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DSL remake
isr:
--- Quote from: gerald_clark on September 10, 2014, 08:36:58 PM ---It took 5 hours to download.
It doesn't run under virtualbox. X doesn't start.
It doesn't run on my Dell Laptop.
It runs on my T5730, but:
It is ugly.
It does not do dhcp configure of network card.
It has a wireless config utility but no wired config utility.
Setting up the wired network was a joy ( not ) because THERE IS NO PING!
The package manager offers 10 new packages.
The display installed packages displays them in some random order.
I can't find any installer program.
I see no persistence of any kind. It appears to be a live CD only, so why the package manager?
Mount gives no output as to failure/success of a mount.
I could not format and mount a partition on my thumb drive.
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Its very much a work-in-progress right now, looking at the git repo and the large thread on the puppylinux forum where his ongoing work was being discussed and tested. IMHO, its interesting in that he's tried from the ground up to incorporate all of his efforts into a single scripted entity, so the entire "distro" can be rebuilt from scratch with ease.
Philosophy-wise, it does share sympathies with TinyCore, in that his "distro" is really intended as a lightweight (musl vs glibc, gtk1 vs gtk3, etc), easy-to-deploy (everything is statically linked) base.
Must admit, I haven't run it yet - just been browsing through his git repo looking at the build and packaging scripts (and some of his patches to upstream pkgs).
Lee:
I tried it in a qemu vm. It came up to a console, logged in as root, but didn't seem to even try to start X. I explored a bit, found I couldn't mount anything and couldn't write to the filesystem - couldn't, for instance, reset a password due to read only fs (I don't remember the exact message, but that was the essence of it).
Can't write to existing fs and can't mount another - that pretty much shoots it for now, at least for me. I never did try to start X.
It bears watching though - maybe down the road it will be different.
mocore:
--- Quote from: isr on September 11, 2014, 10:18:58 PM ---the entire "distro" can be rebuilt from scratch with ease.
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Thanks for mentioning that detail !,
Before i started to booting linux , i thaught this was how 'everything' with open source / soft would be working :o .
Now the more i read about package managment (nix ,ect) and building stuff , and find the odd missing dep ! im suprised any thing works ;D
core-user:
Thanks for the heads up, hadn't come across it before, one to keep an eye on. 8)
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