Baslinux mailing list

[baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> I am currently debugging version 3.50 of BasicLinux.
> It should be available for download in about a week.
> The main changes are:
>
> Upgraded busybox from 1.01 to 1.22.

Why not 1.3.2?  Is it less stable?  The source code packages are
both 1.4MB.

> Major improvements to links.
> Major improvements to the window manager.

Which version of which links?

> There's also been some minor editing and updating.
> libXpm and libext2 are no longer required, so they
> have been dropped.  Overall the size of BasicLinux
> will shrink by more than 100kb.

Did you compile rxvt specially for BL3, not to use libXpm
like it does in SW7.1?

> We'll be using the same kernel, same modules, same
> add-ons.  Upgrading for non-X users will be easy --
> simply replace busybox and links.  They'll also need
> to add /dev/random (which the new links uses -- it
> took me days to figure that one out).

None of the browsers can access their config files in
/home/user as 'user' so I can't use BL3 online as user yet.
If anyone ever figures this out (it might be something in
the passwd.tgz package not BL3) it would help to have
/dev/*tty* and /dev/urandom and /dev/null o+rw.

> Upgrading will be more work for the X users (a complete
> reinstallation will probably be easier).  The changes
> to X are very significant.  We will have a far superior
> windowing environment (for those of you who care about
> such things).

I have set up friends with icewm and Opera.  Will this new
wm work with Opera?

Could we simply replace ext2 /usr/X11R6 from a ramdisk version
or does /etc/XConfig also change?

> If anybody would like to help with the debugging,
> they are very welcome.  I can upload the 3.5 fs.img
> today.

For running in a loop?
Sindi


> Cheers,
> Steven