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by keithpeter
2017-12-29 15:25
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4233030

Re: What does your desktop look like?

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/screenFetch-2017-12-29_15-41-45.png Debian 9 installed on my old X60 with no desktop and added Xorg, network-manager, evilwm, mtpaint, mpg123, vlc and a few other bits and pieces together with openoffice and firefox 58 beta running from downloaded binary packages. No .xinitrc...
by keithpeter
2016-09-04 18:15
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

If it's not a personal question, can I inquire after your system load averages (as seen in top(1) ) Fresh desktop (xfce4/slim) on an ancient dual core X60 thinkpad with Intel graphics and 1Gb of RAM doing nowt except top -n and thunar. 32 bit as the processor won't do 64bit (early core duo) and usb...
by keithpeter
2016-09-04 16:22
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/images/OpenBSD6_thumb.jpg OpenBSD 6.0 with xfce4 and using the xfce4-mount-plugin with a doas.conf file allowing the user to run the mount and unmount commands, and a line in fstab. I'm hoping someone comes up with a way of recovering the functionality of Antoine Jacou...
by keithpeter
2016-06-15 14:21
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [SOLVED]Obsessed with Speed and looking for opinions
Replies: 10
Views: 4928

Re: Obsessed with Speed and looking for opinions

If OP has a reliable mains electricity supply, then a really cheap and basic way of increasing the *apparent* start up speed of the desktop would be to set up suspend to RAM with an appropriate time out. Just leave it switched on all the time. Wiggle the mouse when you want to do some work/games &am...
by keithpeter
2016-06-02 18:31
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/images/slack14_1xfce4thumb.jpg Slackware 14.1, xfce 4.10 stock, OpenOffice 4.1.2 (because it does not freeze on me when loading book length legacy documents from 10 years ago) and multimedia from Kikinovak's microlinux. Solid and reassuring. Nothing edgy. xfce4-redmond...
by keithpeter
2016-05-15 09:13
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4233030

Re: What does your desktop look like?

Well, I saw the Steampunk theme choice for Cinnamon, so I installed it. And I figured that if you're going to have steam, you're going to need a good clock. Just fire up a terminal and enter 'crontab -e' and enter a similar clock sound theme. Thanks for the reminder about crontab. Playing with vari...
by keithpeter
2016-05-13 20:11
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4233030

Re: What does your desktop look like?

michael@debian wrote:Finally got my clocks and manometers working, ticking and chiming like a big old grandfather clock on my new install of Debian (Stretch) Testing. Had to get the crontab right but it works great.
How do they work? Great cyber-punk potential here. Spiffing.
by keithpeter
2016-04-09 15:58
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: List of your linux Apps
Replies: 441
Views: 577436

Re: List of your linux Apps

There are very few quality (pro) applications for linux, Oh, Sir, I think that depends on your definition of 'quality (pro)'. R and RStudio (makes me a little money) Blender (one I intend to play with more in the future) Texlive (central to anyone writing stuff about maths and science) SuperCollide...
by keithpeter
2016-04-07 13:29
Forum: General Debian
Topic: I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver
Replies: 51
Views: 30084

Re: I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver

Quite funny really: jwz is of course famous for his key role in the Netscape -> Mozilla open source transition. He seems to find the *concept* of a stable distribution not changing over a timescale of 2 or 3 years other than for severe security concerns surprisingly difficult to grasp. With regard t...
by keithpeter
2016-04-05 22:06
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

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PCBSD 10.3 installed on a Dell E5240 i5.

I'm *reinstalling* KDE from within a fluxbox session after a little slip whilst trying to get my head around AppCafe. :oops:
by keithpeter
2016-03-17 21:04
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

Slackware 14.1 with KDE http://s21.postimg.org/p1tipzdgj/snapshot1.jpg http://s21.postimg.org/xwud0i293/snapshot1.png Excellent taste Sir. Have a look at kikinovak's MLED (Microlinux Enterprise) for a Slackware based xfce4 desktop with curated slackbuilds. Below on Slackware 14.1 base. http://sohca...
by keithpeter
2016-03-08 21:45
Forum: General Debian
Topic: RAM comparison thread
Replies: 19
Views: 18507

Re: RAM comparison thread

Hello All Fun thread. I suspect that the way the kernel allocates RAM will depend on the amount of RAM in the machine, so can we all please state that or simply copy the output of free -m? Below a series of measurements on my minimal Jessie 32 bit install on a Thinkpad X200 with 2Gb of RAM and a 64G...
by keithpeter
2016-03-07 22:59
Forum: General Debian
Topic: What internet browser to replace iceweasel/firefox?
Replies: 64
Views: 33833

Re: What internet browser to replace iceweasel/firefox?

Hello All I'm using the surf Web browser under dwm and/or wm2. I can invoke surf from dmenu with an -s argument so switching JavaScript off for some uses. I use a hosts file to block many of the clickbait farm advertising sites so things are calmer. All on a Jessie minimal system, currently with bin...
by keithpeter
2016-02-25 08:31
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Dev1 subforum...
Replies: 20
Views: 7697

Re: Dev1 subforum...

Good points, but with a release as potentially important as Devuan, to hide its development in a mailing list seems a bit counterintuitive, albeit it is a bit traditional for developers to do so. Linus and Lennaert do not use forums. Debian-devel is where the Debian developers/packagers hang out an...
by keithpeter
2016-02-23 21:49
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5849
Views: 4233030

Re: What does your desktop look like?

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A window manager on top of wheezy (installed from a live 'standard' iso I found out) and not much else. A less slim version of the old school desktop.
by keithpeter
2016-02-19 17:59
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: operating systems without systemd
Replies: 305
Views: 167293

Re: operating systems without systemd

OK, I'll get flamed for this, but I give you ChromiumOS from Google as an example of a systemd free GNU/Linux distro :twisted: I'm playing with the free version from neverware.com. They are trying to base a business on re-purposing older laptops in schools and colleges. They have added a range of ha...
by keithpeter
2016-02-18 10:58
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: operating systems without systemd
Replies: 305
Views: 167293

Re: operating systems without systemd

Hello All Zenwalk Linux 8 beta2 64bit only is basically a very opinionated version of Slackware Linux -current that boots into runlevel 4 and that is based around the xfce4 DE. Zenwalk thus occupies a place on the list of GNU/Linux operating systems that do not depend on systemd at present. The auth...
by keithpeter
2016-02-07 16:08
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?
Replies: 1756
Views: 2138037

Re: What does your non-Debian desktop look like?

Oh, and replaced NetworkManager with a custom unit file for systemd I feel at /home now 8) @HOAS: I read the miniguide at... https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=546 ...but I'm just wondering about coffee shops. I tend to use about 4 main locations. Some unencrypted, others wpa/wpa2. In W...
by keithpeter
2016-01-26 10:39
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Slackware is getting 'pulseaudio'
Replies: 8
Views: 4578

Re: Slackware is getting 'pulseaudio'

From the Slackware -current ChangeLog Wed Jan 13 00:01:23 UTC 2016 Hey folks, happy new year! After upgrading to BlueZ 5 recently, everything seemed to be working great, but then it was pointed out that Bluetooth audio was no longer working. The reason was that the newer BlueZ branch had dropped ALS...
by keithpeter
2016-01-03 09:12
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Trusting the hardware in the future
Replies: 3
Views: 2107

Re: Trusting the hardware in the future

@hoas: I'm hoping *one* of these open processors gets enough buy in to start the next wave of the three freedoms: making/hardware hacking is what a lot of younger people are into now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_microprocessors I'm rooting for 9front on an OpenRisc processor implemen...