SliTaz Community

Hi community,

Here are the features I’ve wanted for a long time that will improve website. Actually we have one home page with summary and one main page by language who dont have all these news, so a user getting directly in en/, pt/ etc dont get these goodies easily (can click on the logo from main page to go back to www.slitaz.org)

The goal is to remove main home page at slitaz.org and have all news on each main language page. But for this we need content negotiation: in short we try to guess browser language and them redirect client to the correct location if exist and fallback to English if it not exist.

Before we use that feature on the main website and want to have feedbacks so I update http://boot.slitaz.org/ with a new structure and content negotiation (code is in index.cgi). On boot we only have en/, de/ and fr/ if you dont use fr or de you shoul be redirected to en/

Note you can change your prefered language(s) in your browser settings.

Please test it at: http://boot.slitaz.org/

Hi all,

Yes SliTaz have now it own Web Browser! TazWeb as just entered in the cooking repository and will be soon avalaible for all users. TazWeb is a radically simple and small Web Browser that will be installed and used on all SliTaz standard desktop with the up comming TazPanel system and packages manager (more about the panel in a few time).

I published the new project with all needed stuff to help coding with developers information about the guideline of TazWeb as well as user documentation. For more information about the SliTaz Web Browser can be found on our Mercurial repositories: http://hg.slitaz.org/tazweb/raw-file/tip/doc/tazweb.en.html

Translation

Translation of the Potuguese documentation is already on the stove, thank @claudinei, and help is welcome for other languages, just clone the repo (hg clone http://hg.slitaz.org/tazweb) or save the file as and send it to the list. You can also put the translated file online and comment here with the link, I hope that way it will open the door to some more contributor who dont want or know to use Hg.

Logo

I did a quick and dirty logo for the browser, but if someone could do a better one, it would be much appreciated.

Cooking package:

http://people.slitaz.org/~pankso/packages/tazweb-1.1.tazpkg

This last year we have had to deal with several resources such as ISPs, CPU usage and finances. We finally got a new main server from Thomas (and hosted by me). To help the team pay for Tank resources we have created a Flattr account.

Flattr is a secure micro social payment service which allows you to give at least 2 Euros each month. We started the service at the end of February and got 15 Euros in a few days with 7 donations, so we only need 20-30 monthly donations to maintain Tank.

Tank information: http://tank.slitaz.org/
Flattr us: http://flattr.com/profile/slitaz

Hi all,

During the last 2 weeks we worked hard to rebuild the full packages database, (more than 2000 packages), we had to fix many compilation issues mainly due to the new glibc and gcc packages. It was also time to rebuild all the packages so that all the applications were linked with the last shared libraries, this makes the system more coherent and stable, but will probably also bring up new bugs and missing dependencies.

So any Cooking systems will have a huge number of updates when running ‘tazpkg upgrade’. If you have a lot of installed packages, the upgrade can take quite a long time. Please report any bugs to the bug tracker, we also need your feedback to make SliTaz 3.0 as sexy as possible!

Main shared libs and packages (ex: glibc, libX11, gtk+, gcc, python) are now frozen in the Cooking version, so we can spend the last 4 months before the next stable version to fix any bugs, write documentation and improve SliTaz i18n, tools and boxes.

This summer the development team have worked on a new tool called tazbb (SliTaz build bot). Tazbb is a tool to automate, test and build SliTaz packages, each new commit in the wok will make tazbb cook the modified package on the build host. The tool is also able to rebuild the full packages database in a few passes. Tazbb also has a web interface so everyone can check in real time the current task and build log.

• Tazbb web interface
• Tazbb source code

While we haven’t written some news for a long time, we haven’t stopped working hard to fix bugs, update packages and include new ones in the Cooking repository. So now, with the great work of all the SliTaz developers, we’ve managed to include more than 2000 packages for the next Cooking version! The packages database will be soon frozen so all contributors will begin to focus on fixing bugs and updating the official documentation for the next stable release.

This also means that we have added more than 620 packages in 4 months (from the last stable release in April), and we’ve updated lots of packages such as the Kernel, the base tools and the GTK graphical tool kit.

Cooking packages: http://pkgs.slitaz.org/cooking/
Hg repository: http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/