CrunchBang Linux

I'm really impressed by the simplicity and clean lines! Any chance of your config files?

I also have a AAO A150, and #! works flawlessly.

@pmjp: I would go with the kuki kernel, It's an older kernel version than squeeze. If it did work I don't think you would see any improvement from it even though it's built for the AAO

@qlue: I'm not sure about the mute key as I don't tend to use it. The volume functions work with the Fn key combination though. I'll try the mute key when I get back on my AAO and let you know (if no one else has beaten me to it).

IMHO, you won't find a nicer most helpful bunch of people on a forum than here. We all start of as newbies, and we only learn by asking and trying!

Welcome to the little town of Crunchbang GSiaD, hope you feel right at home!

I like the drop down terminals myself. There is one in the debian repo that I use called tilda, and it seems a bit lighter on its feet and has less dependencies than guake. (Just for consideration).

...and that would be why!! I'll get a brain one of these days (don't ever go to the pound shop for one, they don't last 5 minutes!)

Cheers you two, an unquenchable fountain of knowledge!

Cheers bozhkov...

Didn't know that, good advice... but:

There is only one alternative in link group x-www-browser: /usr/bin/iceweasel
Nothing to configure.

Not really sure what I'm doing with adding an alternative, I'll have a look a bit deeper and see if I can figure it.

Thanks anyways.

The trash-1000 folder was there on the External HDD, but it wouldn't let me delete it.

As of 2 minutes ago I have solved the problem, seems like it was a file system error. I connected the drive up to a laptop running MS Windows and ran chkdsk which fixed an indexing issue with the .INI file. I was able to see the trash-1000 folder through Windows Explorer and I just deleted it. Thanks for the advice anyway anonymous, much appreciated.

welcome to crunchy-corner lurch7! Hope you enjoy, i have to admit, I came her from using numerous other distros, and have found #! more suited to what I wanted from linux. i have since been and gone trying other ditros again, but have come back after failing to find any that live up to this.

67kg here. (10 1/2 stone)

Well I'm back from giving Ubuntu karmic a try. I gave the Netbook Remix a test first, and then the full desktop version. Indeed it is very much a vista release, looks very pretty with the eye-candy but under the hood i was not impressed. Took me a grand total of 3 days of testing before I came back to good ol' #! 9.04.

Previously on Jaunty ubuntu I had a boot time of around 40 secs on my Acer Aspire One. With a clean install of Karmic the boot time increased to around 70 secs which was disgraceful seeing as though they said they had speeded up the boot process. (Other users have said they are getting faster boot times though, so might just be me.)

Whether it is or it isn't, it feels more bloated than jaunty. And I couldn't compile the madwifi drivers on the netbook remix, giving the same error as when I updated to the Kuki kernel, something about not being able to find the kernel/build directory.

However I am looking forward to a 9.10 #! release, as this has seemed to be the quickest and most stable distro I have used (and I've lost count how many I've tried over the last 6 months).

This post from the ubuntu forums seems to say it all:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1315338

I'm running #! on my Acer Aspire One and it's probably the fastest distro out there apart from the linpus rubbish it shipped with.  From power on to a fully functioning desktop with wifi working is about 45 secs which kicks the behind of any other I've used, including kuki which was made specifically for the AAO. I currently run a dual boot system, the other distro swaps and changes as I decide to hop around (I'm currently trying Jolicloud). Doing it this way I can test other distros and always keep a fully functioning environment.