Hi! > I must admit I've always liked some of the ideas behind Ark Linux even if > the distribution itself isn't yet ready to be used in an environment such > as what I need to do my homework in. What is it missing, in your opinion? We may need your help to fix it ;) > I offered to volunteer once before but > I felt out of the loop because I had no idea what was going on and what > needed to be done. We're coordinating mostly everything over irc - we're on #arklinux-devel on irc.freenode.net - feel free to drop by at any time. Everything else is done over devel-list@arklinux.org (which is open for subscription too). > - Where do I find out what tasks still need to be done? Usually by checking out what you'd need yourself -- and by looking at the channel -- off the top of my head, the top priorities ATM are: - Add an advanced mode to the installer (customized partitioning etc.) - videoconference (basically a KDE port of gnomemeeting) needs some work (e.g. real adaption to new pwlib etc.) - The hotplugging system - we've started a KNotify based extension to hotplug so we can be a bit more interactive (e.g. offering a driver download etc.) - The usual maintenance stuff - bugfixes, package updates, etc. And of course there's the things we've always wanted to do if there's some time, but never got to do, such as creating a KDE/Qt based replacement for gimp so we can finally drop the *****ing gnome libs altogether, or making Konqueror's java applet support work with Kaffe and/or gcj (this can and should, of course, be done in KDE CVS directly rather than just as a distribution specific addon), and creating an open source flash player (beginnings are already in CVS) > - Where do I go for help? Same irc channel, and arklinux-list@arklinux.org > - Is that problem where my computer's clock would run at over twice the > speed fixed yet? Sure, we found that (ACPI bug that only showed up on some BIOSes) rather quickly, it's been fixed about 3 months ago. > It would be helpful if I knew which ISO images to download from Dockyard, Try the dockyard-devel arklinux.iso - dockyard is pretty outdated at the moment because we've made all the big changes (KDE 3.3.x, Kernel 2.6, NPTL, gcc 3.4.x, XFree86->X.Org, ...) at once. We'll move dockyard-devel over to dockyard in a couple of days; we just want to get a bit more testing on different hardware before declaring it stable. > I would like to have en_CA language support or alternatively en_GB Both are there by default. > and I would like to have everything I need to create packages as well as > write programs with C++ and Qt. You'll need ark-development-suite.iso as well - that has everything you'll need for programming. > If you preffer you can reply to me off list. Replied on list in the hopes that maybe some more people will hear the call ;) but since this is getting off-topic, let's keep any further replies off-list. LLaP bero >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<