[finnix] Requests

[Leonid Chaichenets]

Hello Brad,

> This is a great piece of software by the way. There's just a few
> things I'd like to request, having to do with the default bashrc.
>
> 1. Add ll as a command. Use "alias ll='ls -l'"
> 2. Use colors with ls. (alias ls="ls --color"). "ls --color" works,
> but color ls is standard among distro's.
>
> I'm sure there are other good defaults, but those are just some that I
> would appreciate.

I would not agree with such defaults. IMHO Finnix should run on minimal
hardware and color terminals are clearly *not* minimal. Of course one
could add a check to .bashrc whether the terminal supports color output
and activate "ls --color" in that case only. This however, would make
FINNIX bigger, slower (bash scripts tend to be rather slow) and more
complicated.

If you really wish to have color output from ls, you can burn your own
version of FINNIX with modified /root/.bashrc quite easily (in fact you
can customize any config file that way). The procedure is described
here:

http://www.finnix.org/Overlays

-- 
Cheers,
Leo.