| 1 | # [AirBoot](http://rousseaux.github.io/netlabs.air-boot)<br>
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| 2 | ## Martin Kiewitz Boot Manager with on-the-fly partition detection<br>
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| 4 | AirBoot is currently in the <b>v1.1.1-testing</b> traject.<br>
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| 5 | During this traject the following things will get attention:<br>
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| 7 | o Fixing issues reported at [Netlabs Trac](http://trac.netlabs.org/air-boot/report/1)<br>
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| 8 | Especially issues involving removable media.<br>
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| 10 | o Replacing Open Watcom WMake with GNU Make<br>
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| 11 | Future AirBoot development will make use of [software-modeling](http://rdpe.github.io/ohm).<br>
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| 12 | Besides [Apache Ant](http://ant.apache.org), this software-modeling makes use of [GNU Make](http://www.gnu.org/software/make).<br>
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| 13 | Switching to GNU Make allows to adjust the build-system to prepare for the above.<br>
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| 15 | o Cleaning up documentation files<br>
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| 16 | Many text documents contain duplicate, incorrect or obsolete information.<br>
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| 17 | A cleanup will ensure a more up-to-date understanding of the current AirBoot<br>
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| 18 | and its development direction.<br>
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| 20 | o Removing obsolete source files<br>
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| 21 | There are sill some source files present which are not in use anymore.<br>
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| 22 | This can be confusing to developers browsing them without finding any usage<br>
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| 23 | or references to these source files.<br>
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| 25 | o Removing the FX bling-bling from the build<br>
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| 26 | The FX bling-bling refers to the sliding window animations that can be enabled<br>
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| 27 | in the AirBoot Setup. While these animations are very cool to see, they eat up<br>
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| 28 | precious code space that is needed to enhance the handling of removable media.<br>
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| 29 | Note that the animations will only be removed from the builds; their sources<br>
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| 30 | will remain available.<br>
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| 32 | The main repository for AirBoot development is at GitHub:<br>
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| 34 | project portal : [http://rousseaux.github.io/netlabs.air-boot](http://rousseaux.github.io/netlabs.air-boot)<br>
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| 35 | repository : [http://github.com/rousseaux/netlabs.air-boot](http://github.com/rousseaux/netlabs.air-boot)<br>
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| 36 | releases : [http://github.com/rousseaux/netlabs.air-boot/releases](http://github.com/rousseaux/netlabs.air-boot/releases)<br>
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| 38 | Periodically, the above AirBoot GitHub repos will be synced to: [AirBoot at Netlabs](http://trac.netlabs.org/air-boot).<br>
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| 40 | After the v1.1.1-testing traject, <b>AirBoot v1.1.2</b> will be released.<br>
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