Even then, it is not much more newbie-friendly than the linux terminal. You are expected to run "startx" to start ratpoison itself. There is no graphical login screen, when you login, you enter the linux terminal. In order to use the non-PAE, i486 kernel, you'll have to input "huge.s" in the initial prompt you get as soon as the installation medium is booted.Ī word of warning: this is not your average newbie-friendly distribution. With this release, a non-PAE, i486 kernel has be included as well as the i686 PAE kernel included in our Xfce and KDE editions. By the way, reposetup is also available to users of all our other editions as well, as long as you have kept up with package upgrades. It is recommended that everyone runs this tool after installation, as the repository mirror that is included by default might not be the fastest for everyone. You can find it in the System section of the ratmenu and it will allow you to easily configure the package manager with a repository mirror that is fast for you. Otherwise, it's mostly the same applications that were included in previous Ratpoison releases.Ī new system configuration tool has been included in this release for the first time reposetup. Also, Alpine has replaced Mutt as the default mail application, as it is a lot easier to setup than the latter. Pidgin has been replaced by a combination of the popular IRSSI IRC client and the MCabber Jabber client.
Also the SC spreadsheet is available from the ratmenu as well. This time we have included Wordgrinder, a word processor that has minimal features but as a command line application, it can be used only with the keyboard. In terms of bundled applications, some things changed.
Just when everyone thought that we have probably abandoned it, here's an update on our Ratpoison edition! This is a beta release for 14.0.1 and as our previous Ratpoison releases, it is intended to be used without a mouse at all!
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