> Let me explain again. You take the most minimalist possible Linux. As > little gui tools as possible. You take the distro that has the least > possible tweaking of any applications. Then you try to find out: do > virtual desktops work here? Are all fonts visible here? Does the editor > crash here? > > If it works fine, you have learned something important. You know that it is > something at a higher level than this that is causing the problem. So you > start adding stuff, one thing at a time. Eventually you can tie it down. > Or it may be that in Slackware, it just works. Then you know it is in other > distro tweaks and customizations. > > This is not about what we use for goodness' sake! I don't use Slackware any > more (though I would for servers). This is about systematically tying down > what it is that is causing the problems, going through and eliminating > possible causes one after the other. > > I don't mind the command line and editing text files at all, but its not > something that I want to do in my regular working system. But there is no > other way of getting as close to bare metal as you can, and there is no > other way of eliminating most of the possible sources of the problems than > getting down to bare metal.
Oh, I understood what you are attempting completely before commenting... I was just tossing out a few good natured jabs based on past personal experiences and the impending "fun" you are setting up for. It's been a long time since I've used the shell for much of anything important, much less actually attempting to bootstrap a distro up from scratch again... Haven't gone down that path since around version 7 or maybe 8 of the old Mandrake offerings and I'm happy to say so. :) I did finally get around to wiping the drive on my laptop and installing the latest Ubuntu last evening. Maybe I can get back in the swing and be of some sort of help eventually. Best regards, David C. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution