On 3/8/07, Kevin Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
I admire your passion.
There's one huge problem that I see with gNewSense right now, and I've
spoken with Paul about how I might be able to help fix this.
Simply, gNewSense isn't yet ready to be the showcase that we all want it to be.
There are things that still remain to be done before gNewSense is
fully functional, let alone exceptional. For instance, we don't have a
Server install CD, and doing a "Lightweight" install on a laptop of
older machine is not yet possible at this moment.
maybe I am misunderstanding you here, but with Ringo's hack I got gNewSense installed on my 450MHZ 128MB RAM laptop with no problems, it was a breeze. Here is his hack:
I know that gnewsense doesn't yet have a "alternate" or minimum
install for computers with low ram/graphics/cpu or that don't have the
right drivers. I had to do the alternate for my computer so here's how
you can do it do.
1. Boot the live cd, hit the red button in the top right, select logout
2. Go to icon in bottom left, select the "Gnome Failsafe Terminal" session
3. Login as username deltad (or root), no password
4. type cd /home/deltad/Desktop in the terminal
5. type cat ubiq* in the terminal
6. You should see a line near the bottom that starts with gksudo
7. Copy that line verbatim and hit enter
8. The
install will start.
9. If for some reason it doesn't restart properly, wait 30 seconds
(for hd buffers+cache to clear), and then type halt OR go to the power
button on the top right and hit restart. You can also just pull the
plug (at least on my HP laptop)
After that I did 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' and I got a brand new perfectly functionning laptop. Judging by how smooth the install was I bet you this is doable on even less Proc and RAM power. How low should we go?
Hardware wise everything worked out of the box, except wifi which I fixed with a wrapper.
As fo the server aspect - are we really trying to compete with Debian-Sarge or BSD? My sense is that our advocacy 'hunting ground' should be the small office home user not the server world. But that is just my 2cts.
Documentation is one thing that gNewSense lacks now, and anyone
willing to help write some would do a lot.
ok. Does anyone here want me to write an 'intro for first-time gNewSense users'?
Before we can run we need to walk, and while gNS is a great distro,
it's nowhere near showcase material, too many serious, but not so
flashy thing, still need to be done.
I used Mandrake from
7.2 to 10.1 and I used Debian starting with Sarge and I find no fault in gNewSense. And why should there be any? Its Ubuntu/Debian based so that is pretty much as good a base as can be. gNewSense is definitely less buggy than Kanotix which I used for many years and way faster than Mepis (which still has proprietary scripts even though Warren denies that).