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debiant 09-11-2006 02:18 AM

A few questions for the devlopers...
 
The distro is nice, easy to configure and everything, but I have a few points I'd like to make:

Why, if the default kernel install is 2.6.17.11 in 3.0 is the source-tree in /usr/include for 2.4.x?
This made the installation of my nVidia proprietary drivers require a fresh kernel compile, which I was planning on EVENTUALLY anyways, but it added considerably to the installation time.

Also, please please please include lynx in a standard install. I know it adds a little to the iso size, but for the love of god I had to keep going back to Knoppix to get src packages to get up and running. If there's any grunt work to get lynx included that I can do, I will happy to do it.

Other than those minor complaints everything looks good so far. I'm going to have to look into things a little more, as I'm not familiar with pkgtool. I hope it's easy to remove pkgs as all I really like to run my desktop is fluxbox.

One more thing is that I have been attempting to get cron working, and it has been erring do to the fact that it is compiled with sendmail support which means that every attempt to run a cron job has failed because unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail ... I don't need sendmail, nor was it included with the installation (why the 'at' utility was included either since that explicitely depends on sendmail) and so now I have to recompile cron in order to get rid of the nasty sendmail crap, as a matter of fact I think I will just remove cron and go with fcron, I've had better luck with it.

jstephens84 09-13-2006 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by debiant
The distro is nice, easy to configure and everything, but I have a few points I'd like to make:

Why, if the default kernel install is 2.6.17.11 in 3.0 is the source-tree in /usr/include for 2.4.x?
This made the installation of my nVidia proprietary drivers require a fresh kernel compile, which I was planning on EVENTUALLY anyways, but it added considerably to the installation time.

Also, please please please include lynx in a standard install. I know it adds a little to the iso size, but for the love of god I had to keep going back to Knoppix to get src packages to get up and running. If there's any grunt work to get lynx included that I can do, I will happy to do it.

Other than those minor complaints everything looks good so far. I'm going to have to look into things a little more, as I'm not familiar with pkgtool. I hope it's easy to remove pkgs as all I really like to run my desktop is fluxbox.

One more thing is that I have been attempting to get cron working, and it has been erring do to the fact that it is compiled with sendmail support which means that every attempt to run a cron job has failed because unable to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail ... I don't need sendmail, nor was it included with the installation (why the 'at' utility was included either since that explicitely depends on sendmail) and so now I have to recompile cron in order to get rid of the nasty sendmail crap, as a matter of fact I think I will just remove cron and go with fcron, I've had better luck with it.

I am not a developer, however if you don't mind I can help you with a couple of things. First off to get the kernel source just use netpkg. You will can install lynx from source from here. I agree though. Lynx is a wonderful program. Not sure why you are having problems with your cron tab. Mine seems to work well.

guth 09-13-2006 06:44 PM

hi,
if you like/need CLI web browser, we have:
- links
on the install.

debiant 09-14-2006 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guth
hi,
if you like/need CLI web browser, we have:
- links
on the install.

Is links a lot smaller or something? Because it's not nearly as functional as lynx.

guth 09-14-2006 03:27 AM

In fact it's links2, about your question: i don't know exacly...

I personaly prefere links2 at lynx (image display...).
But i've to say i don't use much CLI web browser.


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