Forward From DistroWatch Review

Forward From DistroWatch Review

[bougyman]

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From: Dave Bechtel <kingn...@gmail.com>

Hi - I am interested in your distro, especially since you are keeping away 
from systemd. I visited the void webpage and was unable to find a "Contact 
us" section; I got your email from your post on DW.

1. Can you please add a "Contact Us" section on the Void homepage ?

2. How can I help?? :-)


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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[bougyman]

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Dave: 

Moved this thread here to get more input from the community. A great place 
to start would be contributing end-user documentation to the Wiki 
at https://github.com/voidlinux/documentation/wiki.

Some High-Level thoughts:

* Networking
* Getting Desktop Environment Up
* thorough xbps-query examples

Would be good starts.
 
On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 3:33:43 PM UTC-5, bougyman wrote:
>
> From: Dave Bechtel 
>
> Hi - I am interested in your distro, especially since you are keeping away 
> from systemd. I visited the void webpage and was unable to find a "Contact 
> us" section; I got your email from your post on DW.
>
> 1. Can you please add a "Contact Us" section on the Void homepage ?
>
> 2. How can I help?? :-)
> 
>

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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Juan RP]

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I'm not sure why I'm being excluded... while I'm the owner/main developer 
of xbps/xbps-src/void-packages.

Anyway, what bougyman said is perfectly ok. Contributing to the wiki, 
void-packages or even donations is
always welcome.

Cheers

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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Juan RP]

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Meanwhile I'm making new x86 live images that should fix some issues:

- No monospace font (ugly font in graphical terminal emulators)
- kvm unknown group

So far those are the only issues I've read on the distrowatch review 
comments.

Note that there's still a regression in xorg-server-1.17 or qemu that makes 
the mouse pointer not visible.

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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Christian Neukirchen]

Juan RP <xtr...@gmail.com> writes:

> Meanwhile I'm making new x86 live images that should fix some issues:
>
> - No monospace font (ugly font in graphical terminal emulators)
> - kvm unknown group
>
> So far those are the only issues I've read on the distrowatch review 
> comments.
>
> Note that there's still a regression in xorg-server-1.17 or qemu that makes 
> the mouse pointer not visible.

You can use "-vga vmware -usbdevice tablet" for the meantime.

-- 
Christian Neukirchen  <chneuk...@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org

Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[JD Robinson]

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I noticed some issues with fonts overlapping during terminal imulation and had to switch over to a monospace font to remedy readability. Not sure if this persisted thereafter, I found myself downloading fonts and icon sets and pretty quickly and haven't had a problem since.

Initial booting looked fine, still does.

Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Juan RP]

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Dear JD Robinson,

I fixed this issue as of yesterday, x86 live images starting from 20150408 
now contain a monospace font to remedy this (terminus-font and 
font-misc-misc).

Yours truly.


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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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I have added a quickstart-article in the wiki, explaining the steps to get 
from a freshly installed base system to Xorg with XFCE and LightDM without 
going too much into the details. Basically most of the information was 
already present in the wiki but maybe this will help new users to easier 
overcome the initial problems in the future.

Please feel free to complement what I forgot :)

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Re: Forward From DistroWatch Review

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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And this <https://github.com/voidlinux/documentation/wiki/Quickstart> is 
the link :)

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