On this laptop, Siduction recognizes the keyboard as US English, but assigned the win-key, CTRL-R, and ALT-R something different that other distros - something Euro/German by default I suppose. It's a quick fix with some changes in .Xmodmap, but it threw me for a loop the first time I installed it and a bunch of my key bindings didn't work.

I'll get the occasional pop-up window in German; Slackel does the same thing - only in Greek.

@vastone - I just replaced siduction; it has some quirks on my computers, so more than happy to go VSIDO to test Sid+systemd

have i3 and xfce going now.

I noticed that a lot of i3 and xfce configs etc... were on the iso. I thought you were going fluxbox only going forward. If so, you should probably clean some of that out. Keep the i3 configs in the wm thread in case someone wants them.

Quote from: VastOne on January 03, 2014, 01:17:36 AM
Here is the Alpha ISO

v-ger demands testing and reporting

Of course you would put this up 15 minutes AFTER I installed siduction.

Installed with swap on HP2000 laptop; happily dual-booting with Windows 7. Well done vastone.

@hackerdefo - thanks for the quote from Patrick V. - I may stand corrected, I thought Slackware had a press release where they would move to systemd with the next full version.

If you have figured out how to replace sysvinit with systemd, then create an alpha release iso for testing - part of the learning process should you decide to stay on the systemd path.

I would definitely trust RedHat more than Canonical.

@vastone -

I just pointed out CDM as an alternative for statmonkey and jedi if they wanted to move from lightdm; didn't mean to imply it should be adopted by VSIDO.

I've actually thought about this - but I don't really see the usefulness unless you're planning to fork/provide applications that won't be part of the default install. Be more like a PPA in that scenario, I suppose. I don't think you have the critical mass of user provided scripts/deb packages to justify it.

@jedi - the Debian wiki lists Fedora as switching to systemd? Interesting since the Ubuntu Upstart page has them listed as using upstart since Fedora 9 (that's what, 11 releases ago?). It may be worth some research to see if Fedora tried Upstart then went systemd - based on some of the comments about servers in the links by statmonkey, I can see that decision coming down from Red Hat.

@jedi and statmonkey - not to highjack the thread, but if you're concerned about the dm you're using there is the Console Display Manager (CDM) written by an Arch user -

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84408

I know several users (gutterslob and myself come to mind) that have used this in the past successfully on Debian systems. Needs some initial setup, but nothing too extreme. Currently, I'm using lightdm and slim (with Slackware).

Thanks.

I like the release notes at Siduction - first I read that Debian was considering using Ubuntu's new init system "upstart". I would think Debian would stay with the base trend and go systemd. I think the next major release of Slackware (15, I suppose) will be systemd.

back on topic - set up a home ftp server on my Slackware box - so far so good:

^ nice; hook me up with that wallpaper, amigo.

new release of siduction is systemd - that's worth a look:

I'll start -

A couple new fluxbox styles I'm messing with -





Happy and prosperous 2014 to all.

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^ it's tough to stay away

nothing particularly new:

   

mostly experimenting with lesser used colors for fluxbox themes these days, but nothing worth keeping -- yet.

There are actually four sets sitting there - the ship (with dock), and helicopter (red item, lower right) each took about 2-3 hours each to complete. The two independant tower/gate looking things took about an hour. That f*ing castle took me about 10 hours total; it's in three sections and it's all interlocked. Main problem with all of them is that the instructions are these small diagrams that get a bit hard on my eyes.

All the sets are related to a game called Skylanders that my oldest likes to play. She helped me a bit.

She's had that table for years.

At least none of it needed batteries -



I don't want to see another Lego for 6 months - 

@zewolfe -

start synaptic and check if the following are installed :

intel-microde
iucode-tool

I had a similar error on my intel HP and, as I recall, had to install either one or both of those to clear it. I think they are both nonfree so not part of a default debian install.

Quote from: jedi on December 21, 2013, 01:07:15 AM
Hey PackRat!  It is the Fluxbox WM.  I just can't seem to let it go...

isn't that the truth -