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MakodFilu

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,11:35

Just customize it to your tastes then.

Actually I see one of the point you are making the other way around:
Fluxbox window manager is pointless really - a waste of space and no benefit over jwm.

But I like DSL 2.2RC1 the way it is mostly and I am sure that if I merely seriously *suggest* dropping fluxbox I could not make it out of this forum alive.

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,23:07

I wonder if DSL has hit the ceiling (or at least close to hitting the ceiling) and that no new improvements in it can happen without having to get rid of some of its existing functionality. This is the impression I get from this forum. I would really like to see real improvements in economizing on existing codes to accommodate new functionality (like the GUI mount tool) rather than just try out different combinations of programs in subsequent releases. DSL is probably the best among the smaller distros. Not to offend anyone, I think it should focus itself to catering to people using relatively older machines than to try to satisfy every computer user. If as a group we can focus our efforts into managing the way DSL uses computer resources (RAM in particular) to increase its performance, and let individual users pick and choose their applications from the repository as per their needs, I think we can achieve a distro that will have a wider appeal. I am from India and I see a great potential for use of DSL here where people dont have the luxury of using the latest machines. The life of the hardware can be enhanced drastically by DSL and that should be kept in mind when the key players of this distro sit to rethink and revise the existing "goals" for DSL.

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,02:38

I agree with you completely.
Satifying every computer user is easy...just throw in everything.
This is not possible with a 50mb limit and a focus on older hardware. So the only thing to do is to ignore a large part of "add this application" suggestions and concentrate on the base system. Let the users deal with adding apps via mydsl.

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cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,06:40

DSL 2.1 automatically loaded the USB2 driver, called ehci-hcd at boot time.

DSL 1.5 (and possibly DSL 2.2RC1, I dunno), did not. However, the DSL 1.5 USB BOOT FLOPPY DID autoload the USB2.0 driver.

You can test the theory by doing the following:

1) Using someone else's computer, install DSL 2.2RC1 to your USB drive.

2) Using someone else's computer, create a DSL2.2RC1 boot floppy disk.

3) Using someone else's computer, rename the minirt24.gz file on your USB drive to minirt24.gz.old

4) Using someone else's computer, copy the minirt24.gz file from the floppy disk over to your USB drive.

5) Try your newly modified USB drive in your computer and see if it works.

Otherwise, you may be stuck using DSL 2.1b until the Next Generation DSL-like system that is based on the linux 2.6.x kernel version is released.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,07:04

This is a release candidate and not a final release.
The USB 2.0 issue was reported at the very beginning of this very long topic. USB 2.0 has been included in the next release candidate, RC2 including a new waitusb option that we will hopefully get some positive feedback for those users with slow usb systems.

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