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roberts

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,21:04

The change log is quite complete. But to answer your questions anyway....

Firefox 1.5 as per their site requires gtk+2.0 or higher and Recommended: 500Mhz or higher cpu.

Not exactly damn small or for older machines.

You can grab the gtk2 extension and download that version of firefox and try it.
But I suspect for your 233Mhz you would be better not too!

apm is supported by DSL, no change there. Works fine on older laptops.

John and I are concurrently working on a kernel 2.6 version which will support a higher level of power management.
But as stated in our road map thread, it is not for older computers nor is it a replacement for DSL.

syamajala

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,22:11

are there any plans to add support for more file systems? I would love to see xfs and jfs modules. It was really a pain compiling the xfs module on my system.

roberts

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,22:48

You know, this is really not feedback on the release candidate.
Maybe just venting?

As the saying goes only 50lbs of potatoes fit in a 50lb sack.
We try to pack the most useful 50lbs that we can.

It should be a simple matter to grab modules off the full Knoppix release cd. No compiling. No hassles. We even provide a modules boot option to load extra modules, or you can use the standard Knoppix method of the expert boot option to load speciality modules.

clacker

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,23:24

I was playing around with the embeded version and I noticed a problem unmounting hdb. If I open emelfm, I can mount /mnt/hdb using the mount option in the menu I get when I right click on it. umount fails, though, saying:

umount: /dev/hdb: not mounted
umount: must be superuser to umount

This used to work in previous versions of embeded, although I haven't tried it out recently.

I also noticed that the version was missing from the start up Dillo page, again in the embeded version.

I have found that fluxter (the small set of squares in the lower left hand corner that show thumbnails of the current workspaces) dissapears when I run the window manager-> restart option for fluxbox. I need to do this in embeded because sometimes the keyboard won't accept any input when I alt-tab between windows and dsl. If I change to jwm and then back to fluxbox, it returns. I pretty sure it's not your problem, but if it's something easy to fix it would be nice.

JohnH

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Posted: Mar. 22 2006,02:10

Since you have set up a /mydsl and default search for it, doesnt it make sense to put Firefox, Xmms, Xpaint and many others into /mydsl?

This would allow the super minimal system some have requested by suimply emptying the /mydsl.

Those who want to upgrade standard programs would have an easier time too.

I hope you stay focused on the 2.4 kernel and the P-II class machine and just refer those wanting kernel 2.6 to the knoppix version.

DSL is so sweet with it's focus, simplicity, reliability and speed.

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