Agreed. I overlooked menuetos until I finally got mention of the GUI and impressive features. The screenshots are amazing, really impressive stuff going on there! My main concern is the hardware support: http://www.geocities.com/menuethw/byhardware.html But I presume that will only get better. They claim, on the main page, to go up to 1280x1024 resolution, but the support page doesn't list any supported hardware at that res. I guess that means, "someone got it to work at least once," but that it is not supported as-is. I'm not clear as to whether the development on this has the floppy disk as a goal/spec/constraint, but I forsee a 50MB bootable mini-cd in the future that offers a knoppix-equivalent menuetos... and I mean equivalent by functionality, since menuet "has no unix roots". But gosh, I just don't see how driver bloat can be avoided (while still supporting new functionalities like burning cd's, since they already have a webserver and lots of other goodies). OH! I just found the second whole area for compatible hardware, phew that helps a lot more: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/twruottu/moshw/index.html Now I see, it is the Millennium G450 DH that does VESA mode 4, 1280x1024.
Cool project! Thanks for keeping the thread alive long enough for me to pick up on it = )) Ben PS - How long until it forks/bloats with nasty modernities like C? (and perl, mime, ogg, filesystems, etc) On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:04:52 +0000 (UTC) horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > Sorry folks, guess I'm a bit behind the times and kinda old school. I | > do | | No, you are not -- you just got hammered by a bunch of elitist | techno-snobs who missed the actual point: menuetos | (http://www.menuetos.org) is the ultimate anti-bloatware. A GUI, editor, | games, assembler to add your own application, templates for half a dozen | languages, plus more on just 1.4 MB (i tried it over a year ago so I | forgot the additional stuff on it). | | Next time you may wanna say it fits on a 1.4 MB CD and you'll get much | better press (I guess, I now have to study the procmail thread so I know | how to handle all the subsequent hate mail :-) | | Off the subject, I still use floppies to write experimental LILOs to when | I don't feel like tempering with a working machine, and to carry my | phone/addressbook when I visit friends in Idaho with their '486 w/o modem, | plus a few other things in between --but as said that's off the subject. | | - Horst _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
