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Question: Smaller, nearly apps-less DSL? :: Total Votes:67
Poll choices Votes Statistics
no, It would be nearly useless without basic desktop apps. 15  [22.39%]
no, DSL would lose its identiry and become another knx. 10  [14.93%]
yes, If apps of my choice can be easily added via myDSL. 37  [55.22%]
yes, Only if you offer more cloops for UCI type extensions. 5  [7.46%]
Don't know. What is this mydsl thing anyway? 0  [0.00%]
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Posted: Mar. 31 2006,16:00 QUOTE
i agree with a base system mostly unchanged and a big UCI with external applications in /opt, as a way of keeping the best of both worlds.
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Posted: Mar. 31 2006,22:51 QUOTE
another question is if a 'big' UCI was to be seperated from the base system, would the UCI be part of the iso (later deleted by those didn't want it) or must new users need go the site to download it ??
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Posted: April 01 2006,00:45 QUOTE
If I understand it correctly, the suggestion is to have the UCI within the ISO, but not within the KNOPPIX file.  I assume it would be placed in the mydsl directory so it would automatically be mounted.

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Posted: April 01 2006,01:32 QUOTE
What does UCI stand for?

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Posted: April 04 2006,16:11 QUOTE
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What does UCI stand for?

In the history of DSL, the first compressed image extension type that I created I called .ci. This was openoffice.ci but it also had a user component which could not be read only. The user configurations need to be writeable. Therefore I also made an oouser.tar.gz. This became confusing to have to load two extensions to get openoffice. So, later I embedded the user part inside the compressed image. I named this user.tar.gz so that the concept could be extended to all other such extensions. Hence .uci.
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