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Another Linux Distro (screenshots)
Aloone_Jonez:
What program did you use to create these graphics?
MarathoN:
--- Quote from: themacuser ---Edit: the image involves Tux throwing stones at a windows logo. It looks much better than the boot screen, don't worry. I rendered it in Bryce. Pic coming soon.
--- End quote ---
Bryce maybe? ;)
themacuser:
Update again - abiword runs :D
irssi wasn't running, so I redownloaded and converted the perl module. I went to delete the old one... and it wasn't there. Slax already has perl, but it's 5.8.6, not 5.8.7. So I just deleted the /usr/lib/perl/5.8.7 directory and symlinked it to /usr/lib/perl/5.8.6 and irssi runs fine. Now to make a rc script to do that at boot time. Slightly hackish though. I might incorporate 5.8.7 it into the module, or wait until slax updates it.
Current package list:
irssi.mo
04_wmaker.mo
abiword.mo
11_firefox.mo
glade.mo
fribidi.mo
libxml.mo
gucharmap.mo
06_libungif.mo
atk.mo
cairo.mo
gtk.mo
01_kernel.mo
02_core.mo
03_xwindow.mo
libjpeg.mo
libpng.mo
libtiff.mo
pango.mo
fc_fullyconfigd.mo
Some of them are prefixed with numbers, so they load in the right order. The missing numbers are packages that once were there, I'll fix the numbers soon. Gaim will be added soon. We already have gtk and perl, we only need tcl iirc.
It's slightly tricky to do all this, this is what people had to do before apt-get...
How I do it:
1. boot up flying chair in vpc
2. find program i want
3. download slackware package of program i want
4. sftp to mac from flying chair
5. get tgz package from mac
6. convert to module
7. sftp module back to mac
8. on mac side, throw in the slax directory
9. do uselivemod on the module, if it freezes, goto 13
10. run program, if it works, go back to 1.
11. if it doesn't work, find what it needs and goto 3
12. if any configuration changes were made, configsave to a module and sftp it back to the mac
13. copy all modules to base directory on slax dir
14. call the make_iso.sh script from the mac (you just need makeisofs on the mac, that can be found anywhere)
15. eject iso from virtual pc and replace with new one
16. goto 1.
Complicated but it works well, and if you keep two xterms open, it's not that hard. uselivemod occasionally freezes the entire system, this is a known bug in the linux live scripts. (not my fault).
Only problem so far that I know of is that the USB driver causes a segmentation fault when loading on virtual pc, but this doesn't happen on real hardware afaik. Flying chair still boots fine and runs.
themacuser:
Oops, slight config messup. All windowmaker settings are gone. Recreated and better now.
Perl should work now with irssi
Edit: it doesn't. I'll just install perl 5.8.7 until slax updates.
And I changed my mind about vi, nano is going in instead.
Edit again:
New configs:
[*]New title bar font - Luxi Sans
[*]abiword added and runs now
[*]irssi runs (but must make it not run as root, see screenshot)
[*]firefox still working
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And here's a screenshot:
Oh, and one of the advantages of this distro is that it will run on very dodgy machines - it runs fine on virtualpc on my powerbook g4 - which emulates a pentium II with MMX... about 233MHZ actual performance iirc. It's not too slow and laggy like Win2K runs.
Probably even faster for a HD install (you can, but why?).
This distro is really starting to look nice.
I'll fix up the desktop a bit - I'll render the desktop pic at full bryce quality settings, 1600x1200 (will probably take 8 hours, full quality is really OTT...)
Edit again: irssi runs as guest. Must fix the fact that the xterm says sudo, but that should be simple.
Another edit: Going on a rampage. Adding vlc, gaim, and maybe a few games.
edit: maybe not vlc.
edit: gaim runs:
Firefoxfanphill:
Congrats! Taking a look at the screen shots etc has made be leave you are actually ganna work with it! Hurray; I congratulate you on beating the "omfg l33t hax0r" barrier.
Keep up the good work, it looks to cool to die :D.
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