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shortstuff22090

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« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2004, 01:55:00 PM »
window manager will probably be fluxbox or windowmaker, but i will include xfce4 for the newbies to linux.  i probably wont have kde included  as it takes up alot of memory and it runs so slow its not worth it.  i will have it so u can install either flubox/windowmaker or xfce4 or both.  xfce4 is pretty light so thats good.  right now im taking a break. ive been working for about 2 hours installing libs and stuff of that sort.  and right now i have pretty much a base system with nothing installed. maybe like a pro release or sumthing.  im going to do another backup then continue to install XFree86.  this is going to be one hell of a distro!
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shortstuff22090

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« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2004, 04:24:00 AM »
yes thats why i didnt say i liked lynx.  lol.  for now i guess i will have no name.
well i almost screwed myself cuz i got caught up in working and i forgot to make abackup then it froze.  i used gentoox's sparkle and that worked so thats a relief.  heh now i know i wont have to make a filesystem rescue cd cuz shallax's works wit my distro.  well no sense reinventin the wheel
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madskillz22

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« Reply #17 on: April 15, 2004, 10:57:00 AM »
heh the name is madnix.  linux brought to you by madskillz.  =).  dont really care if u like it or not.  anyway some real news.  ive been working on alot of things lately and my distro is running.  its not much right now but its nice.  currently i have xfree86 running with xfce4 or fluxbox.  i have written a script to change video modes from 640x480 to 800x600.  thats all thats supported right now. i have a file thats /etc/xbox/settings and hopefully thats where people will be able to customize their boot process. so far i have things like what led sequence you want and whether or not to display network settings (ip address) on boot. during the install process the installer will ask questions and will construct a settings file from these questions...

 my package system will probably be something like slackware's .tgz packages.  this is probably the easiest way to get packages on it.  right now im compiling programs such as mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, gaim, and some others. i will construct tgz packages from them.  ive decided that for now i'll make an installer that will untar a basic skeleton of the linux system.  then it'll mount it and install the user's selected packages onto that skeleton system.  this way everyone gets what they want and nothing more.  im making a site and it should be up by tomorrow or saturday.  i decided not to make a public release until i get all the installer stuff and everything working.  however if anyone who is good with linux wants to take a test drive of what i have now give my a pm or something and ill hook you up.  just dont blame me if things dont work...

payce
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EDIT: also i have opened an irc channel on irc.freenode.net called #madnix
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Clockface

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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2004, 09:59:00 AM »
It's been a few days since this post was updated, so I was wondering how the project was progressing? Any idea when a download will be available? And will it work with the Focus chip?

Thanks.
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