTC, for a database upgrade. We expect the outage will last about 40 minutes.

www.assembla.com and subversion services will be off during this time.

Users in North America will not feel much affect, because it will be very early in the morning – 4:00 AM. However, this will affect users in Europe and Asia.

AbTLinux has a gcc build!

It is a small thing, but one of the very core packages that will be needed to call this distribution a thing born of GNU Software is GCC. Today I got this package to build using our very immature abt package manager (v0.3)!

I know it is a small victory, but hey, I take them where I can get them. My install list is growing, here is a preview output of the 'show-installed' command:

Installed AbTLinux packages:

Package          Version         Installed
=========================================================
gawk            3.1.6            Sat Sep 27 12:24:27 2008
findutils       4.4.0            Mon Sep 22 21:49:55 2008
sed               4.1.5            Mon Sep 22 20:53:02 2008
tar                1.20             Mon Sep 22 21:20:00 2008
bzip2           1.0.5            Mon Sep 22 21:29:10 2008
grep             2.5.1            Mon Sep 22 21:05:20 2008
fortune         mod9708     Wed Oct 08 19:53:01 2008
ipc                1.4               Sun Oct 05 22:24:32 2008
binutils         2.18             Mon Sep 22 22:41:10 2008
wget             1.11             Mon Sep 22 21:14:44 2008
diffutils         2.8.1            Mon Sep 22 21:32:53 2008
checkinstall    1.6.1            Mon Sep 22 21:10:58 2008
cpio                2.9              Mon Sep 22 22:10:00 2008
gcc                 4.2.4            Wed Oct 08 23:59:38 2008

Now it is time for me to get back to gcc and see if I can get 4.3.2 to compile too. Keep tabs on my progress in the Timeline.

AbTLinux is free as in Beer

We all know the statement about being "...free as in beer." Well our PR lady never rests when attempting to show you this applied to AbTLinux as well!

Here she outlines this theory with a graphic image of the elements involved in beer making. The basic ingredients are few and simple, but the results is amazing.

Here at AbTLinux we provide tooling based on Ruby, the Free Software Foundation, GNU, and the GPL license. Throw in a bit of our free time and there you have it.

It is so simple!