Re: [Mentalunix-developers] MentaLinux Development

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From: "Dustin Knie" <nul...@ya...>
To: <men...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 8:02 PM
Subject: [Mentalunix-developers] MentaLinux Development


> 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.
Sax worked well for me, I easily configured my monitor for my voodoo.
> --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.
It sucks Ive been trying for months to get sound working, I have built in
sound to my mother board.
> --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.
Post anything you get done so that I can make the same changes to my machine
and Ill post anything I do to it.
>
> 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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