Some time ago I stepped away from packaging so that I could focus more on documentation. So I’m mostly out of the loop on specifics.

We’re a couple of packages away from a basesystem. That basesystem would be the list of all packages needed for a working “slim” ISO.

I understand that mklivecd is proving to be difficult to get working with the new kernel, but gettinther is on the right path to solving the issues.

KDE4 is a few packages away from being finished in the sense that “it works”. By stealing some packages from Mandriva, Neverstopdreaming got it running. However, more work needs to be done to brand and tweak it.

There is still interest in KDE 3.5. It’s being worked on too.

Oh, and I also saw an alpha of a branch.  This kind of thing is possible because we have a couple of people who are using Unity Linux – even in this pre-release state – as their main setup.  Brave.

The Unity Linux build3 internal ISO came out today.  There’s more to be done to create an actual LiveCD.  There’s still some arguing as to which window manager would be included in a later release.  Something physically small, with few dependencies and with reasonable functionality.  To me, that leaves about a half a dozen to choose between.

I’ve downloaded build3 and I’ll check it out when I have some time.  There’s a tutorial which has to be rewritten to help our packagers out.

Since the toolchain also got updated, two RPMs I packaged have to be redone.

As of last night we have a tight basesystem done for Unity Linux. Our base is no longer dependent on the old PCLinuxOS (TinyME) base.

RPMs for meta-packages are being built today and over the weekend.  They will get the remaining development tools wrapped up.  The possibility of a basic X install is being discussed.