History of LUI





LUI began as a response to the need for a customized, remote, cluster installation method for Linux. LUI borrows some of its concepts from the AIX Network Installation Manager (NIM) of AIX. From NIM, LUI gets the concepts of machine and resource objects, resource management, and node customization.


LUI is a true open source, community project, released under the GNU Public License in April, 2000. Interested developers are invited to contribute to the LUI open source project. See "Contributors' Page" link for details.


Milestones

April 4, 2000 -- LUI 1.0 released into open source

May 18, 2000 -- LUI 1.1 released, with remote rpm installation support

June 30, 2000 -- LUI 1.2 with enhanced rpm support and html help

August 14, 2000 -- LUI 1.4 with improved diskette-less boot support

November 3, 2000 -- LUI 1.6 with an API, a graphical user interface (glui), support in the boot kernel for SMP and most ethernet adapters, and additional node attributes for PBS support

November 16, 2000 -- LUI 1.7 released as an RPM with relocatable installation, machine & resource grouping, & multiple disk support.

December 8, 2000 -- LUI 1.8 released, a reorganized GLUI, the mklimcs command, MAC.info support.

February 16, 2001 -- LUI 1.9 released, RedHat 7.0 & MSC.linux support, fill disk option, auto reboot, SMP detection

March 1, 2001 -- LUI 1.10.0 released, postinstall resource, new directory structure

May 15, 2001 -- LUI 1.11.0 released, PowerPC support.

June 22, 2001 -- LUI 1.11.1 released, PowerPC rpm installation.

July 10, 2001 -- LUI 1.11.2 released, fixes for IBM xSeries 330.

July 26, 2001 -- LUI 1.12.1 released, automated kernel build.

September 4, 2001 -- LUI 1.12.2 released, ppc automated kernel build.