-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Westby wrote: > On (10/10/06 16:33), Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:39 PM, James Westby wrote: >> >>> I had a couple of idea while I was typing to generate keys in this >>> fashion. Here they are in no particular order. >>> >>> 1) Make a game that involves typing, >> Doesn't aptitude have a minesweeper game built in? Would that work? >> > > Interesting, > > at least that is already implemented. I'm not sure how it would fit in > to the d-i scheme.
it would not. Aptitude is not a part of the D-I flow and that is for a really good reason. > Also minesweeper seems a little low-intensity. Have you tried the > generation? I created a 128bit key, and that was painful. There is a lot > of entropy needed, and there probably isn't much coming from other > sources or already accumulated. When you generate a GPG key on your > workstation you have a helping hand. There has been a discussion[0] about introducing a game in the graphical installer and it has been suggested that the same could be done for the newt interface. There is already an udeb for sdljump[1], and probably we can find some interesting enough console games for this task. The *main* issue is, in fact, the linearity of the installation process, but I guess starting the game on another VT and doing and exec from a process starting from the installer would not be that hard (some intelligence should be added to the game so that it does a chvt back to the installer VT, after exit). > As I said, I'm not sure the idea is workable, but I like it. Perhaps it > could be implemented anyway, so you can drop to VT5 to play a game while > waiting for the long portions of the installer to complete. > > If someone can come up with a high intensity game that doesn't require > much entropy itself, then it might be feasible. See [0]. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI#head-9a881b78a4f0c4d9aed436c7d6109bd071d0f88e [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2006-February/000349.html - -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFLJk0Y8Chqv3NRNoRArPaAKDEJD3b2NpJ6EDsKgApE4FOpjGJ+gCeLOUA H7klA7hQJC5RnSrgjRT6bx0= =/iE9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
