It Begins

Well, I'm declaring the beginning of the Etched Marble experiment.

Etched Marble's primary goal is for me (Ikkakujyu) to learn how to put together a Linux system. Its secondary goal is to try and make Linux at least a little easier to use, but not at the expense of configurability.

Development is currently focused on Sharp Zaurus clamshell models (SL-Cxx00, SL-C7x0/860). Once it has reached some stability there, focus will expand to PowerPC and x86/x86_64 hosts.

There are still some considerations to make as to the underlying systems, namely:

-Native compilation, or BitBake/OpenEmbedded-driven cross-compilation?
-Which package format should be used?
-uClibc or Glibc on Zaurus host?
-etc.

At the very least, a window manager has already been chosen: Enlightenment DR17. This is supposed to be alluded to in the project's name (starts with an E. I would have called it Entropy if that weren't already taken.) Outside of that, the sky's the limit.