Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox
Thank you. I'll respond to a few points now, the rest of your
post requires some thought and experimentation.
Joe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:46:56 -0500
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
[snip]
What should I be reading to understand:
1. what would be minimal set of programs to install?
It depends how enthusiastic you are.
Wel-l-l-l. When in my late forties, one professor sad to another
"This young man can be persistent, can't he." The reply was "Yes
-{long pause}- about what he wants to be."
I would say that if you trust the Debian dependencies,
Not really, but that's another issue - more related to "Linux is
becoming as 'integrated' as Windows".
2. what scripts get run after a cold or warm boot?
(I've discovered I know less about that than I thought I did.)
How long was that piece of string?
It would more resemble "Who pulls which string when?"
In one iteration of my experiments I had been burned by not
adding "exec openbox" as last line of xinitrc. What other scripts
are run at boot that would affect whether Openbox runs
"correctly" [quotes significant].
You might want to pause here and look at the discussion going on about
systemd. The next stable will almost certainly have it, so you might as
well learn to live with it now.
I'll wait for furor to dissipate. Even Squeeze is adequate as my
Linux box will *NOT* be connected to internet. Windows box does
fine for browsing and email.
Your project has been going on for some time, and I can't remember if
Linux From Scratch has been mentioned.
LFS was one of the first systems I looked at. Although I'm of
that general outlook, 40 years ago I had my fill of
compile/link/load. I chose Debian for breath of libraries and
compatibility with what friends were using. I'm retired so
"productivity" is not an issue.
You can
learn quite a bit just by going through the instructions, without
actually making anything.
That's a recurring theme I hear.
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