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The media player has been traded for the persistent storage topic because the latter one naturally builds upon the just recently added file-system interface. Furthermore, we defer the live CD until July as we realized that we first need to overhaul low-level components such as USB before the new live system can be expected to work as intended.
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Road Map
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This page contains our preliminary plans for evolving Genode.
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Progress in addition to this planning will very much depend on the
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degree of community support the project will receive. The
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[http:/about/challenges - Challenges] page collects some of
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our ideas to advance Genode in various directions.
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The road map is not fixed. If there is commercial interest of
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pushing the Genode technology to a certain direction, we are willing
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to revisit our plans.
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2012
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"Eating our own dog food"
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=========================
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To emphasize our conviction in the maturity and flexibility of
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Genode, we dedicate the year 2012 to the transition of the framework
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from a toolkit for building special-purpose operating systems to a
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fully functional general-purpose OS. The ambitioned goal of the
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Genode developers is to switch to Genode as everyday OS environment
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for carrying out productive work. In addition to bringing forward
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Genode as general purpose OS, we plan to use it to serve the
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genode.org web site.
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Ingredients
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As developers of low-level system software, we have very specific
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expectations from our everyday OS. While we can live happily without
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graphical effects and rich multimedia applications, an efficient
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Unix-like command-line interface, the presence of development tools,
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and system stability are crucial.
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We identified the following features as fundamental to our computing
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needs:
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* VIM
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* Shell
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* Tool chain (coreutils, gcc, binutils, make, findutils, tar, Tcl,
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expect)
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* Persistent file system
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* Block-device encryption
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* SSH client
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* RSync
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* Git client
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* GNUPG
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* Web browser (also used for email, don't need multi-media stuff)
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* PDF viewer
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* A way to run a just-compiled Genode sub system
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* Interactive Python shell (to be used as a calculator)
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* Screen lock
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* A fall-back virtual machine running Linux for carrying out sporadic
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work with images (Gimp, Povray, ImageMagick, etc.) and LaTeX, and
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for testing the Linux version of Genode
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* Tiled window manager (similar to the wonderful ion3)
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* IM client for Jabber
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With those fundamentals in place, we will be ready to get started
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using the system. This will be the right time to address add-ons
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that make the devloper's life more efficient and enjoyable:
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* EMACS (for all those that cannot live with VIM)
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* Intel wireless driver
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* Media player (at least for playing music)
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* Thinkpad ACPI support, fan daemon
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* Qemu
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* Tuxpaint
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* High-performance graphics, e.g., via the Wayland display server
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* Native mail-user agent (e.g., mutt)
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* Additional command-line tools (e.g., mc)
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The work on enabling these functionalities on top of Genode will be
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scattered over the year. However, for each of the four releases in
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2012, we define a particular focus.
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Milestones
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:February - Release 12.02:
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* File and directory-service interfaces
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* Offline Unix tools (vim, shell, tool chain)
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* PDF viewer
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:May - Release 12.05:
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* Revisiting the support for Linux drivers (USB, sound)
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* Network-based Unix tools (e.g., ssh, Git, rsync), IM client
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* Media player
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:July - Live CD 12.03:
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* Presenting usage scenarios of Genode as development platform
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:August - Release 12.08:
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* Tiled window manager and user-interface concept
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* Intel wireless driver
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* Persistent file system
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* Hosting genode.org website on Genode
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* Multi-processor support on NOVA, Pistachio, and Fiasco.OC
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:November - Release 12.11:
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* Extended support for Lenovo Thinkpad
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* Cryptography (block-device encryption, GNUPG)
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* Additional tools (emacs, mc)
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Additional topics
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In addition to the main theme for 2012 described above, Genode will
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continue to improve its support for ARM-based platforms.
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