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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> |
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> On Monday 27 May 2013 17:58:35 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> I also have no idea what "small version" means - it's not English, it |
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>> doesn't parse, and it makes no sense. |
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> It is understandable if there is a small version of aterm. Perhaps aterm |
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> Peter |
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I am still not sure if "small" means both small in size and small in |
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features or just small in features. I did not build it both ways and |
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compare, in fact, I built rxvt-unicode and the flag was completely |
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irrelevant. Wasn't having one of my good days evidently. I have built |
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several Gentoo systems over the last few months but they have been |
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gentoo-hardened servers and routers. This is/was my first attempt at a |
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desktop and it is exposing my lack of understanding of X in general. I am |
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one of those people who find that to be a good thing and have learned a lot |
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this week. |
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I believe now that what that flag does is allows you to build a terminal |
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that is small, as in lightweight on resources. You can build it so that it |
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would not read the xdefaults files and run as a very no frills terminal |
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even if you ran an xserver built with all the fixin's. Which is exactly |
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what the description says and caused me to be a bit embarrassed for even |
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have asked. |
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By the way, this install runs great. I have 320GB hard drive on a Dual Core |
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Dell laptop. I'm in the process of putting three seperate installs on it |
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which will be identical except for one will be gentoo-hardened with |
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SELinux, another using RBAC, and then this one as normal install. I believe |
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there are some situation where RBAC has an advantage over SELinux and vice |
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versa. I also want to try and build the RBAC system running LXC with |
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SELinux inside the containers. I believe this is possible and would further |
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isolate the containers from the base system. |
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