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Current Roadmap
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Note: This
page is
under construction
BeleniX is intended to become an full
distribution with an
Install/Packaging mechanism that can be installed onto the harddisk. It
is planned for BeleniX to have two personalities. One being a full
OpenSolaris distro that retains as much compatibility to official
Solaris as possible. The other being a GNU/OpenSolaris distro that runs
a complete GNU/OSS software stack (including most of the system
daemons) on top of the OpenSolaris Kernel.
We need participation from the community in taking
this forward. Please visit the "Project Page" (http://sarovar.org/projects/belenix)
if you are interested.
Short Term Roadmap
Priorities for 0.3 release (in decresing
order of importance):
* Support for 64 bit kernel and libraries. OpenSolaris already supports
AMD64 and this needs to be included.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Test sound support on various machines
* 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.
---> Release version 0.3 (Targeted for end November/early December
2005)
Priorities for 0.4 release:
* Look at Pkgsrc as a possible packaging mechanism.
* 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.
* Include BeleniX as a Gentoo Alternate platform and start Installer
and Portage customizations. This will allow leveraging off the huge
Gentoo repository.
* Installer enhancements to support both Solaris compatible and Gentoo
compatible environments.
* Enhancements to OpenSolaris multiboot to fully support
ddcxinfo/ddcprobe functionality.
---> Release version 0.4 (Targeted for end of Feb 2006)
Priorities for 0.4.1 release:
* Move to the latest OpenSolaris build. BeleniX is still using b27.
* Fix bugs in 0.4
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.
---> Release version 0.4.1 (Targeted for mid March 2006)
Priorities for 0.4.2 release:
* 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.
* Improvements to the installer.
* Fix aperture to not print the dirty stack trace in the short term and
migrate aperture to use devmap in the longer term.
* ISO Remastering tool
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