On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:30:03 -0700 Indigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Whatever the case, the KISS philosophy should be as much about > usability as it is development. I'm one of the many users who wants a > small, lightweight distro that works OOTB and has the basic features > Slitaz already includes.
I agree, SliTaz is probably as small as it can get without a major overhaul. Using uclibc might work, but it will require recompiling everything over into it to benefit from the smaller binaries it may produce. Using compiled programs will only help as much as being able to cut out the dialog programs like gtkdialog. It's not a really big space saver, but the speed will be a noticeable. Ultimately, we should keep going back to the KISS philosophy like you said. Just look at the route pankso took with the creation of TazWeb and Tazpanel. We needed simpler and lighter solutions for both, so he created them. Maybe something similar can be done for other things as well. Like I've always wanted to create a simple GTK IRC client that just works. Maybe I should create it for SliTaz to replace the terrible lostirc. --- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
