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Temetka · 2016-01-19 08:05:19

I had an Ultra 10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_10

The mini-tower system. I was wrong on the CPU though. I had the single 440MHz CPU. I also had a PC card that had an AMD (iirc) cpu on it and let me run windows-y stuff.

At the time I was doing junior sysadmin work for a small ISP in a town nearby. I was given the weakest (read: oldest) machine to use at the time I was hired. This was around 2003. I worked there for about 2 years before they were bought out and all new staff brought in. I jokingly told my boss that I really like my Sun box and that I was taking it with me. He told me to wait for the transition team to leave and to take it out the back door. I looked at him like "wtf" and he basically said "they fired me too, screw 'em."

You do not tell me twice to take hardware, because by the time you 10% through the way of telling me the 2nd time I am already loading it my vehicle.

nobody0 · 2016-01-22 21:50:44

hinto wrote:

@ostrolek as far as nelum os (ubuntu version) goes, the only downside in the visual is some black borders around some of the gnome apps like Calculator (gedit looks a little odd, but that's gedit) while running in virtual box on the mac. Not sure what will happen running live or installed.
Very cool distro, tho. Haven't seen many openbox/ubuntu distros.
-H

I found the answer to this problem. It is not Compton, but the GTK 3.16 giving trouble. http://www.webupd8.org/2015/11/fix-larg … eader.html

C#Coder4ever · 2016-01-22 22:20:14

No wonder I'm opting for Qt for front end programs if I decide to write em'

Irulan · 2016-01-22 22:20:38

Thanks. (still a neat distro)
...and nice easy fix.
Once I get my Lenovo to post again... it might be time to hop.
-H

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nobody0 · 2016-01-23 11:28:44

Someone was saying he would like to learn to make a live iso. This might be of some help.

nobody0 · 2016-01-27 08:34:45

The good and the bad of Nelum, http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83031.html

nobody0 · 2016-02-01 22:16:22

After ~1250 downloads in 6 days, it showed that people are more interested in Ubuntu Openbox than Debian Sid/Jessie to 3:1.
The "looks" in all three distros were the same.

Irulan · 2016-02-02 01:34:47

I've been gravitating more and more to OpenBox, especially since Linux is really the workhorse of my virtual machines.
-Hinto

ratcheer · 2016-02-02 14:42:24

I have used Openbox almost exclusively for the past several years. I flirted with tiling wm's a couple of years ago, but I came back to Openbox and stuck with it.

My desktop has no decorations of any kind. No panel, no icons, no visible menus. Just a plain blue solid background. I manage the "pop-up" floating menus for whatever applications I like to use, and also the key combinations to start applications.

Tim

Snap · 2016-02-03 08:15:56

^ Same here, but on Fluxbox instead. I barely use the menu either. It's all keystrokes.

dummie789 · 2016-02-04 18:05:31

ratcheer wrote:

I have used Openbox almost exclusively for the past several years. I flirted with tiling wm's a couple of years ago, but I came back to Openbox and stuck with it.
My desktop has no decorations of any kind. No panel, no icons, no visible menus. Just a plain blue solid background. I manage the "pop-up" floating menus for whatever applications I like to use, and also the key combinations to start applications.
Tim

Snap wrote:

^ Same here, but on Fluxbox instead. I barely use the menu either. It's all keystrokes.

My kind of users. Let's get together for coffee some time!

photonucleon · 2016-02-04 19:03:10

Well, I now run an obscure distro on my netbook... it's not very mainstream and you probably haven't heard of it. It's called Windows 10 :8

It came with the netbook, so I thought I'd keep it for a bit for fun as I've never had a non-Linux machine before... O:)

C#Coder4ever · 2016-02-04 19:40:50

photonucleon wrote:

Well, I now run an obscure distro on my netbook... it's not very mainstream and you probably haven't heard of it. It's called Windows 10 :8
It came with the netbook, so I thought I'd keep it for a bit for fun as I've never had a non-Linux machine before... O:)

ew.

wireshark it ]:D

ratcheer · 2016-02-05 15:44:20

dummie789 wrote:

My kind of users. Let's get together for coffee some time!

Thanks. I spent years befuddled with all the desktop customization, which seems to be a lot of users' main idea of fun. I finally decided to do the exact opposite, and go with an absolutely clean, empty desktop. 95% or more of my usage is in either the terminal or the web browser. I don't even use a file manager.

Tim

xaos52 · 2016-02-05 15:51:29

^ Are you perchance one of those old men with a long beard that warned us never to parse the output of the 'ls' command in bash?

ratcheer · 2016-02-06 00:20:28

xaos52 wrote:

^ Are you perchance one of those old men with a long beard that warned us never to parse the output of the 'ls' command in bash?

Well, I don't recall ever telling anyone anything like that. But, yeah to the old man with a beard.

Tim

g33zr · 2016-02-06 13:33:13

Old men with beards are usually wise men!

ratcheer · 2016-02-06 15:30:46

I could tell some of my really old days computer stories. Seriously, the first computer I ever worked with was a vacuum tube Burroughs mainframe. I/O was with a physical Teletype machine. The language I used was ALGOL.

I've been having fun ever since.

Tim

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-02-06 15:45:37

^ A real TTY?

That is so awesome!
8)

EDIT: I guess Tim wins the distrohopper cup then

tknomanzr · 2016-02-06 16:10:57

I think that fully qualifies his as a neckbear as well

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