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.
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