Re: [Mentalunix-developers] Re: MentalUnix, YoZilla, and other stuff [Yahoo! Clubs: mentalunix]

[The_Micea <las...@ad...>]

Vi is the simplest and smallest text editor.   I have a version of linux
called LOAF, that runs off a floppy disk.  A whole distrobution on a floppy.
But it has vi.  Vi is very small.100k maybe.  its included with every
distrobution ever made and we should have it.Unless we want to code our own
text editor.  I would be up for that, might be fun.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mentalspice" <clu...@ya...>
To: <men...@li...>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:46 PM
Subject: [Mentalunix-developers] Re: MentalUnix, YoZilla, and other stuff
[Yahoo! Clubs: mentalunix]


> No debs. No compiler. Just a small, nice base system. The base system only
needs the basics - a package manager, a simple text editor(no emacs or vi),
and the file utilities. That is it. It should fit in under 30MB, and be
stored as a large .bin file. The installer would mount it to a loop device,
and copy its contents to the drive the user chooses(since it will be
mounted, it will just copy / to /target, which is the target drive...just
like in slackware). And, s/blender/bender/g ! Rewriting gecko is good, at
least the non-GPL parts first. Then, comes code optiomization, then adding
new features.
>
> Things like gcc(not egcs...its code was merged back into gcc!) and X would
be debs. I like the idea of hacking dpkg to use rpms/tar.gz/sli
packages(using things like librpm). If you've never noticed, rpm is just a
nice little app that makes librpm do most of the work. This makes writing
rpm apps easier than writing a new package manager. So, since I've never
looked at the dpkg source, we could just add a switch and have it look for
.rpm as the last 3 chars of the package name, and then run the
InstallRPM(char[]) function we would write.
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