Sick of VMWare, the story of my switch to. I was able to finish the migration by grabbing the vmfs-tools package (VMWare vmfs. VMware File Sharing - Easy Way!? Distribution: Crunchbang 11, LFS 7.3. Crunchbang 1. 1 Waldorf review. Updated: December 2. Time for my annual abuse. As you all know, the Crunchbang community loves me, and they dedicated five pages of. Statler review, which they loved so. Now, it's. time for another test, the 6. Waldorf, still officially labeled. So it's time to see how the second Debian- based version of Crunchbang, a fairly non- newbie distro. SSD- powered test box, alongside three other operating systems. Hence, you do not get any images, only a prosy verbal impression. Still, this is a little. Anyhow, it went. fairly well and fast. There were no ugly. Crunchbang 1. 1 thought it was the only distro on the disk and wanted to place its own. MBR. It settled for residing peacefully in /dev/sda. Ubuntu to control the. Now, the. interesting bit is, Ubuntu sees Waldorf as Wheezy/sid, however in the boot menu, the right entry labels are. Not that important, but still. How does Crunchbang behave once installed? It's also my first time. Ubuntu to Debian base. Not the. most inviting environment for work. Crunchbang 1. 1 Waldorf also offers a twelve- step post- install configuration script that. This is somewhat like Kapudan in Chakra or Kaptan in Pardus, except that it is less. It offers to update your system, install. Java, Libre. Office, printer support, build packages, version control packages, and other useful items.
You can. skip any one step you do not want. However, given the nerdy mission statement of Crunchbang, the extra help is. Some small weird things still remain, like the funny names of themes. Simple- Green, yet it's. I wrote this last time, and I'm writing it again. Navigating the right- click menu is that much breezier. Well. Xfce has made tremendous improvement in this space in the last two releases of Xubuntu, so perhaps Openbox can manage progress, as well. Most of the options are still geeky, they. This is quite elegant and gives you a good visual awereness of your open programs. I. would like permanent shortcuts or icons, though. The icons. have a chunky Gnome look that does not align with the rest of the system, nor do they change with application. BTW, Waldorf comes with a lovely dark Faenza set. In Thunar, I could easily find and map my Windows network. The performance was good and steady throughout the testing. I. did not find the Bluetooth thingie anywhere. Both Flash and MP3, including nice media art. You also get controls for the Gnome MPlayer in the. Again, this is a very nice touch overall. Anyhow, I get and appreciate the joke, but Monty Python is. It is both frugal and rich at the same time. Excluding the initial. Java and Libre. Office, there's a lot on the plate. You have Ice. Weasel, which behaves almost like. Firefox, only it's kind of lighter, plus it comes with its own hybrid search start page. You also get installer. Chrome, Opera and some others. It works well, except the lack of shortcuts. But it's the most sensible selection in the history of Crunchbang so far. There's also. Evince, Abiword, Gnumeric, Transmission, and more. In a way, it leans toward the similar set of programs I. Gnome, non- KDE compilation. Overall, rather. decent. Somewhat weird, but affordable and useful. That's what I'm talking about. On cold boot, it took only about 1. MB of RAM, and it was blistering fast. But then. again, Cent. OS with Gnome 2, Solus. OS, Stella, or stock Debian, sometimes even Fedora, they can all manage these figures. However, the argument of lightweight desktops. That does not mean there were no problems or. The sleep and wake took maybe 2 seconds. However, the. distro did not detect all my T6. I tried both. Windows printer over Samba and connecting directly to a host and searching for available printers, but Waldorf. HP Laser. Jet. Let's take a look at the bad things. The live session did not work, the installation had to be done using a text wizard, printing did not. On the bright side, Crunchbang is quite. It is light, efficient, with a good array of programs and elegant looks. But. normal people will hate the manual configurations, the empty desktop, and somewhat difficult way of finding. And other quirks and oddities that are often the bread and hummus. It cannot possibly replace your typical Ubuntu or Mint, but for. Debianness underneath it all, especially on older hardware, Crunchbang Waldorf makes. Just as BDSM in Amsterdam makes sense. Anyhow, Waldorf is good, a huge improvement from its. Now. it's time for you readers to link this in the appropriate forums, and then the goatsefest against my good. All in good faith and humor, that is.
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