Re: Xbuntu

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:11:33 -0600, §ñühw¤£f wrote:

On 27 Sep 2007 18:03:37 +0200
Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wasted precious bandwith with:

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:35:15 -0600, §ñühw¤£f wrote:

On 26 Sep 2007 17:25:01 +0200
Mark South <mark.south@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wasted precious bandwith
with:

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:51:39 -0600, §ñühw¤£f
wrote:>
Also look at Absolute Linux, which will run like a rocket on
your> hardware but still has (nearly) all the conveniences and
comforts.

But no built in wifi, no automounting of pcmcia cards...

Wifi support is there. I have a laptop in the next room
connected> right now. Using a PCMCIA card. So I have no idea
what you mean.>
Did you have to get madwifi and install that first?

This one's running on ndiswrapper.

Looks like I'll have to read the manual for the ndiswrapper...

A secret about ndiswrapper: you don't need the manual. Just type:

ndiswrapper -h

and it'll tell you everything you need to know.

It'd be nice if I could just pop the card in and have a nice GUI
to configure it with...the pcmcia-linux site says my Netgear
WG511T*is* linux compatible.

Wi-fi Radar and RutilT are great for setting up connections.
Absolute has WFR and ndiswrapper included.

Command line stuff I presume.

WFR=WiFi Radar. Nice little GUI app for connecting to wireless networks.

If you meant "automounting of removeable drives", 12.oX does
that> if you have HAL automounting on.

Well I think I prolly do a "mkdir /mnt/sandisk" and then mess
around in fstab to get it to work. I'm learning slowly...

With HAL and udev you should not need to do any of that. Which is
the point of having them.

Well the automounting is turned on and the pcmcia card is in the
slot but it dosent show anything in Rox.

I'm not sure we're communicating here. A PCMCIA/Cardbus card is a device,
not a drive. (Unless it holds a drive - is that what we're talking
about?) You won't see it in Rox.

Also cardmgr and cardctl arnt included...funny how they left those
out.

Not funny, simply correct. cardmgr and cardctl from pcmcia-cs use the
older, deprecated, PCMCIA kernel interface. For modern kernels, you
should be using pcmciautils, which does everything from the pccard
command. This is what Absolute has.

I put it on a compaq Duron 900 laptop and while its "fast"
its> > also pretty sparse on features that are included with a
kde> > desktop.

So is anything else that doesn't have KDE, and the OP was
asking> about an XFCE-based distro.

Ugh...xfce is horrid. He wants zenwalk linux then...minislack
became"zenwalk" and decided to make xfce the default for them.
KDE is much easier.

Actually, I quite like XFCE, but it has gotten nearly as porky as
the other desktop environments.

Today I set up an old box to serve as a testbed for some stuff I'm
messing with. Debian Lenny base install, add xorg-server,
Firefox, and fvwm-crystal and it's a good-looking
semi-desktop-environment setup that runs like a rocket on a 1GHz
P3 and takes up 1.1GB of disk.

I bet.

After a day or so of using it I wonder why I even bother with even
vaguely new hardware. This setup is fast and pretty and all the bits are
from last century.

Absolute seems aimed at the "educational" market. Maybe its not really
for average users.

My impression was that it is designed to run well on modest hardware and
at the same time to provide a generally useful subset of Slackware that
contains the programs and tools used by most people on the desktop:
browse, email, chat, write letters.

But try a few different distros, it's pretty cheap entertainment :-)
.

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