Fluxbuntu
I’ve just noticed that Fluxbuntu appears to be at a reasonably stable stage now. Methinks it’s time for a reinstall on my laptop…
(FYI, I’ve been running a heavily bastardised *buntu-based linux installation on my oldish Dell C640 for some time. I’ve messed around with the packaging way too much to call it Ubuntu or Kubuntu – indeed, at various times I’ve tried not just the GNOME and KDE packages, but Xfce as well (Xubuntu), and then settled on Fluxbox with GDM underneath. This was before the concept of Fluxbuntu existed. After spending a lot of time yesterday customising the Fluxbox interface, I succeeded (somehow) in removing all display managers. I then put XDM on, and now Fluxbox comes up, but without functional menus… so I can’t even launch a virtual terminal. Ah well…)
My longer term aim is to actually build a linux install from the ground up – I want Fluxbox, but I probably don’t want a lot of what comes with Fluxbuntu. This might signal my first change from *buntu for some years…
Oh yeah, and to conclude my previous post, Airset is vastly overengineered for my needs, but does sync well to Palm devices, so I’m using that. I plan to set up some complicated iCal sharing at some point between Airset, facebook, Google Calendar/Mail, and other webapps, which could be quite cool.
“For some years”, you’ve only been using that laptop for about a year and a half…
Well, if you want to ‘actually build a linux install from the ground up’ then you can do worse than gentoo – it takes a bit but the fact that you end up understanding ALL of the configuration means you can do what you want with it! – it’s got good enough to be stable for all be the most mission-critical applications and if you want help going thru an install then give me a shout.
@Georgie: I said “for some time”, not “for some years”!
@Fish: yeah, I’ve been considering gentoo for a while – a couple of other readers of this blog have also dabbled with it. It is on my long term list of “things I’d like to do” but I don’t think it’s a wise idea ~4 months before finals…;)
Just say no to Gentoo.