[project2501] live distribution focused on tiling window managers

lifeafter2am · 2012-05-08 15:42:25

[Project 2501] is a liveUSB distribution I have built using Arch Linux and the archiso scripts. One of the things that makes this distribution a little different is that it focuses on tiling window managers. Included window managers at this point are XMonad (using my config files), vanilla dwm, and subtle. I am not opposed to adding more in the future, so if your daily use tiling window manager isn’t on the list, let me know and I’ll do my best to get it on there. Also if someone wants to help me out with making dwm and subtle not vanilla, let me know. I just don't know enough about them to do anything other than install them (I know dwm might be more of a pain, but I am not opposed to including one with some most used patches or something).

The distribution itself houses packages that I use on a daily (or close to daily) basis. So at least in the beginning this is mostly going to be based on what I want on it. Feel free to suggest other software, but I am trying to keep this as light as possible. If you would like to see a partial package list, click here. The setup itself is very console based, with most of the programs I use being in the console. To improve memory requirements I am running urxvtd. All things considered it is not hard to keep total memory footprint under 1GB, even running a heavy browser session.

As of right now there is only a 32bit version of the distribution. I run multiple machines and need to be able to launch this anywhere, so 32bit was the obvious choice since 64bit machines can still use it. I am probably going to do a dual architecture at some point, just not with this first release.

A big thanks goes out to everyone that makes Arch Linux possible, and to pbrisbin for helping me with all things Haskell related!

github page
download page with instructions

theGunslinger · 2012-05-08 19:02:35

I'd say replace both chromium and firefox with something lightweight like dwb or luakit, also you could add basic multimedia support with mplayer and mpd(maybe even cmus that needs no configuration or frontends). I've also noticed that you didn't include a file manager, I suggest ranger with the addition of mimi so you could get ranger to open files with the applications you've selected. You could think of something to handle device mounting.
All in all, it's a good project. I'd like being able to try a fully set up Xmonad or dwm desktop (I'm an awesomeWM user) so I'll be keeping an eye out for this one.

lifeafter2am · 2012-05-08 19:09:23

Unless I screwed up mplayer and mpd should both be on there. I can add in cmus, its small enough that it doesn't bother me to add it. I am pretty against using a file-manager, so I would have to be greatly convinced of the need for one.

I will also add dwb to the list, but I'm not taking out the other two. I use them both for different reasons on a daily basis, so they need to stay.

Thanks for checking it out!

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#1 2012-05-08 15:42:25

[project2501] live distribution focused on tiling window managers

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