[RULE] kdrive, its appeal

M. Fioretti m.fioretti at inwind.it
Sat Oct 11 05:35:33 EEST 2003


On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 11:10:27 at 11:10:27AM +0300, Kweskin Richard  rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr  wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> Having read Marco's input on gnu/linux user's reaction to Michael's
> packaging kdrive,
> 
> 	http://www.rule-project.org/en/news/state_of_the_rule_200310.php
> 
> it confirms my own feeling and enthusiasm. I have been running it on
> my daily box since rh 8 and now use the "souped up" version with xkb
> compiled in, TinyX-4.3.0-6RULE, that enables the creation of Greek
> characters (this was my choice of an additional character set but of
> course xkb allows for many possible character sets) and it works
> very well. Has anyone else used this with another character set?
> 

No, but you just volunteered to rewrite/extend/increase all the (very
little) kdrive documentation we have on the website, didn't you? :-)

Seriously now:

might we prevail on you to download the source text of the kdrive page
and give it the radical rewrite/update it richly deserves, including
xkb and if possible some snapshots and performance data (like "top"
output showing memory consumption). You *are* probably the one that has
done the most real life testing of RULE+kdrive+xkb, and with a non
ASCII alphabet.

In my dreams, the new page should:

put in one and only one section all the information which is not more
needed for current Red Hat / RULE end users, but still useful for who
wants to build kdrive from scratch for Red Hat or other distros

have a separate section for post install configuration, possibly the
start of a database (=plain text list, don't worry) with startx
scripts with card specific settings

what else? Please everybody contribute!

Thanks in advance to Richard, if he has the time of course (and
confirmation of the invitation to enjoy an italian dinner whenever he
steps by my place in Rome!)

Ciao,
	Marco Fioretti


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