Hi Folks, It has been quiet around here for some time, since all of us are very busy with our lives and work. Different people have been going through different changes including lots of pressure @ work. However finally things are moving forward and I am making progress on the next 0.8 release. There is a major list of tasks:
* Testing with B111 and subsequently B112 * Updated FOX build * Pull updated JDS spec files and patches and rebuild. The default JDS packaging is broken up into more sane meaningful packages. * Updated SFW packages. Begin preparing spec files for SFW gate packages. SFW package metadata is brain-dead! * Build KDE 4.2 (This one is huge) * Test the new Ramdisk compression mechanism I implemented. * Get extended partition support * spkg fixes and testing * General package upgrades and new packages. and various other things. Now for the most interesting development. BeleniX as a distro is growing in complexity and size and any large project to continue successfully and meet user needs has to grow in number of developers. Currently the size of the BeleniX team is really small with myself putting most of my free time working on it. This state cannot continue indefinitely. So options are either build a community or join one. Building an OS community around a distro is easier said than done and none of us has the time or wherewithal to do this from scratch. Joining a growing developer and user community is the most easier option esp. when that community also looks at things in ways similar to our approach and also brings interesting new ideas to the table. So we have been considering working closely with the OSUNIX community (http://www.osunix.org/index.jspa) to pool together our efforts and get innovations and new developments moving faster. That community is doing a lot of cool stuff and growing in developers. So we are looking at working together and BeleniX being a primary delivery vehicle for the results of that combined work. This consideration has been floating for some time and frankly now we are quite excited by this prospect. So expect changes happening and new builds/releases coming out after the 0.8 release train is out. So drop your feedback on this list, what do people think ? Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
