SGL
By anders pearson 09 Mar 2002
gaah!
<p>i’d set aside the weekend to install <a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/sorcerer.php">Sorcerer <span class="caps">GNU</span>/Linux</a> on my computer. the combination of having a highly optimized distro custom compiled for my machine and the claims of seamless upgrades had me drooling. i’d wanted to do a <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">linux from scratch</a> install for quite a while but i know how tedious the endless “./configure; make; make install” process can get. <span class="caps">SGL</span> seems to offer all the benefits but with a more streamlined process.</p>
<p>so last night i printed out and read all the documentation, made careful notes about all my hardware and configuration stuff and backed everything up. this morning i go to download the latest iso images for the install cd and find that the sorcerer website was now redirecting to <a href="http://www.lunar-penguin.com/">lunar-penguin</a>. upon further investigation, it appears that <span class="caps">SGL</span>’s man developer has run out of time and energy and given up on the project. lunar penguin is one of several parallel projects by some of the other developers trying to reorganize and continue with the project.</p>
<p>at any rate, <span class="caps">SGL</span>/lunar-penguin is in a state of flux at the moment so i think i’ll hold off on installing. i plan on watching the mailing list and websites for the next couple weeks and trying again when it stabilizes (or at least when lunar penguin gets a better name).</p>
<p>but i got myself all worked up to spend the weekend playing with a totally new installation so i’ve got to do <em>something</em>. i’m thinking maybe i’ll check out the newest debian release and then maybe play with some of the dangerous low-latency kernel patches…</p>