roberts
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Posted: June 21 2007,06:55 |
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I can only imagine the feedback if I dropped fluxbox.
With a traditional hard drive install, rox.dsl together with orobus window manager makes for a nice base for a Rox desktop pinboard & panel. With a traditional hard drive installation, disk space is usually not an issue. Extensions are not an issue, when then are formally and permanetly installed and therefore do not have to deal with issues that come with the dynamic nature that is DSL's live CD and frugal installations Adding rox wrappers for every application and every extension, not only adds to the size of core and therefore ramdisk usage but makes for much work and changes every specification that is currently DSL.
The fact is I have shared some of my Rox ideas with Lucky13 and he with me. The fact that UCI are trivially mapped into compressed rox binaries which I named CRB type extensions is also a nice lauch point for a Rox like system.
Still, it remains, problematic for me to "move forward" retaining all the DSL apps and Rox together with its unique demands (AppDirs, and wrappers) and remain under 50MB, and support all the extension types.
Some may argue then don't limit yourself to a size barrier.
But to trying to merge means having certain combinations which would produce undersireable results (fluxbox and pinboard)
And for me to introduce yet another complete but separate image (distro) is just too much to undertake as this time.
Believe me, I am not knocking Rox, I truly like the environment. If I were to start with a clean slate and start a new distro without having to support all of the past infrastructure I would do it. I have actually proto-typed just such a live CD system together with a small collection of "crb" extensions.
Nevertheless, I like the challenge of DSL and moving forward .I will once again try to make DSL even more dense and offer similar features while retaining our existing small fluxbox and original apps within 50MB. This together with a new kernel will become DSL 4.0.
It remains my goal to try to maintain the 50MB limit while striving to improve useability of DSL while continuing to support our exisitng user base, their machines, and repository of extensions.
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