Hi Stephen, Quoting Stephan Foley (2015-12-27 07:43:49) > Hello everyone! Not sure if I'm posting to the right mailing list. > I've been using Debian for over a year and have, what I consider, a > rock solid OS using Fluxbox as the windows manager. I used Crunchbang > for several years before (Openbox). It took me a few months to figure > out pure vanilla Debian and, since now I know the right files to > install and have all the configuration worked out, am willing to pass > this along to the community if there is any interest. > > I'll put in a little motivation here about why Fluxbox. It is actively > developed, very lightweight and never crashes. Basically, it just > stands back and lets you use all the apps you need without getting in > the way. > > For the folks at Debian, I will add there's a lot of interest in > Fluxbox/Openbox. It is very popular with the tweakers and graphic > designers of the Unix world. With the demise of Crunchbang, there is a > need for a simple install of a nice Linux OS and I think this could > fit the bill. Debian now comes in several flavors...GNOME, KDE, LXDE, > Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE,,,but these all, in my mind, share the same > design philosophy and are aping the Windows paradigm. Fluxbox is much > more elegant and attuned to what makes Linux special. > > Anyway, that's my pitch. If there is any interest out there, I'd like > to partner up with someone who knows the ins and outs of packaging and > repositories, etc. Sounds wonderful, and quite in line with the kind of work Siri and I are doing at the moment: We try map how some Debian-derived distributions differ from "vanilla Debian" - with the vision that Debian ideally should be flexible enough to adapt to such needs at install time. I would love to work with you on getting Debian to contain your specific desktop composition. I suggest that we start an Alioth group for this, start piece it together. Do you already have an Alioth account? Else creating that would be a start, including establishing SSH access there: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH Then, for creating a group on Alioth (which I think is easiest done by someone with more priviledges in Debian, so I suggest that I do that) we'd need a name for the project. Do you have a name already? Else how about simply calling it "fluxbox-blend"? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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