Re: The big proposal

[Vadim Plessky <v.plessky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

Many distribution are released as "KDE", "GNOME", "FXCE" editions, some also have "LXDE" and even "Security" flavours.

If we speak about such proposal, than I vote for this.
I learned about Slitaz from Aircrack-ng web site -

Slitaz Aircrack-ng Distribution
  http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=slitaz

As long as it is maintained/supported, I would support and promote Slitaz.

Minus'es which I observed from current version:
-  rather old kernel, some modern devices requiring kernel 2.6.35 or 2.6.36 are not supported
  I refer here to wireless adapters
- old X.org,  so video adapter detection doesn't work on some specific hardware, like my MSI S271 (testing) notebook
 Xorg has been fixed some time ago, and Fedora 13, OpenSUSE 11.3 work fine on this notebook.
 Upgrading to xorg-server 1.9 would be nice and helpful
 This means latest radeon and nouveau drivers would work out of the box, we would not have requirement for closed-source binary NVIDIA driver.

Plus'es:
- small footprint
- fast boot time

BTW: has someone considered making from Slitaz embedded flavour?
 I mean something like DD-Wrt or OpenWrt..
There is no need to target every-router-on-planet.
But making target like min. 8MB flash, 32MB RAM, Atheros or Broadcom chipset sounds reasonable to me.
Such a build would have only web interface. Which is not bad.  I consider it a plus.
Similar interface can be used later on x86 builds as well.

Best regards,
Vadim Plessky

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12be06f25d4f0efb
My 2cents:
-- SliTaz libre should be a flavor.
-- +1 for Rolling release for "stable" version. I think its a good idea.
-- Remember, Pascal had done some cool work earlier where each flavor can be merged into one other like Russian dolls. We remain interested in offering multiple flavors in one single iso to meet the needs of different segments of people.

Rohit  

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Budiarno <tomlase@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does this mean that NVIDIA Card won't be supported by SliTaz?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:50 AM, GoKhlaYeh <gokhlayeh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

After some month of playing  with SliTaz - and too less commit in this regards, but it's never too late - and some conversation with other contributors - mainly Christophe Roger and Julien Rabier - I wish to make some proposal to the whole team. It's about hudge changes in SliTaz in middle-term, so it's collectives choices and I hope that everybody has something to tell about.

As it's not about little hacks, important contradictions or too low enthousiathm will lead to abandon theses ideas as something realizable in SliTaz soon. Anyway I work on proof-of-concepts and tools, so it will lead to something in a way or another.

I want to open three subject here :
1- Transform SliTaz in a 100% libre distribution
2- Transform SliTaz in a rolling-release distribution
3- Cook all packages in minimal chroot

===== SliTaz 100% Libre Proposal =====
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