On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then WTF is Samba for? CIFS servers?
Yes. Also it ships with a bunch of shit related to joining Active Directory domains. > Kdrive seems nice. It probably won't support the USB mice that are > connected to the computers I'll use this on, but I should be able to > do away without them. Will have to make sure the browser I choose > supports following links using a keyboard (one-dimensional > tab-navigation doesn't count). Evdev is available as an input driver for kdrive. As long as your kernel properly presents HID USB devices, you'll be fine. > True, but in theory, one should be able to write one of support for > JavaScript, images and other multimedia is not required. Heck, Dillo > or NetSurf with UI enhancements would fill my needs. Granted, they > don't have that zen-minimalism we love - but they suck less than > mainstream browsers. No reason dillo won't run under kdrive. > WebApp VM is a DHTML virtual machine, or a JavaScript VM that > implements DOM, CSS, HTML, XML and related W3C and WHATWG > technologies. So, psychotic monstrosities then. Got it. > What init do you recommend for something like this? Or what's your > favorite init? I've grown a bad distaste for Gentoo's OpenRC (heck, it > runs *on top of /sbin/init*). I don't have any experience with any > other init system, though. Someone here recently posted about an init based on mk, which seems like it might not be terrible. I'm currently trying to write a set of slackware-inspired init scripts in rc but it's not going very quickly. Look at openbsd's init, it's reasonably sane. The gentoo project has never produced anything worthwhile. -- # Kurt H Maier
