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TinyCore plus Enlightenment(E17) makes a Dreamdistro

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slashyy:
I just tried TinyCore Linux and it's fantastic!

The only thing I miss is the e17 window manager. Let's just consider the facts:

- e is super scalable, highly efficient, simply beautiful and mega costumisable.
- while many complain about it's slow development, it' actually moving faster every day
and approaching it's first alpha release : http://www.libertatia.org/blog/?p=234
- it would be perfect to combine it with tinycore to make a Dreamdistro ;)
 (  minimum system requirements,  super speed + beautiful look)
I think it would be a dream come true ...  ::)

What do you think?

baz:
I'd love to see it.

althalus:
Just finished building a series of e17 extensions, and testing them now. Will submit them soon.

slashyy:
Fantastic news :)

But let's take the idea a step further.

The libraries upon which E is based on, provide a perfect ground for building new and exciting applications, while being highly efficient and portable. TC provides an ideal base for developing such applications as well as E itself. Currently ther's a debian based distro centered around E called Elive ( http://www.elivecd.org/ ), but TC surely would be a much better option. TC + E(EFL) has a great potential, therefore a cooperation of TC and E developers, in my opinion, would bring great benefits to both. Attracting new developers and designers, to create exciting new GUI apps based on the efl libraries and combining that with already existent, actively developed, highly efficient and portable software like  mplayer, xmms2, dillo ... etc, should be the main goal for such a new distro, therefore providing all the neccesery tools for effective testing, developing ...etc.
Especially because of his high efficiency and portability, the superb dillo web browser should be established as the third corepart and the main browser in such a distro. Uniting TC, E and dillo developers with a common goal, centered around a coredistro, with the common pourpuse of the „democratisation of information“ as expressed in dillo's project objectives: http://www.dillo.org/funding/objectives.html could bring about the long awaited  "New World Order" ! ( just kidding ;) ), but surely a STATE OF THE ART  OS.



I'm planing to create a website dedicated to this pourpuse, but  i'm still very busy writing my diploma, so that little part will have to wait a little...  For now i wrote this, simply to point out the obvious parallels between TC and other projects and of course, in hope to bring some attention to E. :)

Cheers!

Links:

http://www.enlightenment.org/
http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=docs&l=en
http://www.elivecd.org/
http://exchange.enlightenment.org/
http://e17-stuff.org/

http://www.dillo.org/

PS:
Sorry for my bad english and thank you very much for all your good work. ;)


The Times They Are a-Changin'

slashyy:
A nice performance comparison regarding startup times and memory footprints between different WM's/DE's :

http://edjy.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/memory-and-time-results/

E17 clearly beats them all...

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