Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:33 -0700, "Michael Farnbach" wrote: > As with most answers, this one depends on a few things... > >3. You can run the answers for #2 for this, or the full distros that >they >come from in a minimal mode. But for "stay out of the way" while >running the >

Re: [dev] A Suckless Filesystem

2011-02-17 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:06 -0500, "Brandon LaRocque" wrote: > Which one do you use? Why do you use it? What does it have that the > others don't? For USB storage and bootloader partitions I've reverted to FAT, on the one because I got fed up with keeping UIDs in sync across multiple machines & on

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Peter John Hartman
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:55:30AM -0700, Michael Farnbach wrote: > Still I hope it was useful. Let me know how your search works out. Let him know *off* the list. -- sic dicit magister P PhD Candidate Collaborative Programme in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy University of Toronto http://indiv

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Farnbach
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Michael Farnbach > wrote: > > > Except in this thread, because, well, the original post was inviting a > > distro war, wasn't it? > > It wasn't. Asking for feedback isn't asking for a troll. Some may forgo

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, Unfortunately asking for an opinion from this mailing list is equivalent to tossing grenades amidst a flock of gulls. Honestly I just use Debian. Shock horror. Use what you want 'cause a Linux is free... On 17 February 2011 13:44, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Also, who the hell talks about compu

Re: [dev] [dmenu] move kp decimal patch to legacy?

2011-02-17 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 17 February 2011 13:22, Andreas Wagner wrote: > Is the 'kp decimal' patch still necessary for anything? The patch does > not apply anymore and NmLk numbers and numeric keypads work for me > with the current version of dmenu. It probably should be legacy, yeah. Feel free to move it (I don

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > Just to answer OP's question, CRUX is what you want. Minimalism at its > best, easy packaging, clean and elegant design, simple and powerful. > Don't believe others, I'm right. crux is probably the best one mentioned so far. Assuming you

[dev] [dmenu] move kp decimal patch to legacy?

2011-02-17 Thread Andreas Wagner
Hello, Is the 'kp decimal' patch still necessary for anything? The patch does not apply anymore and NmLk numbers and numeric keypads work for me with the current version of dmenu. http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/kp_decimal - Andreas Wagner

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread lordkrandel
I've found Crunchbang (the minimal one) being stable and light enough for a netbook. My build was based on Ubuntu, but it's stripped enough and you can of course strip it more. I opted for the Openbox wm (not so hardcore) because the keyboard on my netbook (Dell mini 9) is crippled, especially mo

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, John Matthewman wrote: > On 2/17/11, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > >> Funny how people can't answer to simple feedback these days. I was >> looking for experience sharing but it seems this ml was the wrong >> place. >> >> - benoît > > Ask a stupid question, get a .

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread John Matthewman
On 2/17/11, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Funny how people can't answer to simple feedback these days. I was > looking for experience sharing but it seems this ml was the wrong > place. > > - benoît Ask a stupid question, get a . (I'll let you fill in the blank!) But even if you were asking your

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-17 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> What would you choose for a really minimal OS? > > Just to answer OP's question, CRUX is what you want. Minimalism at its > best, easy packaging, clean and elegant design, simple