Re: [dev] anyone played with mkinit?

2010-11-09 Thread hiro
cool

[dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
I want a minimalistic distro on a CDROM with Samba, tor (with the most fascist¶noid I can find (excluding excessive noise), help appreciated), aircrack-ng, a web browser, email, a JavaScript interpreter and irc. As I won't run anything else (ok, maybe a game or two) I shouldn't need X (assuming Ope

Re: [dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
was this message just a fantastic troll post or what? "minimalistic distro with samba" "fully functional web browser sans x" and a javascript interpreter separate from a web browser! hilarious -- # Kurt H Maier

Re: [dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 11/9/10, Kurt H Maier wrote: > was this message just a fantastic troll post or what? Nope. > "minimalistic distro with samba" Necessary evil. Minimalist as in minimally configured kernel, init system, no KDE, no GNOME, a full-screen WM, etc. But It'll have to cope in a Windows network. Please i

Re: [dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > Please inform me if there's a simpler way to access Windows shares. Sure. You don't need samba to access windows shares. You just need CIFS support built into your kernel. >> "fully functional web browser sans x" > Thus I wondered if

Re: [dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 11/9/10, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: >> Please inform me if there's a simpler way to access Windows shares. > > Sure. You don't need samba to access windows shares. You just need > CIFS support built into your kernel. > Then WTF is Samba

Re: [dev] [sta.li] Minimalist Live Distro

2010-11-09 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Bjartur Thorlacius 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 o