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[Mentalunix-developers] Re: Yozilla/GNUStep/VBScript/rants [Yahoo! Clubs: mentalunix]
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From: CyDust <clu...@ya...> - 2000-08-03 21:14:58
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ok, thats right. Thx for the clarification. As for GNUstep.... I mean the installer, sounds great. We need to define it a little more, and clarify it, but overall, great. I just registered for classes today to, so, starting sept 24, ill be at school from about 8:30-1:30. I'll do most of my work over the weekends and such, and don't get mad at me if I get a little behind, I need to consentrate on school, so I can (hopefully) graduate on time! I am planning on opening up a cyber cafe like store thingy around here within the next year, and stuff. In about another week, I'll have another harddrive, and a pentium90, 16meg, 2gig system running slack, so, I will begin getting to work then. Right now, I have a book on beginning linux programming, and svgalib graphics programming. I also got the linux core kernel commentary, and something on hacking. I am thinking that I should finish cryptonomicon and the beginning linux programming book, and get started. Installer: ncurses sounds great for console mode. We should make a simple moduler installer backend in c, use ncurses for console front end, and gtk, tk, or something similar for graphics version. maybe we could use a html/web like interface for installer. We would need a display engine, and something to give us a good X like interface. that way, we use XML/php for create on request display. As for the feature to upgrade other distro's: How does that work. I could understand if it was an app in of it self, but, why would someone want to do that. We could, maybe add a mentalunix install that doesnt harm the config files. Basically, it would convert a, say redhat system, to a mentalunix system, without harming it. No partitioning, no editing partition tables, no formatting, etc, etc, etc. It would upgrade kernel, if needed, and upgrade any packages that the user would like. also possibly convert the rpm database to mpkg database, but flag all converted programs as originally rpm's. That way, if one was to upgrade a package using mpkg, and the old app was an rpm, ir would check for package discrepencies and differences to make sure they are compatable. If they are not, mpkg would have an option to uninstall old rpm, and install mpkg package. the previous, was also an idea for mpkg, incase you didnt pick that up! GNUstep/windowmaker stuff: sounds good, although, do we really want to make it so the user needs to use gnustep, or need use windowmaker so it runs faster? I can understand including it, and what not, but is window maker really the best choice for default. Many people out there prefer gnome or kde, and would rather not resort to using window maker, and then there are the others that just like console stuff. If we do use window maker for default, we need to remember to include the same apps for gnome and kde. Maybe we should make 2 versions of the apps, one for gnustep, on for the distro. This way, we could create an x86 version, and a nuetral version, and give the people more of a choice. I realize it means a lot more work, but whats really more important, the amount of work we have to do, or customer service and such? --------------------------------------------- DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE BY EMAIL! --------------------------------------------- You have chosen to receive messages from "mentalunix" by email. Reply to this message: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix/bbsfrp?action=r&tid=mentalunix&sid=1600006580&mid=285 Unsubscribe from the Club mailing list: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix/config/change_mb_list Return to "mentalunix": http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mentalunix ---------------------------------------------- Not a member? Remove yourself from this list: http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/unsubscribe_mb_list?.userID=munix_devr&.groupID=mentalunix&.groupType=&.code=IVyJGMuRxG |
