Some questions on ELKS web sites

Some questions on ELKS web sites

[MFLD]

Hello all,

First, I would like to thank you guys who spend some time to maintain 
ELKS, so that I can reuse it to implement Linux on my current toy : 
http://www2.advantech.com/products/1-2JKP2Y/SNMP-1000-B/mod_B01ABE8D-C8AA-4530-8E3C-9FCD2623D9D6.aspx 
(yes, it is a IBM-PC XT architecture).

Then, I would ask maybe a FAQ : what is the ELKS official web site today 
? I see mainly a SourceForge page (http://elks.sourceforge.net/) and a 
GitHub page (https://github.com/jbruchon/elks). What is the right one ?

By the way, the page http://elks.sourceforge.net/mailinglist.html 
contains a broken link : http://rainbow.cs.unipi.gr/linux-8086-list.

Best regards,

Marc-F. Lucca-Daniau

Re: Some questions on ELKS web sites

[Jody Bruchon]

On 3/22/2015 8:20 AM, MFLD wrote:
> Then, I would ask maybe a FAQ : what is the ELKS official web site today
> ? I see mainly a SourceForge page (http://elks.sourceforge.net/) and a
> GitHub page (https://github.com/jbruchon/elks). What is the right one ?

The GitHub page is the current official site. I haven't touched 
SourceForge in aeons. The old site is mainly there for historical 
purposes; I've decided that until ELKS is a little further along in 
development, there's no point in trying to maintain an informational 
website for it. The info should be in the ELKS documentation/README 
first and on a website second.

I'd like to see some Ethernet card support in ELKS and that's where I 
personally draw the line; these days, everything is "connected" and SLIP 
is difficult to set up and requires a second computer. Everything in 
ELKS is designed solely to use SLIP and the ktcp program. Once we can 
connect to the Internet properly, we can port or write a text-mode web 
browser. I think that's when it will become more interesting to people 
in general and will justify having a new website.

Of course, I welcome the thoughts of others in this regard. These are 
just what I've contemplated in my spare time.

-Jody

Re: Some questions on ELKS web sites

[Royce Williams]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Jody Bruchon <jody@jodybruchon.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/2015 8:20 AM, MFLD wrote:
>>
>> Then, I would ask maybe a FAQ : what is the ELKS official web site today
>> ? I see mainly a SourceForge page (http://elks.sourceforge.net/) and a
>> GitHub page (https://github.com/jbruchon/elks). What is the right one ?
>
> The GitHub page is the current official site. I haven't touched SourceForge
> in aeons. The old site is mainly there for historical purposes; I've decided
> that until ELKS is a little further along in development, there's no point
> in trying to maintain an informational website for it. The info should be in
> the ELKS documentation/README first and on a website second.

Reasonable.  I recommend quickly archiving most of the top-level
SourceForge page 'News' items on the top page into a /news/
subdirectory page, and replace it with a brief announcement of what
you've said above (with a link to GitHub) - and make this the
main/only content of that top-level page.

For just a few minutes' worth of work, all future searchers get a
clear idea of what's going on (and contributors can find their way to
us more quickly).

> I'd like to see some Ethernet card support in ELKS and that's where I
> personally draw the line; these days, everything is "connected" and SLIP is
> difficult to set up and requires a second computer. Everything in ELKS is
> designed solely to use SLIP and the ktcp program. Once we can connect to the
> Internet properly, we can port or write a text-mode web browser. I think
> that's when it will become more interesting to people in general and will
> justify having a new website.

That sounds awesome.

Royce