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Been crunchbanging Mandriva recently, so here's a screenshot of it:
Will write about that later on, but it was far from being easy, and moreover lots of nice applications like gmrun or obmenu don't exist for Mandriva.
lots of nice applications like gmrun or obmenu don't exist for Mandriva.
Did you port them over or use something else? If so what did you use?
Anyways that looks very sexy. Good job.
Hello, oupsemma. 
That's a real fine looking screen -- I remember how much you were always in to new distributions and combining this and that to create what for you is perfection. It makes me happy to see you still haven't lost your touch. And yes -- please keep us updated on your progress and results. 
I've been recently seized by a "crunchbanging" frenzy, starting yesterday and the day before to crunchbang my Arch install.
After some various unsatisfying attempts fiddling with Gnome and OpenBox, chance made me find the nice & terrific Arch – Openbox build script and omns indications on how to use it.
Some hours of tweaking later, adapting to Arch way of doing, and with many scripts and .xml files copied from my CrunchBang partition, I got the following result:
So I turned to crunchbanging Mandriva.
I must say that it was the first distro I tried when starting Linux, and later on, when acquiring an eeepc 701, Mandriva was the first distro that was eeepc's friendly. Moreover, its graphics and general look are really nice. (Plus the keyboard mapping choice that enables you to type on your language's keyboard!).
It took me a while to install a basic minimal Mandriva:
- started first with MUD-LXDE-Edition, which has a lot of applications and codecs pre-installed.
But after installing it and adding OpenBox, there were still some live features I could not get rid of (got 2 users accounts, live and oupsemma); especially the ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml got overridden by a lxde script.
- googling for "minimal Mandriva install", I found this , so I then went for the dual-arch install.
Everything went fine, except my ethernet was not working (nor the wifi, but it's a Free edition, so no non-free drivers), and when booting into the newly installed desktop there's was a non-solvable problem with a package named drak3d.
Re-installed a few times, but no luck.
- so I went for the all.img ftp install, choosing "Other desktops" and this time ethernet and wifi were working oob.
I got a spartan IceWM desktop, added openbox, obconf and logged in the new OperBox session.
Tweaking has been more complicated, as Mandriva has no gmrun (replaced it for the moment with gnome-launcher-box, as there already were some installed gnome dependencies) and no obmenu (so have to edit ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml by hand).
There's also no Nitrogen, but Feh is available, and the logout/exit script needs some reconsideration.
Nice work, oupsemma. Both your Arch and Mandriva set-ups look fantastic.
For those interested, there's an English tutorial (quite old, though, but still accurate and one of the rare ones available in English) with screenshots of the installation process.
You don't get a CLI installation, but a GUI one; and if you have a look under the "Installation" paragraph, you'll have the options you can check or uncheck for a minimal install (only now you just get KDE/Gnome/Other Graphical Desktop choice and choosing the latest will install IceWM).
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/review2006.html
Impressive oupsemma, thanks for sharing it with us.
Crunchbang is not a distribution, crunchbang is an approach to building desktop environment. ))
Very nice setups, both of them.
Have not thought about #! in that way, but I say yes thank you to both!
Thanks you all!
And I also thank omns for his great DTX site and the links to openboxarch scripts!
And many thanks to winotree, ever since the creation of eeeuser.com forum he always has being so nice and providing lots of good advices.
Found this topic on Mandriva French forum, user Harnoo having OpenBox installed on his Mandriva. (Sorry, it's in French).
There's a gmrun.rpm package available for PCLinuxOS. Downloaded and installed, it runs nicely (got rid of gnome-launch-box).
Had been trying to compile the gmrun.tar.bz from SourceForge, but Mandriva is not really friendly with non .rpm packages!
Installed gvolwheel for the volume, and now I'm a truly happy bunny!
Edit: Finally found a working obmenu.rpm, from Unity: here.
Being happy with all these pre-included backing-up features, DrakBackup plus DrakSnapshot are quite handy.
And management of HP printers is easy as pie!
So I've dedicated all my eeepc to it, putting Statler and Arch on an external HD.
