Re: rox-desktop distro

On 03/04/11 16:47, Jim Lesurf wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>, Mark Williams
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Tom Sparks wrote:
>>> I wondering if there is rox-desktop distro?
>
>
>> Puppy Linux kind of uses the pinboard and the filer.
>
> When I tried Puppy the "kind of" seemed to omit application directories
> that would run when an AppRun was included! Maybe there was something
> wrong with what I did or the release of Puppy I tried (from a magazine
> cover disc).[1] But I feel that the runnable application directory is a
> central feature of rox filter.
>
> [1] Also couldn't get a compiler to install despite following the
> instructions for the Puppy way of installing things.
>
> So overall, I must admit I didn't find Puppy much of an 'advert' for ROX.
> YMMV though.
>
> I found it was much easier to use rox with crunchbang. But that doesn't
> deal with the above question, alas...
>
> Slainte,
>
> Jim
>
If only there were people out there who could at least put a ROX Desktop 
metapackage For Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Mandriva together. That'd 
be a step in the right direction.




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