Distrowatch Weekly <http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100524> - An > interview with NimbleX as given here > *"DW: *Your operating system is based on Slackware. What sort of features > does NimbleX offer over plain Slackware? > > *BR: *I like that Slackware doesn't make strange things with packages as > I've seen in some of the other distros and I like that Slackware is meant to > be a pure Linux that doesn't bring very specific tools. Thus far it has been > a very good starting base for NimbleX which works as live Linux under the > hood. The way NimbleX works means that you can't really break it. *Even if > you decide to save the changes in a file or in some other way, if you delete > the whole /usr directory, at next reboot you'll still have everything there > *. If someone chooses to save changes and overwrites important files with > something not OK, just deleting the changes will bring back a system that > worked exactly as it did when it was installed." > > Is this behavior specific to Slackware/NimbleX ? >> >> I am quite sure it is only specific to NimbleX and not Slackware either. I have Slackware 13 installed on a spare laptop and I am quite sure its /usr directory is fairly similar in function to other distros, although I have not used it extensively enough yet !
NimbleX must be designed in such a way that the "core/essential" stuff in /usr that is needed by other programs is created/generated from a cd/usb at each boot. This way you get a clean setup of the essential stuff in /usr The above is just an assumption, I have not read the DW article thoroughly enough :) Thanks, Nandan.
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