On 12/27/2017 11:15 AM, Christian Helmuth wrote:
Hello,
thanks Norman for making a start with the road-map discussion and also
for the review of 2017. Personally, I'm quite excited that Sculpt
enables me to work on Genode each day. This is pretty much different
from what I felt one year ago with a rather static scenario that I
used only once for a talk.
Looking at 2017 in hindsight, I did not invest much time into my
personal plan, which was a Genode-native multi-component email
workflow including IMAP, SMTP, local (maildir) storage, and mutt as
MUA. Nevertheless, I'll extend the plan to 2018 as Sculpt promises
less obstacles and features true dynamic Genode subsystems beside the
traditional Linux VM. The first natural step is the use of multiple
VMs tailored for dedicated purposes of daily work (speak development,
email, web browsing). This is not my personal ambition but the first
pieces were already put in place by others in the team. This scenario
helps to understand and solve the task of sharing data when splitting
the daily work into more fine-grained domains. Next, the email VM can
be replaced by the Genode email subsystem developed in parallel.
Chris, please keep us informed about your progress on the IMAP server
scenario if you can. I am also gradually making my systems more modular
using VMs (although not quite as granular as what you describe above),
and I am currently running an little IMAP server in a *nix VM, which I
would love to replace with a Genode "appliance" VM.
Everyone, since I'm already chiming in, I might as well throw in this
idea as food for thought:
It might be possible to piggyback on the work of the "postmarketOS"
project ( https://postmarketos.org/ ) to get Genode running on a variety
of smartphones with only one porting effort. In a nutshell, they are
isolating all the device-specific code into one file, in order to allow
creating a single (highly customizable, Alpine Linux-based) OS image to
run on all the supported devices. I wonder if it's possible to create a
Genode-on-Linux (ARM) scenario on this foundation.
In any case, thanks for the amazing work, and Happy New Year to everyone!
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