Re: Simply GNUstep Feedback

[Dennis Leeuw]

Yep, I did once and that did go Okay. But that was about a year ago.

Dennis

cehardin@mac.com wrote:

> Have anyone successfully built GNUstep in /   (as opposed to
> /opt/GNUstep, /usr/GNUstep, etc)?  I want to do this but want to see
> what problems people have had before hand.
>
> Chad
>
> > Howdy.
> >
> > I grabbed your "Simply GNUstep" ISO.  Let me first state that for
> > awhile now I have thought a GNUstep-based distribution would be nice.
> >
> > However, I have a slight problem or two with the way you're doing it.
> > So if I may, I'd like to give you some constructive criticism.
> >
> > Mistake number one: vesafb.  I'm lucky enough to own an Athlon, but
> > vesafb is intolerably slow on many systems.  If I were to run it on the
> > Celeron down the hall, I don't think it'd be too zippy.  I know this
> > from experience, having written some framebuffer code.
> >
> > The framebuffer in general is also slow for X, as the "fbdev" module
> > for XFree86 is unaccelerated for all video cards.  But I'm sure I don't
> > have to tell you this.
> >
> > My second grievance: you put GNUstep in /opt/GNUstep.  In my humble
> > opinion, if one is truly dedicated to GNUstep as you say you are, they
> > would install it to / instead.  You cite Mac OS X as an inspiration, so
> > witness the fact that in OS X, there is a /System, and not
> > /opt/MacOS/System, or even /MacOS/System.  Therefore I think GNUstep
> > should be installed in not /opt/GNUstep, not /GNUstep, but right at the
> > root level.
> >
> > I'll assume also that you are at some point going to have a login
> > system, so I'll keep quiet about the fact that everyone is root for
> > now.  :-)  A few of the icons in the dock are broken (ENOENT upon
> > doubleclick).  But I'll assume you're aware of that one too.
> >
> > And lastly, something that's probably too late to change now: I
> > wouldn't have used Linux as a base.  Why?  Because it's sloppy and
> > disorganized, with a million and one decentralized packages to keep
> > tabs on.  I would have taken an existing base, notably OpenBSD.  Why
> > OpenBSD?  Because it's light, it's simple, it's complete, it's free,
> > and it's all in one piece.  You could have a working, lightweight
> > "GNUstep system" without even editing the default install very much.
> > It could save you a lot of work.  And I do mean a lot.
> >
> > Overall, though, very cool.  One last question, though.  Where's the
> > source?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
>
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