[Blend-fluxbox-devel] Current status?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Mike Grace (2016-05-01 20:21:15)
> I am glad the project is still ongoing.  I would like to do testing 
> when you have an alpha.  Unfortunately, I am not a developer more of a 
> “hobbyist” or “end user” really.

Great.  Will look forward to your feedback when we have something 
concrete for you to play with.


> I wish you guys had more resources available to you.  Have you thought 
> of taking a shortcut? Instead of building fluxbox Debian from scratch, 
> build it from an antiX 15.1 base iso or lxde Debian?  I realize this 
> isn't elegant but distros were born this way.  In fact antiX 15.1 base 
> is Debian stable with fluxbox as the window manager and uses Debian 
> repos.  The main differences are the addition of some scripts and 
> goodies in the antiX repos.  Would it be easier to start with antiX 
> and delete out the unwanted parts rather than starting from scratch?

I guess by "antiX 15.1" you mean <http://antix.mepis.org/>. That looks 
like an interesting project to borrow ideas from for this project.

We certainly do not want to create a distribution from scratch - even 
less so than for antiX: antiX is a Debian-derived distribution, and this 
is a Debian Pure Blend. We rely on Debian not only for the past 20 years 
of development, but also future development, by staying as an integral 
part of Debian itself, instead of forking.

The easiest is - obviously - to not do this project at all, but use 
either Debian or antiX as-is.  This project is about the next-easiest 
but arguably most interesting: Improve the universal operating system 
Debian to support Fluxbox as a first-class window manager.

 - Jonas

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