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Posted: Sep. 28 2003,09:24 QUOTE
I absolutely love DSL.
However I'd like very much to see dpkg installed by default, plus an iconized 'home'
The above mentioned features would, in my opinion, be a huge bonus for people who actually want to 'use' DSL (as opposite to the ones who want just to play with it).
I know, you can download and install dpkg, but I'll be bluntly honest with you: I found the task too daunting.
As I am not exactly a newbie, I suppose quite a few people will have the same problem.
How does anybody else feel about it?
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Posted: Sep. 28 2003,10:58 QUOTE
Me too! I would like dpkg to be installed too BUT since there isnt much space, it is left as a separate download. The target disc is about 52MB (a shaped minidisc) and the iso is already 48+MB.

About the icon you can create it yourself (it is a lnk file) or you may ask john to include it on the next release. I'm sure he'll attend to it. :)

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Posted: Sep. 28 2003,12:07 QUOTE
Thank you!
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Posted: Sep. 28 2003,19:05 QUOTE
just out of curiosity, what did you find daunting about getting dpkg?

it really isnt that hard to do.  its all in the faq, it only takes a few seconds plus the download time, as for the iconized home, i see it as unnecessary, since Emelfm starts in your home directory

just my 2 cents :D
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Posted: Sep. 28 2003,22:12 QUOTE
I think that what many of us want is a an alternative distro based on DSL but meant to run on a 256MB+ RAM machine (using "toram" which is awesome) and would would fit on an 8cm (185MB) mini-CD ... so that just a few more things could be added, like:

* dpkg (I tried the FAQ instructions but couldn't get it to work)
* Firebird & Flash (pre-installed)
* gAIM (instead of nAIM)
* apache/PHP/MySQL with web-based config/start/stop (with SSL if possible)
* Samba server (with a startup wizard like the latest Knoppix has)
* a dynamic DNS client with an easy wizard

I looked into Slackware-live but I like DSL much better. By leaving out KDE/Gnome & OpenOffice there should be plenty of space for things that us "power users" need.
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