badhoven
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Posted: Jan. 26 2006,21:00 |
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hi @all, I'm new to this forum but have followed it for quite a time now. I've been using dsl for about two years now, and due to recent development I also like to add my coments.
I really like dsl but I also dislike some new changes.
jwm eg. who really needs or uses it. First time I tried it messed up all my fluxbox setting. Then all the changes which come with it, I really miss all the cool and functional dockapps. And what we have momentarily as alternative may be nice but it's just not the same.
As for the choice of applications:
As a professional windoze user (yeah I know, don't blame me, I hate it too) and former linux server admin I use dsl mostly as a recovery system at work and in private as my desktop system of choice. however I need to have great compatability to standard win software, especially office. So I use quite some dsl extensions to cover my needs. I really think this user scenario represents the majority of dsl users. Keeping this in mind and looking at the fact that dsl is targetted to be a damn small desktop system with ONE application for every need I would vote for the following changes in applications:
- get rid of jwm (who needs two wms? and it really sucks anyway, sorry I know you had a lot of work with it)
remove firefox and use it as extension (yeah I'm a firefox and thunderbird enthusiast also, but its just too big and can easily be used as extension, additionally, who needs dillo and firefox anyway)
- remove ted (it's really nice, but practically not usable for the standard user and too big again for it's usability)
use the complete siag office suite instead (it's really tiny and has a lot of good ideas, also it comes with spreadsheet, word processor and vector graphics,all that in 1.5mb)
- remove gphone, extension instead (again it's nice, but who uses gphone anyway? most people I know use skype, which is also an extension)
- get rid of the games, keep maybe x-tetris (does anyone actually play them?)
- also what most people miss is dvd support in xmms (but I guess that's due to licencing issues)
this way it should be possible to get dsl down under 40megs, then the saved space could be used to add some more diagnostic and network tools like nmap/amap, tcpdump, maybe stress or cpuburn.
Then dsl would be a really damn small linux system which covers the basics of every aspect, server utilities, desktop function, internet applications, diagnostics, recovery, well you could use it for everything and just add the rest you need with extensions.
Just an idea
DSL is really great work anyway. Thanks a lot for this distro and your dedication to it.
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