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I really like that he goes over the responsibilities of a reviewer. Few reviewers actually abide by these rules, and it made me respect him instantly. I'll have to come back and read some of his other reviews.
I always mention the forums when I recommend CrunchBang on Reddit 
Welcome back! Shall we start a pool on when you'll hop to another distro? 
I've started the test run on my Arch install. They really want you to not change the settings lol, and do a good job of hiding them.
It's really pretty and with a few polishing will be just as nice as KDE. I'm still getting used to the new paradigm, as all of my beloved Openbox keybindings are gone 
. There is a definite similarity to Mac OS X in both look and philosophy. In fact, as of right now, it seems that I can customize MORE in OS X! Weird. The new way they implemented notifications/system tray is interesting, too.
So right now, I'm still acclimating, but I can definitely see how some people will like this, while others won't at all. Looks nice though!
This is stupid. Movements are cool and all, but this one doesn't even have a meaning or purpose!
Cool, just what I needed to hear. Thanks for the man page! I learned a lot from it.
Using hadran3's awesome thread http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/12081, I enabled apt-pinning and have pulled in the 2.6.38 liquorix kernel, libreoffice, and iceweasel 4. I have a question though about what happens when a package starts to advance through the repos.
Once iceweasel 4 moves from experimental to unstable to testing, will apt pick it up, allowing me to get security updates? Or will the iceweasel I receive always come from experimental?
That's pretty cool. CrunchBang isn't a specific netbook distro, so yeah.
As for me, I tried out Ubuntu Netbook, and the huge icons got really annoying.
2 CrunchBang - one for Openbox and one for Xfce
Debian netinstall
Arch netinstall
two copies of Windows 7
Printer CD
Motherboard CD
Starcraft II
Did you do any customizations?
22, born in Houston, Texas, but now I live/go to school in Austin and love it to death!
Welcome! I tried applying for an internship there once lol.
About fstab, I switched from UUIDs to /dev/sdxx and didn't have any problems. Although if you plan on playing around with your hard drives, moving/switching them around and such, I'd say stick with UUIDs.
Thanks for this! I was just reading on apt-pinning when you posted this thread lol.
pvsage, I installed Squeeze on my 400MHz iMac G3. I make sure to keep the system really light, with pretty much only openbox, firefox, moc, terminator, and vim. Honestly I just kind of keep it around as a proof of concept lol, so I can say to my friends, "Hey look what I did with this old iMac!" But Debian on a computer such as yours is definitely doable, and I think you'd even be able to make it usable day-to-day.
I know I'm being a little elitist here, but I always felt that if one is curious enough to install linux then one should be willing to read a wiki or two. You're probably right that it would increase the userbase, though.
If I just type in "libreoffice" the startup window for LibreOffice pops up.
I see #! as a shortcut to getting what I want out of Debian. I think the term "distrolet" used earlier fits very well. Back when I first got into #!, I was using Xubuntu 9.04 and was looking for something truly minimal after falling in love with Xfce, and found that #! turned out to be just what I wanted.
Do you have Ben & Jerry's in Texus?
Yes, but we also have Blue Bell, which is sooo much better 
Well, CrunchBang IS Debian. But yes, yes it is. Using terminator and vim together IMO is so much nicer than an IDE - even if I have to give up some the nice things that Eclipse does.
- headbutt is my main
- barry is the blue iMac G3
- lappy is the laptop
- oldfart is my old Dell
- mc is the minecraft server
I remember resizing an NTFS partition way back when I still dual booted. The thing was it's not enough to change the partition size and think it'll work, you have to tell the NTFS file system it has more/less room to play with. Windows and Linux both have the tools to do this.
Can you elaborate? I was looking at mkntfs but it seems like that command formats the disk.
Oh, I should've mentioned that it doesn't show up in dmesg either. That's what really confuses me. fdisk sees an ntfs partition on /dev/sda7 but it doesn't seem like anything else does, including Windows. I ran a partition recovery program, and it recognizes that there's a bad partition, but i can't figure out how to rescue it (but that might just be me not knowing how the program works).
I'll try to keep this updated. One thing's for sure: Screw small external drives.
Xfce menu -> Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard 
I can't mount the ntfs partition, so no "dd". Yes, I realize I should've backed up the files, but the previous times I resized partitions I didn't have any problems, so I figured it would be alright 
. I'm not sure how shrinking it back will help though.
I have an ext4 and an ntfs partition, and what I want to do is shrink the ext4 partition a bit and grow the ntfs accordingly. The ext4 partition is on /dev/sda6 and the ntfs one is /dev/sda7. I was able to shrink /dev/sda6 just fine, but in growing /dev/sda7, something went terribly wrong. There now seems to be a conflict in fdisk and what the kernel sees. If I run "ls /dev/sda*" sda7 doesn't show up, but it does in "fdisk -l". GParted sees /dev/sda7, but doesn't recognize the file system.
$ ls /dev/sda*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sda8# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x047e02d2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 6375 51096576 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 6375 121602 925560832+ 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5 6375 7590 9764864 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7591 10140 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 10140 121479 894331904 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 121480 121602 975872 82 Linux swap / SolarisThe problem is that there's unique data on /dev/sda7, so I can't just erase it and start fresh.
Any help, please?? I'm stuck here.
Edit: btw, I did this in GParted on a #! live disc.
Edit 2: Windows sees it as a raw partition and wants me to format it.
Texus wrote:T61 ... W510
And what exactly are those devices? Sounds like mobile phones to me.
They're from Lenovo's awesome line of laptops (ThinkPad, etc).
How do we get it on there? I tried to fill out a template, but the website said I wasn't allowed.
I find #! to be neither centralist nor pure in the FOSS meaning.
Can you explain what you mean by this?
Well, for one thing, #! has Flash and Chrome installed, which is basically heresy to the Debian purists.
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