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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2015-03-05 15:43, Israel skrev:
> On 03/04/2015 07:15 PM, Ali Linx wrote:
>> Hi Israel,
>>
>> I'm running
>>
>> zsync http://phillw.net/isos/torios/ToriOS-beta.iso.zsync
>>
>> At the moment.
>>
>> Just to double check .. will that give me the 'latest' build of ToriOS
>> instead of downloading the whole thing all over again?
>>
>> Also, I'm wondering if the latest build has the latest bug fixes as well?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> Hi Ali,
> That one is from something around 24 Feb 2015.
> I have not rebuilt it recently.
> I have been working on fixing:
> - issues in jwm-settings-manager (themes... finally found the bug in
> Bassem, and indicators currently)
> - the man pages for a couple of our packages
> - working on OBI, to do a no OEM needed install.
> 
> The OBI stuff is kinda complex, so it might take me a while.... but I
> think it will be extremely helpful to ToriOS (save space by not needing
> oem-config on the tarball), and be a good improvement for Nio's use as well.
> 
> Basically OBI installs the OS.  Then, OBI looks at the installed OS, and
> tries to find the user who is installed.  Then, it will delete the
> installed user (torios in our case).  Then it will prompt for the new
> user Name.  This will in turn start adduser, which will prompt for new
> password, etc..
> Then it will run the timezone select program (tzselect).  This will then
> be exported to the user's profile, and as the system wide default.
> Then we need to figure out how to start the language selection process.
> 
> I also have Sam working on a project to convert a GTK theme into a JWM
> theme.
> I think this will be very cool.  We can then, make a way for the user to
> convert ANY existing GTK theme.  There is a part of the script that I
> needed help with, as I do not program in PERL, nor do I have time (yet)
> to learn it.
> 
> Sorry if this is too much information for one e-mail :)
> 
> 

Hi Israel,

As usual, it is inspiring to read your progress reports :-)

Best regards
Nio