On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Gour <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:46:54 -0700 (PDT)
> James Buren <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have a TODO list for 1.8 that I have drafted from a lot of
>> thinking. Any of these interest someone? It would be nice to not
>> always have to do things alone.
>
> :-)
>
>> 4) GRUB2 2.0 upgrade if available by pre2.
>
> What about support for Syslinux?

We could support Syslinux too however GRUB2 will still be the main
bootloader so that would have priority.  I've got nothing agains
Syslinux though ... but we didn't get that many requests ( if any )
for it.

>> 6) Rewrite installer to be easier to extend in the future. It should
>> at least support existing features from the current installer.
>> Possible new features would be assisted LVM2 setup, U/EFI, install
>> from livecd, and/or GUI mode.
>
> Polished (GUI) setup would be a very nice improvement for Frugalware.

Yes, that's the idea, we should take Frugalware to the next level
where it has a nice GUI installer, a LiveCD and all that.

> Yesterday, while trying to find out what is the reason of my netbook
> failing to boot, Archboot (newer version of Arch's installer) even
> notified me that "some Lenovo netbooks/laptops have problem booting
> from BIOS-GPT disks) really helpe me. :-)
>
> I'm also interested for btrfs support?
>
> It might be that soon it will replace the need for raid1+lvm2 setup...
>
> Today I'm going to do proper (aka workable install on my netbook) and
> then try to provide build for some of the missing packages on
> Frugalware in comparison with Arch.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour

Thanks , any support is appreciated, we're not doing that good on
manpower around here. Even testing and reporting issues is nice but of
course active support is even better.

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