How I slayed my OEM partition
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Yeah, Minix is still around. Minix 3 is supposed to be targeted more at being useable, rather than just for teaching. I like it, but there's no desktop environment. Maybe if someone ported xfce to it...
The disc image is pretty big, but that's because it has like 500 programs on it, and then the OS. It's actual hard disk footprint is tiny.
Me too. I built the kernel, but I couldn't make an initrd (don't remember why)... anyway my kernel was bigger than the one I was using even though I removed a lot of unnecessary features (which disqualified the -awesome suffix I gave it :( ) except the bare minimum that I really wanted.
The disc image is pretty big, but that's because it has like 500 programs on it, and then the OS. It's actual hard disk footprint is tiny.
| I did that to get the feel of a majorly basic LFS although an LFS is so much more explicit, it's not even funny. I've yet to finish an LFS lol... |
Me too. I built the kernel, but I couldn't make an initrd (don't remember why)... anyway my kernel was bigger than the one I was using even though I removed a lot of unnecessary features (which disqualified the -awesome suffix I gave it :( ) except the bare minimum that I really wanted.
By the way, if anyone cares, I just got Arch up and running with X.org, Xfce and an nVidia driver. The pacman package manager is really powerful (especially against living things (goddamnit get out of my head! I've been headcrabbed)). I just have to log in to a terminal and type "startxfce4." I need to fix a few things though.
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Most default configurations work with Arch but some do not and you need to make sure to configure EVERYTHING the way you want it.
Well, they have an excellent Wiki that tells you how to do things; I can use that (I was using links at first, but now I'm on Firefox) and just change things to the way I want them. That's why I installed Arch, anyway. I'm not even going to bother with xsplash or usplash. I like the boot messages.
Just gotta install FreeBSD now.
Just gotta install FreeBSD now.
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Crap like xsplash is made to satisfy the people who think it limits the exterior of Linux. In reality, it's completely useless.
Well, to be fair, it's a good idea. I don't mind it. I think it's good to have a boot splash for the people who want it (quoth the Raven, "Linux is about choice"), but personally I like the boot messages. I might install xplash or usplash or whatever anyway at some point. But I don't want/need them now.
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