Eric got me interested in playing with Buildroot again. I have built a few linux systems with it, but I've only learned recently how to test them properly in QEMU by using grub to boot them. I'm also going to experiment with a script to convert Buildroot compiled packages into something SliTaz can use. I just want to see if it can be done and it would be a pretty cool thing since I could then generate cross-platform packages as quickly as I can compile them with Buildroot - including a Linux kernels for 64bit and ARM systems.
1.) Seems the simplest approach. Xvesa has been integrated into Xorg btw (not vesa, but something called kdrive), so maybe that's worth looking into. As a more fully featured SliTaz, maybe it would be a good idea to go the Qt route for that version. It will look way better than the GTK version would and we get pcmanfm-qt for free with RazorQt. Group management to handle mounting of drives seems needlessly complicated, but udev already does something similar if memory serves, so maybe it's the way to go if it can be done seamlessly. 2.) I prefer xz over 7zip these days. It's based on LZMA2 like later 7zip, but compresses way faster and smaller. The only downside of it is that it needs a tar container like gzip and bzip2. Still unrar has certain limits, which is why most people make the non-free rar an requirement. -- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
