On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:46:14 +1200 Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:38:24AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > This is where we differ. I'd rather have building blocks from which > > I could build anything, rather than a monolith I need to trick into > > doing what I want it to do. > > Oh, so you don't run a DE then. I do. At varying times, I run Openbox, dwm, LXDE or Xfce. > > In that case I suggest either NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/ or maybe > Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ LOL, if I consider Arch's 40 manual step installation too error prone, can you imagine me doing Linux From Scratch? But NetBSD, hmmmm. FreeBSD is wonderful, and I would have switched to it a long time ago, but they keep changing their package manager and making it worse, and Ports starts conflicting with their Package Manager of the Month, and what a mess! PC-BSD is just a pretty face pasted onto FreeBSD, not good enough. OpenBSD would be exactly what I want, but I've had some video resolution problems with it, and I'm concerned that a lot of apps haven't been ported to it. It never occurred to me to try NetBSD, but I really should, so I will. Thanks for the tip. > > I suppose it all depends on the size of the building blocks you are > after. > They vary. Generally speaking, I like bigger building blocks for GUI, and smaller ones for data processing. I'm never going to make my own window manager. I studied the code for one of the smallest ones, dwm, and it's very detailed. I wasn't even able to figure out how to add a function to list all GUI windows grouped by tagset (dwm equivalent of workspaces). Lack of that function was the main reason I switched back to Openbox. Thanks for the tip on NetBSD. I'll try it. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
