cLIeNUX Core is intended to be a good first Linux for a beginner. It is also intended to be a solid core for a complete distribution. What Core is should indicate what Level N and beyond might prove to be.

Core has 2 high-performance compilers, gcc and gforth. So things can be added on top of Core as sourcecode. cLIeNUX "packages" will probably be sourcecode. Then if there emerges a large body of easily installed source, platform specific Core's should arise.

Meanwhile, cLIeNUX is x86/libc5, and should accept Slackware binaries with DSFHed run on them.

I'm not a big fan of "packaging systems". I also think SMP is a weak design idea. It's seldom cost-effective. I'm also not a big fan of IDE's. Either type, "Integrated Development Environments" OR "Integrated Desktop Environments". cLIeNUX is already based on two of the most wonderful modular toolkits ever devised, unix and Forth.

ACtually, the real answer to "What will be added?" is.. "By whom?" Send me something. I don't intend to keep the world up to date by my lonesome.
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