CrunchBang Linux

lighthammer

Member

From: The Moon

Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 13

New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Sound, video, Ethernet and wireless all work just fine. Smooth install. Plan to get a ZIF PATA SSD for this soon.

I'm definitely new to this whole thing but I just didn't like Ubuntu, Fedora or a few other distros. Too heavy for my machine.

Glad to be here.

Last edited by lighthammer (2011-11-16 21:09:21)

cbdxs

#! Die Hard

From: Capital Wasteland

Registered: 2011-08-03

Posts: 1,898

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Welcome to #!

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lighthammer

Member

From: The Moon

Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 13

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Opening Chromium, VLC and other programs are much quicker than with the other distros I mentioned. This machine is a 1 Ghz Core2 Solo with 2GB RAM. (max) I'm using the OpenBox environment. Finally got some life breathed into this.

VastOne

#! Ranger

From: V-Ger

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 10,165

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Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Welcome to #! lighthammer, enjoy the ride!

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disfarmer

#! Member

From: Youngsville, New York

Registered: 2010-01-07

Posts: 55

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Welcome! from a fellow D430 user. I've been using #! on this little computer for about two years now and loving it. I think everything worked well "out of the box," as they say. But let me know if there are any D430 that I may be able to help with.

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lighthammer

Member

From: The Moon

Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 13

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Very cool. Do you still have the original 4200 rpm drive or did you upgrade? Its fairly quick on #! but I can image it would fly on an SSD.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get more than 2GB of RAM on this machine!

merelyjim

#! Die Hard

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 2,303

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Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Welcome to #!

If you're impressed now, just wait until you install it on a new multi-core 64-bit CPU machine!

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dubois

The Old Codger

From: Missoula, Montana

Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 2,238

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Sounds like you're doing just fine. 

disfarmer

#! Member

From: Youngsville, New York

Registered: 2010-01-07

Posts: 55

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

I've got the 80GB / 4200 rpm drive. It's fast enough for the kinds of stuff I do. Space is more of a problem than speed for me. An 128GB SSD would cost about the same as what I paid for the computer...unfortunately.

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stephen01

New Member

Registered: 2011-11-21

Posts: 1

Re: New user here. Just installed CrunchBang on a Dell D430 laptop.

Welcome to this forum community, i am also newly joining in this forum community. Good luck.