On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > ? I have been upto a bunch of activities lately. One is playing with the > OSUNIX binaries and secondly building latest packages for BeleniX 0.8. > > For OSUNIX I have got a booting ISO that lands you in single-user > prompt and I am debugging the other service startup issues. These fixes > eventually go into pkgcore. > > For BeleniX 0.8 these are the things that have happened till date: > > * Pulled a snapshot of JDS spec files trunk and build them to get > ?the current Gtk/Glib/Gnome 2.26 packages. Some of these are > ?slightly modified for BeleniX. This also gets us the ZFS auto- > ?snapshot and Time Slider in Nautilus. However this needs to be > ?ported to KDE 4 as well. Anyone upto the task ?
Would PyQT be OK to use ? I know that you have pushed pyqt into the repo :) > > * Firefox stable has been updated to 3.0.8 while 3.5B1 is available in > ?pkg.belenix.org trunk. The 3.5B1 build contains some config tweaks > ?to boost performance like HTTP 1.1 pipelining enabled. > > * Gcc 4.4 final release is now available in trunk. > > * Lots of other new and updated packages like audio/video stuff, BOOST, > ?experimental Webkit etc. 64Bit versions of many libraries have been > ?added (including BOOST and Webkit). All the C++ stuff including a few > ?in Gnome (gtkmm, cairomm) are built using the new Gcc 4.4. > The experimental Webkit is something that sounds really exciting. It's also nice to know that you've used GCC 4.4 for all the c++ stuff. This should result in some binaries that need a lot of testing ! > * Latest Nvidia driver is available in pkg.belenix.org trunk. > > There are more packages to be added before we can get KDE 4.2 to > build. > I await more news on this :) It looks like we'll all need a major bout of testing before we announce 0.8 as final. Let me know once you spin up an ISO. > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
