Release Candidates :: DSL v2.3 RC2
The change log is quite complete. But to answer your questions anyway....
Firefox 1.5 as per their site requires gtk+2.0 or higher and Recommended: 500Mhz or higher cpu.
Not exactly damn small or for older machines.
You can grab the gtk2 extension and download that version of firefox and try it.
But I suspect for your 233Mhz you would be better not too!
apm is supported by DSL, no change there. Works fine on older laptops.
John and I are concurrently working on a kernel 2.6 version which will support a higher level of power management.
But as stated in our road map thread, it is not for older computers nor is it a replacement for DSL.
are there any plans to add support for more file systems? I would love to see xfs and jfs modules. It was really a pain compiling the xfs module on my system.
You know, this is really not feedback on the release candidate.
Maybe just venting?
As the saying goes only 50lbs of potatoes fit in a 50lb sack.
We try to pack the most useful 50lbs that we can.
It should be a simple matter to grab modules off the full Knoppix release cd. No compiling. No hassles. We even provide a modules boot option to load extra modules, or you can use the standard Knoppix method of the expert boot option to load speciality modules.
I was playing around with the embeded version and I noticed a problem unmounting hdb. If I open emelfm, I can mount /mnt/hdb using the mount option in the menu I get when I right click on it. umount fails, though, saying:
umount: /dev/hdb: not mounted
umount: must be superuser to umount
This used to work in previous versions of embeded, although I haven't tried it out recently.
I also noticed that the version was missing from the start up Dillo page, again in the embeded version.
I have found that fluxter (the small set of squares in the lower left hand corner that show thumbnails of the current workspaces) dissapears when I run the window manager-> restart option for fluxbox. I need to do this in embeded because sometimes the keyboard won't accept any input when I alt-tab between windows and dsl. If I change to jwm and then back to fluxbox, it returns. I pretty sure it's not your problem, but if it's something easy to fix it would be nice.
Since you have set up a /mydsl and default search for it, doesnt it make sense to put Firefox, Xmms, Xpaint and many others into /mydsl?
This would allow the super minimal system some have requested by suimply emptying the /mydsl.
Those who want to upgrade standard programs would have an easier time too.
I hope you stay focused on the 2.4 kernel and the P-II class machine and just refer those wanting kernel 2.6 to the knoppix version.
DSL is so sweet with it's focus, simplicity, reliability and speed.
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