Re: End of hypocrisy ?
On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:46:14 +1200
Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 09:38:24AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > This is where we differ. I'd rather have building blocks from which
> > I could build anything, rather than a monolith I need to trick into
> > doing what I want it to do.
>
> Oh, so you don't run a DE then.
I do. At varying times, I run Openbox, dwm, LXDE or Xfce.
>
> In that case I suggest either NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org/ or maybe
> Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
LOL, if I consider Arch's 40 manual step installation too error prone,
can you imagine me doing Linux From Scratch?
But NetBSD, hmmmm.
FreeBSD is wonderful, and I would have switched to it a long time ago,
but they keep changing their package manager and making it worse, and
Ports starts conflicting with their Package Manager of the Month, and
what a mess! PC-BSD is just a pretty face pasted onto FreeBSD, not good
enough.
OpenBSD would be exactly what I want, but I've had some video
resolution problems with it, and I'm concerned that a lot of apps
haven't been ported to it.
It never occurred to me to try NetBSD, but I really should, so I will.
Thanks for the tip.
>
> I suppose it all depends on the size of the building blocks you are
> after.
>
They vary. Generally speaking, I like bigger building blocks for GUI,
and smaller ones for data processing. I'm never going to make my own
window manager. I studied the code for one of the smallest ones, dwm,
and it's very detailed. I wasn't even able to figure out how to add a
function to list all GUI windows grouped by tagset (dwm equivalent of
workspaces). Lack of that function was the main reason I switched back
to Openbox.
Thanks for the tip on NetBSD. I'll try it.
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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