Roadmap

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Belenix - Roadmap

BeleniX is intended to become an full distribution that can be installed onto the harddisk. We are progressing rapidly in that direction with the 0.6 release that contains full SVR4 packaging for the base OpenSolaris OS. It was originally planned for BeleniX to be a dual personality distro, one being Solaris compatible and being a GNU userland over OpenSolaris. However the GNU/openSolaris personality has already been implemented via the unique Nexenta distribution of OpenSolaris. So there is no point in duplicating and the Nexenta folks are doing an excellent job. Rather BeleniX should strive to be a Solaris compatible distro that at the same time also tends to provide GNU-ish stuff and makes the whole experience user-friendly.

We need participation from the community in taking this forward. Please visit the "Project Page" (http://sarovar.org/projects/belenix) if you are interested.

Priorities for 0.7 release

  • Complete SVR4 Packaging for all the software.
  • Complete GUI Based Installer.
  • Entire FOSS Ports tree built using Pkgbuild.
  • Simple Packaging GUI that allows source packaging from the SFE repository.
  • Add SMF manifests for common servers: MySQL, PostgreSQL, CUPS etc.

Priorities for 0.6.2 DVD release

  • Complete JDS available: DVD Edition.
  • Add 3D Games.
  • More fuller Netbeans with lotsa plugins.
  • Move non-conflicting FOSS from /usr/foss to /usr.

Priorities for 0.6.1 release

  • Bug Fixes and fixes to Parted problems.
  • Update to KDE 3.5.7, Kdevelop 3.4.1, Gimp latest, etc.
  • Make KSH93 as the default KSH, possibly even replace the bourne shell.
  • More script cleanups.
  • Figure out a way to probe the monitor EDID data for use in the custom ddcxinfo utility.
  • Improve the hdinstaller in preparation for further work on the GUI Installer.
  • The KDM Login manager configured upon HDD install.

Priorities for 0.4.2 release

  1. Enhancements to ddcxinfo to include the detailed timing parsing from the read-edid utility. The current ddcxinfo utility fails to handle some laptop displays because they only supply the detailed timing values.

  2. Improvements to the installer.

  3. Fix aperture to not print the dirty stack trace in the short term and migrate aperture to use devmap in the longer term.

  4. ISO Remastering tool

Priorities for 0.4.1 release

  1. Move to the latest OpenSolaris build. BeleniX is still using b27.

  2. Fix bugs in 0.4

  3. Note: The Gentoo Alternate platform support is now a longer term goal. There are a lot of other priorities to look at in the short term.

  4. Release version 0.4.1 (Targeted for mid March 2006)

Priorities for 0.4 release

  1. Look at Pkgsrc as a possible packaging mechanism.

  2. Need a compressed filesystem implementation for OpenSolaris. This will allow more software to be included on the CD. This can be something similar to cramfs for Linux or support for compressed CDs created using mkzftree.

  3. Include BeleniX as a Gentoo Alternate platform and start Installer and Portage customizations. This will allow leveraging off the huge Gentoo repository.

  4. Installer enhancements to support both Solaris compatible and Gentoo compatible environments.

  5. Enhancements to OpenSolaris multiboot to fully support ddcxinfo/ddcprobe functionality.

  6. Release version 0.4 (Targeted for end of Feb 2006)

Priorities for 0.3 release

  1. Support for 64 bit kernel and libraries. OpenSolaris already supports AMD64 and this needs to be included.

  2. The Xorg server depends on a driver called aperture to perform memory mapping for DMA with the video adapter. It presently uses an obsolete kernel API (hat_getkpfnum). This needs to be fixed.

  3. Come up with a Perl-Curses utility to easily manage the services or daemons running in BeleniX. This will be a frontend to the SMF utilities.

  4. A Perl script that allows partitioning and installing the LiveCD to hard disk as at present installing BeleniX onto hard disk is somewhat involved and tedious manual process.

  5. Test sound support on various machines

  6. Come up with a way to force GTK/GLIB to use GNU libiconv at least till OpenSolaris localization packages are not available. The present workaround is to include "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/foss/lib/libiconv_plug.so" in /etc/profile and the Xserver startup script.

  7. Release version 0.3 (Targeted for end November/early December 2005)

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