Sriram Narayanan wrote: > Hi all: > > I'm typing this mail on FireFox/Belenix 0.4.2 that's running fine on > my Dell Latitude D610. I've spent the good part of the past four hours > using all the GUI tools in XFCE. The fact that it's about 1:30 am > should attest the fact that I really like Belenix. > Amazing ... you are up till 1:30AM with BeleniX! > I've been setting up Gentoo based systems for the past few weeks, and > I like my experience with Belenix Live. I haven't installed it yet, > but I'm sure it should sit happily on the primary partition that I've > managed to create on my laptop. > > In a few weeks time, I hope to move over to Belenix completely. There > are a few things that I require which Belenix doesn't have. I intend > to work on various open source projects to make sure Belenix has these > things > > Here's what I'd personally want to see before I make the switch > 1. Integrated Wine. > http://sarovar.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=545&group_id=360&atid=1497 > I need it to run Lotus Notes 6.5.2 > Wine is available from Blastwave (www.blastwave.org). 0.4.2 bundles a modified Blastwave client pkg-get that allows you to pull packages and dependencies off the net like apt-get.
However it will create another tree under /opt/csw and tends to pull a lot of dependencies which will result in some duplication of software that is already available under /usr/foss. It'd be nice to have wine built for BeleniX and installed under /usr/foss > 2. The latest Open Office should run. > I don't mind downloading this myself. > Yes it will run once you complete step 1 described in: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ#How_do_I_manage_packages_on_BeleniX_.3F_Does_the_existing_software_have_packaging_info_.3F Hopefully this won't be necessary with 0.4.3 as the SUN Studio C++ runtime will be re-licensed as redistributables by next week. In the meantime the SUN Studio team is also working on open-sourcing the libraries. > 4. GUI Tools/Utilities for > - Managing and mounting filesystems > - Configuring security (e.g. something like iptables if it exists for Solaris) > ipfilter: http://partneradvantage.sun.com/protected/solaris10/adoptionkit/general/features/ip_filter.html > - Managing Samba to share files > - Package Management > - Configuring Wine > - Managing Subversion repositories > I don't mind using Ruby/Fox to write such tools if they're not already > present, or if they cannot be ported from implementations on other > platforms. > While I'm comfortable with the command line too, I'd like to have GUI > tools ready for colleagues to use. > > 5. Eclipse GTK (or Eclipse SWTFOX if it is ready earlier) should run > without problems. > As a Java developer and eclipse enthusiast, I'd love to work on this. > Eclipse is being ported to Solaris x86 folks have it running already. See the other related email from Venky in this alias. Regards, Moinak. > But before all of this, I need to install Belenix 0.4.2 onto my > laptop. And this requires some reading at first ;) > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumIDT >
