Hello
Submitted by tcrroadie on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 17:55.
Hi Chad. My name is Kris and I live in the State of Michigan. I'm an Automotive Technition by trade at the moment, but love to tinker with all of my PC's. I have been using Linux now for nearly 4 years and it is my primary OS. One of my boxes does duel boot Windows XP, but I only use Windows for Photoshop and for editing videos from my wifes camcorder. I have a total of 5 computers now that have Linux installed on them. Two desktop boxes, two laptops (12" Apple ibook G4 and an IBM T23) and my latest toy, Sony's Playstation 3. My primary Linux distrobution is Ubuntu, but in the past I have run OpenSuse, Debian, Slackware, Zenwalk, VectorLinux, and PCLinuxOS. My desktop environment of choice is Gnome, but I also use Fluxbox on my Playstation 3 and Enlightenment E17 on my IBM T23.
Like some other posters here, I found your podcast via Chess over at Linux Reality. It is great to hear a new podcast on Linux. You'r doing a great job so far, so keep up the good work.
Wow Kris, Great to have such
Wow Kris,
Great to have such an experienced users in our Ranks. I've not used Zenwalk and VectorLinux, Sounds interesting! How do you like Fluxbox? I've tried it but it has been quite a while. I need to try it again because I need an alternative for that old comp upstairs I talked about that I put GOS on.
Anyway thanks for stopping by!
Chad
Zenwalk and Fluxbox
Both Zenwalk and VectorLinux are Slackware based, so if you have used Slackware in the past, you will feel right at home. My personal preference is Zenwalk, because it is so fast and stable. I highly recommend checking Zenwalk out.
In my opinion, Fluxbox really is the best window manager on Earth. It is fast, stable and easy to configure. One of the best things I like about Fluxbox is that because all of Fluxboxes configuration files are stored in your /home/user/.fluxbox directory, it is easy to backup and use the config on multiple machines. Getting Fluxbox going on Ubuntu is very easy. When you install Fluxbox on Ubuntu, it will automatically generate a Fluxbox menu for you, adding the applications that are installed on your system to your menu. From there you can edit your menu to suite your own needs. And the memory usage is outstanding. Just simply using Fluxbox instead of Gnome frees up over 80MB of RAM. Here are some great links to documentation and themes for Fluxbox.
fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Category:English_howtos
fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/html/
www.box-look.org/
My project list is getting
My project list is getting bigger and bigger by the second. Thanks for the info!!