Just now I realized that people don't know that my phaeronix (the liveCD and the hdinstalled system) has been in use by some people for quite some time. It has also been running as an experimental server in the faculty of medicine Cairo University.
I guess I will have to write a full case study soon as alaa suggested, and try to illustrate the powers of linux.
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when I saw pharoenix. I fell in love with it, can't wait to get my copy of the latest beta. With all the ROX filer and Xfce goodness. Best thing too it has nothing that depends on gnome libs :) == light weight.
Go Phaeronix go...
You bring tears to my eyes...
lol, just kidding.
But really this kind of comments does boost your ego. thanx whirlpool I hope You become a prominent figure in the development of phaeronix. and.... go phaeronix go
pharaonix features
What kind of package management are you using?
Also, if you can squeeze latex, vim (maybe with the arabic patch?) and the bluetooth userland tools in, you might gain one tester/user here...
:)
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I wish to do so
1- Pacakge management is something I consider too bloated. I did consider a simple package manger like slack's tgz but it's too soon to tell. I'll postpone this point to when I can address it. The CD already has a lot of great software.
2- Latex is something I don't use, so if you can tell me it's benifits I'll be more than happy to add it.
3- Vim 6.2 I think already has arabeye's work integrated. It's included by default in LFS ( since it tries to follow the LSB ). gvim I don't like so I use Mohammed Samir's Katoob. Correct me if I am mistaken.
4- As for hardware support, it is based mainly on knoppix with bits and pieces of my innovations. However I can only properly add support for things I can test. ( like my usb key hotplug support ). if you know what packages I have to add and of any special scripts or GUI tools to use these packages tell me and I'll do what I can.
Basically I'll release 0.75beta as is and once it is well established I'll start adding these things ( someone mentioned encrypted loop devices before)..
Okay, so.
I'm with you on the package management issue. Actually when I was an LFS user, I learned a neat little trick. Instead of:
It was suggested that one do: find / -mount > before make install find / -mount > after diff before after > packagename-0.x.y bzip2 packagename-0.x.y mv packagename-0.x.y.bz2 /root/installs
That way you know what is where and why.
As concerns LaTeX, it is something I use for writing. It is basically a document formatting/preparation system. Now that I come to think of it though, it can get pretty large, so that's a problem. Unfortunately, at least 60% of the work I do in linux is LaTeX so I can't see myself going without it.
Re. vim, great.
I'll revise my bluetooth requirements and give you a shout.
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huh??
thats the most stupid way to achieve your goal.
you can tell make to print its actions instead of perform them, files are typicaly installed using the install command or cp, so just running make -n install | grep install\|cp
would do the trick.
cheers,
Alaa
"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"
EMACS
EMACS EMACS EMACS
*sigh*
Thank you.
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bah...
right look for a ready made script "SRC" on freshmeat.'i intend on usind it.
It can even download packages but.
But I'll hold back on that since it needs a rebuild of the system...
Maybe later, when I have the time to build LFS5.1.1 or something more uptodate at that time.
I can live just fine without a package manager
Don't take my suggestions as imperatives :)
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Same concept
Yes in the end they all do the same thing. checkintall, installwatch, src, they all implement some form of tracking the installation procedure.
src is however particularly simple and deature rich. I am trying to play with it now so I can confidently include it in the next round of innovations. (yeah I like to call them that )