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[Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>]

Back again.

As I have been wandering around the world of distros, I have noticed a
few things that I found helpful.

When I installed crux the xorg system was an optional part of the
initial install which would have been really helpful with smgl.  When
the computer spent all day compiling it would have been handy to have
had it going in the background while I am able to work in an X session. 
The work I am doing at the moment is web based so a graphical browser is
a necessity.  If I had realized before I would have installed xorg
first, got it set up with window managers etc. and then started it going
and let the system update itself in the background while I worked.

So my suggestion is to adjust the iso to have xorg binaries installed if
desired.  As you need a fairly modern system for smgl to make sense
pretty much all the videocards will let you get a decent resolution
using the vesa driver.

Having to rebuild xorg later is not a big problem if you are happily
working away in the present setup, and not waiting for things to finish,
so the extra time is not really noticeable.

Just a suggestion....

Rohan