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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: SourceMage GNU/Linux Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Functional "theme" instead of cosmetic
  • Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:48:55 -0500

Sounds like you're talking about the cabal stuff. I've never used it,
but I believe there is some documentation on it. I'm not sure how many
people use it, so it may be a little dated, or it may work perfectly.

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 21:28, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> While I find the notion of theming SMGL to SF or Fantasy related concepts
> refreshing, there are in my opinion other things that could be done in the
> functional aspect of the distro.
>
> I will soon be running a specialized hosting service with a couple of
> racked
> computers in a co-location facility(yes, I might have capacity for
> SMGL-stuff), and I'm currently underway of settings up the servers. What I
> really would like to see is a second level of abstraction for in my case
> installing single or multiple task servers, like:
>
> [name of command] webserver
> [name of command] mailserver
> [name of command] dns
> etc.
>
> I don't just mean spells like the kde or gnome2 profile ones, but something
> more integrated that not just installs the various spells, but also
> integrates them into a working environment. What I'm basically looking for
> is
> a "recommended/preconfigured setup" concept. Choice is good, but it can
> also
> get tedious, cumbersome and repetitive .
>
> As you might suspect I'm mostly used to running SMGL in a hedless
> environment... I actually have no idea what the majority of you use SMGL
> for,
> but I find this distro to be exellent for server puposes.
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