Usage

Xvesa

Running startx from the LiveCD will run a script asking for your X config parameters. jwm and icewm are installed by default. Only PS/2 and Serial (COM1/COM2) mice are supported by default.

After installing to the HDD, startx will automatically save your X configuration choices in /etc/Xconfig. If you need to adjust your configuration, edit that file; you can also delete the file entirely and re-run startx to generate a new config. Running NOSAVEX=true startx will run the script without saving your chosen config, even on an HDD installation.

Gimp

Gimp wants to load all of its Pattern files into RAM at startup. The version of Gimp shipped with BasicLinux includes 10MB of pattern files. Thus, no system with less than 12MB of RAM stands a chance of running Gimp out of the box.

To remove this requirement, all of the pattern files have been moved onto a disk image. By default, Gimp will see an empty patterns/ directory, and will function within 8MB of RAM. If you have more than 12MB of RAM and want to use patterns in Gimp, you can run:

On a hard drive installation, you could then copy only the patterns you want to ~/.gimp/patterns and unmount the disk image. This would conserve RAM while allowing you to still use the patterns feature.

glibc2 and Opera

BasicLinux documentation indicates that Opera 8 will work with BasicLinux, if you first install the glibc2 packages from Slackware 9. The two library packages are in LiveCD/extras/slackware-9.0.

Opera 8.54 has been found! A mirror of all of the Opera Linux builds for versions 7-9 that I found is included in the repo in /contrib/opera and 8.54 is included on the LiveCD at LiveCD/extra/opera8.tbz

Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate a copy of Opera 8 for Linux. I have included Opera 7.54 instead. It is not yet tested.

If you find Opera 8 for Linux, statically linked for Qt (opera-8.xx-YYYYMMDD-static-qt-i386.tar.gz) please open an Issue and let me know.

See the BasicLinux documentation on-disc (LiveCD/docs) for more info.

Java

JDK 1.1.7 is included in /usr/local/java and the java binary is included in the PATH. This JDK distribution (originating from Slackware 4.0) includes custom wrapper scripts which are not compatible with BusyBox. I have not 'backported' the fixes (commenting out offending lines) to the actual java-1.1.7.tar.gz package included on-disc, so be warned, using that package directly will not work. You may (or probably not) have luck using the included Bash in place of the stock BusyBox shell, or if you've installed to HDD, installing more of the Slackware base system. It's probably better just to inspect the provided `rootfs/usr/local/java/bin/java` and `/usr/local/java/bin/checkVersions` files and apply the changes on a new install.

This should be "backported" into a BL3 .tgz package eventually, see #24