The file looks ok. I turned it into an html. if it helps you. I must say frontpage is tremenbously boring. I edit something it adds some wierd tags. press enter and there are tags I cant recognise.What the hell. I put some stuff on the text as bold. and some on headlines
Oh remember once i send you a graph sheet made in dia. It had all the realease plans. That could be put under roadmap. If you don't have it I can make one when i am done with lfs anindya ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ritwik Patra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 12:28 AM Subject: [Bangla Penguin] Goals : Basic Stuff > Dear Anindya, > > I think syamindu is right. I have reformetted the file. Please see > again and finalise. Please add <br> command when you resen the file. I > will then add it tomorrow. > > Thnaks. > > RitwikTitle: New Page 1
Introduction
The goal of bangla linux project was to make a bengali language distribution of linux. The distribution has to have the following features.
1. Easy to Install
2. Easy to use
3. Easy to install applications
4. Easy to configure
5. Simple GUI
6. Basic applcation in bengali as well as english
7. Easy to correct system problems.
8. Hardware support to most hardware present
9. Fast Response
10. Easy to update
Though this list is a very generic list and is expected out of all operating systems. Now we have to work on these to make linux as easy and as accessable as possible. It is our experience that X windows is generally slower that all competing Operating systems GUI servers.
This can be a drawback. And also an advantage. X windows has features that far exceeds any other gui servers capabilities.
Basic Packages
There are 8 basic Packages(modules) to put the system up.
banglalinux-core-0.01.rpm
This Package to include : Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Diffutils, Fileutils, Findutils, Gawk, GCC, Grep, Gzip, Make, Patch, Sed, Sh-utils, Tar, Textinfo, Textutils, Utils-linux, Linux-2.4.19, Man-pages, Glibc-2.2.5, Gcc, Zlib, Gawk, Ncurses, Vim, Bison, Less, Groff, Textutils, Sed, Flex, BinUtils, Fileutils, Sh-utils, Gettext, Net-tools, Perl, Linux threads, M4, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, Bash, File-3.39, Libtool, Bin86, Ed, Kbd, Diffutils, E2fsprogs, Grep, Gzip, Man, Lilo, Modutils, Netkit-base, Patch, Procinfo, Procps, Psmisc, Shadow, Sysklogd, Sysvinit, Tar, Banglalinux boot script
banglalinux-core-X11R6-0.01.rpm
X windows, freetype todo
banglalinux-core-fonts-0.01.rpm
All fonts. To go here. todo
banglalinux-core-gnome2-0.01.rpm
Basic Gnome 2. files to be added later. todo
banglalinux-core-games-0.01.rpm [User Removeable]
basic gnome games todo
banglalinux-core-office-0.01.rpm [User Removeable]
basic office suite todo
banglalinux-core-internet-0.01.rpm [User Removeable]
basic internet applications web browser, email client, and all. todo
banglalinux-core-confutils-0.01.rpm
every bloody configuration utilities needed by desktop users. Todo.
We need to find some. Like sound card detection all the other stuff we need.
All other installation packages to go in /opt and /etc/opt. We will write a checking utility. Which would check all the above packags. And see if the hard disk has a valid copy. If not we force reinstall that package. So core system remains consistant. Even after applications are added and removed. And by chance if some thing is quietly stolen by uninstall of another utility.
Updates
Updates can be in form of update packages. Or a complete module upgrade. They can be in form of update cds. Or from the internet live update types.
Recovery
In windows reinstall is a feature. You need to reinstall the operating system whenever there is a hick up. Here the 8 packages(modules) above. Will be tested from time to time by a test program that needs to be writen. If any file is missing that module is reinstalled preferably without users knowlage. What that does is keeps the system up and transparent to the user.
Another case could be when lilo hick up. We need to make a recovery mode in the CD.
The most common case and the one that I am afraid of is X Failures. I am clueless there. We really need to find a way out of the beasts failures. This is where we need a lot of work.
HDD Failure - God Help the end user then
Configuration
Configuration tools, autodetect tools kudzu to go here.
