Roadmap of Openlink Development

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Revision as of 01:04, 13 July 2006

This article Based on work by moomoo and mindbender. Originally by mindbender. at Linkstationwiki.org

0.52b

• used as a stable base image

0.6

• skipped because it was unstable

0.72

• for fixing bugs of 0.52b reported in the PITS/PITS

• updated busybox to 1.1.3

0.7x

• upgrading the busybox to 1.2

 - wget 
 - unzip (no password-protection-support)
 - zip (no password-protection-support)
 - sed 
 - od

• adding additional busybox commands that might be useful (scroll down to COMMANDS)

 + /usr/bin/arping
 + /usr/bin/cksum
 + /usr/bin/comm
 + /usr/sbin/dnsd
 + /usr/bin/etherwake
 + /usr/sbin/fakeidentd
 + /usr/bin/ftpget
 + /usr/bin/ftpput
 + /usr/bin/fuser
 + /bin/ip
 + /bin/ipaddr
 + /bin/iplink
 + /bin/iproute
 + /bin/iptunnel
 + /usr/bin/last
 + /usr/bin/less
 + /usr/bin/lzmacat
 + /usr/bin/nc
 + /bin/nice
 + /usr/bin/nohup
 + /usr/bin/nslookup
 + /usr/bin/realpath
 + /usr/bin/renice
 + /sbin/route
 + /bin/stat
 + /usr/bin/tftp
 + /usr/bin/traceroute  
 + /bin/uncompress
 + /usr/bin/unlzma
 + /usr/bin/who

• make it compatible to andre's webinstaller for kernel 2.6

 + full wget
 + diff
 + complete openlink-helper-package

• make it compatible to kernel 2.6

 enhanced /etc/murasaki/bin/mount_sd.sh to support 2 usb-hdds while running 2.4 or 2.6

• make it more mac-friendly

 update netatalk to 2.0.3

• add ipkg

 + ipkg-binary
 configure /etc/ipkg.conf for the new feeds (which are currently empty)
 [[1]] (see ipkg-articles by nix also)

• make it easy to untar the image.dat of all firmwares - unzip + zip have password-support

 + full unzip
 + full zip

• avoid some busybox compiling problems

 + full sed
 + full od

0.8x

• using Sylver's perl scripts instead of some closed source components

(mkcode) -> currently in development

• updating samba to the most recent one

 Sylvers mkcode has support for latest samba

• updating the webinterface

Sylver has enhanced the webinterface a bit:
not all folders in /mnt/ are shared automatically, you can choose if you want to share it
here are some sample pics (with the permission of Sylver)
 
 

• adding an additional webpage (Control-Center) where users can start and stop applications

• updating some libs if needed

• updating some apps:

proftpd from 1.2.9 to 1.3.0 for example