DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: wish list, 2.6

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In hindsight, I sometimes wish I had not included unionfs into DSL. I am so glad that I have maintained a "legacy" style boot. As it is far more reliable.

- I always use a legacy boot to compile. Many times when a compile fails on a standard boot "weird things" happen and I cannot delete files/directories. For sure this could be due to many things (including my mistakes) but it doesn't happen with a legacy boot.

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There has been alot of recent builds of uci. Very little new unc.

- I think this is because the "community" has learnt how to make uci extensions, perhaps due to the excellent dsl book. On the other hand, I suspect a lot of users were making dsl/unc extensions from deb woody packages which are are no longer easily available.

I believe the new 2.6.x dsl should go with a "legacy" core with as many modules available as can fit/makes sense to ensure maximum compatibility and almost no apps (perhaps this is selfish, but I rarely use many of the base apps) in the base system. Users could then use uci extensions to suit their needs.

Juanito wrote:

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believe the new 2.6.x dsl should go with a "legacy" core with as many modules available as can fit/makes sense to ensure maximum compatibility and almost no apps (perhaps this is selfish, but I rarely use many of the base apps) in the base system. Users could then use uci extensions to suit their needs.

This is exactly what I would like to promote!

mikshaw, once made a graphic for DSL that said "I love Uci" a spin on "I Love Lucy". That does provide the most stable and easily used (mounted/umounted at will) extensions.

BTW: I booted my 36MB iso then loaded gtk2 extension, downloaded the lastest Firefox then browsed to youtube. Easily downloaded and installed flash9. Ran several youtube videos. Nothing crashed. Worked flawlessly.

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BTW: I booted my 36MB iso then loaded gtk2 extension, downloaded the lastest Firefox then browsed to youtube. Easily downloaded and installed flash9. Ran several youtube videos. Nothing crashed. Worked flawlessly.

- excellent (not that I ever used YouTube), when do we get to play with it

@Juanito: when I compile on DSL, I do a standard boot, but keep the files either on HD or in ram (/ramdisk, so unionfs doesn't get to mess with it)
Haven't had problems.

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Easily downloaded and installed flash9. Ran several youtube videos. Nothing crashed. Worked flawlessly.

I'm not concerned about the youtube videos (which work with flash 7 anyway), but AM interested in being able to access my brokerage accounts, which are switching to flash 9 for loggins.....(e.g, TradeKing, as of Feb 9th)

I thought unionfs were more efficient in terms of RAM; also easier to build. (I gave up trying to figure out why my initial attempts creating UCI's loaded from some directories but not others....nobody else was able to solve it either, as I recall).

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