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42 <h1>The Arusha Project (ARK): older news items</h1>
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44 <dl>
45 <dt><strong>May, 2004:</strong>
46 <dd>The May releases of the core teams' public code are the last
47 under the GNU Public License (GPL) [the 20040526 release]
48 and the first under the BSD license [20040529 release].
49
50 <dt><strong>October, 2003:</strong>
51 <dd>The current release includes material to do Arusha-friendly
52 Kickstart installs on Red Hat Linux.
53
54 <dt><strong>March, 2003:</strong>
55 <dd>The latest set of ARK tarballs (see <a
56 href="download.html">download page</a>) includes the first
57 <em>user-oriented</em> ARK tool: <tt>tooldoc</tt>, which
58 provides easy access to non-standard package documentation.
59 For example, <tt>tooldoc vera tutorial</tt> would bring up
60 the tutorial documentation for the `vera' package;
61 <tt>tooldoc vera</tt> would list several possible documents
62 that could be shown.
63 <p>
64 <dt><strong>January, 2003:</strong>
65 <dd>There is a new mailing list about Large Scale System
66 Configuration (<tt>lssconf-discuss</tt> -- see our <a
67 href="mailing-lists.html">mailing-lists page</a>), hosted by
68 Paul Anderson of University of Edinburgh. If you have a
69 serious interest in the subject behind the Arusha Project,
70 please join in the discussion.
71 <p>
72 <dt><strong>November, 2002:</strong>
73 <dd>Our LISA 2001 paper (and talk) about the Arusha Project
74 are now available from this web site. The slides from
75 the 2002 Configuration Workshop are also available. Hop
76 over to our <a href="papers-and-talks.html">papers page</a>
77 for full details.
78 <p>
79 <dt><strong>November, 2002:</strong>
80 <dd>Will Partain (ARK developer) was at the <a
81 href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/">LISA 2002
82 conference</a> in Philadelphia, including the `Configuration
83 Workshop', at which he gave a talk on `<a
84 href="papers-and-talks.html#lisa-2002-config">System
85 configuration as institutional memory</a>'.
86 <p>
87 <dt><strong>July, 2002:</strong>
88 <dd>We now distribute a new `real-site' team's ARK configuration,
89 <tt>verilab2</tt>; this is the actual Sidai-style setup at <a
90 href="http://www.verilab.com/">Verilab</a>.
91 <p>
92 <dt><strong>April, 2002:</strong>
93 <dd>Will Partain (ARK developer) now has a day job at <a
94 href="http://www.verilab.com/">Verilab</a>, a very Arusha-friendly
95 startup. This makes commercial <a href="support.html">`support'</a>
96 for Arusha work at least a possibility.
97 <p>
98 <dt><strong>February, 2002:</strong></dt>
99 <dd>Jonathan Hogg spoke about his Arusha Project (ARK)
100 hacking experience <a
101 href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2002/">the UKUUG
102 Winter Conference</a> (Feb. 13-14, in London). His slides
103 are available in <a href="papers-and-talks/ukuug-2002/UKUUG.htm">HTML</a>
104 and <a
105 href="papers-and-talks/ukuug-2002/UKUUG_files/UKUUG.ppt">PowerPoint</a> (sigh)
106 formats.
107 <p>
108 <dt><strong>December, 2001:</strong></dt>
109 <dd>The Arusha Project went to <a
110 href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001/">LISA</a> (San
111 Diego, Dec. 3-7)! It was a real strain on Jimmy-bewigged
112 Matt Holgate and Will Partain, as <a
113 href="http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matt/tams1.jpg">this picture
114 shows</a>.
115 <p>
116 <dt><strong>November, 2001:</strong></dt>
117 <dd>The Arusha Project was one
118 of the first ten projects to get onto <a
119 href="http://www.sweetcode.org/">Sweetcode</a>. (We're in
120 the <a
121 href="http://sweetcode.org/archive/2001-09.html">September
122 archives</a>.) ``Sweetcode reports innovative free
123 software. ... Software reported on sweetcode should
124 surprise you in some interesting way.''
125 <p>
126 <dt><strong>October, 2001:</strong>
127 <dd>Matt Holgate has come up with a way to do NIS-less password
128 distribution within a site. It's new and raw, should be approached
129 with <em>extreme caution</em> (warranty neither expressed
130 nor implied...), but is pretty cool nonetheless.
131 <p>
132 <dt><strong>August, 2001:</strong>
133 <dd>A demo of an initial system for `presenting' ARK info on web
134 pages, using <a
135 href="http://webware.sourceforge.net/">Webware</a>, [was
136 temporarily available back then].
137 <p>
138 <dt><strong>July, 2001:</strong>
139 <dd>There will be an Arusha Project
140 paper at <a href="http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001/">LISA 2001</a>,
141 the premier Unix sysadmin conference. Be there, let's collaborate!
142 <p>
143 <dt><strong>May, 2001:</strong>
144 <dd><a href="http://www.freshmeat.net">Freshmeat</a>
145 notices about the Project begin.
146 <p>
147 <dt><strong>April, 2001:</strong>
148 <dd>An initial set of <tt>*-config</tt>
149 packages (<a href="index-sidai.html">Sidai team</a>) have landed;
150 these give you a multi-platform once-per-site way of specifying
151 many <tt>/etc</tt> configuration files,
152 e.g. <tt>defaultrouter</tt>, <tt>hosts.equiv</tt>,
153 <tt>inetd.conf</tt>, <tt>resolv.conf</tt>, <tt>shells</tt>,
154 and many more. <a href="sidai-config-pkgs.html">Documentation...</a>
155 <p>
156 <dt><strong>March, 2001:</strong>
157 <dd>We've got a first cut at an <a
158 href="ark-conflang.html">ARK configuration language guide</a>!
159 This follows the arrival of a new ARK ``engine'',
160 the piece that implements said language.
161 <p>
162 <dt><strong>June, 2000:</strong>
163 <dd>The first ARK snapshots landed at <a
164 href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a>
165 on June 20th.
166 <p>
167 <dt><strong>February, 2000:</strong>
168 <dd>The first instance of <a
169 href="http://ark.sourceforge.net/">these web pages</a>
170 appeared on February 23rd.
171 <p>
172 <dt><strong>January, 2000:</strong>
173 <dd>We set up the Arusha Project at <a
174 href="http://sourceforge.net/">SourceForge</a> on January
175 31st. The <a
176 href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ark-dev">ark-dev
177 mailing list</a> started shortly thereafter.
178 <p>
179 <dt><strong>December, 1999:</strong>
180 <dd>The oldest Pythonesque set of Arusha bits
181 that we have is tagged December 9th. The code that was known
182 as ``ARK 1'' in early 2001 is a <em>rewrite</em> of this stuff.
183 <p>
184 <dt><strong>October, 1998:</strong>
185 <dd>Our oldest ARK tarball is dated October
186 20th. It's written in <a href="http://www.haskell.org/">Haskell</a>,
187 and bears <em>no</em> resemblance to modern ARK!
188 <p>
189 <dt><strong>February, 1997:</strong>
190 <dd>The oldest set of bits that we have for something that
191 can be considered an ``ancestor'' of ARK is a version of
192 <tt>glamake</tt>, dated February 27th. (<tt>glamake</tt>
193 was a Glasgow-only tool, concerned with building open-source
194 software packages across multiple Unix platforms.)
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