I would love to help out with this idea. I am new at this development thing, so I won't be able to give much in the way of guidance but would gladly be an indian and listen and do what the chiefs suggest.
Justin On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:23, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:54:07 -0600 Ibukun Olumuyiwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > Hmm...I didn't realize this discussion was already brewing on e-users. I > > am very interested at this point in creating an E-based distro/liveCD -- > > mostly out of frustration working with the various retarded Unix WMs I > > there's also undeadlinux that tries to be this - i know very little about it - > so i don't know if its alive, dead, how good etc. > > > have to use at work. At this point the tentative plan is to take > > MandrakeMove (I chose it over Knoppix because it has better/more > > user-friendly administration tools) and strip it down to a bare minimum, > > then tack on the E suite and add a few absolutely necessary packages, and > > finish off with a nice graphical bootup that hands over to Entrance. If > > there is sufficient support for this I'll start up a new project on SF to > > begin. Proposed codename is Eunuchs (pronounced "Unix", of course). > > Because everyone knows I'm a genius when it comes to naming projects. :) > > not sure i like enuchs... but... hehehehe :) first i like this idea - but > we'd need REAL dedication to this. doing a dist - of any size is a LOT of > work. and i see us having 2 issues here. we have a CD "live" dist and an > installed dist - they can share a lot in common - in fatc i'd love to see a > live dist where one option after it has booted is "install me" as a > menu/app/button etc. the problem with building on a dist and stripping it > down is that you inherit its cruft - no matter how far you strip. > > personally i'd look agt WHAT the dists do to run well and then do it again > "from scratch". that'd be how i would do it. you will make a MUCh leaner dist > and actually understand every component and know why it is there and exactly > what it does. in all honesty this isnt as hard as it sounds... > > > -- > > > > Ibukun Olumuyiwa > > http://xcomputerman.com > > > > "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy > > getting get understanding." - Proverbs 4:7 > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
