OPENBOX: Bakewell (amd64) Release Notes

[machinebacon]

...and then fellow user 'missinglink' asked for a new Openbox roast...

So, this is the secret recipe. You want Openbox without bullshit? An ISO smaller than 400MB? No gtk3 crap that will pull in the world of GNOME? Why you no bakewell?

Probably you found Coal (and Trollinger) too heavy, Darkside too crunchy, Cameltoe too X-ish, Dominator too rude, Elektra too sexy, Kielbasa too outdated, Sid too stable, Testing too borked, Stable too stale, the release notes tl;dr ?!

Do it. Download it. Install it. Bloat it. Snapshot it. Release it. Do whatever you like with it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbbq/files/

[bones]

Downloading now, will test 'er at home this evening!

[DebianJoe]

Dear Jules,
I cannot test releases as fast as you can make them. Good idea, though. I may see if I can talk the little girl into trying this one out.
-Joe

[rhowaldt]

Dear Joe,

We have been dealing with this problem for a long time now. Frankly, I believe the man is insane, and spends his lifetime roasting releases and facehumping Chinese girls while eating some undefined and raunchy foreign meat-dish. This is the only explanation I have. If this is not the case, I am lost, which I probably am already anyway, so what does it matter? Nothing! I'll just go make some more Wiki entries now...

-Roald

[4eyes]

What can I say?

I am touched and made humble that my surname has been used for what will surely be one of the foremost distros released in the last 15 minutes.

I am lost for words, so I will call on the wonderfully eloquent, and sorely missed, Professor Stanley Unwin to express how I feel: .... over to you professor

[missinglink]

...and then fellow user 'missinglink' asked for a new Openbox roast...

I dediacte this message to the time MB spends trying to smarten up this chump.
[BBvideo 560,340]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHgv4McMJUk[/BBvideo]
Great googley moogley, Bakewell! Next time I'll try to be more careful what I ask for.
Actually got it running live on the 3rd attempt. First two tries with dd to different usb keys hung up during boot. Emptied my diaper and xfburned a cd with eventual live success.

Show me how to save the scroll-o-matic fail live boot messages and I'll post a description next time. The cd had wackadoodle boot messages before I finally typed the command it wanted, allowing me to get to a startx point. Might have been possible with the usb keys, dunno.
IIrc, might have been the "failed to start LSB ... run /etc/rc.local if it exist ... See 'systemctl status rc.local.service' for details" - but don't hold me to that.

Oughta do a video next time so you guys can laugh your asses off.
Bakewell is def a black n blue schoolyard special. That's appropriate. It'll take a whole buttload of osmosis learning before I know enough to use this. All the more reason, I suppose, to give it a partition of its own. You know, right next to Darkside/Lightside/PenBang and Trollinger. Awesome spins anyone can put to use right now.

Somebody pls get back on YouTube and post howtos for the advanced software componentry. I can't wait to have to log in to a YouTube account to view the fbomb laced videos, "Clit for beginners," "Take a spin on our Boner," "GangBang: 50 wms in 50 minutes." Imagine the video suggestions scrolling down the right side pane.

Don't fret, I'll be baaack to get my bbq'd ass kicked around the campfire while youse guys howl at the flaming marshmallows igniting my lettuce.

[DebianJoe]

Finally got around to checking this one out. I tried to talk the little girl into installing it. She asked how long it would take...I told her that she'd be doing it and I was only going to help if she needed it. She says, "Hmmmm, well, I'll just stick to (sic) 'the one that was all gray at first' for now."

So I booted it instead, deciding that she'll be posting up .conkyrc configs with S11 in the near future. Our kids always have to rebel somehow.

My Review: The best parts are scrot-via-menu, BSD games, the fact that "Volume" == alsamixer, jed for text edits, CENI, and the fact that it doesn't suck. I thought about just writing the word "bloat" a whole lot with some features mentioned, but the truth is....for OB, it's not bad at all.

Seems like a nice little release. :D

Edit: After about 30 minutes...she asked to see what it looked like. I showed her, and she asked about other options. She's currently installing Coal 64....there may be hope for her yet.

[bones]

Ah, ok, the backstory to the photo. I read the other thread before this one.

[bones]

Posting from live Bakewell, btw, listening to trance radio, using Roaster, etc. Nice little loaf of OB goodness, bacon.

[machinebacon]

So glad to hear that people of all ages and genders are capable of lovin' the purity!

Happy baking :)

[vic]

holy bakonatory...you are killing me... will bbqfeast;)

[paolo]

Wow ! I try it when I come back in the next weeks !
Thanks boss !

[MrPink]

This is may be my favourite release so far (followed closely by Enough).
I only have one complaint: the xterm color scheme. In certain scenarios it is black on black and unreadable, htop for example..

[vic]

Decided to check out Bakewell, the live usb did not work, downloaded and dd`ed again with the same result. Probably what missinglink experienced. Same thing happened with Coal64. This is the first time this has happened to me, so I were a little bit agitated for a while;) The message that I finally got were this;

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unable to find a medium containing a live file system
          modprobe:module i 8042 not found in modules dep
          modprobe:module atkbd not found in modules dep

Just wanted to mention this in case it happens to otheers too. Fixed my dilemma with burning the iso to cd and installed, everything works as supposed it seems, except the wireless, works for only a short while, then ceni has to be reconfigured, but I read somewhere here that it is a kernel thing, so I am cabeling when necessary.

[machinebacon]

Thanks vic.
The 'module' warnings are unrelated, you can ignore them.
I am rather confused about the live file system error - I suppose DebianJoe (for example) used a USB stick to install (just guessing), and here for me it works too, as well as running in a vbox.

By the way, fixing the wireless you can try by installing the 3.9-8 kernel ("search 3.9-8" should work in terminal, and then install the header and image)

Short question to anyone who reads this:
- Did you have successfully installed/booted recent amd64 versions (Bakewell, Coal64, Wifey) from USB?

[machinebacon]

Okay, little update on the USB issue:
judging from bug reports this seem to happen on an off with some kernels that confuse the disk order. You can try to (when the error is shown) remove the USB stick and put it back.
Others at Ubuntu report changing to an older USB2.0 socket would work.
Others changed the boot order to 1) USB 2) HD 3) CD/DVD

The built process is all the same here, so it must be something related to extlinux/syslinux/squashfs upstream and the kernel/initramfs. No idea right now...

[DebianJoe]

I used a CD-RW. Haven't tried it using the dd-to-USB method.

(edit) My mistake: Coal was CD, I dd'd Cameltoe. And didn't have any issue. I did have issues similar to the above when trying Boner the first time via USB, which I solved by verifing checksums, and then burning a physical disk. I had pulled it on a Win7 machine at work, and so I assumed that YUMI was the culprit.

[wuxmedia]

'pompous' works ok. here, posting from it right now.

[machinebacon]

Thanks for the feedback, guys.
I've come to the conclusion that it depends on three factors:
- kernel
- initramfs-tools (I always blame them!)
- hardware/BIOS
Very hard to rule the problem out, especially because I can't reproduce it here, not even when I disable all HDs in BIOS. Extremely annoying, because under the hood nothing has changed, except the kernel/extlinux/syslinux versions. I'll make a test spin (some small ISO with an obscure WM) and revert to older build tools, hopefully some of you guys can check it then and report back. Obviosuly, only the 64bit is affected. Anyway the architecture I hate with all my fucking heart.
Or we finally drop 64-bit for good. There's enough "Base" to pick from and I might bump 1-2 of them every few weeks. The grill is predestined for 32bit, yey. Opinions?

[wuxmedia]

suits me, chief.