On Wed, December 17, 2014 9:41 pm, Israel wrote: > Hi everyone, > this is more of an e-mail to sort out my thoughts. > > The main issue we are facing is connectivity. > There are two main options here. > Use one of the applets (which do not seem to want to work correctly) > possibly making the base install larger (not too much of a problem) or do > something else. > > SO, if we do something else we need someone who is more of an expert in > setting up networks in Linux. The current network applets cost us memory > to the tune of 5ish MB. This is not a huge deal, however they don't work > correctly... so this is a huge deal. If someone knows a way to scan for > wireless networks from the terminal and log into them without a network > applet (like you might do on the Mini ISO aside from editing > /etc/network/interfaces though that could be > a fine choice as it is a normal file read by the computer on startup... > though it does cause Ubuntu to boot slowly if the network is not currently > available....) that would be great. It is very easy to make a simple > dialog list in zenity and allow the choice to be passed on to something > else. We could make a script that when you click the icon for networking > it does all the fancy stuff and populates the list.... then when you click > it it connects you... and you can have that saved to do automatically (by > including a custom startup script which would be all generated and handled > automatically) > > Does anyone know how feasible this is? I am thinking Nio or Jörn have a > better idea about whether or not this is possible, or if it would be a > waste of time to try to save a few MB of RAM. > > -- > Regards > > > -Israel > ToriOS Team > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios > Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
Hey Israel, I'm not sure if this will help look for solutions, but 4MLinux seems a neat small fast JWM implementation; maybe worth a look for how things have been implemented for some of your remaining tasks... http://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=home Cheers, JackT. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios Post to : torios@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
