Thinstation = CRUX + IceWM!

[Dapper Dan]

I was checking out DistroWatch when I came across Thinstation, a CRUX based thin client with IceWM, a favourite combo I've used for many years! This one, I have to check out. I will report back with my impressions.

[Dapper Dan]

A very interesting distro and not at all like the CRUX I know, not that that is necessarily a bad thing. This distro starts with an install live CD and you build from there. The install is straight forward and easy to understand, though non-Linux users may have a more difficult time of it. There is no ports system I can detect nor prt-get for source package management. I'm not sure how, or even if you can install other packages but the base install is all done with git. It took a little massaging to get it up and running in a virtual machine but here it is:



I'll tinker with it a bit to see what's what and report back if anyone is following.

[jayd512]

Looking at their packages index, it seems like they use tarballs. Though nothing seems to have been added yet for this version.
Even then, the picking looked a little slim. But if they're just using .tar.gz files, it should be a fairly straight-forward process.

[Dapper Dan]

The keymap is all screwed up. I know I chose the correct one during installation but can't navigate as forward slash comes out as an exclamation point and several letters on the left side are mixed up. I may re-install again to see but for now, it looks like I'm dead in the water as far as exploration goes...