Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:51 am
Mon Mar 19, 2012 2:45 pm
Wed Mar 21, 2012 10:09 am
Yes, it looks like he's just squashing the filesystem. To restore/install, filesystem.squashfs (or whatever filename is used for $BackupImage) gets loop mounted and copied with rsync rather than unsquashed.
https://github.com/SalineOS/SalineOS/bl ... eos-backup
I ran Refracta snapshot on an early solusos version and did the restore with solusos's installer.I tried refractasnapshot with fedora once, and it failed because some of the system commands had different names.
2. It is based on Debian stable and therefore is very stable, but Ikey himself backports software to it so they have firefox and thunderbird 10.0.2, Libre Office 5, VLC 2.0, etc. Recently, non LTS (for both Ubuntu and Mint) releases have been sort of less-stable - 11.04 brought unity and 11 was a tiny bit buggy because 11.04 was buggy, and 11.10 was less buggy, although unity still wasn't great, and 12 was buggy because of gnome 3. Mint could do a similar thing to the LTS releases that Ikey is doing to debian stable. It could even make an LMDE based on Debian stable which does this.
Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:12 am
Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:57 pm
Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:06 am
I have an unusually wide all round view computers and the use they can be put to , I was taught by a friend to design screen forms etc for a relational database written in Sculptor in the dos days and then partly rewritten in VB 4 but I would never want to rely business wise on code I have writtenI'm pretty sure it's not way over your head - you just don't know the terms.
To which he replied in a heated manner that game designers are right at the top of the tree with programming.They can do it in a game why not in top end commercial software
Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:52 pm
Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:59 pm
SolusOS looks like a great OS, but I can come up with several reasons why it won't get used as the base for Refracta:
- Won't fit on CD.
- Uses more than 100mb ram for the desktop. (ps_mem.py showed ~160mb after login)
- Bunch of command-line programs in Refracta are missing in Solus. (e.g. lots of diagnostic and recovery software and some network apps.)
- Bunch of extra stuff in Solus that isn't in Refracta. (e.g. all the recommended packages)
- Wrong desktop environment. We're using xfce now. There might be a gnome version at some point, but if there is, it'll be a much leaner desktop than what Solus has.
Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:33 pm
ukbrian wrote:....do a LXDE version for this thing http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
I think Ikey is capable of porting Debian to it
Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:31 pm
ukbrian wrote:Is this what Anthony has done on SalineOS with his backup program ....