Alfredo, How are you?
Have you had some time to check out the iso image? May I try some changes based on your distro? In that case it may take about a week or so. Greetings, Lucio. On 24 mar, 22:02, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alfredo, > > I'm as glad as you to work together to achieve a better > distro in all senses, not to mention the honor it is to me > to have this opportunity. > > I think the way you went choosing the method is perfect > and that the key to improve the LiveCD is just to choose > which packages to keep and the ones to remove. After > all, that's what sagelwlcd is all about (as is written in > the README and the code to build it) although is far > from the best choice and still has many rough edges > among the ones already described by Rob. > > So my suggestion is to take your latest distro as a base > and make a careful selection of packages in order to get > it smaller and faster. Maybe to start with it we can pick > the ones used by sagelwlcd and then experiment with > others that have the same functionality but are more > efficient and/or have less dependencies in order to work. > For example trying Wicd instead of Network Manager, etc. > > We can also try what is the outcome using Arch or other > distros if you like the idea and think they may be a better > option than your latest distro to work as a base. > > Greetings, > > Lucio. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Alfredo Portes <doyenatc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Hi Lucio, > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > I finally got your point. Sincerely I didn't know that such thing as > > > requesting > > > a particular feature in the LiveCD was possible, that's why I built mine. > > > > I also want to make clear that my intention is not to take your place or > > > anyone's, I just built that distro and thought it would be nice to share > > it > > > and > > > that's all. > > > On the contrary Lucio, we have been looking for somebody like you to > > "take my place" for a longggg time. :-). It feels always that there is not > > much > > demand for the LiveCD, which decreases my effort in it. > > > After trying various methods (and I mean a lot of methods), I settle to > > use: > > >http://www.linux-live.org/ > > > Not sure if you tried it already, a really good project. (This is what > > SLAX uses, > > probably after Knopixx the best LiveCD out there.) > > > I would love to contribute to your effort to make the LiveCD better, > > even using your current methods if everybody find it better. > > I really dont care what we use (Flux, Gnome, KDE) as > > long as we achieve what you already trying: smaller and faster. But the > > method to create/update it has to be easy, if not it becomes > > unmaintainable. > > > > I have no trouble making any contribution or helping in whatever I can in > > > the LiveCD. > > > Rob's idea is the best but I'm not who to determine whether it's going to > > be > > > taken > > > into account or not. > > > I would be glad to follow your lead in this direction...but the better > > tools you > > find the easier this becomes. Again I am very happy that somebody is > > working > > on the LiveCD. So on my part I will try you version and give you > > feedback on things > > to improve. > > > Thank you very much for your work, > > > Alfredo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
