the Missing M
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Posted: May 11 2007,01:34 |
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Kind of abandoned this board for a while, but I have made sure to speak kindly of DSL, and recommend it to anyone who might find it useful. I still think it's a great system, but ended up resorting to Xubuntu because more of its config tools have a graphical front-end on them [btw, thanks again to lucky13 for the tips on burning ISO images to CD, on a machine running Windows. Very helpful, in more ways than I'd expected]. Anyway, sorry, but until I get better at this, I'm going to need an OS with training wheels.
Oh well, call it rehab.
This is a bit of a disappointment, because I do like the *idea* of DSL better; leaner and cleaner, and generally a lot more efficient. I also think it behaves more coherently, partly because it's so stripped-down. With fewer components in total, there's less that can go wrong, even if the ratio of bugs to flawless clean code were the same [I honestly doubt that ratio is the same though, thanks to the proficiency, dedication and raw talent of John, Roberts, and others here].
Anyway, getting back to the `DSL to the Rescue' part...
I'm not sure how this got screwed up, but somehow I lost the setuid bit on sudo. Have you ever tried to fix your system, when the one thing that's broken is the one thing that would *let* you fix your system? Not bloody likely.
But it became easy, as soon as I booted your brilliant business-card OS and typed;| Code Sample | | chmod 4755 /mnt/hda1/usr/bin/sudo |
on the command line. Thank you, thank you, thank you, and by the way, *thanks*! :-)
And just to render a rambling post completely incoherent, here's another tangent; you ever notice EmelFM's command line is actually a lot nicer than xterm's, the full-time dedicated terminal emulator? For one thing, it supports copy/pasting to and from the clipboard. Came in real handy, because all I had to do was copy the relevant permissions/path from a text file opened in Beaver, over to EmelFM [adding the /mnt/hda1 prefix, or course].
A file-manager with a built-in command line is something I kind of miss, in Thunar. It will open a terminal app for you, and cd the term into the currently selected directory, but the immediacy of a text entry box right there on the main window is a real plus.
Actually, it's kind of funny to see what kind of apps I've been installing on this thing; XMMS, Audacity, Dillo, Leafpad... Xubuntu ships with Abiword pre-installed, so no need to add that. mtPaint isn't too totally different from Xpaint, and more stable than Xpaint under this system [yes the Gimp is pretty damned hot, but also pretty damned *slow* to launch on an old 233 mHz Pentagram II. No problem, once it's up and running though]. Oh, and I just found out the Evince document viewer is mostly based on Xpdf. Haven't tried Netrik yet, but thanks for pointing it out to me.
And another tangent; you might want to go drop-in on the Debian repos and have a look at Tilda, if only because it *does* allow copy/pasting to and from the terminal, plus a few other things. Not the greatest thing going, and I'm pretty sure it requires GTK2, but you might like it. No window border either, so it's alt-click-drag to move the window around [see, it's meant as a full-screen term, but you can set the window size/position however you like in the prefs. Just right-click anywhere in the window to bring up its config dialog].
And some further tangential noise; does anyone know why the GTK1.2 clipboard is so much more reliable in DSL? Even Dillo's flaky about copying and pasting text in Xubuntu. My guess is that with a primarily GTK2 desktop, the backward compatability might not be all it's cracked up to be. But if I'm just missing a lib or two, I'd like to know which one[s].
Anyway, thanks again, and please excuse the babble,
Patrick.
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