How it's looking like now:
Last edited by oupsemma (2010-06-17 03:16:18)
Thanks - I'm looking at installing up a Mandriva-based distro and tweaking it to be CrunchBang-like.
Question is - if you were doing it now, would you do it on Unity Linux or Mandriva? Unity is designed to be a "base" to build distros on, and comes with Openbox. I'm downloading it, and hoping it's not too complex. (I'm a tinkerer, but I do like stuff to work when I install it (which hasn't been my experience with some important parts of Fedora 14 LXDE, hence my search for an alternative).
if you were doing it now, would you do it on Unity Linux or Mandriva?
Well, the main problem with Unity is that I've never been able to boot any Unity medium on my eeepc 1000H, whether with burnt CD/DVD or Unetbootin USB key or dded keys or keys with syslinux on; so I gave up!
I wish you more success!
What I really like in Mandriva (apart from its eee-friendlieness from the very beginning) is their ia_ora theme and theme-engine.
I managed to find deb and rpm files for it, and an AUR package too, so I can have it in any of my installed distros.
I think nowadays, I would wait for Mageia.
I've stopped distro-hop(p)ing, but rigth now I just would like Mageia and CentOs6 to be released! 
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if you were doing it now, would you do it on Unity Linux or Mandriva?
Well, the main problem with Unity is that I've never been able to boot any Unity medium on my eeepc 1000H, whether with burnt CD/DVD or Unetbootin USB key or dded keys or keys with syslinux on; so I gave up!
I wish you more success!What I really like in Mandriva (apart from its eee-friendlieness from the very beginning) is their ia_ora theme and theme-engine.
I managed to find deb and rpm files for it, and an AUR package too, so I can have it in any of my installed distros.I think nowadays, I would wait for Mageia.
I've stopped distro-hoping, but rigth now I just would like Mageia and CentOs6 to be released!
There was a definite problem getting Unity to boot from a usb key. That has been solved here recently. If you would care to try it again, we would appreciate any feedback you could give us
P.S.- There is a Unity branch called synergy Linux that is dedicated to running Unity on the eeepc. It includes a compressed install made specifically for the older 4GB HDD models. http://www.synergy-linux.net/forum/
There was a definite problem getting Unity to boot from a usb key. That has been solved here recently. If you would care to try it again, we would appreciate any feedback you could give us
Definitely a nice piece of news!
I've been downloading Unity 2010 (and Synergy too (but I'm not a great fan of KDE, so will only have a quick look at it)).
Installed Unity on a USB key with Unetbootin (dd-ying it to a key didn't work, no Grub on it) and running it live now.
I will install it to HD and report later on. So far, I'm glad it's using Smart package manager (I've always found using Synaptic for rpms is a kind of heresy).
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I quite like Unity, and have found that there's a CLI iso, with a wiki page on how to deal with it here, plus a list of Unity packages there.
It looks that the CLI install is much like a Debian-eeepc.iso install, back in the old days of the 701, or like a light Arch installation.
Installing a light task-gnome-minimal plus openbox, tint2 and & and tweaking all that should lead to a Crunchbanged Unity Linux!
I quite like Unity, and have found that there's a CLI iso, with a wiki page on how to deal with it here, plus a list of Unity packages there.
I like the sound of that - but I'd need to figure out how to connect to the internet from CLI so that I could download the extra packages :-). I suppose the easiest way is to connect the machine via ethernet cable (presuming it will auto-connect to ethernet even when using CLI) and worry about wireless later.
I've just semi-CB'd PCLOS Openbox edition. Nitrogen, gmrun and obmenu are in the repos.
I suppose the easiest way is to connect the machine via ethernet cable (presuming it will auto-connect to ethernet even when using CLI) and worry about wireless later.
Tha's it!
You could check the list of packages I gave a link to, or this one and see whether the driver for your wireless card is in it and install it later on.
Edit: The rpm finder for Unity Linux is located there: http://rpmfind.unity-linux.org/
I've just semi-CB'd PCLOS Openbox edition. Nitrogen, gmrun and obmenu are in the repos.
Nice!
I don't really like Synaptic and apt for rpms; that's why I'm not using it.
Last edited by oupsemma (2011-01-21 05:43:03)
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