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birdie
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Post subject: Important improvements
 Posted: Jun 29, 2007 - 11:51 AM
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1) Include Terminus font and make default for Konsole
Explanation: Current font is antialiased thus Konsole window refreshes terribly slow in most cases. Also Terminus font has no license limitations and it's very pleasant for ones eyes
2) Include the following network utilities: arping, wireshark and tcpdump
Explanation: system administrators and experienced users often use Linux live CDs to resolve various network problems. And since the Internet is not always available we have no choice but to use another linux live CDs 
3) Optimize file allocation on CD so that CD/DVD drive spends less time seeking and more time reading contiguously (maybe it would be necessary to 'preread' some file during a boot sequence)
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Post subject: RE: Important improvements
Posted: Jun 29, 2007 - 12:44 PM
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| I demand the bikeshed to be green. |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Important improvements
Posted: Jun 29, 2007 - 02:56 PM
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slh wrote:
I demand the bikeshed to be green.
Now THAT'S a real gem  |
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birdie
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 10:55 AM
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I have recently discovered that sidux lacks smartctl utility ...
Please, include smartmontools as well. |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 04:03 PM
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 04:11 PM
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 05:10 PM
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Quote:
I demand the bikeshed to be green.
And moved 6 inches to the left. |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 05:29 PM
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birdie, in case the above comments are too obscure, I'll answer:
1. User taste, not important, if you like it, install it. Possibly might get considered if there are no reasons not to do it.
2. Will not happen. Several reasons, german law now prohibits use of these types of tools, so sidux cannot put them on the livecd. That's the annoying reason, the other reason is that wireshark is simply too big to add, with dependencies it pulls in about 40 or 50 mB, I know, I asked the same thing, and checked. The livecd will not include those tools. If you need a sys admin specific livecd, then you are free to find one and use it, that's not a focus for sidux.
3. I assume this request is about as silly as it sounds. If you want fast performance with livecd, and if system has at least 3/4 gig ram, use toram option with lite version. Then it runs instantly. |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 11:33 PM
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h2 wrote:
3. I assume this request is about as silly as it sounds. If you want fast performance with livecd, and if system has at least 3/4 gig ram, use toram option with lite version. Then it runs instantly.
Not so silly, but simply requesting that we order the entire contents sequentially from "debian/sidux chroot" -> "squashfs" is easy. Writing the code to do it in an automated manner fit for our build scripts is not.
Therefore, much can be said about it, but without concept or code on how to achieve that, words are futile. |
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Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 11:53 PM
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| They did it for the accelerated knoppix cd. |
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Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 12:25 AM
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damentz wrote:
They did it for the accelerated knoppix cd.
"They" which is Alpha Systems Inc. and adopted as a "Project of Infrastructure Building for OpenSource-Software" by Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan and I believe uses LCAT, I could be wrong |
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Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 04:34 AM
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| I don't care what they did for accellerated knoppix, to be honest. |
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Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 05:09 AM
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| heh, I just learned a new proverb |
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Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 08:14 AM
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Knoppix is built in a very different way sidux is. Actually it is always a manualy adapted and upgraded re-master of itself (By the way, Kanotix, too). If you manually (re-)master your build it is quite easy to do some file sorting (and bad hacks). As Knoppix comes as a huge packed DVD which is usually (and should be only!) used as a live CD there might be some reason to sort files on the disc.
sidux devs at the other side have created sophisticated build scripts which run fully automated and use the pure material from Debian Sid. This makes sidux 100% Debian compatible, and no hack will later on break your system with an upgrade. sidux is optimized to to be installed to HDD, the live functionality is well working but not the main focus.
With Tartaros I did some tests with interrupting the build process and do some manual file sorting. The resulting speed improvements at boot time where less than 2 seconds - so there is no reason to go further with this as sidux already boots extremely fast compared to other distros.
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Posted: Jul 01, 2007 - 08:41 PM
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All this discussion suggests me that, should a sidux remaster tool be available, all the requests would cease, as people would be too busy to make it "their own way"
I did it manually some time ago, but an automated tool would be awesome! |
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