[geeks] Dos and similar games

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:35:56PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> I'm not familar with DFS. I chose DSL (which is based upon KNOPPIX) because
> it was familar technology. There even is a book called "Hacking KNOPPIX"
> by Wiely. 
> 
> For an embedded device with little or no configurable hardware or general
> purpose use, it may be a bit too much. In my case I found it a lot easier
> to go from nothing to a working system. 
> 
> It's easy to maintain and improve. The biggest problem I'mhaving is that
> DSL is based upon Debian sarge, and the lastest version of the packages
> I want to install are not available for it.
> 
> I also have a problem because one particular package included something
> that won't configure when I install it because a directory is missing. :-)

Well, to be honest, the LFS is giving me some trouble with a particular
mode of a particular video IO card anyway.  The card works fine with a
custom kernel on Ubuntu (which is also wildly unsupported by the
vendor), so maybe DSL would be worth a shot.

I've generally been compiling my dependencies from source rather than
relying on packages, even when the original prototype was based on RH9.
If nothing else, some dependencies have required a fair amount of
examining the source and putting a print statement here or there to find
out why it isn't working the way I expected.

> > If people are allowed any carry on on commercial planes by the time you
> > get it to market anyway.
> 
> People have short memories. In a few weeks, it will be back to normal. 

If shoes are anything to go on, in a few weeks people will think we've
never been allowed drinks on the plane.

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