Hi all: I'm typing this mail on FireFox/Belenix 0.4.2 that's running fine on my Dell Latitude D610. I've spent the good part of the past four hours using all the GUI tools in XFCE. The fact that it's about 1:30 am should attest the fact that I really like Belenix.
I've been setting up Gentoo based systems for the past few weeks, and I like my experience with Belenix Live. I haven't installed it yet, but I'm sure it should sit happily on the primary partition that I've managed to create on my laptop. In a few weeks time, I hope to move over to Belenix completely. There are a few things that I require which Belenix doesn't have. I intend to work on various open source projects to make sure Belenix has these things Here's what I'd personally want to see before I make the switch 1. Integrated Wine. http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=545&group_id=360&atid=1497 I need it to run Lotus Notes 6.5.2 2. The latest Open Office should run. I don't mind downloading this myself. 4. GUI Tools/Utilities for - Managing and mounting filesystems - Configuring security (e.g. something like iptables if it exists for Solaris) - Managing Samba to share files - Package Management - Configuring Wine - Managing Subversion repositories I don't mind using Ruby/Fox to write such tools if they're not already present, or if they cannot be ported from implementations on other platforms. While I'm comfortable with the command line too, I'd like to have GUI tools ready for colleagues to use. 5. Eclipse GTK (or Eclipse SWTFOX if it is ready earlier) should run without problems. As a Java developer and eclipse enthusiast, I'd love to work on this. But before all of this, I need to install Belenix 0.4.2 onto my laptop. And this requires some reading at first ;) -- Sriram
