On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 08:21:22 +0100 Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> said:
> 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? something to discuss. splitting resources, focus etc. is bad. but if it means more people involved who otherwise would not be... that's good. so downsides: 1. dividing resources 2. dividing public attention and thus creating confusion upsides: 1. probably bringing more resources in 2. possibly expanding public reach offering different base distros it's something to discuss. > 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 > -- ------------- 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
