[Simplygnustep-announce] New Stuff

[Chad H. <ceh...@ma...>]

I changed the release schedule/criteria

http://simplygnustep.sourceforge.net/Schedule.html

The initial source to the distro will be released very soon.  It will be 
about a 250MB DL (bzip2 -9ed :-)

You'll need a separate HD partition to play with it fully, I strongly 
recomend you use some type of virtual machine to test it.
Basically the source will automagically build a complete linux system 
from scratch (many thanks to Linux From Scratch) using the latest GCC 
compiler, linux kernel, etc.  You can then boot into this new system.
Note: it may turn out that this extra step of rebooting is not 
necessary, we'll see...)
To those who DL it: I'm particularly interested in these things:
USB keyboard, mouse
Network
SCSI support
SMP problems
Modifying the build scripts to take advanteage of SMP systems (ie: make 
-j)

To come:
When I get SRPMS built (that should happen quickly) you will be able to 
build the distro iso images.
The next step will be a graphical installer.



When (if) sourceforge grants me permission to put a 3GB CVS source tree 
on their server, cvs access will be also be available.


Thanks!

Chad


http://www.sf.net/projects/simplygnustep