[Mentalunix-developers] Mentalunix Development plan

[Dustin K. <nul...@ya...>]

Ok, here is my current plan for development.  
I will start on this stuff as soon as I can back up
needed stuff on my computer, then I plan on
reinstalling debian (dist-upgrade screwed me over!)

First of all I am going to use the LFS 2.4.4 Book to
do the first install/build.  From there I will
customize the system to be roughly what we want for
the basic distro.  As of this writting, I have
downloaded all the sources for LFS 2.4.4, and I am
downloading XF86 4.0.2 sources right now (onto zip
disks, gotta love school net connections!) and I have
the mozilla 0.8 source.  So I should be able to have a
semi efficient system done by, lets say, Friday.  I
will upload something like an ls-R file of the system
as well as a CHANGELOG from LFS 2.4.4 (my changes) and
any scripts/files/etc that I build/change.

If there is anything specific you would like me to
work on/do for the pre-dev release, let me know.  If I
can get a bunch of development done before Spring
break is over, I'm guessing, we might be able to do a
pre-stable release by summer.  We might be able to get
a 0.5 release out by fall/winter of this year, (minus
lots of our custom stuff).

Before I head home, I'll write up some basic
development docs and post them to sourceforge. 
Hopefully we can begin some kind of active development
soon.

So, finally, heres my TODO list for pre-dev release
0.0.0!
--Basic build based off of LFS 2.4.4 (linux kernel
2.2.18)  (this will change.  But, I want to build a
basic system first.  We can work on using glibc 2.2,
Kernel 2.4.x, etc later, after we build a pre-stable
release.  Focus right now should be for a usable,
stable system that we can work with to build the apps.
(will help with backwards compatibility for others not
wanting to use mentalinux, but want our apps!)
--Boot up scripts, init.d configuration, inittab,
/etc, etc.
--Learn inet.d, init.d, etc, bootscripts, and all that
good stuff.  Lots of reading!
--generic kernel config (will try for a 0.2 release or
so by the Friday) (think debians module installer
thingy during install)
--apt-get remake (for mpkg, ill explain later in
docs.)
--dpkg.deb remake (see apt-get remake)
--get XF86 4.0.2 to work with my 3Dfx VooDoo3 (and get
glide working) (note:  not explicitly related to
mentalinux project!)
--anything else i run across that I need to do.

So, if you have any comments/suggestion/question/etc
let me know.

Dustin

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