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by machinebacon » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:29 am
Hi Earthapple,
killX is indeed not gentle and not 'user-friendly' like the APT-based distros, or anything that makes a dependency resolution for you. It's basically a gentoo in Slack (not Arch, but I will make pacman-g2 from Frugalware work for it in the next version). The aim is NOT to use X, ever, and to do 90% of your tasks in the tty (the remaining 10% for watching Flash videos - won't work). Git-based, because there are several tools that get packages from git(hub) directly from the developers, and not patched/branded versions like in other distros. The "package managers" are there to make possible upgrades of the base stuff easier, for this I have picked slackware's pkgtools, but actually it is not needed to 'dist-upgrade´ for a while. killX is very much in alpha, and probably will always stay there. It's something to teach the user how comfortable life actually is in all those comfort-zone distros, and it also shows how damned stable stuff in Debian's Sid-country is, even with experimentals enabled.
It is not for beginners, and surely not for fanbois, and there are many source-based distros that are better (gentoo, funtoo, the source-mage derivatives, Void, ...). Before somebody goes through LFS, though, he or she can try killX which takes away the hours setting up a broken base system.
If you enable GPM, you can switch to tty2 and tty3 for real terminal-window-managers (Twin, Viper), so click-and-point is possible.
..gnutella..