Distro-hoppers Anonymous (Page 9 of 52)

My netbook 9.10 UNR (never was really happy with it, was waiting for the next Statler to release) decided to experiment with itself for a bit.  So I jumped on to EasyPeasy, consdering UNR 10.04 . . . and then tried PeppermintOS.  EP looks like 10.04 with a green background and some media codecs  . . . PeppermintOS is interesting.  Openbox/Stripped down 10.04, and an emphasis with Mozilla Prism to create a bunch of web-apps.  But I'm just not comfortable on the cloud, and to be honest, it doesn't feel like a full OS to me.  So back to #! I go.

Last edited by Kruce (2010-05-11 23:27:44)

Is there anyone that have any experience with installing Debian live images? Have been thinking of trying Squeeze on my eeepc 1000H. I am trying out Squeeze on my desktop and just luwwwwin it!

Yeah, and thanks vrkalak, I will take it for a serious spin during the weekend.

thanx for the links oupsemma, appreciate it.

@1002richards: thanks for the link, have not tried it, but I`m sure someone will. Who knows might be very nice and good. Personally I am focusing on Squeeze for the moment, and have too little time to spend "in search for the lost distro".

The HORROR, but wait a minute, I have decided to put xp back on my eee......BUT it will be a very small partition, the rest will be occupied by squeeze and Statler when #! goes stable!

About a month ago ... I ordered a FREE LiveCD of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS form the Canonical Group website.

It came in the mail, today!!   YAY!!

Wow ... I've never had an 'official' LiveCD of any Ubuntu release before.

I'll have to loaded the Xubuntu 10.04 ISO.files from this CD in my Virtualbox ... and let you know how it works.

I play with all my new Distro-Hopping ISO files via Virtualbox anymore ... as #!Crunchbang-X is the only OS on my PC.

Last edited by vrkalak (2010-05-14 01:56:11)

Hello, my name is Ronin, and I am a distro-hopper. I was in denial for my first meetings here, but I am ready to admit I may have a problem.
The truth is, while I may have thought I could stop at anytime, I couldn't. Mea culpa, mea culpa. Sure, THEY brought out new versions, and sure, THEY have distros I've never thought about before, but I *had* stopped...until....
A friend brought her tower to work and put it into my arms as though it were an abandoned baby. She said, "Can you fix this piece of sh*t?" and told me her story. I promised her I'd do my best, thinking I would have no trouble.
To make a long story even longer--no, I mean shorter *this time*--the infection was one of THOSE. I ended up telling her the options were to reinstall Windows, preferably XP, (she had only 1GB of RAM), to switch to Linux, or to get a new computer.
But, here's where the story goes back to distro-hopping. In the course of analyzing her machine, I used a security-recovery program which was based on SLITAZ. I'd never seen sLiTAZ before, and I couldn't believe how fast it was. In fact, I'm using it NOW.
But, when I fell off the wagon, I really fell off the wagon. I've downloaded Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox, Ubuntu Lucid, Lubuntu, Linux Mint LXDE and--the piece de la resistance--PCLinuxOS Openbox.
If someone doesn't stop me, I'm going to get VirtualBox, like vrklak.
And if I can't live with the guilt, I'll be doing another custom build soon. AAAAaaaaarghhhhhhhh!!!!! Get me the vodka! Now!

Snowpine. Dude. Take some deep breaths. Easy does it....

You *don't have to do that* today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today. One day at a time. Let tomorrow take care of itself....

I'm swimming in a gnome bath myself, and it ain't pretty. First, I loaded up Ubuntu 10.04, so I'd have something "stable" on my new, way too big hard drive (smaller is better...I probably could have stopped if I didn't have so damned much space). W7 Starter is sitting next to it, as shipped, and then Statler Box is on the outside.

Anyway, I don't know what came over me early this morning but I dumped a full load of gnome (close to a gig) on top of Statler so I could log in and out between gnome and box if I get twitchy, bored or more manic than usual. Nitrogen somehow got trashed and I'm sure there's a battle going on that I can't see for other more important stuff. I hope Philip doesn't look in here...the shame is close to crippling...

If you do it you're gonna hate it. I wonder if some of the DHA old-timers could help both of us. Digit? Spoovy? Help!

I wish I could stop distro-hopping! Was reasonably happy until now, with Arch Gnome and Fedora 12 installed since at least 2 months on my eeepc 1000H, plus CrunchBang Statler since a few weeks; only downloading a few distros from time to time, and running them live only; but today I got ArchBanged.... and just want to wipe away the whole hard drive and install other distros.
Is there an end to all that?

Last edited by oupsemma (2010-05-14 19:52:14)

Ubuntu Studio doesn't come with an RT Kernel by default. You have to install it after the fact. In other words don't do it. #! 9.04 good, Ubuntu Studio needs much time to properly setup.

Or................. install Arch for awesome studio experience. Take twice daily and call me in the morning.

On my end though. I'm fighting the urge to try the ZenWalk 6.4 Beta, the Salix Beta and doing a full Statler install on a USB to use as a portable studio. I'm weak. I fear for when I get the new netbook, I fear I may wipe the partition of my current desktop Arch setup just to redo it and open more partitions for hopping again. Damn you Terabyte hard drive and all your space...................... and now the laptop is starring at me.

I'm going to go download some ISO's. Just a couple............. just a little fix. A live CD isn't really a commitment...............right?

Arch for studio work, hmm... that is an option I had not considered. Got any good links for me?

I was leaning towards Ubuntu Studio because it seems like the most plug & play option with guaranteed support through April 2013. I have other computers for distro-hopping; on this one, I just want to plug in some microphones and not think too hard about it. #! 9.04 is working well for the time being, but I want to have its successor in place well before end-of-life in October.

Currently testing 10.04 in virtualbox...