DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Lamer friendly DSL



Oh dont get me wrong here. DSL is my favorite and probaly will be my primary distribution. The small-versatile-powerful combination that is very impressive.

I'd just like to be able to click and drag programs to and from the pendrive.  The mount-unmount process for linux in general is pretty cumbersom compared to the Mac-Windows world of click and drag.

Streamlining file management into a GUI wouold break down one more barrier to getting that big rush of people to drop windows and go linux.

I intend ofn making a lot of DSL disks and passing them out to high school computer class students. It would be nice if configuration and file management in general were a no-brainer.

Anyway back on topic. Maybe what I have suggested might better be called "Lamer friendly custom distribution"?
mikshaw, I would also like to add that DSL can be installed to a hard drive and either chopped down or expanded at the users will.  Doing this though will eventually lead to a reinstall if you continue to play with options (I know I have done that several times).  

As mikshaw stated for most the beauty of DSL is that it can just be rebooted and have a clean OS with a desktop OS that serves the prupose of most people.  If an extension has been added that causes problems or that the user does not want they simply remove it or put it in the /optional directory of their persistent storage and they have their system back the way they want.  

DSL gives stability and expandability (with a base system that is very usable) while also providing us adventurous people with an OS that is fast and can be "played with".  When I trash my install by adding/stripping things it only takes me a short while to get my system back the way I started (keep apt and DSL downloads on a seperate partition so I can rebuild quickly).  Something that should be noted is that windows users don't have this security.  When a windows install is trashed (notice I didn't say if) it takes a while to get it back and they don't have the option of a live boot to work with in the mean time (unless they have DSL or another linux laying around).  

The traditional DSL install (imagine, I have been involved with DSL enough now to call the frugal/live CD install a traditional install) provides users full security with expandability and a complete OS that provides almost everything one could need "out of the gate".   DSL is quite small now and giving it the ability to be that customizable would probably increase it's size considerably and make it very hard to maintain.  As mikshaw stated that would require a debian style package system with full dependancy checking.  

The only other real option would be to make all apps MyDSL extensions and only have a base system in the core KNOPPIX filesystem.  In my opinion DSL is a very good basic OS at this stage and for most is very user friendly (and also gives people like me freedom to play).
Quote (brianw @ Mar. 10 2006,14:40)
The only other real option would be to make all apps MyDSL extensions and only have a base system in the core KNOPPIX filesystem.  In my opinion DSL is a very good basic OS at this stage and for most is very user friendly (and also gives people like me freedom to play).

You said it better than I did!
That is exactly what I am advocating. It would make DSL even more streamlined and better fit into it's small-fast-simple focus.
If you want drag-n-drop GUI file management, grab the Rox filer from the MyDSL repository.
Ok Thats closer to what I want, thanks.

I installed ROX and can open two instances of it but I dont know how to open as super user. I cant make a directory in /CDROM
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