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Brenton, I agree with you, that the next version of slitaz should be
based on qt, but I think before 5.0 should be finished.
Thomas
Am Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:26:35 +0200
schrieb Brenton Edgar Scott <trixarian@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Eric got me interested in playing with Buildroot again. I have built a
> few linux systems with it, but I've only learned recently how to test
> them properly in QEMU by using grub to boot them. I'm also going to
> experiment with a script to convert Buildroot compiled packages into
> something SliTaz can use. I just want to see if it can be done and it
> would be a pretty cool thing since I could then generate
> cross-platform packages as quickly as I can compile them with
> Buildroot - including a Linux kernels for 64bit and ARM systems.
>
> 1.) Seems the simplest approach. Xvesa has been integrated into Xorg
> btw (not vesa, but something called kdrive), so maybe that's worth
> looking into. As a more fully featured SliTaz, maybe it would be a
> good idea to go the Qt route for that version. It will look way
> better than the GTK version would and we get pcmanfm-qt for free with
> RazorQt.
>
> Group management to handle mounting of drives seems needlessly
> complicated, but udev already does something similar if memory serves,
> so maybe it's the way to go if it can be done seamlessly.
>
> 2.) I prefer xz over 7zip these days. It's based on LZMA2 like later
> 7zip, but compresses way faster and smaller. The only downside of it
> is that it needs a tar container like gzip and bzip2. Still unrar has
> certain limits, which is why most people make the non-free rar an
> requirement.
>
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