Roadmap 2012

[Tyson Key]

For what it's worth, it might be interesting to investigate a WINE port as
a proof of concept...

I'll admit that I'm pretty impressed with the direction that Genode is
moving in (even if I haven't worked with it for a long time), though.

Tyson.

On 13 December 2011 10:24, Norman Feske <norman.feske at ...1...>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> as the end of the year is approaching, it's time to make up our minds
> about the focus of the project in 2012.
>
> There are numerous directions we may head to, for example, we could
> advance our ARM support to move towards the mobile space (tablets
> and smart phones), or put emphasis on multi-processor support and
> NUMA, new kernel platforms could be explored, or we could bring
> forward our ambitions to combine Genode with reconfigurable
> hardware.
>
> However, for me personally, the biggest leap would be to start using
> Genode as everyday platform for my personal computing needs. I am
> convinced that the framework has reached the maturity and the
> essential functionality to make this vision come true in 2012. Using
> our platform for productive work would provide us with the incentive
> to address real-world problems that matter for actual users - simply
> because we would be demanding users. Furthermore, there is no better
> way to show the conviction that we have in our technology than to
> use it ourself.
>
> Therefore, I propose "Eating our own dog food" as the grand theme of
> our project for the next year.
>
> To schedule our road map, we should first become aware of our actual
> computing needs and then sensibly prioritize those requirements.
> I'll start with a brief list of software functionalities that I need.
>
> Fundamental:
>
> * VIM
> * Shell (e.g., bash)
> * Tool chain (coreutils, gcc, binutils, make, findutils, tar, Tcl,
>  expect)
> * Persistent file system
> * Block-device encryption
> * SSH client
> * Git client
> * GNUPG
> * Web browser (also used for email, don't need multi-media stuff)
> * PDF viewer
> * A way to run a just-compiled Genode sub system
> * Interactive python shell (to be used as a calculator)
> * Screen lock
> * A fall-back virtual machine running Linux for carrying out sporadic
>  work with images (Gimp, Povray, ImageMagick, etc.) and LaTeX, and
>  for testing the Linux version of Genode
>
> Of course, there are further things I desire that are not
> fundamentally important but would make the experience much more
> enjoyable.
>
> Add-ons:
>
> * Tiled window manager (similar to the wonderful ion3)
> * Intel wireless driver
> * Media player (at least for playing music)
> * Thinkpad ACPI support, fan daemon
> * Qemu
> * Tuxpaint
>
> This list is surprisingly short. With Noux already having reached
> the state where we can execute VIM natively, supporting the other
> command-line tools will, for the most part, be a matter of enhancing
> Noux (i.e., adding support for the fork syscall).
>
> In addition, I have the immediate goal to release a new live CD by
> February 2012. Ideally, the demo scenarios featured on the new live
> CD should give a glimpse on how Genode will be used a general-
> purpose OS.
>
> Do you agree with the proposal of the overall theme for 2012?
> Which preconditions would you consider as fundamental to make Genode
> usable for carrying out productive work? Which other direction
> would you like to see Genode heading to?
>
> Cheers
> Norman
>
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