3 week project – part 5 – #!CrunchBang

About two days ago I installed CrunchBang Linux and I am pretty much amazed. I haven’t really investigated why yet, but it runs SO fast. By that I mean considerably faster than anything else I’ve tried on this computer.
CrunchBang has conky running by default, which is a nice touch and also means that I can [...]

3 week project – part 4

So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]

3 week project

I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]

Here we go again…

For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]

Recent changes

I know its been a while since my last post… I’ve been pretty busy with work and during that time I also wrecked the install on my desktop computer.
I’d been meaning to back up all my stuff on my desktop system and wipe it, just so that I could adjust the partitioning… no lvm set [...]

Slackware 12.1

I kinda neglected to mention on here that I’ve been using Slackware 12.1 recently. Actually…since it was released. At first my intention was to install it on a separate partition from Archlinux and dual boot; I even considered leaving one of them as a “free” distro and the other with “non-free” packages installed but the [...]

History of distros

This post is intended to outline a brief history of ny use of Linux Distributions so you know my experience in that field.
Jan 2003: Red Hat 9
It didn’t take me long to break this… I [...]