[Mentalunix-developers] MentaLinux Development

[Dustin K. <nul...@ya...>]

Hey all,

I have finals tommorow, but I have a few things to say
real quick.  First of all, I finally went to a LUG
meeting last Saturday, and it was great.  There were a
few newbies, and some Debian users.  But anyways, I
know have debian working on my box (no more SuSE) and
I have a zip 250 drive, and i hope to start doing some
basic OS development later this week.

To start off, I'm planning on using the LFS idea to
start off, and get a bare distro set up on my old
246mb hard drive.

BASIC IDEAS::::
--First of all.  apt-get kicks ass, but i have a few
discrepencies with it.  My idea for mpkg would be to
make an apt-get like utility that is apt-get,
apt-cache, apt-cdrom all in one. (lets say mpkg-get or
soemthing) that would operate basically the same way. 
but with more features, and maybe even a sources.list
editor for easy editing.
--X configuration:  I say we try to hack sax, and use
that.  Sax is by far the best config program that i
have used for configuring X.
--Sound Configuration: sndconfig? harddrake? alsaconf?
 we need to decide on the best way to easily configure
sound without requiring the user to handedit files
like isapnp.conf which isnt fun to play with.
--Zip/cdrom:  shouldn't have much of a prob.  Need to
make an app that will configure system to use cd-rw
and/or zip drive (can do this on debian install, need
something like that as an app)


I'll work on some of this stuff in a day or two, and
ill probably use tcl/tk to at least prototype the
stuff.

Well, i have finals tommorow, have an essay to write,
and have to work,  so Ill send more stuff later if i
think of anything.

Also, Clinton, give me a general layout for the
filesystem so I can work on it.

Dustin

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When
there is freedom, there will be no state -- Vladimir
Lenin


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