Re: Announcing GoboLinux 016 alpha

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Hugo Barrocas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed on the sane recipes.
> Provides a cleaner and faster instalation, and afterwards each user
> can install/compile whatever he/she wants, but at least the
> LibreOffice suite would be nice to have.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll consider that.

> "The ISO is already at 1.5GB". Right, I also noticed that.
> What I'm failing to understand is how the ISO from Gobo014 was so
> small with 700mb CD size, loaded with full KDE3 and lots of apps, and
> now it got a whole lot chunkier to 1.5gb, but it only has a stripped
> off Awesome and almost no apps?
> I'm not a programmer, so it looks somewhat strange.

Binary file sizes do indeed grow when we switch from 32 to 64-bit.
Some primitive data types will occupy twice the size as they did on
32-bit, plus data structures that need alignment will require more
room than before. It's not like the file size will be 2x the size of
its equivalent in 32-bit, but it does get a bit larger.

>> Do you have any suggestion for a lightweight GUI file manager that we could consider including in Beta?
>
> I have been using KDE for a long time now, so I got used to Konkeror
> (or Dolphin), wich I assume are out of equation, but if a file manager
> has a system tree view, and the option to have at least 2 panes or
> tabs for file copying/moving, it's good for me.
>
> Curiously a quick search showed some awesome answers:
>
> https://awesomewm.org/wiki/File_Managers
>
> https://www.linux.com/learn/4-excellent-alternative-graphical-linux-file-managers
>
> I have no experience with any of these alternatives, and as always, it
> greatly depends on user preferences. Cast your votes according to what
> suits you best :) Recipes
>
> Judging by the looks of it, I would probably try Xfe, or PCManFM (old
> recipes on Gobolinux for both).
> Clean looks, light, but effective, and the tabs are nice in a file manager.
> I'm now installing PCManFM on my Toshiba laptop (Kubuntu) to see how
> this one goes :)

Cool, thanks for the links!

> Didn't get the picture with Mosaic, but it was funny anyway. Made me
> search what was it.

hehehehe. It's so nice that such an old project is being kept alive on
Github. I couldn't resist :-)

>>> On the Asus Eeepc:
>>> I had a sistem crash while browsing the net on Firefox, took a picture if
>>> you need it.
>>
>> Sure, that helps. I have seen some problems with the Intel video
>> drivers when testing the ISO. Hopefully this one is not associated
>> with the Xorg driver stack.
>
> Should I attach and send the pictures to the list, or your email?

If they're large you can send them to my email, or post them on e.g.,
imgur and then share the link here.

Best regards,
Lucas
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