Suggestions

[brokenman]

Please place suggestions for implementation here.

I am going to create a firstrun wizard now. The wizard will handle keyboard layout, locales, time etc.
Do you think this should be presented in 'dialog' (the blue screen menu) or just simple bash script?

[tome]

It could be choice for both like in usm(gui), but I think "dialog" could be better for newcomers.

[brokenman]

Thanks for the input Tome. Once work on 002 begins I will create a GUI for the scripts. For now just working on text based. I'll go with dialog as per your suggestion.

Do you think that having the firstrun wizard available in say 8 languages would be beneficial? If so what should those languages be?

[francois]

US, spanish, french, german, russian, polish, chineese, japaneese

[brokenman]

english is default so perhaps add italian in its place?

I'll check out the top 8 used languages.

[tome]

8 languages is enough, I think everyone who want to see or know Linux can understand simple English, but it could be some country specific exceptions ("Russian area"?). If not the best "language" are pictures.

[Blaze]

can understand simple English, but it could be some country specific exceptions ("Russian area"?). If not the best "language" are pictures.

In some ways I agree with you. Don't forget about Russian translation

[brokenman]

@blue4meridian
busybox applets for these packages doesn't really save a lot of space after the packages are stripped. Plus some applets such as grep and sed which are heavily used in scripts are not full versions. They lack a lot of the commands that the full package has.

Ok, I will work on adding translations for the initial setup. Hope you guys can translate the wizard scripts into your languages.

[francois]

@blue:
Package managing under arch is really simple, once you get to know it, you can really add whatever you want.

[francois]

Suggestion:
- Is it possible to ask for the folder where to download the modules and have /tmp as default. In text mode this would be handy?
- please insert /modules and /optional empty folders in porteus

Thanks.

[brokenman]

Yes I can add this to the config/modules files. Thanks.

[ncmprhnsbl]

suggestion
pman
if there is more than one package being used, have choice of one merged module or single xzms..

[brokenman]

if there is more than one package being used, have choice of one merged module or single xzms..

I somehow knew this one would be coming. Working on it now. Thanks.

[tome]

@Blaze

@all
have choice of compression method for pman?

[brokenman]

Do you mean a choice between xz, lzo, lzma, gzip etc?