[nmglug] The OS progress,

[Eddie Schell]

Scott,
That's great that you got your monster working,
I would love to attend meetings but unfortunately I live in lonely old
gallup . What kind of machine are you running? I use Linux mint 12 and I'm
eagerly awaiting Linux mint 13. I find it to work really well and is pretty
up to date. I have heard lots about crunhbang.. I think I will give it a
shot in a VM tomorrow. Its debian based yes? Ill let you know what I
think:-)
On May 2, 2012 11:45 AM, "Scott Gamble" <gamblesc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/01/2012 06:33 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>
>> NMGlug'ers, I am glad to see the conversation continuing. I hope that
>> any of us that find a workable solution will share with new users. I,
>> too, prefer Gnome 2.x and wonder if any of us is up to finding the
>> archive for this. I wonder if it is possible to bring it into an
>> upgraded system.
>> Let's keep talking as we settle on new or updated OS's.
>> By the way, I have had some issues with some kind of exploit in
>> Firefox over the last month. Both at home and at a public computer.
>> Homepage and some other settings were changed. Easy enough to fix with
>> 'about:config' but interesting that it has happened repeatedly.
>> Thanks, Ted P.
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> Greetings NMGlug'ers,
> Ted, I am glad to hear that the Debian install with Xfce is progressing
> well.
> Just a quick intro for Linux users who have not been to the last two
> meetings at the Baking Co.
>
> I have been working on getting a working install of Linux on my
> "monster-Laptop" which I use for
> Design Engineering work with Autodesk Inventor (which only runs on
> Windows).
>
> I had been using "the monster" - in dual - boot Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  but when
> trying to upgrade to latest Ubuntu my Realtek ALC 1200 audio chipset was
> not recognized in the new ALSA tree in the new Kernal.
>
> I spent many weeks trying to fix this a few years ago but in the end I had
> to give up and reinstall Ubuntu 10.04 which worked really well.
>
> A few months ago I upgraded my wifes laptop to the latest Ubuntu and like
> many others did not like the Unity desktop and was not sure about Gnome 3.
> I still wanted to have a current working Linux on my main laptop so I
> started looking into some alternative
> Distros. I thought I would give KDE a shot and ended up finding Chakra
> Linux a fork of the Arch Linux Distro that uses KDE exclusively.
>
> I installed Chakra and of course had no sound at all. So a month ago I
> went to my first NM Linux user group meeting. I enjoyed meeting everyone
> and received lots of support trying to fix my sound problem.
> Same Nobel and Jason Schaefer(very skillful Linux users)  worked very hard
> through the night trying to fix this problem ...they managed to get a small
> squeak from my box around 1:00 am by installing some legacy kernal . On his
> way out the door Jason jokingly said "you should get a real distro"
> Thinking that my obscure Chakra Distro may have been compounding my sound
> problems.
>
> So the next day I installed Debian proper with the latest KDE. I finally
> managed to get the sound working by compiling a driver from Realtek also
> managed to install the ATI drivers which I need for temperature reasons -
> this "monster" has dual graphics running in crossfire for my 3D Design work.
>
> I found that I did not care for the gloss of KDE but I felt good with
> learning about Debian.
> So I started looking around for alternatives again. I wanted to keep  the
> connection with Debian but I missed the smaller community that I found in
> Chakra Linux.....
>
> Well I think I have finally found my Linux home at Crunchbang Linux:)
> I highly recommend Crunchbang!
>
> below is a quote from the CrunchBand Web site
>
> CrunchBang Linux uses the Openbox window manager. Openbox is lightweight
> and speedy, and as a result, CrunchBang Linux is fast. Also, while
> CrunchBang Linux is not primarily designed for old systems, it has been
> reported to operate very well where system resources are limited. Once
> installed, CrunchBang Linux should boot-up and operate faster than a
> regular Debian GNOME/KDE installation.
>
> I am using the 64 bit backport version which is like the debian testing
> version that used the latest kernal
> I am very happy with this Distro. it has a simple "old-school" dark them
> that lets you focus on the applications you are using.
>
> I think this would be best for Intermediate Linux users or people who want
> to learn more of how things are working "under the hood" so to speak.
>
> I will be at the next meeting .... is it this week  or next?  for any one
> who wants to take CrunshBang for a ride. Hopefully I will be a little more
> fluent with OpenBox  by then.
>
> Sorry for such a long email but hopefully this will have been of
> interest...
> Bye for now
> Scott
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