Matthew Dillon wrote: > Hey, great work! > > For our January release I would like to do a DVD release expanded on > the SOC project (in addition to our standard CD release). Does anyone > know the current status of that SOC project? I played with it when > the SOC project ended and it looked like a good basis on which we could > add another dozen or two packages from pkgsrc. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My plan is to pick up on it in 2 weeks (after exams). I would like to include Gnome on it but first have to fix glib which is broken and prevents metacity from building. Hasso sent me links a while ago to some patches which should lead the way. A good thing about hal is that it will let us have super-handy features like "nm-applet" which auto-configures everything that has to do with network. Two things which would could be done further down the line if time permits is porting tmpfs from NetBSD and some compression method. Already now a 4.7Gb DVD can easily be filled with just a few popular GUI programs. I do think we should skip autodetection of X graphics cards and just go the vesa way like we do now. Not even Ubuntu & Co get this one right. As an interesting side-note though, Fedora recently introduced kernel based graphics mode setting into their latest distribution, which (with the support of Xorg and others) seems to be the way things are headed. -- Robert Luciani Chalmers University of Technology, SWE Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.rluciani.com/rluciani.asc
