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Notes from 2005-08-19 or 2003-05 or even earlier. These were marked "ancient and obsolete".

In order of priority. Some of the later entries aren't particularly well-ordered. And yes, I realize that some of these entries aren't directly related to "NetBSD"-proper, but merely apply to some applications.

1. Check into getting the HardSID up and running.
2. Get a new plaintext editor. Nano is only mostly useful.
3. Completely reinstall the entire setup. I should probably properly partition, but I'll end up saving that to later.
4. Get the x-locker working.
5. x-screensaver gives Shared object "libXmu.so.6" not found: research and resolve or replace. Hmm, this has more dependancies than any other package.. all for a fucking screen locker. Find an alternative.
6. Properly port .xinitrc
7. Properly port XF86Config
8. Fix Openbox's background.. the theme isn't 100% compatible from Blackbox.
9. Research alternative text editors. Visit my link on iA.
10. Research alternative email clients, preferably one which has a real text editor, unlike Sylpheed. Just get sylpheed to use an external editor.

11. LSCOLORS is ignored by colorls. Whee. Fix this and then review the colours so they're sane.

• Revisit the backup routines. Somehow absorb the NetBSD sandbox into the securified setup. This will be relying on getting sane cp / etc replacements. Sigh.

• Figure out the filesystem / mounting problem.

• Replace the master setup with NetBSD?

• research cvs updating pkgsrc!
• Add more virtual terminals (ctrl-alt-f#)?
• 132x60 textmode
• Fix shells so that I can view extended characters
• Fix the keyboard response time

• Figure out the fstab properly

• Research Zsh

  • Fix it's busted defaults
  • Figure out some shell scripting.
  • Research the feasability of porting some of my existing scripts to it.
  • figure out aliasing so I can do ls --color=yes" properly. Fix /usr/pkg/etc/DIR_COLORS or /etc/profile or /etc/csh.cshrc type files. alias ls='/usr/pkg/bin/linuxls --color -F' I'll have to figure zsh out some more.

• Lopster

  • needs zlib if I manage to get that compiled for an i386.
  • It won't use pthread, nomatter what. From a package or manually installed from source.
  • It forgot how to build a list of files. I think I broke something it depends on.
• Figure out why NetBSD has horrific disk access. XMMS skips when building a playlist, reading id3 tags, or during other points of "heavy" disk access (moving between virtual screens in X sometimes). There also appears to be suboptimal memory management.. doing "big" things under NetBSD is much more of a big deal than under Slackware. I could guess at reasons, but the fact is that I need to upgrade anyways =/ Well it appears that being strict about setting "nice" settings for stuff really helps a lot. It's still kindof sad that I have to do that. Research Soft Updates
• Fix Cooledit. It's bright, it's paragraphing is dumb.. bleh. Possibly replace it, although I doubt I'll find better in something this slim.
• Pick apart my startup, and whatever applications, to slim down startup
• Revisit traffic shaping.
• Update Securification based on experiences here.
• Customize or replace the boot manager. Research it's functionality.
• Edit the vga.pcf DOSEMU's vga font installer to make it friendly for NetBSD? Contact DOSEMU once complete. Recommend it be available separately. Aren't there a set of fonts similar to this available anyways? Bleh.. re-research.
• What's the deal with XMMS not being able to change volume (down) past a certain point with the keyboard?

• Is package management from pkgsrc able to make sweeping changes to update all dependencies. When I do regular installs via pkg_add and then try to make install some items from pkgsrc, often there will be a number of dependent libraries which I must go through the hassle of removing and adding via pkgsrc. Being able to do have a script automatically do all that would be nice (a bit dangerous, but nice).

• Revisit fonts, wasn't DOSEMU's vga font depreciated by existing fixed-width fonts? If not, pursue it's inclusion in the default X distribution.

• Pick apart system apps and slim down the setup in general.

• Research package creation and maintain my own collection of built-from-source prepackaged apps. Apparently there are some cool scripts / programs which:

  • Fetch distfiles from multiple sources.
  • Are designed to build an applications CD.
  • Check for dependencies, for correctness, etc. for installed packages.

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