Charles Angelich wrote: > > I thought we were discussing BL2 on a ramdisk.
It starts with the ramdisk, but I expect most people who use BasicLinux long-term will put it on HD sooner or later. > There would be no room to "switch to another browser". Switch to another browser, switch to another distro, whatever. > Even Microsoft uses spacer.gif(s). Meaning? If MS does it, it must be OK? > HTML is a half-baked language controlled by geeks (WC3) > who use Amaya as their browser. What do you expect? You miss my point again. I'm not complaining about how GIFs are used on websites. I'm saying that displaying GIFs (in Links) has a downside. Personally, I prefer using Links without the GIF option. > My perception of BL is as an introduction to Linux, > not an end in itself. As such, looking good is not > a waste of time. Funny thing about that. I tried to make BasicLinux "look good". I spent a lot of time trimming vgalib, fiddling with the orb source code, hunting for a small good-quality vga game (minesweeper) and logo (Linux Inside). More than 100 hours doing all that stuff (including all the dead ends). And, ya know, nobody cares. Not one word about orb. Not one word about minesweeper. Not one word about Linux Inside. So to hell with "looking good". The pressure is on to squeeze everything necessary into a 4mb ramdisk. So bye bye orb. Bye bye minesweeper. Bye bye GIFs. > Maybe there should be two versions. Maybe I have enough work doing one version. > One for Linux newbies Most Linux newbies want point-and-click eye-candy that does everything for them automatically. > and another 'tomsrtbt clone' version for hard-core Linux > users to keep 'handy'? Why would I do that? tomsrtbt is the best. I recommend it. BL2 will not be a rescue floppy (although it will include some utilities that might be useful in a rescue situation). BL2 will not be a newbie distro (although it will have some newbie-friendly features). Rather I see BL2 as: (1) a small, expandable distro for 486DX and early Pentiums (2) a simple, fundamental Linux for people who really want ' to get to grips with how it works (3) a stepping stone to Slackware 7.1 Cheers, Steven To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
