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Every year since 2004 I had downloaded new versions of whatever distro sounded promising at the time. Always with the intention of installing on my computer, but never getting around to backing up my stuff (being poor meant that big external hdd's were out of my price range)

So year after year my pile of Linux cd's would grow.

When the first eeepc came out end of 2007, I figured it's a good opportunity to pick up a cheap little machine to finally get a chance to install some of those bastards.

I tried the included Xandros, installing Fluxbox right away for my crappy Celeron processor, but Xandros itself was rubbish even compared to live cd's I had run previously.

Fluxbox at that point was linux for me because, in my limited experience, I equated KDE to a fancy Windows ripoff, Gnome to a mac-wannabe, and XFCE to Windows 98 (which I think was fair at the time, XFCE has improved a lot over the last few years).

I tried a few of those eee-specific ubuntu based distros, but people had already started offering eee drivers for regular distros and I saw no point wasting my time with them anymore.

Then I got Arch. After spending a week just trying to get it to work, I finally had an Arch with Fluxbox. But then I couldn't make it recognise my wireless, everytime I plugged in a USB I had to enter commands to make it work. This all got annoying pretty quickly and I never had time to sit down and work my way to fixing it.

By this point my Windows computer was on it's way out, so I had picked up the more recent eeepc 1000H as a desktop replacement (which it has been ever since).

Around the end of 2008 I went back to the eeeuser forum and started asking around for any good Fluxbox distros that worked well with eee hardware. Snowpine directed me here and Cruncheee was exactly what was needed. Everything worked perfectly straight away.

I still keep Windows partition specifically for ConvertXtoDVD. I do a lot of DVD's, and I'm not sure that DeVeDe is as good. If anyone can vouch for it let me know.

I found it on deviantart.
http://errorlog.deviantart.com/art/c64-closeup-20168148

Firefox has had horrible memory leaks since day one (I recall early Firefox on Windows using up nearly 200mb just on it's own) and from what I understand there's no reason that Iceweasel wouldn't share the same problems.

The XFCE rat is one of the things that is enticing me to switch to XFCE.

I don't think I could ever switch away from openbox, but whenever I setup friends computers I always use XFCE and give the a wallpaper with the XFCE rat.

I know this is an older thread, but I couldn't find anyone offering the solution.

I just tried to change to a themed login I made myself and got the problem where GDM doesn't load.

Well you don't need to reinstall #! to fix him.

Something like this should let you work around it and only takes a few minutes.

> While GDM is attempting to load, press Ctrl Alt F1 to drop to a new shell (or F2, F3, etc, whatever gets you to a new shell)
> Login
> sudo killall gdm
> startx
> Open a terminal
> sudo gdm (after this your machine might start dropping out to every 10 seconds to give an error telling you something about the session not working or something like that, just keep saying 'no' when it prompts you and do the following steps inbetween the interruptions)
> open the GDM manager and change back to a plain or previously working theme
> reboot

Coopers Pale Ale. My favourite beer ever.

Around the beginning of 2009, I think it was, I was asking about fluxbox based distros on eeeuser.com. I had been using Arch + Fluxbox on my eee, as it was what I was used to, but it wasn't playing nice with the relatively new eee hardware of the time.

snowpine pointed out the crunchbang for me and when I checked it out and found it was very barebone (the eee and lite version) and yet backed by ubuntu repos, I was more than happy to use it forever.

haha.

i'm not entirely sure what you're getting at there, but i was talking about an actual bird. you can see it sitting on my shoulder in my avatar.

Usually 65kg, but at the moment 59kg.

I've barely been eating recently due to lack of funds.

I love Mint. But I would never install it on a computer that I use. Great for linux newbies, but I learned linux on Blackbox and Fluxbox systems and everytime I see Gnome I think Mac! or when I see KDE I think NewWindows! or when I see XFCE I think Windows XP!

Anyway. I was thinking about upgrading to newer versions. In the past, every time there is a new version of a system I'm using (except Arch, rolling release are nice), my process is:
Borrows friends windows computer > move all my external hdd data to windows computer > move all my data to external hdd > install new version of OS > move all my data from external hdd to computer > move all data from windows computer back to external hdd

on one occasion this took me nearly an entire day and i ended up losing a lot of data

i hate upgrading, but i love new versions.

I don't really care how it looks, as long as it works better than karmic koala.

I have a friend who runs a few ubuntu servers. After he installed karmic he's had constant crashes and had to roll back to 9.04

There are a few people in my university class that I turned onto ubuntu earlier this year. They thought crunchbang was too confusing, so I got them set up with 9.04 ubuntu. They loved it and got into it a bit, learnt a bit of linux, etc.
Now I haven't seen them for a while since classes are over and I'm getting a load of text messages from them all saying they upgraded to 9.10 and now they've got all these problems, crashes, stuff isn't working, etc.

Such a facepalm moment. After three years, finally getting some people to start using linux, and ubuntu went and broke it.

I am convinced that 10.04 is gonna be much better. Karmic, to me, feels like ubuntu made a mess of things and now should focus on making sure it doesn't happen to 10.04

I like to use names of AI from pc games I played when i was in high school.

My windows laptop that I've had for 5 years is SHODAN

My #! eeepc 1000h is helios

My Linux Mint eeepc 701 is daedalus