DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Petition for a bare DSL System

>"The idea of remastering the dsl distribution is ok."

I would think those who need such a small system would have the incentive work out how to remaster it.

It's hard to know where to draw the line, but let's not forget those who would be instantly put off if they are faced with a
command line or empty desktop?

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=slimeph,Sep. 01 Here is a petition to have a bare/base dsl system only with the option to have a gui/not and probably add mydsl for extensions fetching.

Hi there

My vote is for a truly bare DSL - as a parllel development. By no means DSL should be replaced by such a bare DSL. Let me call bare DSL BDSL and explain my point of view a bit.

Last couple of days I have been dealing with some request of wive and kids to have terminals at all ends in our house to play the vast mp3 collection, an individual alarm clock that plays a nice different song from an individual playlist and so on. For this purpose I got these nice PC104 single board pc's that I am installing/configuring since. The have all that's require on board. I am sure, after learning a bunch DSL will give me the freedom I need. But as a regular linux user, I would just love to work off a BDSL, just adding what I really need. Looked at this as an isolated point of view, that will not need a lot of consideration. If you derive what others individuals need would be, BDSL could just be the starting point for quite some mass customisation.

If someone would assist, I would volunteer to keep that 'BDSL' 'modern'. BDSL shoudl basically be a DSL that's able to run X, do networking, should include (imho) mc. there should be a set of scripts and howto's, to remaster it. scripts could be commandline driven (imho).

Greets Chris

PS: DSL -is- great:
pcm4283: 133 Mhz, 32MB ram, onboard 10BT nic: ran out of the box and is truly usable, impressive!

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