CrunchBang Linux

I dont think passports cost to much to replace, and you can get to france very cheaply if you pre-book a ferry quite a while in advance.

Wasnt implying it was you actually,

Where's omns when you need him to close a thread?

Oh and i think i'll stick around, i wanna watch you fuck up your system.

Another duplicate account from someone without the stones to say what they want using their normal nick,

Anyways, getting back op topic, GotSupreme, you should try crunchbang in vbox first simply because your windows partition is so big it doesnt leave your EXT3 partition whith that much space. And because testing out crunchbang in vbox gives you an idea of the partitioning step which is important to get right.

The advice given to people who wish to dual boot is to wipe windows and linux off the drive, reserve 50% for windows, in one partiton, then the other 50% can be split up into multiple partitions, one for / and another for swap and /home etc.

Theres a few threads where people have wanted to do just this on the forums, you can find them by searching for something like dual boot crunchbang

Why did you use an angry emoticon then?

If you've installed wine then .exe files will show up with a windows logo in your file manager to help you tell them apart them from other files.

Also some icon themes do this.

Oh and if you dont like the windows logo, take your shitty attitude and buy a mac.

A buddy of mine had an old eee pc with a 16GB ssd in, he says it didnt last more than a year before it got very slow so he repalced it, im not sure about the experiences of other users with similar machines though, still a cheap 64GB ssd can be picked up for less than $50 so it mite be worth an investment if the solution here turns out to be an old worn drive.

Not everyone here would recomend mixing the sources for the different branches of debian, other users do this, but have more experience.
For example when i wanted a newer version of wine not available in statler rather than add sources for wheezy i just downloaded the source and compiled, at least then i could get my dependancies one by one and take my time through the process reading the outputs and googling errors etc.

If you have or can make backups of your personal data it mite be a good idea to resintall statler and see if you have these problems with a fresh install, then try update the system using the welcome script which can be run anytime by typing cb-welcome into a terminal.

Another user recently said that they noticed 4GB of space being taken up and they couldnt work out why, many people contributed to the thread, so there are some suggestions hrere:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/254170/#p254170

I backup most of my configs, and updating usually doesnt take up any more space, there are occasions where a program is a little bigger though but im pretty sure updating programs wont be taking up several GB's of space everytime an update is run.

Are you using statler or waldorf?

The disk space could be caused by files in both your trash folder and the root users trash folder. Installing baobab will give you a graphical view of the space taken up by any folder you ask it to scan.

Its slightly odd that you had to reinstall dbus and polkit as they are included in crunchbang.

How big is the drive on your netbook? Is is an SSD?  I heard somewhere the ssd's in early netbooks only last a few years and the last even less with many read/write operations. I think the user Mynis has a thread on installing crunchbang onto an SSD, which has some tips on what drive format to use, and some notes about maintenance and performance.

No this isnt true, crunchbang statler is based on stable and doesnt get updates anywhere near as often as say arch, and in all the times ive reinstalled over a differnet linux OS i just did a quick erase of the file on the partitions before installing the new distro, no reformatting needed.

If thunar is set to manage volumes then it auto opens a thunar window when a drive is connected, you can disable that in the thunar preferences and i also have noauto for each of the external drives in /etc/fstab.

I suspect corenominal has gvfs-backends in there because many users have NAS drives or network shares they would like to view in thunar rather than at the command line.

@gangbade

What are you asking?

Its called user account control and you should search through the accounts section of the control panel. The option to turn on or off should be there.

Edit:

some important bits of windows 7 group themselves under a process called svchost, one of which being aero for tha pretty desktop effects, in the past i killed one of the many svchost in my process list and the theme changed.

also this mite be worth a read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svchost.exe

Aircrack-ng works on crunchbang, there are some dependancies like iw, sqlilite, but you'll be told what dependancies your missing when you compile.

Also google church of wifi rainbow tables, its an enourmous 33gb torrent, with pre-computed tables for most brands of router in the UK/US and these tables work with a program called cowpatty.
Follow the guides and marvel when you crack your own wpa2 router in less than 4 mins.

Well my hp printer was detected after i ran hp-setup in a terminal.

Its been over a year since i did this so i cant quite remember the steps, but after i went through the steps libreoffice, gimp etc all found the printer.