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Posted: Dec. 28 2005,21:26 QUOTE

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I like the idea of a mydsl development section.  It could be very helpful for people who wish to compile stuff from source.
However, like the other mydsl sections, it would also be a USER CONTRIBUTED area.

In the system section of the repository there are already user contributed development extensions, including:
libncurses5-dev
libc6-dev
XFree86-devel

And posts in the mydsl community section of the forum from other users who have successfully used them.

I don't think there is enough volume to warrant a new separate section.
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Posted: Dec. 28 2005,22:09 QUOTE

Never had problems with APT myself - DSL has quickly become my primary OS (after I ripped maybe an extra ~35MB from the core of Ubuntu via apt-cdrom to install development stuff.) Not that I'd recommend it (yet), but DSL is capable. I only use myDSL packages to cut through dependancy hell (Abiword), so I've never experienced any of that.

In fact, I've recompiled almost everything (kernel included, of course), and replaced some stuff (installed mpd/mpc instead of xmms, vim-ncurses over nvi and vi, openbox-2.2.3 over fluxbox and jwm, etc.) As I said, it takes a few hours to track everything down, but after that, it's fairly smooth sailing. Just as smooth as with Ubuntu-5.04, in fact.

That said, I've done so much that I think I need to rebuild my system from scratch to cut out all of the bloat - then I'll see how well DSL serves as a platform for Linux From Scratch.

BTW, I think myDSL behaves just as well as pacman (crux), pup-get & dotpup (PuppyLinux), etc., so, combined with dpkg, I'd say we're quite well off.


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eTower 566.12, 32MB RAM, 7GB HD, 200MB swap, 1x USB v.1, Intel 810GFX, Intel 810 Audio.
Recompiled so far: Pretty much everything. I think I'll have to do a remaster to cut the growing bloat off my system.
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Posted: Dec. 28 2005,23:00 QUOTE

Can you point out some of the stuff you installed from Ubuntu with apt-cdrom?  I think that's similar to what I need to do.

Thanks.
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Posted: Dec. 29 2005,20:19 QUOTE

For stuff like development libs, the *.dsl mydsl extension is basically a gzipped tarball full of files where the filename suffix  is renamed from the original *.tar.gz into *.dsl

For applications, it is slightly more difficult because you need to create a file that is used to add your program to the fluxbox main menu.

Here are some links with more information:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....5;st=15

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....ion.pdf

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki...._Source

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Allpages
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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,05:34 QUOTE

I must have missed something...

I'm a long-time *nix user who has just stumbled across DSL. Currently, I'm evaluating DSL alongside VMWare on a WinXP platform. However, in no way,shape or form am I considering DSL as my primary Linux distro. It's a demo/rescue/light use Linux/ tool.

Honestly, with no insult towards the developers, can DSL compete with straight Debian or (K)unbuntu?  It's pretty much a miracle as it is. A Linux distro that is only 50Mb! Kudos to the developers!
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