Stupid suggestion probably if you are going to use opensuse as the base why not maintain the existing code base and fork it and clean that up in a way kind of start from scratch?
Sent from my iPhone > On 07 Mar 2018, at 07:40, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 12:03:27 +1030 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said: > >> On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 05:33:45 ACDT, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: >>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 20:57:17 +0900 >>> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> h) I think at some point we may have to do our own distro that >>>> integrates E well and shows it off out-of-the-box. >>> >>> I would be interested in such. There are a couple existing. >>> http://www.elivecd.org/ >>> http://www.bodhilinux.com/ >>> >>> If not using either of those, I could likely help with one based on >>> Gentoo. Either livecd or stage 4 base system, etc. >> >> Neither of the 2 above ship the latest e, at some point I will start >> creating e images again to use with openQA as part of testing, the only >> thing I need before I can spin up an "Enlightenment OS" is probably >> matching Grub2, Plymouth and lightdm branding. I suggest we tackle that >> after we do e's theme though. But if someone wants to get to it sooner >> why not. > > we were discussing on irc with you.. i thought i'd bring some of that here. > > i think we should look into opensuse as a base. it will allow for a more > minimal os than something like arch or gentoo (though maybe on par with > debian). mostly because simon has been around with us for years and years and > i > trust him not to vanish. i think working with him to at least investigate > would > be good. > > so my take also is to strip out as much as we can get away with. that would > mean no lightdm. no plymouth. have the system boot right into a fixed user > with > no login (have e optionally ask for passwd on startup). > > keep the thole thing as simple as needed then fill these things in as we have > nice solutions. > >> I have made some raspberry pi images, but they are using an older efl >> from before I tried to switch to luajit on aarch64. > > we can just stick to 32bit arm until this is resolved. > >> -- >> >> Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net >> >> Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek >> SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 >> GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B >> > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
