On Thu 26 Feb 2004, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:51:06 +0800 Wouter van Marle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > Strawberry flavour. > > > > Oh you mean distro? I'm using Mandrake now. Works OK, would be nice to > > have an Enlightenment based distro. It is still kind of a rough hack > > (using it as window manager under gtk2 desktop). > > if i had the time... i'd do a distro. just for myself of all people! :) i'd love > to actually do a distro that's stripped down - no "apache" no "mysql" no > "openldap" in fact no gimp, etc. basically just what u need to install, log in, > and run a terminal, download some files, maybe browse a website or 3, read > e-mail. all things like "gimp" would be add-on packages (of course an easy to > use package fetcher would be included), but all of this is a side-line. i'd like > to make it ULTRA FAST to boot. make it boot in about 3-5 seconds to your login > manager. this is perfectly possible. in fact it can be done in under seconds if > you REALLY want (it's been done) :) >
Hmm...I didn't realize this discussion was already brewing on e-users. I am very interested at this point in creating an E-based distro/liveCD -- mostly out of frustration working with the various retarded Unix WMs I have to use at work. At this point the tentative plan is to take MandrakeMove (I chose it over Knoppix because it has better/more user-friendly administration tools) and strip it down to a bare minimum, then tack on the E suite and add a few absolutely necessary packages, and finish off with a nice graphical bootup that hands over to Entrance. If there is sufficient support for this I'll start up a new project on SF to begin. Proposed codename is Eunuchs (pronounced "Unix", of course). Because everyone knows I'm a genius when it comes to naming projects. :) -- Ibukun Olumuyiwa http://xcomputerman.com "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." - Proverbs 4:7 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
