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User talk:Pinball wizard/WiiDroid (view source)
Revision as of 20:12, 18 November 2008
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:: Well, I completly understand your thoughts so if I agree with your thoughts toward the goals of your distribution then I'll consider it. So if you'll send em' to me then I'll review em' [[User:Pinball wizard|Pinball wizard]] 01:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
:: Well, I completly understand your thoughts so if I agree with your thoughts toward the goals of your distribution then I'll consider it. So if you'll send em' to me then I'll review em' [[User:Pinball wizard|Pinball wizard]] 01:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
::: My aims are:
* To get an easily usable, well documented, well-featured version of Linux on the Wii, with as many features etc as reasonably possible.
** There are four planned versions of the distro for varying uses:
*** miight-full: Designed for people who mainly want to see what exactly the Wii is capable of, and have a large SD card (>=2GB). This will include all the default apps that the distros below have, as well as possibly some more.
*** miight-practical: Designed for people who want to use their Wii for more practical uses. Will include all apps other than the apps in miight-gaming.
*** miight-gaming: Includes only games and emulators. Designed for people who want to make use of Linux's massive game base, this distro will have every non-openGL game that people request, as well as some more such as Supertux (if nobody requests that :p)
*** miight-core: Includes only the window manager, login manager, wiimote drivers, terminal, web browser, and everything that [[Wii Linux|whiite]] has. This will be the "core" package for people with small SD cards who want to either install their own apps or just bask in the glory of linux (lol).
** I currently use the following apps in miight-core (if you want an applist for the other miight distros, I will give it to you).
*** Login manager: xdm
*** Window manager: openbox
*** Wiimote drivers: wminput with isobel's hack
*** Kernel: Latest from the gc-linux team, with nuvalo's modifications
*** Everything that whiite has
*** wiigpio: An easy-to-use app to control the disc slot, sensor bar, and eject the disc.
*** Nuvalo's Xorg driver (the latest if I can get it to work, if not, the first one)
*** Terminal: xterm
*** Web browser: dillo
*** Networking capability: Only Nintendo and Datel ethernet adaptors for the first release, but a later release will support USB WiFi dongles. Internal WiFi is considerably harder and will not even be attempted by anyone until BootMii.
*** Panel: pypanel
*** A few more custom scripts by me and other people
*** Xscreensaver
*** Custom desktop background by jbc
** It will be easy to install: nuvalo is very very kindly compiling a kernel that will make it possible to load a filesystem-in-a-file type thing, from any common filesystem, in either a USB drive or the SD card. The "normal" method of loading a filesystem, from a separate partition, will also be supported. Therefore, there will be four kernels, named thusly:
*** whiite-isobel-sd-p2: The "stock" whiite kernel (the latest update albeit), which loads the ext2 or ext3 filesystem from partition 2 of the SD card.
*** whiite-isobel-nuvalo-usb-px: A modification of the stock kernel by nuvalo, loads from either an unparitioned (raw filesystem) or partition 1 of a USB drive (ext2/3).
*** whiite-isobel-nuvalo-sd-file: A modification by nuvalo again, loads the filesystem from an unencrypted dump of the filesystem from a file on the first SD partition or unpartitioned SD (raw filesystem). The "host" filesystem for the file can be any usual one (FAT16, FAT32, ext2, ext3, NTFS), and the "guest" filesystem from the file is ext3.
*** whiite-isobel-nuvalo-usb-file: A modification by nuvalo again, loads the filesystem from an unencrypted dump of the filesystem from a file on the first USB partition or unpartitioned USB (raw filesystem). The "host" filesystem for the file can be any usual one (FAT16, FAT32, ext2, ext3, NTFS), and the "guest" filesystem from the file is ext3.
** Anything I've missed out, please feel free to ask, I'm not too good at stuff like this. [[User:Muzer|Muzer]] 18:12, 18 November 2008 (UTC)