ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

[Miguel Bolanos]

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Greetings,

This is my initial proposal for TODO before 0.1.4 release:

- Reduce Code.
- Rewrite exec and device code to be able to run without file      
  systems.
- Simplify device request functions as they can only be asked to 
  get one block at a time.
- PLIP networking support.
- Have swapon back into elkscmd
- Optimize root disk to be able to actually fit everything in it.
- Improve / upgrade documentation.
- boot loader

Desired:

- An irc client.
- A text browser.
- A text mail client.
- screen :)

All suggestions are welcome.
Thanks a lot to everyone of you that got back to my call for suggestions
on the future of elks. as u can see i bases part of this todo on those
suggestions... the rest comes from my own ideas and the old TODO.

Alan i know you are pretty busy with school and all, but i would really
appreciate it if you can take a minute provide some feedback on this.

best wishes.
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Re: ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

[claudio]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Miguel Bolanos wrote:

> This is my initial proposal for TODO before 0.1.4 release:
>
> - Reduce Code.

A traditional entry.


> - Rewrite exec and device code to be able to run without file
>   systems.
> - Simplify device request functions as they can only be asked to
>   get one block at a time.
> - PLIP networking support.

That would be nice. I believe it was originally scheduled for
release 0.3.0?


> - Have swapon back into elkscmd
> - Optimize root disk to be able to actually fit everything in it.

Currently the full3 image has some duplicated binaries in it (e.g.
it install ash as /bin/ash and /bin/sh). Trivial to fix.


> - Improve / upgrade documentation.
> - boot loader

The bootblocks in dev86 are working well, at least with minix floppies
and minix_elks.bin. I suppose the hd loader is working too, I'll test
it this weekend.


> Desired:
> - An irc client.
> - A text browser.
> - A text mail client.

What's our current status regarding network?


> All suggestions are welcome.

I'm investigating the status of the new exec format and what must be
done to get it working. Perhaps we could include it in this release.


Best regards,
claudio

Re: ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

[Alan Cox]

On Sad, 2004-06-05 at 01:34, claudio@conectiva.com wrote:
> > Desired:
> > - An irc client.

Nathan Laredo's tinyirc should fit quite easily

Re: ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

[claudio]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Miguel Bolanos wrote:

> Desired:
> - An irc client.

Ported tinyirc, as suggested by Alan.

Re: ELKS 0.1.4 - TODO

[Miguel Bolanos]

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Greetings,

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 19:56, claudio@conectiva.com wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Miguel Bolanos wrote:
> 
> > Desired:
> > - An irc client.
> 
> Ported tinyirc, as suggested by Alan.

Alan Thanks for the suggestion.

Claudio excellent, we will be looking forward to see it included.

Other stuff that we can start considering for the future in case someone
is interested:

- microwindows
- somekind of browser (non text)
- spreadsheet, wordprocessor...
- cd / mp3 player? *GRIN*

Mike

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--------------------miguel bolanos, systems administrator, linuxlabs
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       -since 1995                          http://www.linuxlabs.com
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