sizeak

LOL, its 7:24am, I haven't yet been to sleep as I've been doing assignments all night that have to be handed in at 10am, and I'm still not done !!!!

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SilentPixel

only problem with conky is the config, we'd have to write a script that could detect whether the cpu is a uni, dual or quad and write the cpu graphs accordingly... which may be a problem. Fairly easy to do though,
code is not my own, I found it after googling

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MetalheadGautham

Can we start a new thread for OCNix conky configuration ? That itself is a huge task compared to the rest of the system because its the primary monitoring unit of the OS.

It can also be helpful to the linux user community in general because its every conky user's dream to have the perfect conky for their desktop

@sPOON: put your stuff into a thread please

SilentPixel

I agree that the conky config will pose a problem as most people will have to agree on a design, but the design will differ from person to person as one person may not like the design, in which case maybe we could have 2 or 3 pre-defined designs and then the person could "choose" a theme for conky that they like. Should be easy enough to do as we could store the configs somewhere in /usr/local and then just swap the config out with the one they choose.

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xtascox

Yes let's include a few configurations. We could always incorporate a script into the live cd that will run with the window manager startup and will give the user a choice of which conky configuration to use.

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version2

We may want to have some sort of script that will install "restricted" nvidia or ati drivers so that the Phoronix Test Suite will run properly.

xtascox

Good point there.

So we would need to have the ati and nvidia drivers pre built and on the live cd, then possibly give the user a choice in the startup scripts before the window manager loads.

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sizeak

We could do all of this with a few lines of C code. Write a small app and add it to rc.conf so it runs at startup

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SilentPixel

Distro may need to be updated for each driver release, although we could write a script and automate the whole process... thus allowing us to run it overnight.

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How many architecture types are we going to accommodate?
These are the options:
# CONFIG_M386
# CONFIG_M486
# CONFIG_M586
# CONFIG_M586TSC
# CONFIG_M586MMX
# CONFIG_M686
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMII
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4
# CONFIG_MK6
# CONFIG_MK7
# CONFIG_MK8
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE
# CONFIG_MEFFICEON
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D
# CONFIG_MGEODEGX1
# CONFIG_MGEODE_LX
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII
# CONFIG_MVIAC3_2
# CONFIG_MVIAC7
# CONFIG_MPSC
CONFIG_MCORE2
# CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC

I was thinking one for: (all will have SMP installed, kernel will disable if not usable)
# CONFIG_M686
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMM ( maybe for laptop benchies)
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4
# CONFIG_MK7 (think these are amd chips?)
# CONFIG_MK8 (think these are amd chips?)
CONFIG_MCORE2
# CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU ( for chips not supported by others)
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC ( for chips not supported by others)

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MetalheadGautham

Or, if using LXDE, just add it to the list of session apps to start with a new lxde-session.

So lets name the conky scripts conky1.conf, conky2.conf, etc till conky9.conf.
Conky itself wouldn't be started at startup, nor would other option-needing apps.

The program, perhaps OptionChooser.cc (I <3 C++) can be an interractive text mode app which accepts options after showing previews and then execute conky and other option-based stuff before exiting.

BTW, another thing we need is to specify the no. of threads the CPU is capable of. Linux kernel can be optimised for any no. of threads while compiling. How do we do that ? I know that it can be done in Knoppix (choosing kernel) but I am not so sure about OCNix. Should we have multiple versions which differ only in kernel ? OR should we wait for the real-time kernel-upgrade without reboot feature to make it to the stable kernel ? Looking at the pace we are going, I vote for option #2