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Slax with Xorg

During the last few days I was also working on Xorg integration. My plan was to include fluxbox in the xorg bundle as well so it would provide somehow useful desktop even without KDE, but fluxbox has big dependencies and is not nice looking at all.

So I tested blackbox. I was very skeptic about it, because it is 7 years old and as far as I saw it years ago it somehow didn't work, but to my surprise, it looks almost the same like fluxbox, it is only 200KB in size and it requires NOTHING special. So blackbox will be included in Slax's xorg bundle as a default desktop (or should I say, window manager?).

That's of course just the xorg-related Slax bundle. Final Slax will have much more enhanced desktop, such as KDE. I'll prepare a download for testing for all of you impatient. I'll probably include FireFox browser with dependencies as another bundle, so you can actually (for the first time) use Slax 7 for real browsing. I think I could actually stop the development here. Who needs anything else than internet browsing nowadays? Just a joke! ;-)

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