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[MYstIC G]

Never thought of that. Hmm, me shall have a ponder.

 

[TdC]

well if your settings are indeed in /home/whatever/mysettings or something like that, backing up and restoring should put everything back just as it was.

as Mr W says, you could keep home on a separate partition, to carry things over between (re)installs, but that will not be an excuse to not have a good backup system in place dude

 

[Killswitch]

well if your settings are indeed in /home/whatever/mysettings or something like that, backing up and restoring should put everything back just as it was.

as Mr W says, you could keep home on a separate partition, to carry things over between (re)installs, but that will not be an excuse to not have a good backup system in place dude

rdiff-backup is made of win

 

[MYstIC G]

that will not be an excuse to not have a good backup system in place dude

True. This said it's my netbook I'm on about. It's got nothing on it & never will have so I could just NIFO now and everything would sync back after, it's just that's boring & slow.

 

[Wij]

New version of Peppermint Ice

Peppermint Ice Re-Spin is Now Available | Peppermint | Linux OS

Also a new build of Ubuntu 11 is available for desktop playing...

 

[Will]

I patched my kernel for the first time yesterday, and it still works!

(Fucking broadcom wireless card)

 

[MYstIC G]

I'm surprised by that. I thought the broadcom bullshit was all sorted now?

 

[Will]

When I installed #! I was still using ndiswrapper. One of the recent kernel updates messed with it, so I've changed to the wl driver. And now it works with all connections rather than just some.

I doubt it would have been an issue if I hadn't been running the old driver.

 

[MYstIC G]

That settles it, no more ubuntu netbook distribution = no more ubuntu for me. I'm fairly sure it's slowed down really badly since unity came along so now it's going in the bin.

 

[MYstIC G]

Might try this: Splashtop Inc. - Splashtop OS

Anyone used it before?

 

[Wij]

Nope - let us know

 

[TdC]

I patched my kernel for the first time yesterday, and it still works!

(Fucking broadcom wireless card)

lols. my #! base told me through apt that there were packages that I should autoremove. I did, like the trusting naive moron I am.

It's very hard to get your network back online when what you require is on the network

 

[MYstIC G]

lol

 

[TdC]

the funky thing was it kept working until it was time for dhcpd to talk to the router about an IP address. then it failed miserably and I had to faff about with USB sticks and things

 

[Will]

When I started using aptitude to do that, it gave me a stupidly large list of packages to remove. I thought that was a little suspicious, so I cancelled and tried synaptic, which didn't ask for anything to be removed. I decided synaptic was the safe bet there.

 

[TdC]

I just reconfigured my secure mail server on the web host. Jeepers talk about freaky :/
Still, SSL and actualy logins is the way to go

 

[MYstIC G]

Might try this: Splashtop Inc. - Splashtop OS

Anyone used it before?

Nope - let us know

It was shit. Needs to be installed from Windows, integrates into the windows boot menu. Couldn't handle my dual monitor setup. Install to Uninstall time was less than 30 mins and most of that was their installer downloading shit slowly.

 

[MYstIC G]

Also I'm loving Arch Linux

 

[Killswitch]

Also I'm loving Arch Linux

Heresy!!!

I've got a Gentoo desktop, a Gentoo laptop and...erm...about 400 Gentoo servers

Arch is easymode!

Actually, I've got a lot of respect for people who persevere with the less user-friendly distros. You can learn so much about Linux, kernel patching and compilation, makefiles, tuning and so on. The learning curve is somewhat steep though. I used to think I knew it all about Linux when I was running CentOS and Debian servers back in the day...Gentoo made me realise I knew essentially jack-shit about Linux!

Go MG go!

 

[Will]

It isn't a good introduction when you can't get a working system

 

[TdC]

if you can't get a working system you need to RTFM some more

 

[MYstIC G]

Don't do that often but yeh it should.

You could try having home on a separate partition for all your installs

Never thought of that. Hmm, me shall have a ponder.

well if your settings are indeed in /home/whatever/mysettings or something like that, backing up and restoring should put everything back just as it was.

as Mr W says, you could keep home on a separate partition, to carry things over between (re)installs, but that will not be an excuse to not have a good backup system in place dude

Having had said ponder (and as this is still just my "browser" netbook) I've moved /home onto the 8GB SSD card put on a just over 1gb swap partition (so it can hibernate) and put the rest to / (i.e. no separate /boot, etc).

So far having now removed all the timer shit from grub it boots about 100x faster than it was with Ubuntu. I did try to switch on #! but got bored of the installer insisting on a CD (USB ffs) and Peppermint just would not tow the line on some things (besides the mix of Ubuntu + Mint + Peppermint = Insane imho).

Anyone trying Arch should definitely read the wiki and in addition should also install yaourt asap if you can't be arsed building shit yourself as it's basically pacman for the AUR (Arch User Repository).

 

[MYstIC G]

Next I shall mostly be tinkering with this: kernel-netbook - Kernel modded to optimize and support the a wide range of netbook's hardware - Give more power to your netbook! - Google Project Hosting