…and life’s hard

It does work! but that’s about it. There are two major problems:

a) the .iso ist too big! The very first version was 1.1 gigs so I started removing…now it’s a lot smaller but still too big to fit on a 700MB disk: 860MB. The way I see it the problem is the mixture of E17 and gnome, which makes geubuntu quite confortable but quite large as well so you can’t add too much software.

I found a solution though (at least I hope I did): starting all over again with either LFS (linux from scratch), puppy or DL. My personal favorite right now is dremlinux for it comes with a huge repository – it is based on Debian, Knoppix, Morphix and Elive. Of course I could use Morphix all by itself…well…

Furthermore it comes with Xcfe and Engage-dock, which is again fast and beautifull

b) hosting of large files tends to be either complicated or expensive. Since I’m a student – meaning that I do not have a lot of money – it is complicated. Very complicated. Homepage and that stuff is much easier. I’ll have this blog here, a wiki and forum at wikidot and that was it. Actually I allready have the wiki but didn’t have the time to do anything with it. Not yet.

So guys…wish me the best!

thanks

Martin

The first sign of life

Today I finished my very first version of scrivlin, the scrivener’s Linux and this is the very first sign of life! Right now, only a few centimetres away from me the final steps of scrivlin 1.0 are being taken: burning my very own Linux LiveCD! (And I’m not at all talking about a NimbleX LiveCD…)

I’m still thinking about infrastructure and such things. Where do I publish it? Where can I publish it? Should I include a forum for linux-novel-writer’s? All this kind of stuff, you know?

Anyway: I’m very proud of myself right now. I’ll keep you guys up on when, how and where scrivlin will see the light of internet…