cs.edu Slax Live 0.1 Alpha review
Downloadcs.edu Slax Live is a LiveCD for Computer Science Students. The cs.edu edition of the Slax aims at providing the richness of GNU/L
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cs.edu Slax Live is a LiveCD for Computer Science Students.
The cs.edu edition of the Slax aims at providing the richness of GNU/Linux as a development environment to computer science students. The 650 MB of this CD are packed with programming tools and reference documentation. This distribution also tries to remain true to the Slackware tradition of simplicity.
Included Software:
Compilers and interpreters for numerous programming languages: Ada, C/C++/ObjC/C#, Eiffel, Fortran, Haskell, Icon, Java, Lisp, OCaml, PHP, Perl, Prolog, Python, Ruby, Scheme, SmallTalk, Tcl/Tk, ...
Development tools including make, autoconf, automake, arch, cvs, flex and bison, antlr, gdb, ddd, valgrind, ...
The teTeX distribution.
Browsable documentation for these, plus for several document formats (about 800 MB of documentation).
GNU/Emacs with several modes: auctex, jdee and tuareg.
A minimalist server configuration including apache and mysql.
Enlightenment as the window manager.
A few useful applications including gimp and mozilla.
What's New in This Release:
added software, see complete list in installed_packages.txt
added `nodma' option to handle buggy DMA hardware
added `kbd=' option to set keyboard layout
set 'imps/2' as the default mouse protocol
set 'vga=773' as the default console text mode
changed default refresh rates
changed /etc/inittab to boot at runlevel 4 by default
changed /etc/rc.d/rc.4 to handle Xorg auto-configuration
added /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.guest as the root and slax xinitrc
changed /etc/rc.d/rc.slax to handle random password generation
added /sbin/slaxpasswd and a patched makepasswd
changed /etc/sudoers, /etc/suauth, /etc/login.access
changed /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd to generate apache configuration
added /etc/apache/httpd.conf.bsm and /bin/bashmod for this
changed /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld to generate mysql table and random password
changed /etc/profile and /etc/skel
modified portions of /usr/bin/xconf
added /etc/zprofile, /etc/zshrc
changed DHCP client configuration
added /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall
configured some /etc/X11/apps-default/*
changed mozilla's default configuration in /usr/lib/mozilla/default
added AdBlock and Themer mozilla's extensions
configured swaret
configured gpg with the Slackware security key and my key
put a 2.4.28-rc1 linux kernel
added a hell of a lot of documentation, see /usr/doc and /usr/doc/languages
added an ugly wallpaper
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