EDE alternative?

Post#1 by **n0ctilucient** » 20 May 2018, 15:44

XFast is a fast ultra lightweight xlib based EDE (desktop environment) alternative...
(It's basically a desktop environment that does not use a Mesa dependent toolkit)

Site is...
@ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/?source=navbar
Source is...
@ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/files/xfast/0.9/

This package has not been adopted yet by ("slackonly" or)...
https://slakfinder.org
https://slackbuilds.org
https://pkgs.org

So far... I have not been able to successfully compile
this package with the following src2pkg conf...
see... Src2pkg.conf w/ "hardened" EXTRA_FLAGS

Thanx... in advance to anyone that is interested in sharing their precompiled package link.

Post#2 by **wread** » 21 May 2018, 13:21

Hi, David!
Hmm.....interesting.... I will give it a try!
Seems to be a bug in the sources, I'll see if can find it!

Regards!

Post#3 by **n0ctilucient** » 21 May 2018, 15:03

If I were a gambling man, my money would be on you...

If you can fix the source code (tar) can you post a copy so I can compile
the source w/ optimization and security hardening using src2pkg?

It's written in C so it's vulnerable to ret2libc exploits.

Post#4 by **wread** » 07 Oct 2018, 00:33

Excuse me David, but I thought I had already answered this question!
The author should update the file "images_png.c" to fit the new version of libpng.so.15, I think. I guess there are more errors of this type...

See if you can contact him!

Regards!

Post#5 by **n0ctilucient** » 09 Oct 2018, 07:10

I think you are right. I will try to reach out to the maintainer.

Post#6 by **n0ctilucient** » 09 Oct 2018, 07:16

Site is...
@ https://archive.is/20121225153702/http: ... forge.net/

Post#7 by **wread** » 09 Oct 2018, 21:13

Thereis no code at the indicated repo...

root@porteus:~# svn co https://xfast.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xfast xfast
svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://xfast.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xfast'
svn: E160013: '/svnroot/xfast' path not found
root@porteus:~#

Hmm...

Post#8 by **n0ctilucient** » 10 Oct 2018, 19:00

**typo... " Revision (writing) "
(first thread post is censored)

The XFast environment seems like Joe's Window Manager w/out Mesa (eg. unsecure... glibc/Gtk bloated "eyecandy" dependency hell).

Snapshot:

Projectpage:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/

Source:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xfast/files/xfast/0.9/

Post#9 by **n0ctilucient** » 11 Oct 2018, 18:17

@ wread... this alternative has me stumped. If I could get this one done my derivative would be ready for prime-time.
see... Slim alternative?

Post#10 by **wread** » 12 Oct 2018, 02:14

No way, David!
The sources are too old to be compiled with Porteus 4.0!

Sorry!

Post#11 by **n0ctilucient** » 13 Oct 2018, 13:24

Yep... the source looks orphaned.

I compiled 90% but I could not close the deal.