Updated Statler Images

dubois · 2011-11-26 23:55:58

snowpine wrote:

Running from Live USB on my Dell Mini 9, and I'm pleased to say there is no Iceweasel crashing problem like there was in VirtualBox. Also, Broadcom wireless works out-of-the-box, which is always nice.

Which Broadcom device do you have that worked so well? I ask because when I tested it, it didn't see my BCM 4313. hmm

lcafiero · 2011-11-27 00:11:06

Downloaded it, installed it on a MPC Transport T2200 laptop (a moment of silence for the ThinkPad R32 that gave up the ghost yesterday) and it's been phenomenal so far. While I put it through its paces today, my first impressions of the new release is that it's excellent -- I particularly think the login screen looks nicer and it seems to fly on this antique laptop. I'll definitely post any glitches I find, but after about four hours of tinkering with it, it has been smooth sailing.

Thanks Philip and the CrunchBang team -- I feel a blog post coming on . . . . :-)

snowpine · 2011-11-27 00:13:00

Full install on the Mini 9, running great so far!

dubois wrote:

Which Broadcom device do you have that worked so well? I ask because when I tested it, it didn't see my BCM 4313.

BCM4312 LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

for more info:

http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/D … ed_devices

el_koraco · 2011-11-27 01:18:29

replicant wrote:

What handles wireless? Wicd?

network mangler.

Ozitraveller · 2011-11-27 01:22:57

VastOne wrote:

Unia wrote:
omns wrote:
Nice background.
Shameless
Indeed.. Omns knows no boundaries...

@VastOne would you mind explaining what you did to achieve this? Thanks

VastOne · 2011-11-27 01:36:00

Ozitraveller wrote:

VastOne wrote:
Unia wrote:
Shameless
Indeed.. Omns knows no boundaries...
@VastOne would you mind explaining what you did to achieve this? Thanks

Sure...

Installed Xfce 4.8 through pinning to Testing/Sid - Both panels, bottom and top right are xfce4 panels

Installed SlicknesS theme from here

my Window Manager theme is Pepperlake, you can get that here

The background wallpaper is an epic creation from omns that is in /home/username/image/wallpapers/shared

dmhdlr · 2011-11-27 01:38:53

el_koraco wrote:

replicant wrote:
What handles wireless? Wicd?
network mangler.

Ha I always assumed that had GNOME or KDE depedencies.

el_koraco · 2011-11-27 01:42:17

The deamon doesn't. The applet does. But the deamon is useless without the applet. I agree with having NM in any distro, it's the best all-round option. Switching to one of the others is easy enough.

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dmhdlr · 2011-11-27 01:47:47

I love Network Manager. The latest version is especially good and responsive. It's obvious I haven't used #! in a while: #! uses nm-applet right?

Ozitraveller · 2011-11-27 03:03:43

VastOne wrote:

Ozitraveller wrote:
VastOne wrote:
Indeed.. Omns knows no boundaries...
@VastOne would you mind explaining what you did to achieve this? Thanks
Sure...
Installed Xfce 4.8 through pinning to Testing/Sid - Both panels, bottom and top right are xfce4 panels
Installed SlicknesS theme from here
my Window Manager theme is Pepperlake, you can get that here
The background wallpaper is an epic creation from omns that is in /home/username/image/wallpapers/shared

Thank you @VastOne much appreciated.

Nergal · 2011-11-27 05:36:45

Seeding both images.

I've been using the 32 bits image, so far so good, only had to load the firmware-brcm80211 package to get the built-in wireless working, very fast and low memory usage, no problems with iceweasel so far but it's a full install.

Thanks corenominal for the Christmas gift.

Phairoze · 2011-11-27 08:17:15

Well, just booted the 64bit image.... fantastic! Honestly, congratulations on such an outstanding release!

Thank you VERY much!

I really hope you, bobobex and your family & friends have a very lovely and wonderful Christmas and festive season. May you all have much happiness, as such you have created right here with Crunchbang.

Milozzy · 2011-11-27 08:37:14

el_koraco wrote:

The deamon doesn't. The applet does. But the deamon is useless without the applet. I agree with having NM in any distro, it's the best all-round option. Switching to one of the others is easy enough.

mmm and how did you controll it without the applet? I didn't know about that.

And I try to use slim in the past, but I always end up with problems with gnome-keyring. unable to automatically authenticated on login and the nedd of providing my password at every login to use NM.
I am really curious to see how Philip solved that.

