[Blend-fluxbox-devel] Current status?

[Ozi Traveller]

Hi

I've been building a pure debian fluxbox for a few years now. I use
live-build to create the images. It's is fairly small with a select number
of applications.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix/files/star-livinia-fb-64-2016APR23.iso

Cheers
Ozi



On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> 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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