CrunchBang 10 "Statler" r20110105 (Page 3 of 6)

Well, if "a novice, fresh off the bus, never played with a computer before", tries and fails to install #! due to not knowing about the "right click the mouse, in order to proceed" action, I'm certiain they would discover just how friendly and helpful the people in the #! Forums are when s|he asks and gets the answer.  Wouldn't you be one to respond?

You don't know your timezone?  Try "date" in a terminal:

  12:50 ~
         $ date
Fri Jan  7 12:50:04 ART 2011

  12:50 ~
         $ 

EDIT: it just struck me: "a novice, fresh off the bus, never played with a computer before"

How would they know how to download and burn the ISO and check to see if the computer will boot from the CD in the first place?

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-01-07 15:58:44)

Actually, point taken, it would not!  My error!

This will help though: Changing the timezone, date, and time

To stay on topic eth0 is down - up - down - up

Last edited by Sector11 (2011-01-07 17:13:44)

It just keeps on getting better! Really loving the inclusion of Heybuddy, the Gimp plugins and the patched version of the fonts. Much awesomeness.

Bravo corenominal and thanks for another fantastic release!

Last edited by chillicampari (2011-01-08 02:29:59)

to install a printer canon iP1600 on #! statler openbox okay this guide?: http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Stam … t=(ip1600)

^ good stuff.

Yes, I played around with various backgrounds, but in the end I just decided to stick to plain back.

Check the /etc/skel folder for the new config files. Also you can install the new software manually no problem.

Ok thanks anonymous.
I've find the .fonts.conf.
What about the themes and plymouth (I don't know how to configure it properly on Debian) ?

My themes are up-to-date but they are the same than before (kind of brownish grey, you see?).

And no Plymouth enabled after reboot.

But I have just update/dist-upgrade, is it the problem?

Last edited by DarthWound (2011-01-08 22:49:01)

I tried a couple of days ago the new image and install it on my second laptop. Brilliant work. #! is getting better and better. I liked the new live installer, however I would so much like to have the text installer too on the "grub-like-options". The only thing I tried to do but couldn't achieve it, was to setup english/greek keyboard, although it was easy to do it on the next boot.

Google-chrome fits better on cruchgbang for it's style, but it didn't work for me. I have get so used to firefox and how things are done in firefox, that after 2 days trying to get along with chrome I removed it. I have some problems getting original firefox-amd64 to work on my laptop but that's another story.

Plymouth is a really nice touch as well, but I prefer to have a look on what is going on, both during startup and shutdown. I wonder if a theme with the beautiful pulsing #! and maybe a line on the bottom showing the staff that are going on line by line could work better.

Overall it is a excellent work, Well done and thank you!

Last edited by slapfish (2011-01-09 19:10:50)

Excellent OS!!! 

With that said I think the inclusion of a text based installer where you have the option of encrypting the Home directory is required.  Please don't hate me for saying it, but without encryption it's hard to give #! a better ranking than Puppeee.  Puppeee is blazing fast while lacking "on-the-fly" encryption.  It's the "on-the-fly" encryption that gives Ubuntu derivatives an edge in my book.

Maybe the experts prefer using TrueCrypt, but I don't like manualing mounting devices and decrypting them when "on-the-fly" is possible.  Plus if you write shell scripts to auto-mount encrypted devices...I believe you are compromising the integrity of the system as a whole. 

Maybe I should be asking if "on-the-fly" encryption of Home directory by Ubuntu and it's derivatives compromises integrity/security?

Can you tweak the installer/software to include encryption during installation?  Encryption of the entire disk, save for the boot directory, would be even better...

Bio...

Last edited by biology-geek (2011-01-10 16:14:13)