SabreWolfy · 2011-11-27 08:55:43

I have Stater 10 OB installed on a netbook with /home on a separate partition. If I do a fresh install of the new 20111125 image and do not overwrite /home, all of my #! settings should remain? Or would it be better to trash /home and do a complete fresh install of the new image?

klanger · 2011-11-27 10:09:07

SabreWolfy wrote:

I have Stater 10 OB installed on a netbook with /home on a separate partition. If I do a fresh install of the new 20111125 image and do not overwrite /home, all of my #! settings should remain? Or would it be better to trash /home and do a complete fresh install of the new image?

As Corenominal says:

"A note to any existing Statler users: if you are happy with your current installation, I would suggest keeping it. However, if you are interested in using the new images, I would recommend backing up your data and performing a clean install. Ultimately, for reasons which I hope are obvious after reading this post, a clean install will take less time and will result in a cleaner system than if you try to bring your existing installation in line with the new Statler repositories. Apologies again if this causes any inconvenience, but in the long run, I hope it will be worth it."

Fresh install should be better in your case.

rizzo · 2011-11-27 10:30:25

Unia wrote:

omns wrote:
VastOne wrote:
Xfce4 looking pretty slick (and dark) if I say so myself
Nice background.
Shameless

It would appear so roll

@VastOne - in that shot it looks like the Xfce4.6 to 4.8 menu bug where the entries for Web browser etc disappear. Is this a fresh Statler (new images) installer with Xfce4 added or an older system?

SabreWolfy · 2011-11-27 11:31:03

klanger wrote:

As Corenominal says:
"A note to any existing Statler users: if you are happy with your current installation, I would suggest keeping it. However, if you are interested in using the new images, I would recommend backing up your data and performing a clean install. Ultimately, for reasons which I hope are obvious after reading this post, a clean install will take less time and will result in a cleaner system than if you try to bring your existing installation in line with the new Statler repositories. Apologies again if this causes any inconvenience, but in the long run, I hope it will be worth it."
Fresh install should be better in your case.

Thanks for the reply. I interpreted that to mean that it would be better to do a clean install of the OS and not try to "upgrade it", rather than meaning a complete clean install including overwriting /home. However, if I have backed up /home before, I can simply copy my rc.xml settings, etc. back into the new installation smile

dizzie · 2011-11-27 12:50:10

Ohh shiny! *beams*
Putting both 32 and 64 on my seedbox (which btw runs FreeBSD big_smile )

Sector11 · 2011-11-27 14:55:33

SabreWolfy wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I interpreted that to mean that it would be better to do a clean install of the OS and not try to "upgrade it", rather than meaning a complete clean install including overwriting /home. However, if I have backed up /home before, I can simply copy my rc.xml settings, etc. back into the new installation

That what I did but be careful with OpenBox

~/.config/openbox/menu.xml

The old shutdown, every last command:

     <execute>
          openbox-logout
     </execute>

new shutdown:

     <execute>
          cb-exit
     </execute>

Best to rename xyz.xml = xyz.xml_new then copy the old xyz.xml over ... that way you have a backup plan built in. Go slow, it will work.

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vicshrike · 2011-11-27 15:36:31

@dev about new Statler images: HOLY MAHOGANY!!!!!!!!!!!, #!inezz! of a genius!, thank you very much. Downloaded and installed, it is yet another masterpiece of work. I am all xtrmly smile

rhowaldt · 2011-11-27 16:12:44

ok, this is amazing, it is like corenominal has been reading my mind. here's the things i have done or tried to do (but failed, because i am a noob) on the old #! Statler install.
- install the .39 kernel (thanks again for the help el_koraco!)
- remove plymouth
- replace GDM (i failed multiple times and reverted my changes)
- replace chromium with firefox

all of these have been done by corenominal in this new image, which is just great (especially the GDM part). on top of that i use Openbox so i have no problem with XFCE being gone.

thanks a lot for this man. now i will just have to figure out how to make the transition in the best way. will probably mess something up but i think i'll live.

PS. just added the feed for corenominal.org to my Android RSS-reader (rssdemon) and i just want to thank you for including the entire text of each post in the feed, so i can just read it in full on my phone without having to press a 'more' button to open a browser. i really appreciate that.

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el_koraco · 2011-11-27 16:19:39

The 386 is more popular, about 2:1 against amd64.

snowpine · 2011-11-27 16:36:38

el_koraco wrote:

The 386 is more popular, about 2:1 against amd64.

Netbooks and old computers. smile

dizzie · 2011-11-27 16:40:11

snowpine wrote:

el_koraco wrote:
The 386 is more popular, about 2:1 against amd64.
Netbooks and old computers.

And those who dislike the 64 bit crap, most games can only use 32 bit gstreamer big_smile

AlanD · 2011-11-27 16:47:00

BoredOOMM wrote:

AlanD wrote:
<----- Rejoices at SLiM replacing GDM.
I love SLiM
Can you provide a screenshot? (this page says use F11 to take ss)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3735901/Crunch-SLiM.png

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