WednesdayMorning

Oops..

Just a follow on report from the crunchbang install. So the plan was to install crunchbang on my second HD and leave the windows HD intact, the fact that i’ve reiterated this is probably telling you. “oh my what went wrong?”, I swear that i checked and double checked which HD was the windows HD but yes I managed to install linux over my windows parition however I did back everything up! Go me, proactive backuping is the way to go!

Crunchbang Review (Full)

So i’ve been spending the day or so setting up my crunchbang distro on the desktop (trying to come up with a funny name for it) and generally playing around with the full version. I’m  used to the limited set of applications that comes with Cruncheee, the crunchbang iso was a good 200MB larger than the cruncheee one but however only took me a few minutes to download from the labs (using the crunchbang official list not the mirror), got to love that internet connection! I’ve got to hand it to phillip (corenominal) he has put together a fantastic list of starting applications, pretty much anything you want to do you can straight out off the box! Speaking of box, it also runs openbox as well as cruncheee (kind of crunchbangs selling point) and I have to say that my system is more responsive and quicker to boot than it ever was on windows.

Crunchbang is also very “fuss free” meaning that nothing required any real knowledge of linux to get working, my USB wireless adaptor worked straight out of the box with no problems. I was always having problems with it in windows and I swear I get a better more constant signal off it that I did before. I’m a relatively unexperienced linux user and the only real problem i’ve come across is nitrogen crashing when i try to set the image for my two screens to be different however its working fine for the few dual screens desktop wallpapers I have. If anyone knows of anygood 2560×1024 wallpapers let me know .

Semester 2

Well this post has taken me a few days (what i wrote above was from nearly 2 days ago). Since hten the gf has installed crunchbang as her primary OS too (shes also a computer scientist) and we are both finding it quite nice to use linux as our only operating system. Semester 2 is here (as you may guess from the sub-title) and anyone who’s been following the weather in england can tell it was a perfect begining, it was a total nightmare getting in today and I’m really worried about tomorrow and the ice :s.

I’m going to leave it there, i’ll post up some off my idea’s for the arcade script in a few days. See what you guys think

Darius