ke4nt1

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Posted: June 09 2004,06:15 |
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The firefox.tar.gz is designed to be placed in the "/" directory of DSL, not the "/optional" directory.. I'm not familiar with the firefox.ci file.
".dsl" files are placed in the "/optional" directory, and can be loaded thru the mydsl menu , then run either by menu choice or icon.
".tar.gz" files are placed in the "/" directory, and start automatically at boot time. The themes such as blue-theme.tar.gz work the same way.
You can rename the firefox.tar.gz to firefox.dsl, place them in the /optional directory, and they will work like regular .dsl files.
The theme files can be renamed and used the same way...
If you are running a system with generous ram and cpu, this is not a problem, but if you have minimal system, the .tar.gz method reduces ram requirements. Most all the .tar.gz files write only to certain directories, like ~/damnsmall and /opt, etc.. keeping the majority of ramspace in a read-only state, not making the entire system writable, which eats more resources ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, people, this is how it was explained to me...
73 ke4nt
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