On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:48:03 +0300 "Ciprian Popovici" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you have the time, please have a look at this: > http://xlife.zuavra.net/blackbox/ Interesting. > I'd appreciate comments, pointers and maybe some extra info about the > beginnings of BlackBox. A few observations: - Under "The latest Blackbox gossip" You meantion that while in "feature freeze" no outside patches are added. This is not quite the case, at least to my understanding. The "feature freeze" means just that, a freeze on features. Outside patches are welcome to correct existing features (mis)behaviour. - Under "What is the Blackbox spirit?" You indicate that "pure eye-candy" has no place in Blackbox. I don't know if I quite agree with that. I don't see a problem with "pure eye-candy", but I don't want it at an extreme cost in system resources. I've seen many a Blackbox screenshot that amazed me with the eye-candy it provided. Yet, I'm relatively sure these systems suffered little to know performance hit for it. - Under "How do I install Blackbox?" You indicate that three packages are needed (bbkeys, bbpager, and Blackbox). All that's really needed is the Blackbox package. Sure having the other two may make some things easier. Granted there are most likely many Blackbox installs with both bbkeys and bbpager installed on them. However, mine isn't one of them. I only recently added bbkeys to some of my installations. -- Jamin W. Collins
