LinuxBBQ

@wux - yeah, it seems to be a muscle relaxer. Usually a good rule of thumb is that if you see a chemical name with -ol in it, it is some sort of alcohol (has -OH somewhere in the structure.) But man with drugs, all bets are off.

@ivan - it is great. latex isn't the easiest thing in the world to deal with sometimes but it definitely helps when in the preamble of the document I can set the formatting for the entire document instead of having to go through all the pages and changing bits and pieces at a time.

@philly - you were talking about typos, I typed isopropanol (which I have heard of) and got a spell check error, it suggested cardi-whats-it (which I hadn't heard of) I was just wondering why that was.
Ignore me, talking rubbish, too much drugs :)

Well my last "Jessie" install got BORK!ed :) and by the way about isopropanol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol

Started with LinuxBBQ Bork which is still running well on a USB stick on a Dell D620and through this I have become more confident with commandline mounting usb drives from terminal and using moc for podcasts. I have started using Chicken wings on a Laptop that had Puppy based Fork distro on it and love it.

So a big thanks to Machinebacon and others for the work done on these spins it has revitalised my interest in Linux finding something challenging and new.

So in short my main OS is Bork.

^ very good!

Side note: a nice terminal based podcast catcher is also newsbeuter.

Thanks.

^ "one if us, one of us..." :)
really though, I only started here 2012, in 2014 (amongst other circumstances) I got a sysadmin job, doing what I love.
I directly attribute that to the BBQ. (as well as my mate being the manager) but I was prepared and confidence enabled here.
So yeah BBQ till I die. :)

wuxmedia wrote:^ "one if us, one of us..." :)
really though, I only started here 2012, in 2014 (amongst other circumstances) I got a sysadmin job, doing what I love.
I directly attribute that to the BBQ. (as well as my mate being the manager) but I was prepared and confidence enabled here.
So yeah BBQ till I die. :)

Nice :)

Finally got the wife off of using Vista (which has ran well for a long time, in the style of the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it" left it.
HDD died in her 2nd hand toshiba satellite A-something- so she got an SSD I had lying around (wouldn't fit my ancient machine) and a fresh Xubuntu install.

She only really uses chrome and libre office. which works super well, she notices how quick it is (probably thanks also to the SSD)
Big win this morning, her fathers printer 'just worked' - "...much easier than windows" she said!
Battery is fine, not amazing.
Load is fine, memory rarely touches a Gig when browsing in chrome (lots of FB tabs and so on)
Only downside is the hardness of getting HDMI working as we wanted, understandable, got it to work.
So yeah maybe a couple of years and she'll be running a son-of-BORK install :)

hdmi can be a pain, but as always depends on your hardware capabilities/drivers. found xrandr to be quite a simple way of setting things up.

^ yeah, mostly a case of fine tuning. we watched the film, and had audio through the TV, so that was nice.
the default player - parole - was a bit crap (full screen was not very full) such a delight to apt-get install mplayer2 and it just worked :)

Just thought I'd throw up a little update on what's running these days on my various machines:

HOME:
ThinkPad T61: still running Arch + MATE, until I break it/get bored, then I'll go back to OpenBSD.
ThinkCentre: OpenBSD + spectrwm/cwm

WORK:
Generic desktop: 9front

And as always, Mac OSX at work (10.6.8) and home (10.10.3).

No Slackware to be found. ;)

^ Nice setup, Bones! :) I cannot believe you no longer have slack!

Indeed, quite shocking, bones ;D

On the thinkpad T42 Still Roasted Roach
On Dell machine still running Bork my LTS
and Chicken Wings latest 586 build, Puppy Linux Dlite Squeeze Openbox latter 3 on sticks.

So, my "bloat-work needs" include inkscape, gimp, firefox, and chromium (for testing).

Right now I have two main machines, a tiny netbook and a rehabbed desktop:

Lappy386
Atom w/ 2gb ram
Debian sid netinst
dwm

Glenda
Core 2 Duo w/ 4gb ram (recent upgrade!)
OpenBSD 5.6
cwm + plan9port

I always keep the main BBQ release on as my rescue live-usb :)

I've tried other tilers but none can replace dwm on a little screen! I'm trying to prep Glenda for the grill as well.

In another news, I'm in the market for a bigger laptop (maybe 12-14"). Recommendations?

You already know we are Thinkpad freaks, the good old ones I mean. Grab one with the 14" screen e.g. I love the T series.

Yup, what ivan said, 14" T series ThinkPads are the sweet spot.

T anything, but it needs the three big letters on it :)