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Ah, bittersweet. I came to Crunchbang after switching my household computers to Linux. Ubuntu was getting too bloated but I didn't have the time to make raw Debian look the way I wanted; I wanted to spend more time on the commandline but didn't feel like going all Gentoo-like. Crunchbang really hit the sweet spot for me. Thoughtful defaults and a great-looking UI that just got out of my way so I could focus on what I was doing.
Corenominal, no, Phillip: Sir, you are a gentleman and I thank you for all the time you put into this project.
bobobex: Thank you, thank you for granting Corenominal the time to work on this project for all of us, and for your presence in the forums.
Moderators: You've been doing an awesome job of keeping the forums civil, friendly, and technical. Hat's off to you!
Crunchbang FTW!
I've got Waldorf installed on my Thinkpad x200 and my wife's x230. Hers was experiencing crashes like thes a couple weeks ago, but mine was fine. I installed the Liquorix kernel and that seems to have solved it. Sorry, didn't record the kernel version that was causing the problems.
I installed the Liquorix kernel because it looked interesting and once I tried my computer seemed snappier. Everything was fine until this morning.
- I did an apt-get update/upgrade and noticed that the liquorix kernel was held back.
- Did a dist-upgrade with smxi. Everything seemed fine.
- Then I tried to fire up to run a VM in VirtualBox (non-OSE) and it wouldn't work. VBox complained that the "VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv".
- I tried running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as suggested in the pop-up but it complained that the kernel source was missing or some such.
- I wish I'd cut-and-pasted that message because after a reinstall of VBox and booting with an earlier kernel /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup is now missing.
Update: Solved the VBox problem by uninstalling and reinstalling again. False alarm. But the issue of the kernel source being missing was worrisome.
Pi was one of my coolest movie experiences. Went to see an advance screening after seeing a rack card in a record shop. The card had almost no information on it, just the symbol, the digits of pi in tiny print, and a time and place. There was no information on the Net (this was 1998). It was a truly mind-altering experience.
I came out of that movie with a fascination for the aesthetic of the command-line and for weird/obsolete computing form-factors like the S-100 bus. Researching the movie I discovered a real instance of mathematicians building a supercomputer in their New York apartment: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1992/0 … _000362534
I also really like this Argentinian movie called Moebius that screened once at the UCLA Film School in the late 1990s. It was a low-budget movie by a film teacher and his students about a Buenos Aires subway train that goes missing. The city of course hires a topologist to figure out what's going on (of course!). The spirit of Borges hangs over the film and it has an ending that feels kind-of like 2001. Not ever released as far as I know. Saw it on Google Video once.
In no particular order:
- Coolest distro name evar.
- Looks really geeky, especially with a lot of terminals open.
- It gets out of my way when I want it to. No extra chrome to distract. It has the simplicity I want from a tiling window manager but with normal key commands.
- Debian Testing.
- The community comes up with cool hacks like dunst and crunchbox.
- Crunchbang makes my Thinkpad x200 feel like a new laptop.
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