[Mentalunix-developers] Distro release schedule, new direction, and broken links

[Clinton E. <men...@cr...>]

Ok, On the site, the what's new link on the index page points to 
news.php, which doesn't exist, but the What's new link does work in 
the nav..also, it refers to dates we have missed, and the text in the 
nav is a bit small(it shows as about 6pt over here). Well, the 
contact section is cooler now anyway. Dustin: look in the sourceforge 
docs, because you could tie the news page in with the news we can 
submit on the sourceforge page, and the link to the group project 
page is now http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mentalunix .

Ok, New direction time. Since everyone seems to have ignored my first 
one:

- Ok, no more from scratch, forking off of debian
- Yes, based around the 2.4 kernel
- New installer
- Uses dpkg for a while, mpkg will be written when I get time
- Old specs page is meanignless
- No february release -- unrealistic with less than 2 weeks left
- Wait for my new box to come so I can do dev
- First version of the install out by the end of march..after I get 
my lan up so I can do more dev work(think cvs)
- Nice, working distro done before the end of next year(but it should 
be usable before then)

New focus is on making it easier to package code and maintain a 
distro. 

NEWS:
Next year, I am in a cool class where I can do a project on school 
time for 90 minutes a day, both semesters. My project will be 
mentalunix. woo. Be happy, because come fall, I'll be forced to work 
on the distro for 90 minutes a day! Woo! And I'll get a grade..

MORE STUFF:
I'm going to set up some mentalinux code guiudlines for things like 
the installer, and write some standard libraries it would need(like a 
virtual pacakge manager that just calls other pacakge managers, so it 
can be used with any package manager on the face of the planet!)


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<me>So, my l33t hax0r friend has a sister
<?> So, root his sister and not his box?
<me>She's ugly. Or something. Not now.
<me>Maybe tommorow.