[Freemint-list] atariforge

[Jason Fergus]

On Thu, 2017-01-19 at 13:51 -0500, Rob M wrote:
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> On Jan 19, 2017 12:22 PM, <wittau at lnxnt.org> wrote:
> Am Do, 19.01.2017, 17:09, schrieb mfro at mubf.de:
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> > @Rob: although I didn't plan anything like this, if you'd rather shut
> > down AtariForge (to save hosting expenses or something),
> 
> Just one "externeal" view from my side: I belive atariforge is a very good
> thing to make Atari developments visible. It is also attractive to former
> developers, and could become a real "institution" for our community with a
> little bit more advertizing. To have a lot of projects noticable at one
> place,  has some impact. So if possible (I cannot say anything about the
> real usability for developments), and if it is not eating too much
> ressources, I would suggest to keep it up and use it as far as possible!
> Thats a lot better than having various projects scattered, and finally
> fadeing away in the nebula of github, sourceforge, and other general FOSS
> plattforms.
> I would even be willing to donate a few bucks for covering the online
> costs if needed.
> 
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> That was my goal,  have one central place for atari development. 
> 
> Hosting isn't the issue,  it's updating the system.  It's using gforge and not free anymore.  It's
> been forked.. but don't feel I have enough knowledge to upgrade. I'd also like to move it to a
> newer linux distro. (Centos 6, sparemint is centos 5 in think) 
> But,  i also haven't had the free time.  
> 
> Rob
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> Mathias
> 

I generally use Debian as my distribution of choice because it's secure and everything is packaged
nicely.  They have the forked Fusion forge in the repositories, so I wouldn't think it'd be too
complicated to move over to it.  If you need some help, let me know.
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