Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:32 am
Sounds a bit too sensational. Deans fiddling around with live images and custom builds led to the start of refracta, snapshot, and installer, but it was always more of a whim and changed as my whims did (which is many as nadir can testify) until fsr came along. With fsr came a game plan, good code, listening to others, others getting involved, etc... In other words it was my play toy until fsr made it a respectable project that had some focus, direction, openness, and so forth.
Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:36 am
Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:10 pm
fsmithred wrote:Refracta uses debian repositories for all except for a few things. (yad, deadbeef and a few bash scripts.)
You can update the installer and snapshot easily from gitub. From within a running instance of refracta -
Open a terminal and issue the following commands:
- Code:
cd ../github/refracta
git pull origin master
dpkg -i whatever.deb (Don't do *.deb or you'll be trying to install multiple versions of the same package.)
Wed Feb 13, 2013 3:27 pm
Wed Feb 13, 2013 6:29 pm
and I agree live-helper is (or was) a pain in the ass if using it with anything but pure debian stable. Of course some of that has gotten easier nowadays as well. But I have no doubt that someone that knows live-helper inside and out could make it seem like the easiest tool on earth no matter what they were trying to do.nadir wrote:meandean: i only spoke about live-helper as a tool to create a snapshot with bootstrap copy, not about the other things it does.
and just a little boring although thats probably a good thing...just not always my cup of teaI fully agree that it became more organized with fsmithred.
my biggest fanboiAbove i said: words don't suffice. To that i still stand.
Now that would of been boring. Yea, but now we can make up anything we want and swear it is true.If (!) meandean wouldn't have removed forums and mailing lists and such all the time, we would have a better understanding of that history ....
But now you use that lame ass xfceTo me the actual layout never mattered much (be it gnome, be it icewm, be it e17, be it whatever).
Well low on resources anyway. The only tool I need is the terminal...although a browser, editor, and music player is good to have by default also.It was low on resources with some good tools.
Amen! I think that is the best goal a debian based distro can have.Close enough to Debian to not make things worse (like many Debian based distros are, where you first have to remove all the amazing ideas to make it usable again).
Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:21 pm
meandean wrote:Amen! I think that is the best goal a debian based distro can have.nadir wrote:Close enough to Debian to not make things worse (like many Debian based distros are, where you first have to remove all the amazing ideas to make it usable again).
Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:05 pm
Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:52 pm
Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:33 am
size must *be* compatible with media limitations
cryptsetup curl htop ddrescue dosfstools ethtool fdupes fuse-utils
grub-doctor hardinfo hddtemp hdparm hwinfo iftop irssi lm-sensors
lshw lvm2 ntfs-3g ntfsprogs openssh-server p7zip-full partimage
pppconfig pppoeconf ps_mem.py read-edid rsync sdparm smartmontools
squashfs-tools sshfs sysv-rc-conf testdisk unzip w3m whois zenmap zsync
Thu Feb 14, 2013 1:45 am
fsmithred wrote:size must *be* compatible with media limitations
fsmithred wrote:Here's a list of some of the tools. From the release notes, but reformatted to take up less space (and alphabetized.) It probably doesn't belong on the page you're writing, but there might be a place for it.
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cryptsetup curl htop ddrescue dosfstools ethtool fdupes fuse-utils
grub-doctor hardinfo hddtemp hdparm hwinfo iftop irssi lm-sensors
lshw lvm2 ntfs-3g ntfsprogs openssh-server p7zip-full partimage
pppconfig pppoeconf ps_mem.py read-edid rsync sdparm smartmontools
squashfs-tools sshfs sysv-rc-conf testdisk unzip w3m whois zenmap zsync