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Topic: Like a child in heart

Hello folks.
I am from Sweden with Finnish blood.

I have become more and more a regular user the past 7 years. I am feeling a bit more developerish right now and I said yes to help build a website, haven't done that very much the last 2 years, what did I miss? Before I have been mostly building simple websites in perl/php although my main work is as an testing engineer for wood related things. Anyways...

I began with redhat, went on playing with xandros, suse, mandrake. This was in about 1999 I think. A year later I had a ride with 30+ distros, some a few days, others a few weeks. Then I kinda settled for debian and debian based distros. In about 2004-05 I went on with Macs mostly and debian as my servers.
I used feather linux for some years around 2007, one of the best I have ever used.

And now, funny story, I was bored and found some parts and put this computer together. I needed an OS so I went on the net and searched for "debian based distro with openbox or fluxbox" and as 4th or 5th hit I saw crunchbang, never heard of it and got interested.

A few hours later I was in love, the set of tools as default, the speed, the feel of the OS not being in my way was awesome. Forums are "awesomly great" Everythings feels good :-D

For the past week I have tried some tiling window managers and I feel scrotwm is the one that makes my eyes tear of joy :-D

We'll se what the future has for me as I am considering using #! on more of my computers.
First one after this "test build" is my kinda old powerbook. It's "only" 7 years and actually runs OS X quite well if not in a hurry :-D but #! will make it dance like "Robyn - Dancing on my own"

Anyways, I feel very very happy with this and thank you all.

I could just go debian and install what I want but there is something extra about #! that I like, I think it is the complete package of distro, forums, ideas and joy :-D

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Re: Like a child in heart

iNeedaNickname wrote:

For the past week I have tried some tiling window managers and I feel scrotwm is the one that makes my eyes tear of joy :-D

Good choice, a bunch of us here are on scrotum. There's a whole thread dedicated to it: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … h-scrotwm/ - it's one of the best out there. Feel free to ask anything you want, and welcome to the forums.

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to The Dark Side, iNeedaNickname!  Enjoy the cookies, but check the expiration date on the milk; I think that's the glass we left for Santa.

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome and rock on mate.

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to #! iNeedaNickname, enjoy the cheesecake and chocolate milk..

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Re: Like a child in heart

Good first post.  Welcome to the forums.  There's coffee, beer, whiskey, food, recipes, snacks, open boxes, black boxes, window managers [tiling or not] and any number of desktop environments.  Also conkys, photos, desktop images, music, musicians, poetry and poets.  We've got haiku, tofu and someone's probably written about kung fu but I haven't seen it yet.  Did I say welcome?  wink

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Re: Like a child in heart

^ Best ever dubois!

Gonna borrow that one with your blessings....

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Re: Like a child in heart

^ See my comment in the coffee thread this morning -- there's still little flashing lights flying around my peripheral vision.  yikes

EDIT -- borrow on!

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to #!

I don't have anything clever to offer hmm

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^ Want a cup of my coffee?  lol

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Re: Like a child in heart

I did practice some kung fu back in 1994, Jeet Kun Do to be more precise. And there we go, now we have something about kung fu also. :-D

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^ Hoo hoo, and a sense of humor, too.  big_smile

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to #! smile

I agree with Vastone, dubois got in all the important themes before I got here...

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to #!

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Re: Like a child in heart

Welcome to #!

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  • Registered: 2011-12-29
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Re: Like a child in heart

Thank you very much everyone, I've been busy with lots of stuff, more about that in a few minutes but in another thread. tongue