Comments on: Mingetty and dash http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40279 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:11:26 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40279 Look into DirectFB…

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40278 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:52:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40278 I agree. If you need ideas for framebuffer replacements, there are lots of great applications out there.

]]> By: damaged justice http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40277 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:13:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40277 X has officially jumped the shark, and I’ve jumped ship, at least on my oldest monitor. I won’t bore you with the details, but I spent all day being buggered by the technofetishists who develop that piece of crap. I’m not bending over any more for it. If it won’t work properly with a minimum of fuss, it’s no use to me.

]]> By: yasen http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40275 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:12:38 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40275 For a _very_ lightweight getty, try ngetty:
http://riemann.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/ngetty/
It can run all 6 (or however many you prefer) getty-s in one process, and when built against dietlibc its memory footprint is almost nonexistent :)

dash is primarily intended as a shell for running shell scripts and not daily usage as far as I know. Living without all of bash’s goodness is going to be a chore. Minimalism is great, but you shouldn’t sacrifice (needed, useful, i-almost-can’t-imagine-how-i-would-live-without-that) functionality in order to obtain it.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40274 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:43:02 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40274 That was my understanding too, which is why I picked dash instead. I hear a lot of Arch users love zsh though. I might check it out for use on other machines.

]]> By: saniette http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40272 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:48:10 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40272 Some of your problems with dash could be solved using rlwrap[1].
Would cost some extra memory, though.
Another very minimal shell is heirloom sh[2].
pdksh, mksh and the like should also be slightly lighter than
bash while having most of its features.

[1] http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/
[2] http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html

]]> By: Greg http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40271 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:17:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40271 I’m prett sure zsh is heavier than bash, not lighter.

]]> By: juandiego http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40270 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:14:55 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40270 have you tried zsh as shell replacement?

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40269 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:04:18 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mingetty-and-dash/#comment-40269 Dang, you beat me to it! :mrgreen: I was going to suggest that myself, and blog about it!

Eh, great minds think alike and all that, I guess. ;)

Btw, since you’ve mentioned before that you don’t like being forced to use HAL with the newer Xorgs, I thought I’d point out this (long and thorough) discussion by folk who know about 1,000,000x more about it than I do:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515214

I still don’t like how packaging forces me to use HAL by default, but maybe it’s helpful overall. Hmm…well, food for thought for everyone.

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