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Slax with KDE almost ready

Years ago when I started with Slax I used a compaq notebook for all the development. Recompilation of KDE took about two days, but it was a great platform to test the OS since when Slax was fast enough on it, then it was fast enough everywhere :)

Nowadays I'm developing Slax on my 6-core AMD Phenom computer in vmware. It's much more convenient than to reboot the machine physically 20 times a day. However, it may have drawbacks, as I could see today. I was compiling KDE core components the whole day, putting little pieces of this and that together, to find out what dependencies can be omitted to make KDE desktop as small as possible. After all the work was done (yes it was finished!) I moved all the results to one virtual machine where I store my results, and suddenly the entire vmware crap freezed and (to make the story short) I lost everything. I mean, everything. The vmware disk drive rolled back for some strange reason, losing all recent changes. Silly me, next time I'll keep backups on several places.

Anyway, since all the information was pretty fresh in my head, I could reconstruct it within a hour, and I'm now preparing Slax with KDE desktop for initial testing release. Should be ready tomorrow. There will be no software at all in that release, just the KDE desktop. It seems it will be a bit oversized too, but don't worry, there are always some files which can be removed :)

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