I think they are great. The possibility of combining them with the Make MyDSL script to create a custom distro is a plus no other distro has, I think. Most used: skype, openoffice, glinks
It's possible to create your own Distro from this? I been trying to do just that, Any guide how? Yeah a lil bit offtopic but still..Yes it is possible to make your own version of DSL. With the apps you want.
BUT it will still be DSL..
If your goal is to make your own distro, then you have to change a LOT more than just the included aplications.MyDSL extensions allow me to use DSL is more ways than I can count. I've built mp3 players, kiosks, custom desktops and more by selecting the right combination of extensions. The fact that extensions can be loaded by default or on demand makes for an incredibly flexible system.
Without a doubt, the most useful part of the DSL empire. ;-)What do you define as "typical"? I use frugal, with a choice of 50+ extensions I can chop and change depending on what I want to do at the time. There isn't really a "typical", it depends on what I'm doing! But the base apps, particularly firefox and emelfm, are also used most of the time.As I've watched dsl grow over the past few years I've been very pleased at the growth in the mydsl repository. There's a really interesting, diverse selection of apps in there now. I think there are benefits in browsing the repo and experimenting with this or that app - on a Big Fat distro, one tends to install something and then forget that it's there if you're not using it often, whereas with dsl you're always concious that you've loaded an extension, and so think about it a bit.
The current selection of base apps seems a wise compromise. The only former base app I miss a lot is Scite, which for me is far and away the best gui text editor for scripting. Beaver is a nice looking app and should stay in I suppose but Scite beats it hands down when working on large slabs of code. So I'm always loading scite.dsl.
Besides the obvious (gnu-utils.dsk and dsl-dpkg.dsl when needed), I also use the opera uci occasionally and enjoy it (lighter and faster than Firefox), the java uci, the tkdvd extension, and Xine and mplayer of course. Gnupg.dsl to import and check gpg signatures. More that I can't think right now of away from my dsl machine. The new gcc1 (also use that a lot at the moment) should cause a growth spurt in extensions because it's now possible to compile things that would not previously compile on dsl.
I'm offline a lot at the moment so have taken to loading man.uci all the time, though I immediately rebuilt it so that the shell which opens from the right click mydsl menu has a white background instead of transparent, which was illegible.
I also use my own humble contributions eg Prozgui.dsl for downloading, checkinstall.dsl when compiling, and wipe.dsl to clean off drives. There's a lot of apps in there that I haven't got round to trying or haven't had the need to, but it's good to see they are there.
I'm grateful for the large amount of early work that Kent and a few others did in getting the repo so fully stocked.Next Page...
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