Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] TimeDicer

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

  Not sure if you are quite serious about the point'n'click gui for 
building apps? It's not quite in the spirit of DL is it?! But I like the 
idea anyway. Are you thinking of a website which would be based around a 
DL build environment and allow visitors to custom-build their DL without 
having to create their own build system. Like Thinstation's TS-O-Matic 
<http://www.thinstation.org/>?

I take your point about running apps causing bloat but surely a library 
such as librsync is not using any RAM unless it is being called? Same 
goes for rdiff-backup; unlike bacula (I think), it only runs as a 
process while it is active. In general, even daemon-based apps only use 
RAM if the user chooses to enable them (usually via DL setup). And there 
is plenty of space on the CD.

Dominic

On 06/11/2010 09:20, Dick Middleton wrote:
> On 11/06/10 07:52, Dominic Raferd wrote:
>>     Well TimeDicer<http://www.timedicer.co.uk>   is written by me so I
>> might be a bit biased -:)
> I think there's a good case for DL having application build modules.  So
> you can custom build your install iso including or not the apps of your
> choice.  Using a handy-dandy point and click gui of course :-)  Then new
> apps like this can be offered more easily.
>
> The main problem is that all apps sit in ram on the running system
> whether they are used or not.  Bloat is a bigger issue for DL than for
> HDD based distributions because of this.
>
> Dick
>
>
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