OPENBOX: Pony Muncher Release News

[machinebacon]

We got Cookies, but we also have Ponies of some sort. Many people regard eating horse meat as simply wrong, so we decided to go for the little ones, like what veal is to the beef.

LinuxBBQ Pony Muncher is Cookies on steroids. An Openbox hybrid session with following set of applications in the saddle:

- Google Chrome browser with Flash support OOTB
- Thunar File Manager
- urxvte terminal emulator
- Gpicview and Mirage as picture viewers, feh for quick previews
- Leafpad and Emacs24 editors
- Zathura PDF viewer
- Meld diff viewer
- Filezilla FTP client
- Sylpheed Mail Client
- GNOME Mplayer
- gtk-Recordmydesktop
- gtk-Redshift
- Pidgin Instant Messenger
- of course all CLI tools in a handy menu
- ansiweather, battstat and memstat added to Bash

New features are added, unique to the BBQ:

- Panelizer
Switch your panel on the fly. Right now, Pony Muncher lets you pick from XFCE4-panel, LXpanel, tint2 and dzen2. All preconfigured.

- Waitress
After installing and booting into the new Pony Muncher session, the Waitress will help you setting up your system: set keymap, set default panel, choose release model (static or rolling kernel), add PAE support, change kernel to Liquorix or Debian vanilla, change to aptitude, add APT helper tools, etc.

Of course it all fits a CD (613MiB/647M)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download

KNOWN BUGS:
Idiotic me has added the wrong gtkrc-2.0 to /etc/skel, so please manually edit:

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nano ~/.gtkrc-2.0

and change the first entry there to

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gtk-theme-name="NumixGrey"

or use lxappearance. Sorry and thanks!

[DebianJoe]

Bwa ha ha ha.
That's great, MB.

[machinebacon]

^ If time allows, please give it a ride (sic!)

[GekkoP]

Damn, now that you got me into CLI and 40MB of RAM usage you want me to try this one? *kidding*

[DebianJoe]

Okay, since I'm at work...I had a testbed AMD a10 with more RAM than anyone should ever need. Thought "Sure, I'll test out your spin there."

It's sharp looking, I'll give it that. The stock background and newer bootloader screens are a nice touch. I like the looks of the dkeg PS1, and the panel chooser works very well with the exception that hitting the cute little "X" button doesn't fully kill the switcher, it just respawns. The close button works, though, so that's not a game-breaker. "Nut Nutrition" is fun.

It's got more things than I'd ever use...but it's actually a really solid spin, with some really nicely riced-out extras. I would recommend highly to OB junkies...and even with all of that fun stuff, and me switching out panels and opening up a bunch of little programs...still was using right around 125MB ram. Will have small girl test as a alternate to Munchwhistle later on...see what she thinks, since she actually likes OB and panels.

[machinebacon]

^ Thanks Sir, so it works :D

[DebianJoe]

Yes, doesn't catch on fire or cause angry ants to crawl out of the floor and eat me. Didn't have to unpack ISO and chroot into environment and import virgin for demonic sacrifice to get it to boot.

(Trying to give some detailed feedback...rather than just saying "It's bloat" like I normally would.)

Edit: It's bloat.

[fog]

Still downloading but i'm falling in love only from the description :D
Thank you, thank you :D

[machinebacon]

Old friend Fog (not "old fiend Frog") hello again!

"All I want is you.
Everything has got to be just like you want it to-uh-oh-uh-oo.
Because..."

...you dig a pony :)

[fog]

There is definitely a connection between us my old friend.
There isn't any explanation for the perfect timing (iso/post) :D
Thanx for the ponies ;)

PS. I'm always around but silently, I heard is a pro for a woman. :P

[rhowaldt]

^^ lololol :D

P.S. i like it when women speak up sometimes, they often got good shit to say ;)

[machinebacon]

At the BBQ g(r)eek girls are responsible for washing up the dishes, no wonder you didn't dare to speak up :)
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Glad to see you again, hope you are doing fine!

[beta]

Oh - that is munchy.
Downloading now...

Q: Are the new goodies (bash configs, panelizer, etc) available on github or somewhere? Or is it best to run new stuff in vb and copy it over?

Thanks (und Entschuldigung!)

[machinebacon]

Yes. https://github.com/machinebacon

[dkeg]

Definitely looks to be a must spin for any Openbox lover. the black and grayish theme / look is nice.

[bones]

Of course I have to try this out, looks like a good one. OB is still my favorite WM bloat.

@fog - good to see you around the grill. Wanted to let you know that your photos have a permanent place in my bookmarks, really enjoy your work.

[wuxmedia]

finally;
english mirror -nope x3
french mirror - nope
german mirror- yeash!

testing soon

[machinebacon]

If mirrors are slow, here are some alternatives - attention: not all are synced.

HTTP: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/sites/downloads. ... /linuxbbq/
HTTP: http://download2.polytechnic.edu.na/pub ... /linuxbbq/
HTTP: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/kent ... /linuxbbq/
FTP: ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/sourceforge/l/li/linuxbbq/
FTP: ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/downl ... /linuxbbq/
FTP: ftp://ftp2.uk.freebsd.org/sites/downloa ... /linuxbbq/

[wuxmedia]

thanks for the list 8)
It wasn't the speed, my connection has been downgraded to 256+/- Kbs so no prob there.

[fog]

Thank you all for the warm welcome, the kind words and the music. :D

Well... it was love at first sight.
Already in my "baby": My lenovo with sidauction pae kernel, theme mine, conky and linuxbbq pony :D



I'm going to now :P

ps. no, not really. my dishwasher do the forum dishes too.
I'm going to customize my pony