Re: Initial Thoughts, migration from Ubuntu ahead

It seems I should compile the new kernel.. and provide version of
GoboLinux that works with one. I should start with Linux From Scratch
perhaps?

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Viola Zoltán <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Henri, excuse me for the bad English... I am from Hungary. (but now I
> live in the USA). The GoboLinux-idea very good, this is my likely "Loved
> One" distro. I wrote a book (in hungarian language) about it long time ago.
> But, sorry, the latest release very obsolete, and Hisham said, that the
> developers no more develop this distro, not coming soon fresh release! I
> tryed create a new, cca up-to-date release, as my "special edition". It work
> on my computer, good, but I am not satisfied with it, because I cannot
> compile lot of programs good with the new GCC, Glibc and Ncurses. Because
> this, I cannot compile new kernel, the make menuconfig not work (it need new
> ncurses). Without ncurses, I cannot compile my preferred musicplayer, the
> "moc" (music on console). And, I have other problem: I not have enough
> knowledge to compile and install new udev!
> The biggest problem in the compiling of moc and other stuf, in the new
> behavior of "ld". (This is in the BinUtils). The developers of "ld" was
> modifyed (changed) the behavior of new "ld". And I not have enough
> knowledge, re-create the Makefiles of lot of programs (ncurses, moc, and
> others).
>
> Other programs give me not too big and lot of problems, thats work good.
> Sorry, I am not a "profi hacker", just a "power user". But, I tell you, that
> I not like the "userfriendly", "eyecandy" desktop environments (Gnome,
> KDE...), I think, there are bloatwares, and superfluous. My preferred
> windows manager is the "SithWM"... If you can create a fresh
> commandline-capable new minimal-gobolinux-release, with new Udev, GCC,
> Glibc, kernel, and ncurses (and mc, for trying the new ncurses...) I would
> like help to you in the developing, but not in the KDE and Gnome desktop! I
> like maximum the XFCE, but better any *box.  Or maybe LXDE. Or any other
> very minimal window manager. I very like and preferre the commandline-tools
> and programs (and ncurses, xbindkeys...).
>
> Zoli
>
>
> 2013/6/6 Henri Tuhola <[email protected]>
>>
>> I installed GoboLinux to virtualbox today, in Ubuntu. It still takes
>> some time for me to figure out where everything is now though! Now I
>> think I might like this thing, but I'd need to understand it far much
>> better than what I do. I might need some initial help on installing it
>> to more machines. I'm also considering to become a contributor to
>> GoboLinux.
>>
>>
>> I've read the at glance, FAQ, unix tree rethought, clueless, and
>> glanced some other pages in documentation. Going to read more
>> tomorrow, perhaps even going far as installing it to my machine! For
>> that I'd need to get nvidia drivers, steam and chrome working, and
>> maybe catch some window manager that doesn't drive me crazy, xfce for
>> example.. or openbox.
>>
>> For development, I'd also probably want to install gobolinux to
>> raspberry pi, so I could do some wayland stuff that is not running in
>> my primary machine at the moment.
>>
>> IF it turns out GoboLinux is exactly what I'm looking at, then it
>> means I will be probably modifying it. I think I'd like to work on
>> GoboLinux at times, to make it more friendly to people such as artists
>> and elderly people. This would mainly mean improvements to the
>> Manager, some way to handle always running services in user-friendly
>> manner (RunIt perhaps?), changes into graphics environment, to make it
>> easier to manage the system.
>>
>> Heh.. it feels that so little few small things are wrong once every
>> program is located where they actually SHOULD be. I might turn out
>> with my own distro in the process.
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