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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> The fastest/safest way to get BL3 out is too use the tried-and-
> true libraries from BL1 and the tried-and-true kernel from BL2.
> Once BL3 is up and running smoothly, we can have a look at 
> improving the kernel and/or libraries.

If you use the BL2 kernel but the BL1 libraries, does this mean all the 
programs have to be compiled specially for BL3?


> I'm spending several hours each day on BL3.  It's starting to 
> come together nicely, but there are still a lot of loose ends.  
> I've just about finished the X stuff -- everything is less 
> than 2mb (that includes Xvesa, X libs, fonts, wallpapers, wm, 

Wallpapers????  What is wrong with a plain background?  Which image 
viewer?  xterm or xvrt (or whatever it was called that is smaller)?

> xterm, image viewer, clock, calculator, etc.).  I'm pretty sure 
> that 4mb RAM will be able to run a reasonable Xterminal (using 
> remote applications), but not local applications.  I've tried
> running local applications on mem=4M and it swaps very heavily.
> 
> I'm using the latest busybox with BL3.  It includes several
> new binaries: fdformat, unzip, bunzip, cal, udhcpc, strings,
> httpd, and a few others.  If httpd works as expected, you'll
> be able to transfer files between computers using links.

via parallel or serial cable?  I need some substitute for plip, which I 
can no longer get working between two pairs of linux computers.  

> 
> There will be several other new things in BL3 (including one
> enormous surprise, which I am leaving for the first users to 
> discover for themselves).

Can we guess what the surprise is?  A new mail program that will let you 
send mail from within a browser?

Does the lynx I compiled happen to work with BL3?  My guess is that the 
BL1 kernel was not compatible somehow, since it was compiled with a static 
glibc.  This would be a good test, same kernel as BL2 but different 
libraries.  

> Everything is on target for release in March 2004.

Thanks again for sharing all your work.


> Cheers,
> Steven
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