Just thought I'd point out that I'm working on a framework to make it easy to add third-party software to ASL boxes. More information is here for the time being: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~osquigle/acs/
The general idea is to get something like Debian's dpkg/apt system running on ASL. From there, it should be easy to port software packages from Debian to ASL...
So far, I've gotten dpkg ported (ie, it compiles - I haven't tested it much yet). The next steps are:
- get packaging "helper" programs working (debhelper and friends)
- get apt working
- replace pluspack software with discrete software packages
- write some sort of deb2acs program
- port interesting software
Help doing this is appreciated...
My interest is in getting useful networking tools (eg tcpdump) running on ASL; if there is some other software package you want to use on ASL, feel free to help out...
