[Hamara-devel] Astronomic & Scientific Remix of hamara

[shirish]

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On Tuesday 20 October 2015 02:37 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:

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> +1
>
> Once we have a list of packages required, we would as you say need to
> package and host them in our repo.
>
> Generating a distro once we have the package list is not a huge job - so
> focusing on defining / agreeing the list of packages would be the priority.

Hi all,
Akshat had asked me way before if we could do this, I had asked him to 
wait till the debian-port is complete. @Akshat, have you registered to 
git.hamaralinux.org . Please register and let us know that you have 
registered.

@Vikas Akshat has been using GNU/Linux for quite a while. Earlier this 
year, after much cajoling he has started to document what we/they want 
to do. Some scripts shared by him can be seen at

https://github.com/log2akshat/

and you can see his initial commit of the same around 3 months ago for 
astrobian

https://github.com/log2akshat/astrobian

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> Thanks for the effort - look forward to helping in anyway I can!
>
>
> Regards
>
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> Vik
>

On the topic of upgrades, this is always going to be an issue. This has 
to do with people not really understanding the concept between simple 
upgrades and dist-upgrades and not taking proper precautions as well. 
This is not to say that bugs or issues will not happen but you have the 
least amount of issues if you go to a console, kill your display 
manager, do all the upgrades on the console, restart your system and 
welcome to the new release. On desktops/workstations this works out 
pretty well, have done it ample of times without an issue, both on Intel 
and AMD systems.

Servers is a whole different ball-game together as there is lot of 
modifications so in-situ upgrades are never recommended. This is where 
we hope people come to us for support :)

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org