I’m willing to do a fedora spin for the bleeding edge stuff if you want me to
Sent from my iPhone > On 07 Mar 2018, at 06:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 14:03:45 -0500 "William L. Thomson Jr." > <wlt...@obsidian-studios.com> said: > >> 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/ > > last i checked bodhi wanted to fork e because they didn't want to update > themes > for compositing+wayland support (and e18 and on got more overhead as more > objects were in the canvas - this should have been fixed by objects in > buffers in evas but hasn't been to date) and voted to fork instead. > > last i knew elive was on an ancient version of e. > > when i am thinking a distro i am thinking something that is up to date. > probably 2 versions - last stable release one and a "bleeding edge" one from > git to show off new things. > >> If not using either of those, I could likely help with one based on >> Gentoo. Either livecd or stage 4 base system, etc. > > a distro where people have to wait for everything to compile... i'm not a fan > of. :( i think for gentoo having the gentoo emerge package builds up to date > and clean and tidy and well done is probably the right thing. when i say > "distro" i mean something that out of the box just works. boots right into e. > working desktop etc. etc. ... and if they want to install more they don't have > to wait for compiles. quick package download+install and presto. > >> I have all sorts of E stuff in my overlay, updated eclass, sets, etc. I >> already have a custom profile based on E, and could make others. >> https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/eclass/e.eclass >> https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/sets/e-desktop >> https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/sets/e-desktop-dev >> https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/profiles/linux/amd64/workstation/packages >> >> >> P.S. >> One reason I feel Gentoo and E/EFL are good for each other. Gentoo >> preffixes most everything with the letter e... > > hahahah! > > despite all of that. i don't think its a good experience for users if they > just > want to try something out. :) i think gentoo is fine for the kind of people > who > want precisely what it provides. that is not imho the average user wanting an > out-of-the-box experience. if those were the users to address then a wiki page > on how to compile and configure an os for e is enough... that;'s not really > what i think we need though. > >> emerge, equery, eselect, euse, etc.... >> >> Just seems like a natural paring. Though for many Gentoo is not an >> ideal distro. I do not recommend it to anyone other than developers. >> >> -- >> William L. Thomson Jr. > > > -- > ------------- 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
