DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Learning from Feather

Quote (Guest @ May 17 2004,15:24)

I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't saying that you were throwing flames. Well, you can remember that whenever a post about luit arises in this forum, it just creates a storm. I think this has made many a veteran DSL poster to go totally mum now after posting about luit. Even I don't have the guts to post under my registered name.

As far as I know, I was the only person to go rabid on someone when they brought up Luit in the forums.

John says he doesn't have a problem with people mentioning Luit. If it doesn't bother the project leader, I'll choke back my own bile until I convulsively have a stroke or enter a peaceful state of catatonic acceptance.

Bottom line: Post about whatever you want, Rapidwea--I mean, uh, Lighter

Can't we all just get along?

Grim - I didn't mind your Luit rant. Some of your posts really cracked me up!

I think having DSL, Feather, and Luit is a win for everyone.

DSL - for the 50mb purist who consider the business card
CD a sacred symbol of anti-bloat <--is that a
word?

Feather - A little bigger (<64mb). I few more frills for those
that don't want quite the barebones system of a
50mb restriction. It's being debated to possibly go
to <128mb with larger USB drives becoming more
common and less expensive.

Luit - Gives people the opportunity to have a very small distro
with the feel of Windows.

I think many people in this forum are like me and try each one of these distros whenever a new release is announced. I think it is great that while these distros are very similar at the base, each one is carving out it's own niche. Personally, I like to combine the things I like about each one into my own "flavor".

I believe Robert when he says he's not paying much attention to what others are doing. His innovative ideas remind my of a good friend that is a very accomplished guitar player. I asked him what guitar players he listened to and he told me "none". He didn't care to hear other styles of playing because he was so focused on what he was doing.

I applaud all of the developers of these distros and am always waiting to try the next release!

Chris

Quote (roberts @ May 17 2004,16:01)

Already completed is DSL 0.7.1.

please tell me you remembered to fix the p/s2 mouse problems from 0.7 ~_~ <-- praying.

i like the idea of the extentions, but what bothered me is that there was no way to stop them from loading on an older box. means that i have to carry around 2 CDs - one for modern, stout computers that can handle the .dsl's and one for older boxes that can't. kinda made me wonder if the king had fallen, if DSL had finally succumbed to the temptation of the bloat. but this news of a menu to pick and choose which extentions to load has (mostly) allieviated (sp?) my fears. thank you!!!

and i hope that DSL will continue to be THE standard for minimalist, desktop-oriented distros. it has breathed new life and functionality into the 486 and P1 boxes of the world. i now have 6 of the 8 P1 boxes that i own running ONLY DSL (HD-installed, of course) acting as a print server, a internet gateway, and 4 internet stations running firefox. i don't want to even think about what it would have cost me to buy new boxes that would run as quick on windoze as these little P1s do on DSL.

reminds me that i really need to donate at least 15 or 20 bucks...

Roberts I agree totally with your idea of optional items to be installed at will.
I've never seen a 50mb CD so all my copies are burnt onto 700's and I hate the idea of wastage.

I just want a basic DSL which will run on all machines, but with the extra's available for the times
when I get to use a more powerful box.

Quote (hasty @ May 19 2004,11:22)

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I agree. I'm currently playing with remastering 0.7 using WinISO. I dropped a couple of items in the root CD directory (firefox, gnu-utils, ace of penguins) and put other .dsl files and my wireless module in a new directory called extra. It was a little slow to boot this way so I remastered again, moving the gnu-utils into the extra folder. It is still way too slow to boot on a PII and my laptop kept giving errors about being out of ram. I have 128MB. So then I thought it would be nice to have everything in a clickable menu, like the new control panel, which rocks by the way. Good to know the mydsl menu will be available in the 0.7.1 version. Is it avail. in 0.7? I didn't see it.

I just thought I would also mention that with 0.7, if you run the full enhance on the desktop, then the menu you get when you right click no longer has all the original options. I don't know if that is a bug or not. Also in the Knoppix directory the mkfloppy.bat and rawrite have been removed. Didn't know if this was intentional.

Did you guys get rid of the previous method of installing apps while running from livecd? Seems like in the 0.5.3 days you had flash on the menu and some other items. I may be thinking of flonix or knoppix. Maybe this is all being replaced by the myDSL stuff, which is fine. Hope you add a bookmark in the livecd iso for the mydslpage if that stuff can be downloaded and installed while running live.

I'm wondering when the kernel will get upgraded also. Still at 2.4.20 as far as I know. When and if this is done please post a big notice because I will have to recompile my wireless driver. I had to find an old version of knoppix 3.1 the last time.

One more thing since I'm ranting and offering all this free advice. ;-) I briefly looked at Mepis and the developer had all sorts of helpful bookmarks in the Konquerer browser. Links to the FAQ on his site, some Debian for Newbies sites, useful Howto links, streaming media, Linux news sites, other useful stuff. Wondering if this will/could be done in DSL?

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