Posted: Fri 30 Mar 2007, 01:07
WhoDo:
VERY, VERY nice job. That's the kind of professional look I've been hoping to see in Puppy since I first loaded it and was blown away by the elegant leanness of the system's architecture. Amazing what a little grooming can do for a pup! (As I know well, since I actually do have springers, and they're due for their spring clip tomorrow.)
2.15CE is shaping up to be a fantastic release - much more than just a consolidation release, really, if you consider the huge change of using the SFS add-ons for customization, instead of different ISOs.
Which raises a question: Is there going to be an SFS installer/manager? (Well, not in 2.15, but maybe later?) I could see two parts - one, a desktop app that lets you choose what SFS modules you want to (down)load/install and another in the boot menu, giving you the chance to, say, decide you'd like to override your "normal" config and boot this time with the dev SFS installed and the graphics SFS temporarily disabled, for instance. This would be very different from most other distros, but powerfully easy.
BTW, I think things are reasonably well optimized w.r.t. boot process now, but I found a decent IBM article on boot streamlining that was published last week: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/l ... tLinuxBoot
With the automatic desktop icon and menu updates that are in the works to adapt to the SFS disks available, I think the Puppy SFS suite system is going to be a *really* slick setup.
Again, thanks to all for a great job. I've been busy and may not have time to try RC2 before you ship RC3, but I'm looking forward to playing with the new pup.
VERY, VERY nice job. That's the kind of professional look I've been hoping to see in Puppy since I first loaded it and was blown away by the elegant leanness of the system's architecture. Amazing what a little grooming can do for a pup! (As I know well, since I actually do have springers, and they're due for their spring clip tomorrow.)
2.15CE is shaping up to be a fantastic release - much more than just a consolidation release, really, if you consider the huge change of using the SFS add-ons for customization, instead of different ISOs.
Which raises a question: Is there going to be an SFS installer/manager? (Well, not in 2.15, but maybe later?) I could see two parts - one, a desktop app that lets you choose what SFS modules you want to (down)load/install and another in the boot menu, giving you the chance to, say, decide you'd like to override your "normal" config and boot this time with the dev SFS installed and the graphics SFS temporarily disabled, for instance. This would be very different from most other distros, but powerfully easy.
BTW, I think things are reasonably well optimized w.r.t. boot process now, but I found a decent IBM article on boot streamlining that was published last week: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/l ... tLinuxBoot
With the automatic desktop icon and menu updates that are in the works to adapt to the SFS disks available, I think the Puppy SFS suite system is going to be a *really* slick setup.
Again, thanks to all for a great job. I've been busy and may not have time to try RC2 before you ship RC3, but I'm looking forward to playing with the new pup.