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To make Tiny Core Linux a superfortress of security...
lolouis:
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on February 08, 2011, 10:15:19 PM ---"the much less desirable Xvesa" according to your preferences which you make it sound like they would be shared by everyone...
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Not my intention... I was of course expressing my own personal view, which is one that places much importance on security... Xvesa being insecure when compared to Xorg... Hence, based on my personal preference, viewing the use of the less secure Xvesa as a trade for the sake of keeping the system small. Nothing more was implied... A question of semantics, I guess. :)
lolouis:
--- Quote from: Juanito on February 08, 2011, 10:41:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: lolouis on February 08, 2011, 09:43:58 PM ---Have I forgotten to add some required extension, or does anybody know what's going on here?
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I've never tried this in scatter mode, but - based on tc-3.4 - if you do the following in "normal" mode, things should work:
1. Xprogs.gz, Xlibs.gz in /tce
2. flwm.tcz, wbar.tcz, Xorg-7.5.tcz (and deps) in /tce/optional and set "onboot"
You can subtitute flwm/wbar with the wm of your choice.
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Scatter mode shouldn't make any difference. I didn't do the flwm.tcz and wbar.tcz....I guess that's where the problem is at. Also, it might be deps... Can you tell me what the deps for Xorg-7.5.tcz are, because I'm in a situation where I'm forced to install the files manually. Thanks for your help. :)
Juanito:
As per the dep file, the basic deps are:
pixman.tcz
fontconfig.tcz [-> expat2.tcz]
openssl-0.9.8.tcz
Xorg-7.5-bin.tcz
Xorg-7.5-lib.tcz
Xorg-fonts.tcz
However, depending on your chipset, you might need more than this.
lolouis:
I went to the current download repository but the info files for both flwm.tcz and wbar.tcz show that these extensions refer to earlier versions of tiny/microcore. So what I did is I copied the equivalent files directly from tinycore-3.4.1 to microcore-3.4.1 to make sure everything would fit right.
However, upon booting up, I now get the same hsetroot error message. It must be a missing dep.
As a matter of fact, something did come up the very first time I booted microcore after installing Xorg referring to a missing libpixman-1.so.1 - and I see the same in your list of basic deps. So, I'm pretty sure that after adding these missing deps everything will be fine. I'll do that tomorrow.
I really appreciate all your help, Juanito. Thank you so much!
tinypoodle:
--- Quote from: lolouis on February 08, 2011, 11:17:50 PM ---
--- Quote from: tinypoodle on February 08, 2011, 10:15:19 PM ---"the much less desirable Xvesa" according to your preferences which you make it sound like they would be shared by everyone...
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Not my intention... I was of course expressing my own personal view, which is one that places much importance on security... Xvesa being insecure when compared to Xorg... Hence, based on my personal preference, viewing the use of the less secure Xvesa as a trade for the sake of keeping the system small. Nothing more was implied... A question of semantics, I guess. :)
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We appear to look at things from the opposite POV:
To me it would be a tradeoff to imminently and constantly sacrifice the need of only a friction of resources and a significant permanent gain in performance (at least so without KMS which I haven't happened to use so far) for the potential theoretical security to be gained.
On a sidenote:
I would estimate the loss of security when attempting to run TC in scatter mode (in comparison to default mode) to amount to a multiple of the increase of security which could be gained by replacing Xvesa with Xorg.
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