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John

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Posted: Nov. 12 2005,21:25

Fluxbox isn't going to be replaced with JWM, but Robert and I believe that there is a benefit to the DSL community to offer both. I am a major Fluxbox fan. well particularly a fan of the STABLE branch.

Yet, both Robert and myself believe that many in the DSL community will benefit from JWM.

What it has going for it:
-- feels familiar to recent Linux converts
-- super light on resources (about half the memory use of Fluxbox)
-- a damn small executable for a window manager (95.6k vs. 589.5k for Fluxbox)

One thing I would really like to see is the ability to have the right button call the menu on the desktop while being able to disable the left. That would allow us to have menu functionality away from the "start" button while preventing a conflict with xtdesktop.

Edited by John on Nov. 12 2005,21:34

cbagger01

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Posted: Nov. 13 2005,04:44

I played around with EDE a little bit and while it looks like a good project, it is still a little rough around the edges.

Also, since it is an entire environment and not just a window manager, I have to assume that it will use more disk space.

So my brief summary:

If there was ever a need for an entire "Desktop Environment" like KDE, GNOME, etc, then eFLTK-based EDE would be the best choice for someone with the DSL (fast and light) philosophy. XFCE also is pretty nice, but it is heavier than EDE (although still MUCH lighter than KDE or GNOME).

Posh

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Posted: Nov. 13 2005,15:04

Quote (roberts @ Nov. 12 2005,13:05)

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doobit wrote:
When I loaded up RC2 it still did not recognize my AT&T wireless adapter and load the atheros drivers like DSL-1.5 does

It would be most helpful if you would specify the module(s) that are loaded with 1.5

It doesn't load the madwifi drivers which appear to be missing (I have the same card). That is ath_pci.o.

Hope this helps.

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 13 2005,17:50

Ah, thanks for the info.
madwifi is not part of the standard kernel and modules that is why it is not there. Also, Knoppix 3.4 which we were based on has an empty madwifi directory! But I see that simply downloading the madwifi project source tar ball that it easily compiles against the provided kernel sources. It installs into a separate net directory.