I was not aware that we were splitting hairs with our benefactors where our grammar was concerned.
Oh come on, he mispelled typos. You have to see the humor in that.
Also, I second (fifth?) the recommendation to ditch firefox from the base build. I've been thinking this for awhile, and haven't gotten around to mentioning it on this forum anywhere. It is grossly out of date (I understand there is a good reason, but still), and therefore insecure. Just think of what you can do with the megs you save. Plus, now, it causes problems with unionfs. Why would you want to keep it?I have to replace 3.0 with DSL-2.4 because 3.0 is not stable enough for my machine (vaio laptop, 1,3 ghz and 256 MB RAM). Problems:
1. Firefox; again, why do we keep it in the base iso?;
2. I still have error messages when I want to load uncs apps at boot; I try it after a brand new frugall installation of DSL 3.0 stable; I loaded only uncs, but the problem is persistent; in order to check out the problem, see my post: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;st=85.
3. uncs loaded: gtk2, opera and samba (already signalized in my posts, please see the link below); I don't believe that these apps cause these errors, but for opera: once loaded, it freezes when I use it more than 2 hours, and when I shut my machine down, I get the message: can't unmount opera.
I did the same test with 3.0.1 unionfs activated: same results.
yours zinteresting: just after posting, I wanted to open openoffice.uci (click on openoffice.uci in emelfem; I am working noicons). It was impossible. I don't have the myDSL button in emelfm anymore, too. And I have made a fresh install of DSL-2.4... My hd: hda1 (55 MB), hda5 (25 GB), hda6 (swap). yours zWhy keep an older version of Firefox?
many users of DSL use it as a travailing distribution, either on CD or USB, many others use it on legacy hardware as a frugal install. Many do not have access to a high speed connection, so downloading an extension may take a very long time. forcing these users to download a browser is unreasonable. As much as you all are voicing for feeing up the space, the would be 10x more condemnation if we were to remove it. There is no need to keep suggesting its removal, as stated already we are working on the compatibility issue.IMO: Change FireFox to Opera.