Received: by ucontrol.mobiledns.com (mbox mike) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Tue May 25 14:21:31 2004) X-From_: jbruchon@nc.rr.com Tue May 25 14:18:26 2004 Return-Path: Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by ucontrol.mobiledns.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i4PEIMh8001944 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 14:18:26 GMT Received: from vash (rdu26-253-233.nc.rr.com [66.26.253.233]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id i4PEIKfO013298 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 10:18:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <016001c44263$2bd82e80$0101a8c0@vash> From: "Jody" To: "Miguel Bolanos" References: <1085459643.21447.24.camel@talena.hsol.net> Subject: Re: EDE - Personal Suggestions and Ideas Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:18:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4927.1200 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on ucontrol.mobiledns.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=4.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > - TCP/IP support. (Yes Alan i know we already have, i just want to > point each thing i believe important even if it already exists) > - PPP support > - Support for various NICs I found an 8-bit "Etherlink II TP" at my storage unit, and I assume the drivers in Linux can be used to model drivers for ELKS in some way. (?) > - swap support Without protected mode that could get sticky. How can it be done cleanly and in a stable manner? > - maybe ext2fs support. Perhaps, but will ext2 perform as well as a simpler filesystem on these old old machines? > Then get EDE to have the following features: > > - Capable of been installed on a hard disk ( i know, done) > - Boot loader The Bootkit in EDE is binary-only and I don't think we should be sticking with a binary-only program, so unless we can have the sources to bootkit somehow, I say we mark these two related components as UNDONE. How can you install ELKS to a hard disk without a boot loader? > - Maybe implement something like bootsplash or Linux Progress Patch > - X support.. perhaps Microwindows can be the solution? > - An internet browser Anyone want to strip down Lynx? > - a Gui mail client Not necessarily GUI-based. > - maybe an irc client Why MAYBE? IRC is important :P > - A little "office" suite > > With only this little features we could make a HUGE contribution not > only to the countries in the 3rd world, but in many others that have a > very unstable economy and can't afford to have the top of technology to > empower the education for example, now doing this won't mean that ELKS > will no longer be intended for embedded systems (just in case anyone > misunderstands me) ELKS will most likely continue to fit in embedded systems, because we're working on a small scale here. > Anyways this is just my personal little idea - project, hopefully others > will share my vision. > > Comments, suggestions, improvements.. are very welcome :) > best wishes > > Mike What about sound support? If I have an 8-bit sound card (original Sound Blaster?) then I'm gonna want to hear noises! I suggest we start doing what ReactOS did. We should stop talking about it and DO it. Focus on results rather than planning. Someone offer to help me learn C. Jody