[Netkit.users] First release of Netkit-ng

[Massimo Rimondini]

Dear Julien,

Il 25/03/14 09:10, Julien Iguchi-Cartigny ha scritto:
> On 03/25/2014 08:52 AM, Saverio Proto wrote:
>> Hello Massimo,
>>
>> what about a new official Netkit release ? :)
> A bit of warning: this is the first release and I don't thinks it is
> enough stable to be officially released.

No problem: maybe Saverio was referring to an independent release on our
part, that could possibly merge your contributions. I think it was clear
enough from your message that netkit-ng has just been released and is
still not meant to be fully mature.

>
> Furthermore, I propose to keep the name convention: netkit and
> netkit-ng: a lot of people want to keep the old netkit as it is (stable,
> well tested, support for MPLS). Thus I think having two official
> distributions is the best approach.

I agree: this makes sense for us as well.

>
> Anyway thnaks for your feedback.

Regards,
Massimo

>
> Regards
>
> Julien
>
>> Saverio
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-24 22:42 GMT+01:00 Massimo Rimondini <rimondin a dia.uniroma3.it>:
>>> Dear Julien,
>>>
>>> thank you very much for this valuable contribution and for choosing to
>>> make it public!
>>> I'm pretty sure that users, especially those who had difficulties in
>>> installing specific additional tools due to outdated software pieces,
>>> will be able to take a great advantage of your work.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Massimo
>>>
>>> Il 24/03/14 21:27, Julien Iguchi-Cartigny ha scritto:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've just released the first version of netkit-ng. It is an update of
>>>> netkit to include some functionalities and offer up-to-date kernel and
>>>> filesystem (as it is not possible to build recent debian version).
>>>>
>>>> The new fs and kernel build system (and binaries) are available here:
>>>>
>>>> <https://github.com/kartoch/netkit-uml-build/releases/tag/0.1-r1>
>>>>
>>>> The build is based on latest wheezy debian, and offer recent kernel
>>>> 3.2.51. Furthermore, the build is now based on rootstrap to use generic
>>>> build system and thus avoid to rewrite build scripts. Sadly I cannot
>>>> keep MPLS patches, as it is too difficult to merge them on recent kernel.
>>>>
>>>> You need updated netkit binaries, as the filesystem has a new format. It
>>>> is available here:
>>>>
>>>> <https://github.com/kartoch/netkit-core/releases/tag/2.12-r1>
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for feedback. Please test your labs with it...
>>>>
>>>> You can use bug reports of the github projects to report bugs.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Julien
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