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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> My suggestion is to wait for BL3.  It's only a few weeks away.  
> It will run X on the normal BasicLinux foundation (without so
> many corners being cut).  I've currently got BL3 running an xterm 
> (I'll trying adding icewm in a day or two).  At the moment I'm 
> fiddling with fonts.  It appears that Xvesa only has 5x7, 5x8, 
> and 6x13 fonts built in, so I'm trying to find the most compact 
> way of adding bigger fonts.

I agree that xvesa needs larger fonts than the built-in ones, which I am 
finding hard to read.

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> I had hoped to use the new 2.0.40 kernel for BL3, but it wasn't
> possible.  Xvesa won't work on that kernel (it seems to require
> a capability not available until the 2.2 kernels).  I spent weeks 
> compiling different versions of 2.0.40 and different versions of 
> Xvesa -- all without success.  So, I'm using 2.2.16 (same as BL2).
> That, as least, will avoid any problems with modules.  The actual
> BL3 zimage, however, will be quite different from BL2.  It will
> be significantly smaller *and* it will run on 386/486sx systems.

What did you leave out to make the kernel smaller?  


> Initially, I'll be doing BL3 in the usual unzip-and-boot package.  
> However, I was thinking about spliting bl3-00.zip into two parts 
> (floppy-sized).  Download both parts, unzip, run install.bat and
> then boot.bat.  Comments?

I think something that fits on floppy disks would be a good idea so that 
people won't need to learn how to split files into two small pieces in 
order to move them between machines.  Maybe you can even use the pieces 
provided in the download to make a 2-floppy boot set that is simpler to 
create than the current method (but there is still the problem of vdisk).

> Cheers,
> Steven
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