[email protected] said: > Hi everyone, at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo > with updated packages from latest illumos kernel, updated userland > components, X11 1.13.1, updated pkg commands. We wanted to rebuild everything > from available sources, to remove any possible dependency from old packages > derived from OI. This repo will be available soon on our public > pkg.sonicle.com/xstreamos publisher, then a pkg update will do the job over > any previous XStreamOS installation. Then, I'd like to announce that we're > also working on a Desktop version of XStreamOS. We've chosen, first, do > deliver the LXDE desktop as a lightweight frontend. So we have already > packaged all the gnome and other dependencies in our userland. The desktop > already works, and is nice. To make it usable, we're packaging all the > typical application one may need on a fresh install (file manager, text > editor, calculator, terminal, and so on). We've also already packaged both > Firefox 20.0.1 and Thunderbird 17.0.5, and they work great on illumos. We > have plan to pre-package open-office or libre-office, pdf readers, media apps > and so on. We would like your suggestions for what you would expect to have > on a Desktop distro of XStreamOS.
Glad to hear it, good work! On my wish-list: a stable release with a regular update/security-fix schedule, similar to what we see from OmniOS on the server-centric side. Regards, Marion ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
