Unofficial Debian+XFCE build

[Rick Evans]

If I were all-powerful and could change anything about this wildly
unofficial build:

1.  wpasupplicant is a useful package. It took me a while to install and
configure it.

2.  I had an issue with timestamps when trying to use sudo on the first few
boots.  I left
the machine overnight, and it fixed itself.  Probably my own fault for using
a WinXP
machine to copy the files onto the USB drive.

3.  Without sudo, I couldn't do much else.  I tried to change the root
passwd, but that
required sudo, and...

4.  XMMS was set to use an OSS output device, instead of ALSA.  Easy fix.

5.  I made a script to use wpa-supplicant.  A sample would have cut a few
minutes
from my fumbling.  I didn't get wifi-radar to work at all, but I've never
used it before, so
that's probably a training issue.

I think that's the entire list of gripes and complaints from about 6 hours
of using it.

In the blue-sky dreaming category:  It would be nice to have this on a USB
stick or
SD card instead of the NAND.  I don't care about 'wearing out' the NAND, I'd
just like
to be able to use stable/testing builds of the 'real' XO s/w by default, and
insert a
removable device to use Debian.  I think the USB ports would tolerate the
most
insertion cycles.  Either would be fun.

Rick
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