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Topic: DSL change suggestions, A PC technicians POV

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mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 11 2006,20:32

1) I agree here. Since DSL is supposedly a "general purpose", I truly don't understand why there are servers included in its base. How many people actually run servers on their desktop machines? I'm guessing only a small percentage of total users. Those that do would likely have no issues with adding apache and/or proftpd through myDSL. Just my opinion.

3) I really don't think that Konqueror would be smaller than Firefox and Emelfm combined, partitcularly when you consider all of the KDE base files that would be required to run it. It definitely would not be as fast, and would be a huge pain to use as a file manager on an old machine. Basically, anything Qt is probably not going to be appropriate for DSL. This one isn't just opinion...it's plain fact.

4) I'm looking forward to checking out your file manager, if you plan to share it. Personally I'm not a big fan of Perl, but any scripted application is fun to at least experiment with.

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,03:19

Well, it isn't as if monkey is insecure (every security advisory ever issued on it has been fixed, and as quickly as with Apache), or even takes up that much space. If you really wanted to save on space, you could just replace wget with snarf, etc.

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cbagger01

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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,08:06

1) Monkey is small and provides "neat" functionality from a 50MB livecd. It adds to the coolness factor of DSL, just like having a SQL database server does (Sqlite).

2) A low learning-curve GUI text editor is a must have for a "general purpose" livecd, in my opinion.

3) Konqueror requires the KDE/QT libs, so it will not save you space. In fact, it will take up more space. If you want Konquerr, get a KDE-based livecd

4) I could be wrong, but I don't think that DSL's MC is 800k in size, but much smaller. The biggest advantage for MC is the usability factor for the console junkies. MC is and always has been the dominant textmode file manager for linux. So other stuff like deco need to either use the same keystroke commands as MC or they need to offer some other major advantage. Being only 10k in size is definitely a major advantage, though. It's probably worth checking out.

As always, these are just my opinions. Take them for what they're worth.

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