[ Closed ] CrunchBang 10 "Statler" Alpha 2 Released (Page 1 of 5)

Downloading ...
Damn this will take another hour. But I have to go to bed... AAAARRRRRRGGG what should i do
*happily exited*

Downloading openbox i686 ... Thanks corenominal

I had to add a line to the boot (acpi=off) and I am in the livecd environment right now, but how can I install this alpha from the livecd environment?

Otherwise, awesome build! Keep it up!

Woohoo!

Install order for me:
First virtualbox, second Eee, third desktop and finally if all goes well, I'm replacing 9.04 on the desktop.
If it's anything like Alpha 1, I'll be at the replacing 9.04 part very soon...

Thank you Muppet army!
Oh, and you too corenominal.

It sounds as if your system is up-to-date. If you are happy with how it is running, I would not suggest doing anything more. However, if you are concerned that you might be missing any of the packages included in the new builds, you can install one, or both of the following metapackages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-openbox-packages

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-xfce-packages

All the new config files are included in a new package, it can be installed with:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install crunchbang-configs

The above package will only populate your /etc/skel directory. You can examine the contents of the files to workout whether or not you wish to copy any of the changes to your home directory.

Hope this helps.

I installed  the openbox version with  USB Unetbootin and very much impressed.  The  USB  installation  is a snap: everything is automated and prior issues are all gone. Everything  took less then  5 minutes.  The welcome  script  is also very pleasant. I enjoyed the cairo composition. This alpha 2  is  nicely improved and continues to be refined. Now I am  posting from this new installed version.  Corenominal this is an awesome job as usual... Thanks.

Last edited by polarb (2010-06-26 02:22:01)

I am almost wetting myself with anticipation!!! 

(Oh, wait a minute; that sounds really bad...) 

Phillip, I hoist a glass to your inestimable Linuxness...
("Linuxness" Is that a word??? Ah, crap - who cares!)

Good job, mate!

WoW! I love the new script at first boot.
Install is fast, it took longer to burn the CD than it did to install on my laptop HD. Im about 10 minutes away from installing it on this desktop now, waiting for 2nd laptop to finish installing.

Thank You for a nice smooth distro!!!!!

And thanks for finding a way to improve what was already perfect!

Alpha 2 report after 30min of usage and being very sleepy but happy

* I'm testing openbox-amd64
* Unetbootin to usb-stick: failed multiple times (all of them after re-formating usb)
* dd to usb: success
* Boot: success

* Love at first boot: success!!!

* Cairo compositing: wonderful (I didn't like the compositing effects but I think I'll keep that)
* Dropbox: installed and working great. (By the way, how can we share a folder other than the default dropbox in home? I know that with nautilus this can be done, but in thunar?? perhaps with a custom action if it's possible?)
* I was surprised by the fact that both monitors, laptop's and external, were both identified during startup and set to twin-view, although without nvidia drivers I'm stacked to 1024x768 resolution instead of 1280x800 and everything look odd. (What is the reason for that? a new default xorg file or something?)
* Finally I gave a quick look at themes which are WAY too many!!! Most probably I'll remove them all except the statler's and 1 or 2 that I like. It's really nice to have them though...having choices is good!

Really Great Work  corenominal!!!
Thank you once again!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I'm putting cb-fortune to autostart.sh

Last edited by slapfish (2010-06-26 04:15:52)

One little good news  about  Acer Aspire  timeline  series ( 4810t is the one tested) :  The adjustment  of brightess was  problematic  for this  group of  laptop.  Current  kernel in squeeze is not solving  the problem but  updating the  kernel to experimental along with statler alpha2  is solving the problem with no other configuration necessary.

I found one tiny little issue in the xfce version, and it happened on all 3 of the PC's Ive installed on so far. The keyboard layout was on gu or UK symbols or whatever its called, but it was simple to go into keyboard options and change it to US. It didn't happen in alpha 1 so I dunno if its something I did or thats just how it turned out.