DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: take away, put in



Newbie here, hope I'm in the right topic. Wow - sylpheed, dillo, nedit all in one small distribution!
John, have you seen these lofat linux ideas?
http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/lofat.html

Will download DSL and try out asap - only 48 kbit/s here.
Thanks.  Dave
hpijs would let me print  :D

Alternatively, is it worth putting a shim into PATH to include /ramdisk/opt/bin so more knowledgeable users could add whatever they want? (Unless running scripts that reset PATH for security of course.)
Here's an idea that would be good for novices.  What if there was a small shell script that could be used to save settings and/or files?

For example, it could start by prompting the user with a list of choices (floppy, hard drive partition, even cd-r!).  Then, it would import anything that existed at that location onto a directory of the ramdisk.  When the user was finished, they could execute a second script that would sync everything.  It seems to me that all you would need to do is mount the directory, see what needed to be written or wrote, do it, and do a "umount".

I know that people with Linux experience can do this all, manually, but a script or two could help the newbies and those uncomfortable with the mount command.  I can't see it taking much space, either (unless you were to get really elaborate).
make xvesa default (top of list) during initial boot/ config? or do most install on laptops?

firewall, or a link to one that would fit the distro properly on download?

haven't performed a hd-install for a while, so i'm not sure how relevant. if one thing could be changed, it's shifting over from demo distro's sudo su to a root password. i'd say a very brief readme/ guide perhaps added on to the disclaimer note that goes through passwords, firewall, bootdisk, /ect/inittab- run levels, modem config/ troubleshoot. a commandline cheat sheet link like following would be nice to present in docs:
http://tux.cs.unlv.edu/refs/linux_commands.html

it's not complete (where's copy- "cp"?), but it can be very handy for a noob, and perhaps can have some specifics referenced where dsl might differentiate in regards to being tied to debian, and apt get, personalizing, tweaking, ect... rationale is, why get lost in a book, when a concise cheat sheat embellished w/ references, and links contains the essentials. small, and light- quicker than going through a book!

also, above cheat sheet should have archiving, and compression commands, traceroute, ping, ifconfig, and some other network diagnostic commands, ect...
I always like menu items that allow me to get up and running, and restored quickly.
Also, I like the Dial and Hangup menu items and the floppy mount/unmount and the
USB mount/unmount that appear in these menus:

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/fluxbox_menu  (usb mount)

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/fluxbox_menu_2
(floppy mount, plus "restore" from /dev/hdb of /MozillaFirebird directory)

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/fluxbox_menu_3
(restore from /dev/hda2 of /MozillaFirebird directory)

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/fluxbox_menu_4
(restore from a custom filetool.sh on  a floppy)

I realize a lot of this is oddball stuff, restore from various partitions, etc.
that cannot be duplicated in a CD for general consumption. Some of
the wvdial items and floppy and USB mount, etc would be useful,
if fixed up as "su" items in the menu, ready to go to work.

We need somehow to streamline the restore, so the average user
can get going without having to have a Linux guru around.  


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