CrunchBang Linux

Is this with Crunchbang 9.04 or Ubuntu 9.04? I was getting about the same with my Xubuntu 9.04 beta.

I'm using a EEE 900 and re-installed Cruncheee 8.10 and removed Xubuntu 9.04 because I couldn't get it configured properly. Emulato's scripts kept asking me for a password everytime I wanted to change anything and then would eventually lock up. I couldn't fully remove it so eee-control wasn't working either. I also never got the touchpad to feel right. Eventually the whole system felt pretty sluggish after a few weeks and I quit.

With Cruncheee 8.10 I have both kernel's installed. Lean works fine until I want to play video, in which case it's really choppy. I prefer the faster boot-up most of the time. The only issue I have with Adamm's kernel (and the new 9.04 kernel) is that the Elantech touchpad driver *still* isn't supported so I can't turn the touchpad off while typing... which is only EEE size-specific problem I have. I write a lot.

What I'd really love to do is put Cruncheee 8.10 on a ext4 partition, but it seems impossible :-/

Thanks for the fast reply! I'm looking forward to being part of this community.

1) It might <i>not</i> be an Adamm kernel problem, but I'll hit up his forum too. I saw previous discussion about going with default kernel or the lean kernel. I'll do a test to see if it's different with the normal Adamm's kernel instead of the lean one.

2) I didn't know about that. The overall point remains - why makes things intentionally difficult for a newbie? I used Cruncheee during my wedding reception to play music and not even people who've used Linux before could figure it out without me giving a short training session. Is this an aesthetic point? Is it just #! trying to be different than other distros?

5) I get that preloading software is part of the normal operating procedure for linux distros... but my point remains, why blindly follow that tradition? Even a Windows XP install lets you pick and choose what you want installed. Maybe the minimalist distro should lead the way in installation customization?

I think, in general, I wish there could be more customability built into installs. Why not let users choose if they want PCmanFM to give them a more normal looking desktop (at the cost of some resource efficiency?), or if they want a start bar, or if they want an email client, etc? There's so much power and so many options buried beneath this (and other) distros, why not let the options come out during an "advanced" install?

First thing I'd suggest is use UNetbootin to load the ISO onto a USB thumbdrive. It's really the easiest install. For solid state drives, you should also do a manual partition and not use a swap partition. The reason why is that solid state drives have a limited (but large) number of writes and rewrites and using the swap constantly writes and rewrites to the drive. The only thing you lose is a hibernate/suspend option. I'm using ext3 on my EEE 900.

Also install gtkorphan if you plan to try out different software. It keeps things trim by making sure all the excess packages that came with uninstalled software are truly removed.