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News:
- July 18th, 2004 The project is currenly on hold due to it driving me insane. As of right now, the OS itself works damn near perfectly. It's stable, fast, and very usable. However, the bootup sequence to turn the OS into a livecd depends upon the live-cd scripts from SLAX, which have given me trouble for the last time. Not only do they break the founding principle of Slackware (KISS- keep it simple, stupid) but they are hit and miss scripting jobs that only work based upon delicate configurations that revolve around his own computer setup. My questions for assistance have been met by rudeness and ideas I've offered to him for improvement upon the scripts have been met with hostility. No part of SLAX will be touching the tao due to both the attitude of the SLAX founder as well as the scripts inability to be flexible enough for real-world use. You do not break slackware principles, especially one that has kept slackware going for 10+ years.
This means I need ideas from you, and by you I mean all of the fans and followers of the tao. I need a way to take an OS from it's currently configured and installed state (no blind installations) and turn it into a bootable ISO. Also, unless someone has a better idea for this, I need it to use ovlfs for the ability to write over the read-only filesystem. devfsd will stay implimented, unless someone has a better idea as well. So, head to the forums and toss all your ideas into the suggestions area. True to the Tao, I will not force this project to work if it was not meant to. But I will not throw it down without allowing the ideas of others to help the project remain. Just as the project has been in my hands for so long, now is the time when it lays in the hands of others. I look foward to your suggestions!
- July 16th, 2004
- July 13th, 2004
- July 12th, 2004
- Gave startup configurations for ALSA and OSS volume configurations in rc.alsa
- Wrote a basic dvd/cdrom/cd-rw script to link devices to /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom
- Updated volume control fix and improved OSS and ALSA detectability on bootup
- Updated x automagic detection script for improved preformance and xorg compat
- Updated mouse detection script
- Installed NVIDIA official binaries, which are automagically detected
- Added Extensions for mozilla firefox:
- Removed old preemptive patching and implmented patch items of the lck patchset
- July 5th, 2004
- Prerelease given to developers for testing and bug eliminating. This is the step just before a first public test release, and one step closer to the final release! As you might notice, the bug section on our forum is getting larger, but it is to be expected of course. The more we work out now, the better!
- volume control madness - solved
- Bookmarks Synchronizer firefox extension - solved
- set preferred applications - solved
- remove postscript viewer icon - solved
- xchat moans about root - solved
- run gimp configuration once - solved
- set system font to arial - solved
- modify the panel properties for fast menus - solved
- get latest devfsd package - solved
- denied permission to use bootup song - solved
- gaim messages - solved
- July 4th, 2004
- Removed gtk documentation, but left the man files
- Switched the iconset from Tux-n-Tosh to SnowApple
- Added Extensions for mozilla firefox:
- Streamlined it down to 430 megs for the ISO, involving a large flock of package removal
- Added bootup music, clipped from demo song from the game 'Shogun: Total War'
- Added bmp reluna-bluetiful skin
- Added preemptive patch to 2.4.26 kernel, along with devfs ability
- Added ovlfs for filesystem transparent writing ability
- Removed unused cursors, themes, sounds, and icons
- Replaced horrid default gaim sounds with trillian 2.0 sounds
- Took three screenshots of the prerelease today(developer testing only)
- A lot of really nonimportant changes that won't mean a thing to anyone, but happened none the less
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- Adblock
- July 1st, 2004
- Switched to Firefox from Epiphany
- Switched to Totem from gxine and mplayer
- Switched to ggv from gpdf
- Fixed xine backend plugin for web browser video streaming to allow autosound detection
- Added Quicktime, Realplayer, DivX, WMV, WMA, MPEG, and various other video codecs
- Decided to keep both abiword and gedit
- Removed Mozilla 1.7
- Removed Epiphany 1.3
- Removed gxine
- Removed near a hundred minor, unneeded programs such as 'most' and 'amp'
- It is my girlfriends 21st birthday! Email her here, and wish her a
happy birthday!