TODO

TODO

kernel:

• XEN - needs some research

• aufs not considered important anymore

• security patches kernel is regularly updated

• grsecurity done

• crypto done

• alsa done

userland:

• dmcrypt done

• NOTE: (from bitshark) : Recommend considering the use of Qt4 / Qt5 libraries for X11 Desktop env rather than GTK2 with a million dependencies. The bloat is much lower for QT5, and the apps are much faster than QT4. Furthermore, with LXQT out now and getting more popular, there is a DE that is native QT. There are also many lightweight browsers based on QT5. http://qt-apps.org/ Just a thought in any case.

• a lightweight, but well working desktop browser. currently lynx, dillo, netsurf, midori, and firefox are available. netsurf seems to have the best potential for a small but usable browser, but there's still work to be done.

• xchat done, via own ixchat (fork of xchat)

• abiword

• brasero: current brasero seems to depend on a lot of gnome bloat: dbus, gconf, gvds, ... maybe we can find an older version that has more reasonable requirements and works with GTK+2. having to run dbus or a gconf daemon is verboten.

• gparted : not really crucial but could be helpful for new users.

• openal done

• alsa utils done

• libsdl done

• major SSL certificates (they seem to come with firefox on suse) for git etc (otherwise HTTPS connection will be refused) done

• usable X11 environment with openbox/lxde done

• check http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/gcc/APKBUILD PIE-patches and SSP related stuff for gcc we have SSP support now, however there are a couple issues. making the toolchain PIE by default gives a bit more security, but has a performance and size impact, so we will not do it for now.

• userspace PAX stuff http://git.zx2c4.com/exheres/commit/?id=53edd1c867918427bf640c600e3f0becc4ea70e1 done