On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2013 17:58:35 Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>> I also have no idea what "small version" means - it's not English, it
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>> doesn't parse, and it makes no sense.
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> It is understandable if there is a small version of aterm. Perhaps aterm
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I am still not sure if "small" means both small in size and small in features or just small in features. I did not build it both ways and compare, in fact, I built rxvt-unicode and the flag was completely irrelevant. Wasn't having one of my good days evidently. I have built several Gentoo systems over the last few months but they have been gentoo-hardened servers and routers. This is/was my first attempt at a desktop and it is exposing my lack of understanding of X in general. I am one of those people who find that to be a good thing and have learned a lot this week.

I believe now that what that flag does is allows you to build a terminal that is small, as in lightweight on resources. You can build it so that it would not read the xdefaults files and run as a very no frills terminal even if you ran an xserver built with all the fixin's. Which is exactly what the description says and caused me to be a bit embarrassed for even have asked.

By the way, this install runs great. I have 320GB hard drive on a Dual Core Dell laptop. I'm in the process of putting three seperate installs on it which will be identical except for one will be gentoo-hardened with SELinux, another using RBAC, and then this one as normal install. I believe there are some situation where RBAC has an advantage over SELinux and vice versa. I also want to try and build the RBAC system running LXC with SELinux inside the containers. I believe this is possible and would further isolate the containers from the base system.


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