ConnochaetOS

Hi !
It is really fantstic, that you finally found the way to the ConnOS forum
I read several of your posting about DeLi/ConnOS in other forums as well as your blog and I just want to say "Thanks" for your comments and much more for your contributions now.
With your excellent standing in the forums it is a great step forward in the promotion of the new distro.
I really hope to see you more often here in the forum.

Don't know whether haary takes the PKGBUILDs in the base repo, but I think they will be available in a user's repo (if there will be any some time in the future )

You're quite welcome. I am sorry the PKGBUILDs are not that inventive; in most cases I just added the "i586" architecture to the current PKGBUILD. Nothing fancy.

But it is nice to see a distro targeting very old machines. I'll put together a few more PKGBUILDs, and perhaps add them later. Cheers!

ConnOS isn't targeting very old machines. That was DeLi's purpose, ConnOS just tries to be as lightweight as possible, however, it supports old hardware well.

I'll add your packages to my repository if they are not in the official one soon.

Well, we are targeting "old" machines, lets say up to 12 years old, but not "very old", e. g. 486 and below. Additionally I have low-spec CPUs like AMD Geode, VIA CPUs (C3, C7 and successors) and older Intel Atom CPUs in Mind. (I have an Atom 270 Netbook with Arch on it, but as time goes by I get the impression the system is becoming slower.)

Our target audience is from beginner to intermediate experienced computer user. That also means that "geekish" programs like tiling windows managers and console only programs have a low priority.

Don't get me wrong, I like those apps, but since our resources are very limited we must make decisions what we can have in the repo and what not.

Additionally allow me the remark, that you built a lot of dependencies I tried to avoid, e. g. libxinerama (X in ConnochaetOS has no Xinerama support) and imlib2. giflib is in the repo already.

Not a problem. I can see where a less "geeky" desktop would be more appealing, for netbooks and so forth.

I've since put together a lot of other stuff; mostly console applications and things like nfs-utils (which is a hairball). I'll upload them somewhere, although again there's not much custom that's there, aside from adding "i586" to the PKGBUILD.

I should also mention that I ripped out X and built both screen with the vertical split patch and fbterm, which was a nice console-based system running five or six applications on about 21Mb of RAM. I'm very impressed.

Cheers!

I wanted to try something similar with tmux.

It built and is running, but I'm not able to implement the tmux.conf settings of the key bindings valid.

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KMandla wrote

I should also mention that I ripped out X and built both screen with the vertical split patch and fbterm, which was a nice console-based system running five or six applications on about 21Mb of RAM. I'm very impressed.

Yes, that's a very good result. I tested the RAM usage with ConnOS+LXDE - nearly 35 MB of RAM, that's really cool too!

haary wrote

Additionally allow me the remark, that you built a lot of dependencies I tried to avoid, e. g. libxinerama (X in ConnochaetOS has no Xinerama support) and imlib2. giflib is in the repo already.

I want to ask why is Xinerama trying to be avoided in ConnochaetOS? Is it a heavy application?

haary wrote

I have an Atom 270 Netbook with Arch on it

I often use even weaker computers - for example, two of my four home machines. I'll try to test ConnOS on one of them (Arch works on it quite well, but I'm looking for something lighter) when I'll get it connected to the network (to my shame it's hard yet).
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KMandla wrote

I'll upload them somewhere

Maybe ConnochaetOS needs a community repository? I'm sorry that I can do only a little for something like that (however, it can be used at first) because I'm just a Ukrainian teenager, but I think somebody should do a thing like that.

RaxXx wrote

I want to ask why is Xinerama trying to be avoided in ConnochaetOS? Is it a heavy application?

It's a dependency which would make X bigger and consuming more resources.
I don't think the typical Connos User would need Xinerama I left it out.

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Maybe ConnochaetOS needs a community repository? I'm sorry that I can do only a little for something like that (however, it can be used at first) because I'm just a Ukrainian teenager, but I think somebody should do a thing like that.

A community repo would be great. For the official repo it's just a matter of resources. We have 1600 MB total web space for out stuff, including binary and source packages, wiki and the forum. Right now we are at 1214 MB and we still need to build lot of packages.