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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2014-12-17 07:03, Israel skrev:
> Hi everyone,
> I have been working on fixing a few of the minor issues in the settings
> manager.  It now is becoming more portable!  It will now use the user's
> $PATH to check for the executables we are looking for.
> I have also looked a little more at some of the sdesk stuff, and have
> been talking with technosaurus (of Puppy fame : ) and may have a working
> battery monitor soon... one that does not require a power manager.  It
> is also written in C and is only a dozen or so KB when compiled.. so
> this will be a huge gain for memory and usability (if all goes well). 
> There is also some preliminary code in there for a wireless applet...
> but I am not working on the program at all right now... just trying to
> understand it so I can use it (and modify it for versions after 12.04
> that do not use /proc/acpi/battery/BATT*  but rather use
> /sys/class/whatever_it_is_i_am_tired)
> It looks promising!
> 
> I still hope to get the ISO released this year :)  But I have been very
> busy in non-digital world... and building the ISO and testing can take a
> lot of time.  I also could not even boot the mini.iso on my old
> computer... which is funny because ToriOS boots just fine.  Not sure why
> mini would have problems... but hurray for ToriOS working well on old
> computers!!!!!!!!!!!
> 

Hi Israel,

Interesting as always to read your progress report :-)

Are you trying to boot the mini.iso from CD or from USB? The 12.04 LTS
mini.iso does not work from USB (but the 14.04 LTS does).

Best regards
Nio