Hey Folks I sent the following update in response to a thread on desktop-discuss.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Korona 0.0.1 - an OpenSolaris KDE 4.3.x Live DVD To: ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> Cc: sriram at belenix.org, che at opensolaris.org, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com>, DesktopDiscuss <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM, ken mays<maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 8/10/09, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> wrote: > >> From: Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> >> Subject: RE: [desktop-discuss] Korona 0.0.1 - an OpenSolaris KDE 4.3.x Live >> DVD >> To: sriram at belenix.org, che at opensolaris.org >> Cc: maybird1776 at yahoo.com, "DesktopDiscuss" <desktop-discuss at >> opensolaris.org> >> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 11:27 AM >> >> When we could expect full KDE 4.3 integrated? >> >> Uros > > It was mentioned that Korona 0.0.2 or later may see more of an integrated KDE > 4.3.0 solution. Integration does take a bit of time. > > I expect Belenix may come up to speed to deliver KDE 4.3.0 if time permits as > well for Belenix 0.8.x development... they are a major player in the > OpenSolaris KDE market space. ? BeleniX 0.8 Alpha release is coming up shortly based on a simple network-based installer that will build a BeleniX boot environment. LiveCD will take some more time. ? The 0.8 Alpha release will feature an integrated KDE 4.2.4 environment with bugfixes and a few missing pieces filled up. ? In addition 0.8 will be providing a FOX (Fully Open X) build that provides libxcb with XCB support in libX11. Thus KDE4 components like Phonon are built with XCB support. ? There will be additional stuff provided like WebKit-Qt, Google Gadgets - Qt, XULRunner etc. ? I have been testing Konqueror + Webkit and it works well for normal browsing including Flash support. ? In addition 0.8 will also provide a complete Gnome 2.26 environment based on the JDS repository with modifications. The KDE4 build of 0.8 avoids duplication of packages already in the JDS repo, but modifications to those are needed to support KDE4 and some BeleniX specifics. ? The entire shebang with the exception of several JDS packages are built using Gcc 4.4. Among other stuff 0.8 will also feature Python 2.6 built usig Gcc 4.4 + Profile Driven Optimization. More details will be there when I announce the alpha release. ? It was an amazing amount of work to build, debug and integrate KDE 4.2.4. About 10x the work that was needed for KDE 3.5.x and still there are gaps like Kpackage and some modules in Kinfocenter. ? I have been trying out Firefox 3.5.2 build using Gcc 4.4 as well but the optimized build cores while the debug build works but is unable to load the Java plugin since BeleniX uses the standard SUN-supplied DLJ JDK that is built using SUN Studio. ? So we have mangling/vtable issues. We will have to look at OpenJDK+ Gcc later. For now a SUN Studio built FF3 is the best option. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
