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On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> This should be a priority.

Let us know when you figure out how to do it.  I doubt Steven is 
interested since BL is aimed at old hardware which works with older X.
(Except where it is buggy as in my Winbook, which loses keyboard and mouse 
when you do anything graphical, but works with 2.6 kernel and later X).

I use Xvesa or Xfbdev most of the time. You can get the latest version of 
these precompiled for various glibc, from the Xfree86 site (I also put a 
copy at my site, I think).  They use less cpu and memory.

Other priorities (they all come first?):

A 2.6 kernel (small, with a set of modules), so we can use packages from 
Slackware past 11, including later precompiled glibc and gcc to compile 
other useful stuff (gtk2 for "recent" browsers).

Opera 10 (I can't get the fonts working - black squares).

Flash 9 or even 10.

Cardbus driver modules so we can use wireless cards other than Orinoco and 
Airo, which in addition to being faster are more common and do WPA.

A way to use BL in a computer containing an SATA drive (even if BL is on 
an IDE drive).

Built-in USB cardreader (confuses BL).

A pdf reader that rotates files.  Framebuffer image viewer and pdf reader 
(use less RAM/cpu than X).

Sindi Keesan