Rapidweather
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Joined: Jan. 2004 |
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Posted: April 15 2004,05:11 |
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My remaster (using it now) has Firefox and Wvdial. Firefox has a built-in home page, with over 80 links. The Dialer part of the Menu is arranged where it can be easily "torn off" and positioned near the throbber in Firefox, for dial-hangup.
Added a couple of clocks, a
scientific calculator, a calendar (with daily notes) and QuickList. For some fun (for some) I added Snowflake.
(Not quite as much fun as Mr. Potato Man, but close,
appeals to kids, I suppose. )
I notice that a new game has been added to 0.6.3,
so when I get to remastering the new DSL, I'll have to add some more games, too. The transition to 0.6.3 will involve setting it in a new partition, for remastering purposes, so I can access some of the things I have put together for 0.6.2 in it's partition. I'll rotate these DSL builds out, since I have three partitions for remastering, and the oldest DSL will get replaced when new Damn Small editions come out. Technically, I can still work on the older editions, such as 0.6.2 that I have now, and make .iso's to burn for that. I'll migrate most of the remastering effort to 0.6.3, however, it appears to have lots to work with!
I have been running about 60 Mb. I have an extensive Getting Started Guide in the
remaster, and nice start up graphics, made with Gimp.
Also included are about 25 nice outdoor scenes, that I hand-picked from many on
Webshots. These can be viewed using XZGV, where you can cycle through them with the space bar. Full instructions are given to use any of them for wallpaper. I added the icon for Synaptic, and give instructions for that, also.
Oh, and I added "Bump Scope" for XMMS.
I kept all of the standard DSL 0.6.2 applications, but changed the default menu.
I use the "outcomes" style for fluxbox. That works well no matter what screen resolution is needed. On that subject, I changed the xsetup.sh so the dpi choice screen is taken out. Wanted to speed up the setup process. Also, it is possible to make a custom remaster for a particular computer, with a .xsessionrc, so no choice screens are presented.
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So, that's what can be done, a customized DSL via remaster. Most of the time, however, it won't be under 50 MB, but I leave that up to the developers to accomplish with the base DSL.
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I'm not distributing my remaster(s), they are simply a research project, a work in progress. I do a new build every few days.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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