[Morphix-devel] Want to help with 2.6.2x kernel and LiveKiosk

[Brendan S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi All,

> > I'm interested in an up to date LiveKiosk and willing to help in
> > development.  Where is the best place to start?  I have seen someone is
> > working on that, but how is the progress, where are the problems?

Have a look at the templates in SVN:-
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/morphixlivekiosk/templates/
In particular:-
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/mmaker/templates/morphix-livekiosk.xml?view=markup

> > the kernel is not up to date.  For the LiveKiosk, the R-Kiosk-Plugin
> > installed is 0.3, which doesn't want to work with Firefox/Iceweasel
> > 2.0.  It asks for an upgrade upon start or disables itself.  So I'll try
> > to update the R-Kiosk at the minimod/mainmod level now, OK?  Where or To
> > whom to send the results in case I make it?

As you can see from the current template I have been working on, it
contains <packagereq>iceweasel-webconverger-morphixlivekiosk</packagereq>
this solves the R-Kiosk problems above. [Webconverger is a nice
project as well - http://webconverger.com/  I have swapped some ideas
with Kia - the fun of FOSS - co-operation not competition]

I have got MorphixLiveKiosk in to a state that is can be built nicely
from a new MorphingMorphix. I had planned to release both of them at
the same time (same as last release). I use MorphxLiiveKiosk as a tool
to show-off the ease of building a liveCD using Morphix
(MorphixLiveKiosk can be built when running MorphingMorphix).

http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/morph-scripts/mmorphix/morphing-morphix-gui.sh?view=markup
See lines 1376 to 1458 and sed commands for the newer improved way of
setting homepages and if Navigation tool bar is visible.

I have been busy updating MorphingMorphix ready for a release, but
alas real-life is eating in to hacking-time (like Alex I have been
side-tracked).

There is a bug with pdf viewing in MorphixLiveKiosk that I not having
much luck with and I even think it may be a bug upstream.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404402

> I'm not sure what the status is on LiveKiosk. I have been busy on a new
> kernel/basemod (before being side-tracked by other things), but there
> aren't any autobuilds of it yet, alas.

Alex, There are not any autobuilds ?  ;)
Blimey I must stop testing the files here then:-
http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/mainmod/etch/?C=M;O=D

Or making nice videos :-
http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/mainmod/etch/?C=M;O=D
http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/video/morphix-livekiosk-2007-09-26_0018.mod_basemod-2.6.17-2007-09-26_0330.iso.ogg

Alex, Paul et al,
Heck - now is a good time to mention it. I have been spending some
time in #debian-live. So this is eating into my 'Morphix-Time'. There
are alot of common features in both Morphix and Debian-live. For
example:-
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-live/people/bmsleight/autotesting/video-qemu-booting-iso.sh?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
http://morphix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/morphix/trunk/mmaker/utils/auto-testing/video-qemu-booting-iso.sh?view=markup
In a lot of ways Debian-live is starting to catch us (Morphix) up,
autobuilding, autotesting ....
I love Morphix, but I may have a Mistress in Debian-live.

Hope this helps,
Brendan


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