DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: new distro based on DSL
I've looked at Luit Linux. It looks like a nice project and intelligently thought out remaster. The author chose a good combination of apps for 65 MBs.
Variety is the spice of life. I gave Luit a whirl. The only thing that really impressed me was xfce. I think this distro is still very young, and will need a larger user base in order to mature to the level that DSL has matured. At the moment it is geared at the author's requirements, which are not the same as mine. Nevertheless, I will watch the distro. I think that if you are going to exceed the 50MB limit, you might as well go all the way to the next, which is mini-disk size. That will add room for a few more apps. Cool idea though.
I'm running luit linux now, and am using Firefox. I had a full install of RedHat 9 on /dev/hdc, so I am running that copy of Firefox within luit linux. The author has some ideas on how to run MozillaFirebird/Firefox in his index.html in the root directory of the CD.
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I see no mention of a restore tarball, which is the greatest thing since sliced bread for Damn Small, and I use a 10-15 mb restore tarball on all my DSL installations.
Usually, I have a couple stored on different partitions, so I can have two setups for
Damnsmall.
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I suppose I could make up a filetool.lst and a filetool.sh for luit linux, and see if I can
get Firefox packed up in a tarball, but I am able to run it on this machine quite well from /dev/hdc.
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Of course I like the fact that wvdial is included in luit linux. The window manager is ok, but needs some autohiding configuration for my tastes. It's a lot like the older KDE that comes in Redhat 6, without the desktop icons.
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The distro did work on the first download/burn, which is impressive to me.
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Hard to say what Damnsmall could benefit from in this new distro, I'll have to
play with it for a while to see.
luit linux will restore ok, from a Damnsmall 0.6.1 tarball.
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Have to put a filetool.sh in with the backup.tar.gz and filetool.lst in the same
partition on your hard drive, and mount that partition, and then run the filetool.sh
that you have there. I customize mine to point to that partition.
Mainly, I have added /home/damnsmall/.xfce4 to the filetool.lst to get those settings
back. I find that the .xfce4/menu.xml file has to be edited with vi. Scite won't work.
I have not figured out how to get the window manager to restart, without running
into my .xinitrc file, which is for fluxbox.
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Have had a ball working with Gimp, however.
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AbiWord is pretty much the only thing that I'm frustrated about not being able to use under DSL. I'm certainly going to give that a try, since the whole credit card CD thing was never really relevant to me, anyway.
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