官方 Slax 新版本规划

applewolf

下面是原文

Tomas M
wrote 8 days ago

This is a reply to some questions about Slax future, I'm reposting it as a new thread and making it sticky.

I can't tell you much about far Slax future because I don't know it

The following should happen first:

- release another version of Slax with up-to-date NTFS-3g driver, which implements UTF-8 natively and thus gives users the possibility to mount NTFS partitions with international filenames easily, without additional boot parameters for Slax and without different initrd for each language.

After that is done, the following will be possible:

- autodetect user's country/language when he is at the download page (slax.org/get_slax.php) and offer a customized translated version of Slax to him, instead of the English-only one.

Most people do not know that there is support for many different languages on ftp.slax.org, and the process of manually downloading some files and putting them to USB can make some people unhappy. So this is the last thing I wish to implement for Slax 6.

After this is done, I can start thinking about Slax 7, which should be a completely different system because I wish to include KDE 4 there, thus almost everything will change, mainly system libraries which are in Slax by default. And of course, the official squashfs-lzma will be used from the official Linux Kernel, that will make Slax modules backward-incompatible again, which will bring another problems ....

Currently I am building a house (for more than a year yet), I have some kids and I have to earn money to survive (a lot of money, due to the high life standard I'm used to). Since I wasn't able to collect sufficiend amount of monthly donors, Slax is not my top-priority nowadays, I have to do different things first, I'm sorry.

Note: that doesn't mean I abandoned Slax. No, it just takes me ages to release each new version

这次提出,使用UTF8 使 Slax 步入国际化,并去除掉启动时的语言参数实现多语种化倒是个好主意,"and without different initrd for each language" 这更是个好消息了,以后只要做个语言包就行了,不再需要针对不同语言把 initrd 启动文件进行修改了.

"- autodetect user's country/language when he is at the download page (slax.org/get_slax.php) and offer a customized translated version of Slax to him, "
当用户打开网站上的下载页面时,可以自动探测用户国家与语言,并提供可定制的语言版本下载,
这个我觉得有点难度,太多啦,不过官方提供语言包了,不可谓不是个好消息,但是我总觉得,更多功能的另一个代名词是更多BUGS,哈哈哈,到时可能满世界是如何修正XX问题了.

然后是下以版本可能考虑升级为KDE4,这个是个问题,官方TOMAS M回答问题时曾提到KDE4带上其最基本运行库高达100M以上,这可能意味着SLAX以后会容量倍增,而且相当于是抛弃了超低配置机了.向前走了......

另外,文中说到使squashfs-lzma可以使用在官方Linux 内核了,这也许是个更好的消息,可以更方便的跟进新内核了,而不必一定要使用Slax 官方的修改版内核了.

另外,Tomas M 在文中多次提到,其实他也并不清楚 Slax 的走向哦.

不知道大家如何看待这个slax的走向的?! 一起来讨论一下吧.....实在不行,咱论自己搞个版本出来.

applewolf

哦 Tomas M 提到他在造房子,还需要一年,但他在最后说到,这并不意味着他放弃SLAX

hit22

项目的开发人没有了方向可不是什么好消息。

applewolf

楼上兄台说的是，确实是没了方向不是好事情，但是我觉得，Live 系统方向不明原因非常之多，主要是其应用定位，市场，商业化的可能性，这使我想起原来看过的一篇关于Linuz 的文章，好象是他本人写的，当初写 Linux 内核时，也没有方向，摸石头过河，当大量的开发团队加入后，商业思路出来了，定位出来了，市场也站稳了。

如上所述，很想征询一下各位 Live 系统爱好者们一个问题：
“你认为你的 Live 系统你会用它来干什么呢？！”



事实上，我觉得这个问题非常经典，如果开发群体都没有方向和概念，全推给开发者去定位？！这不太现实，呵呵，众人拾柴才能火焰高啊，集思方能广益。

我倒是对此有点小小的商业方面应用的想法，一直在努力，不过很想听听大伙的想法。

racnil

问一个小问题，不太了解Linux的说。为什么没有Linux可以做到像好多其他的开源软件那样，单独分出来一堆语言文件，把所有的需要显示各国语言的地方单独作出一堆文件来。这样就把国际化的工作和编程的工作分开来了。这样的话国际化的效率和编程的效率都会提高吧。
只是小小的设想，以前尝试汉化过一些开源软件。那些开源的软件有单独的语言文件的……
俄，也可能Linux早就是这样做的了吧~~

hit22

我对slax livecd的期盼很多，我想以他为平台教授小学生计算机知识，我想以他为平台搭建蜜罐，搭建沙盒以分析病毒捕捉病毒，同时我还想用他作为自己的私密系统。