Howdy all,

A quick post to point out that GenLUKS will be dropped in favor of ‘Kicktoo’.
Indeed, the code of GenLUKS will be forked (for the useful functions) to support –lvm and last but not least –luks!
As this project (hobby) tend to grow, I need to redesign it from the bottom up. Using Quickstart-0.6 from Andrew Gaffney should be a nice start and we’ll merge missing features from GenLUKS to Quickstart.
To avoid any confusion, I’m renaming GenLUKS installer to Kicktoo. I thought about Kickstart to keep the idea of Quickstart but I dreamt last night of Kicktoo.
So Kicktoo it will be!
Concerning further releases, I will still create a GenLUKS-0.1.16 CD that will contain the regular GenLUKS environment (EDIT: or not! I think we’ll jump straight to Kicktoo-0.2_alpha) _and_ a quick note to use Kicktoo-0.2 as an alpha installer.
This release should be the last one before we totally migrate to a Kicktoo-0.2.* release cycle.
I never made any advertising about this project because it is more a way of occupying myself rather than trying to achieve a vital piece of software. If what we’re trying to achieve now works well, I will post to the Unofficial Gentoo thread about that.
I’m sure the –luks feature would be more than welcome for some users.
I always thought GenLUKS was bloated at some point in the design althought it does a good job installing a basic LUKS framework. I realize now that the dynamic of ‘genluks-install’ tries to assume too much rather than allowing the user to interact with the config file.
Kicktoo-0.2 _is_ modular compared to the genluks-install script.
You can define all your setup in the profile whether you make a standard minimal Gentoo install or an unstable LUKS on top of LVM for example.
The Quickstart-0.6 code is elegant, its profile configuration is modular and deeply customizable; this will serve the Kicktoo purpose for good.
The general plot stays the same, we are just turning a page for a new chapter; still in the same book ;o)
So here we are, always trying to find new cool ways to occupate the mind.
Erick