Fw: [Rule-list] web space for database

Gordon Buzowetsky idesofmarch at sk.sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 21 22:11:07 EET 2002


> >
> > The kind of application you were talking about, an online RULE
> > configurator, would be easy to build and use. Users can select RULE
> > approved apps that have been tested to run on a machine similar to
> > theirs and then output the package files to a web page where a user
> > could save them or cut and paste them.

This sounds like a great plan....kinda pick what suits....!!!

> > I compiled the blackboxwm on my Red Hat machine and ran it. Very
> > minimal and very fast. I haven't yet tested it on a 486.

I have; in a past life..;)) distro that is....I goes real good on the
486's too...


> >
> > Next topic - using Midnight Commander as a menu. As well as being
> > a file manager mc is an ftp interface and a text editor. Has anyone
> > set it up as a menu? There is an F2 user menu. Anyone use this?
> > Also a menu subdirectory could be created with scripts to start the
> > RULE apps. Any other ideas? Does anyone have other suggestions
> > for a text menuing system for non graphical RULE installs?

Again...in a past life.........that works really good.  You just add the
scripts to do whatever you need. As in untarring...installing
rpms....tarring....Before I learned the actual commandline stuff, I relied
very heavily on that F2 in mc.  This was used originally (where I first
seen it) in Kent Robotti's Doslinux now Looplnx....a Slack deriviative. 
Also to be found in Peanut and Vectorlinux....I think Robotti still has
kind of an upgrade w/scripts that you addon to an existing mc
install....don't have a link...but a search for Looplnx will unearth it
real quick.

Later..G
> >

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