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

[Joel P. <jo...@li...>]

Hey all,

First of all, a hello to everyone. Secondly, does mentalinux have any
documentation on the packages that are going to be built from scratch? I've
noticed in the developer spec that mentalinux will have a cute installer,
network installations and other 'specific' installation methods?

Is there going to be any filesystem stuff developed? How about other cute
things that will make the *nix community really appreciate and respect this
new distro?

It'd be cool to have a list of 'things that need to be done' and have people
like myself (with plenty of time =) to go out and do them. Perhaps there is
a more detailed life cycle spec floating around somewhere?

Regards,
Joel Pobar.

-- "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one."
-- Noel Whittaker



> 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.