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Are there any mirrors? The site is getting hn-dotted. It should not take 8hrs to download a 108M file
The md5sums for 3 of them don't seem to match what's on the DSLR page though. The one with a .md5sum file does match. Use others with caution for now.
If you're a developer who doesn't know very well how Linux distributions (or operating systems in general) work, you should spend a weekend or two playing around with an embedded Linux distro like this. Unfortunately DSLR's build environment does not seem like the easiest to understand for first-timers. For example, instead of Makefiles per package, there's a package-specific shell script which incorporates some magi…
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I somehow doubt it. Sure, there's a lot less stuff running, so there are fewer wakeups. But on the other hand, it's missing some essential power-saving software like `acpid` that tells bits of hardware to take a rest in the first place.
> [...] like `acpid` that tells bits of hardware to take a rest I believe that that stuff is mostly in the kernel. Man acpid: > acpid is designed to notify user-space programs of ACPI events.
This was me: http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-Print/f-1/t-19848.html
If you're a developer who doesn't know very well how Linux distributions (or operating systems in general) work, you should spend a weekend or two playing around with an embedded Linux distro like this. Unfortunately DSLR's build environment does not seem like the easiest to understand for first-timers. For example, instead of Makefiles per package, there's a package-specific shell script which incorporates some magi…
What would be a good distribution for playing around like you described?
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ [2] http://trac.cross-lfs.org/ [3] http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ [4] http://www.slax.org/
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uLinux or picoLinux (I don't remember very well the name) -> Runs on one or two 3.5 floppies. There is a version with 3 or 4 floppies with an X-Windows included.
I remember running a QNX demo off a single floppy on a 66MHz 486. Included a web browser, a game ,and an editor, all in 1.44MB http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
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Dillo also has an easy, approachable plugin architecture: http://www.dillo.org/dpi1.html This makes me feed sorry for the people dealing with the XUI/JS/CSS cesspit of Firefox plugins.
Do they plan to add a JavaScript engine?
If you're a developer who doesn't know very well how Linux distributions (or operating systems in general) work, you should spend a weekend or two playing around with an embedded Linux distro like this. Unfortunately DSLR's build environment does not seem like the easiest to understand for first-timers. For example, instead of Makefiles per package, there's a package-specific shell script which incorporates some magi…
What do you think of https://www.yoctoproject.org/ as an alternative?
Here's a guide for 'old' Linux distros http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/ and here's a guide using systemd http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable-systemd/
I cannot even think of how many security vulnerabilities exists in these applications used for this "remake".
In Linux/FOSS distros using outdated software is really not good idea unless you know what you are doing or have support from the distro which have people that should be able to fix the security vulnerabilities. e.g. RedHat, Suse, Canonical, Debian.
Using software which is dead upstream often makes distro maintainers want to remove the software from the repository because they are not able/want to maintain. BTW... I'm curious about which version of GTK+1.x is he using. GNOME does not support GTK+-1.x for years how wonder who fixes the security vulnerabilities also.
1 - http://www.cvedetails.com/version/78795/Dillo-Dillo-0.8.6.ht...
2 - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2005/11/msg00120.ht...