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Comment on Minimalist Ubuntu + XFCE + LXDE by Lane Lester

Lane Lester — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:06:41 +0000

Thanks for reminding me about Aptosid! I have an install of Aptosid/KDE in one of my partitions, and it was a nice KDE experience.

My current favorite is Debian Business Card / SLim / Awesome / PieDock. The last is a cool program-starter that I’ve come to really enjoy.

I’m going to download Aptosid/XFCE and give it a look. Xfe is my file manager of choice with any distro, and Xfw is OK.

Comment on Minimalist Ubuntu + XFCE + LXDE by albanyhaweyes

albanyhaweyes — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:43:21 +0000

Recently came across your blog and really feel your pain. I went through a lot of the same stuff. The bottom line for me with Mint, Ubuntu, etc. is they just load for too much junk for me and it makes it their system and not mine. I played with Crunchbang and PClinux (I am an XFCE guy and had been using Xubuntu and Lubuntu before that) but the load and all the excess was still to much. By chance I read a blog about Aptosid and decided to give it a whirl. I have been absolutely amazed. My overhead is minimal, there is nothing on the machine except what I want on it, the install took 3 minutes to have a working X and it was incredibly easy.

It’s a Sid distro so you do have to take care but I have put it on 3 different machines of varying age with no issues. One is a dual core, one is an Acer Netbook and the last an old 386 machine. They all worked virtually out of the box. The manual is very well written and walks you through about anything you might encounter and with a short tweak or two you can have things the way you want them. A very active community and developers who are in the forum all the time. I really can’t say enough good about it. I would liken it to having an Arch setup with an easy to use graphic install and without the pretentious community. I have been using Linux for about 20 years but am not a guru, this distro just works and is really thought out from a users perspective. Best of all it has ended my distro hopping.

Comment on Best Linux LaTeX editor by Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:48:18 +0000

I used kile with Ubuntu and Fedora and I install with apt-get and yum. In both case the spellchecker works fine (including spanish, in my case, installing the language support, I don’t sure now but I think was aspell).

Comment on Linux Mint Debian: fuck, really? by Marshall Neill

Marshall Neill — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:36:11 +0000

I have been running LMDE for some time now and I really love it. LMDE team has their s**t together. Clement Lefebvre (“clem”, France): Project Leader of the team has to be really commended on the job that the team has accomplished.
To have a really nice login, the 1st thing I do is to install gdm and use that instead of gdm3. Then go to gnome-look.org and search the gdm themes for last sundown. It’s is a great login screen; transparency and all.
I use the liquorix kernel and wow, the system is great.
For some desktop smoothness, try MintyFreshness and Orta. Both I believe are on gnome-look.org. OR – just Google orta and mintyfreshness. Change the default ‘bright grey’ to a more subdued dust color… RGB = 191 186 166 and the highlight RGB = 96 10 10. I think that is a great color combo. I also move the panel to the top and add window list, calendar, logoff and shutdown applets, notification applet and remove the bottom panel (I think that is installed).

Comment on Install Nvidia drivers in Debian Squeeze by 8888

8888 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:23:15 +0000

this procedure requires updating other packages such as libc6.?

Comment on Install Nvidia drivers in Debian Squeeze by 8888

8888 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:22:27 +0000

I wanted to say that if this procedure requires updating other packages such as libc6.

Comment on Install Nvidia drivers in Debian Squeeze by alfredopons

alfredopons — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:15:41 +0000

But, require other packages such as glibc, no?

Comment on Minimalist Ubuntu + XFCE + LXDE by Lane Lester

Lane Lester — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:35:19 +0000

I really like the Minimal CD installs, and enjoyed my Maverick a lot. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the Natty to work, but I forget what it was about my weird system (nVidia chipset, ATA drive for OSes, SATA drive for data) that caused it to gag.

I just installed the Debian Netinstall, which is the same kind of bird, and it works very well. I couldn’t get Cairo Dock to work right, but the XFCE dock is good enough.

I used GDM for the login manager, but next time I’d like to try LXDM.

I can’t tell from googling whether LXDE and XFCE do different things or are just alternatives of the same thing. Maybe you can ‘splain it to me.

Comment on Install Nvidia drivers in Debian Squeeze by Geert

Geert — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:38:27 +0000

Hi – Thanks a lot. Took me a while to get Debian’s Nouveau drive blacklisted and to get a shell. Now I’ve managed to install the non-free Nvidia drivers thanks to your posting.

Comment on SLIM in Debian Squeeze by joe

joe — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:07:55 +0000

Thank you very much for the information. Slim is a wonderful replacement for GDM that uses much less RAM on my Debian LXDE laptop.