Mixed bag

[wuxmedia]

back on the bloat

[pidsley]

^ very pretty wux. I like that wall. just fyi, screenfetch-dev has a -s switch to take a scrot right after you run it (plain screenfetch has this switch too)

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screenfetch-dev -s

(I just discovered this recently, so I am now forced to tell everyone about it as if I invented it)

[machinebacon]

Pidsley, VoidLinux is the only really interesting Linux out there. can you tell me if they have the LXDE packages in the repos? I haven't yet checked their distro due to lack of time and space :)

[pidsley]

Pidsley, VoidLinux is the only really interesting Linux out there. can you tell me if they have the LXDE packages in the repos? I haven't yet checked their distro due to lack of time and space :)

I tried installing LXDE, and it kills X. I didn't do much investigating, so you might have better luck. The dev is on IRC (freenode #xbps), and he is very helpful.

If you decide to install it, one thing I learned is that the package database format changed from the current iso, so after downloading you need to do (as root)

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xbps-install -Su xbps
xbps-install -Syu

To update the package manager and its database to the current packages. Otherwise any installs and updates will fail.

[machinebacon]

Huh, looks like a pacman fork to me (maybe the one from Frugalware)

Thanks for the info Pidsley! Maybe I put it on my netbook for a test.

[wuxmedia]

void linux does look interesting.

@pidsley thanks for the -s switch - the wall was taken at the beach - i should put a bunch up in the wallpapers section,

[pidsley]

Just for the baconator, LXDE on Void 64-bit.

[ivanovnegro]

This distro is indeed sounding really cool.

[bones]

Nothing fancy, pretty much stock 32-bit Trollinger, on a ancient desktop here at work, browsing Windows shares and such.

[swftech]

Trollinger looks good default anyway Dr_Bones. I like the "spooner" hostname haha, I laughed when I saw that. We had some slang meanings for that in High school, and I had a friend with the last name spooner and he use to catch all kinds of slack. :D

Also reminds me of a good tune by Soundgarden Spoonman

[bones]

Trollinger looks good default anyway Dr_Bones. I like the "spooner" hostname haha, I laughed when I saw that. We had some slang meanings for that in High school, and I had a friend with the last name spooner and he use to catch all kinds of slack. :D

Also reminds me of a good tune by Soundgarden Spoonman

Yeah, the Baconator does a good job of sexing up LXDE, yes?

Haha, I have actually had the pleasure of meeting Artis the Spoonman, whom that song is about. Great guy. And I've seen Soundgarden a number of times, the first time of which was about 1988, at a small club in Corvallis, Oregon, seven bands for $7!

[machinebacon]

@pidsley, thanks for the LXDE shot there. I've made the decision to put Void on the Pi and play around with it when the monsoon comes.

@clooney: LXDE is eye-cancer by default, it just needs a black panel and the "flat buttons" turned on.

[bones]

@clooney: LXDE is eye-cancer by default, it just needs a black panel and the "flat buttons" turned on.

Eye-cancer, indeed. Should be interesting to see what happens now that they're going qt, and merging with razor-qt.

[machinebacon]

I expect the worst, design-wise.

[ivanovnegro]

^ That. Razor-Qt is also eye cancer, Gtk themes fix it even on a Qt platform.

[machinebacon]

And exactly this is the problem. Fix a broken leg by cutting it off.

[pidsley]

GNOME 3.8 on Void Linux



It only uses 450M at startup, and 664M with a few apps running. That's not bloated, is it? :-) It's not going to make me stop using my mini WMs, but it's fun to play with.

(edit) I lied. I just tried it again, and at cold start it's only using 320M, and with a browser, VLC, and a terminal open, only 342M.

[machinebacon]

450M on startup, huh. Must be zeitgeist ;)

[ivanovnegro]

^ Because on Debian it is just about 250 MB.

[pidsley]

^ ^^ ^^^ I lied. I just tried it again, and at cold start it's "only" using 320M, and with a browser, VLC, and a terminal open, 342M.