MOL future plans

[Stefan Jeglinski]

>  >Better yet, any comments on the future of MOL?
>
>Well, I have lots of ideas but not quite as much time as
>I would like.

This is good news (except the time part :-). Frankly, I was beginning 
to think the project was dead. Where should we be getting the source 
tree from these days? Still at source.mvista.com?

>- A GUI to /etc/molrc. I'll probably use KDE for this but
>I haven't completely decided yet.

I'm out of my element here, but how about something a bit more 
universal, like a menuconfig type of presentation? The new KDE 2.2/3 
is nice but not so appropriate for older slower machines.

>I'm open for suggestions though. What is the most
>pressing issue?

Besides the clock slowdown? :-)

Personally, I run MOL in a very narrow-minded fashion, to run the 
SIMS mailserver on a Linux box. In this regard, I cannot speak well 
to your question; I'm interested in raw 24/7/365 reliability and the 
clock slowdown is a real performance issue for me. Otherwise, to me 
the thing that might most keep MOL marginalized is the inability to 
use peripherals. It appears that your USB support goal would largely 
solve this, so I vote to emphasize that. Otherwise, fast video would 
be best for the user experience, but I realize this is not a trivial 
thing and people who use MOL for the Mac user experience may have 
misplaced priorities.

I'm curious about the OSX/Darwin motivation. MOL is useful because, 
for example, it can bridge a productivity gap, either 'real' because 
some good app is only available in MacOS, or 'imagined' simply 
because a user feels more comfortable in MacOS. But I tend to see 
running OSX on MOL on LinuxPPC a bit like running a Windows emulator 
inside of Redhat-x86 inside of VPC - interesting to do, but what real 
purpose does it serve? What am I missing here?

Oh, I almost forgot... a return to 603 support :-) But if this is not 
going to happen, better to just announce so once and for all, weather 
the storm, and move on, rather than keeping it as 'maybe someday 
again'.


Stefan Jeglinski