Already had to submit a last minute (0.1.01) patch for windows. None the less, Vicaya has passed proof-of-concept, and has been tested on several platforms. The latest release includes example content and search indices. I thought it might be a sober exercise to document the past and the foreseeable future:

Vicaya Search

Specification:
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Web content on a CDROM
Web content searchable
Cross platform
Minimal installation

Approach:
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Tomcat to search web content
Nutch to index and search
Java for platform compatibility
Default install bare minimum temp files
Configurable installation levels
Balance features, performance, with resource limitations

History:
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0.0.1 2004 Jun – first release Lucene based Java applet
0.0.4 2004 Nov – Javascript/Applet communication
0.0.5 2005 Jan – Javascript only
0.0.6 2005 Aug – Nutch on Jetty web server
0.0.7 2006 Jan – Nutch 0.7.1 on Tomcat 5.0
0.0.8 2006 Feb – alpha development begins
0.0.9 2006 Feb – proof-of-concept completed
0.1.0 2006 Mar – unstable development release

Present:
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0.1.01 2006 Mar – unstable development patch

Vicaya web server starts automatically from CD on Windows.
Vicaya can be launched manually from CD on Linux
Vicaya runs from HD
TEMP, JAVA, and server instance (HOME) can be configured
startup and index locations (ROOT) can be configured (untested)
Vicaya runs slowly from CDROM (startup and searching)
a script to build indices added
Vicaya has not been tested on Mac OS X

Roadmap:
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0.1.x 2006 ??? – unstable development features:

Priorities:
import development to SVN
start server and open browser with one click
automatically start CDROM on windows
install levels: default (minimal), performance, full
remove extraneous libraries and temp files

Nice to have:
automatically start CDROM on all platforms
update content/segments (SVN [RSS])
update vicaya (Java Web Start [RSS])
theme plugins

0.2.0 2006 ??? – stable release features:

Required:
tested on CD and HD with Windows XP SP1
tested on CD and HD with Windows XP SP2
tested on CD and HD with Mac OS X 10.3
tested on CD and HD with any Linux x86
tested on CD and HD with any Linux PPC
tested on CD and HD with any BSD flavour

Nice to have:
tested with Windows NT, Me, 2000
tested with Mac OS X 10.4,5
tested with Ubuntu, Mandriva, SUSE
tested with Fedora, Redhat, Xandros
tested with FreeBSD, OpenDarwin
tested with Solaris