Running Openbox on Fedora 18

About Openbox

Openbox is a window manager.  It is the default window manager of several distributions the most prominent of which is probably Crunchbang. It is also the most common window manager used with LXDE and RazorQT.

I’m looking again… for a Linux Distro that is.

I have 4 computers at present, 1 tablet running Android, 1 Mac Mini dual-booting OSX and Crunchbang Statler, 1 Thinkpad T42 running Archbang 2012-12, and 1 Inspiron 2200 running Crunchbang Statler.

Gimp 2.8 is a gimp no more!

It has legs, strong legs and a straight back, and THERE IS ONLY ONE WINDOW!  At long last!  The most sought after feature of the open source photoshop replacement has finally been realized.

I found it in my latest update in Debian Testing, and what a pleasant surprise it was.  Though, I admit I didn’t know how to enable single window mode at first, because in the stupid floating main window, I couldn’t actually see all the menu bar buttons until I maximized it, revealing the “Window” menu.  Opening that, there’s a check box for single window mode.

Solus OS: The distro LMDE wasn’t?

I’m looking into a Linux distribution called Solus OS and created by Ikey Doherty who gained a bit of name recognition for doing the Linux Mint Debian Edition.

Comparing the two there’s one major difference:  Solus OS is based on Debian Stable with a custom repository of up-to-date user land packages like Firefox and LibreOffice.  It’s not rolling.  That’s a good thing, because LMDE had a problem with breaking.

My Linux User Interface Explained

One of the things I like about using Linux is the flexibility and level of control you have with the interface.  If you have the know-how, or the will to learn, then you can customize to your hearts content.  I still change mine around occasionally, but have more or less settled on a functional setup.

My Computers

I have five computers.  I plan to update this post with screenshots, and more details in the near future.

BSD Cravings

I’ve been having a pretty strong urge to try out PC-BSD again now that they’ve released a new version with more, non-KDE desktops included.  I use Crunchbang Linux at work and at home, and I run Mac OSX about half the time at home too.  I can tolerate OSX to some extent, but I definitely feel most comfortable in a non Aqua environment.  Aqua makes me feel kind like I’m sweaty and choking on a poisoned apple peel.  It kinda makes me want to cut the peel off the apple and get down to its BSD core!

Linux distributions I’m interested in

As sort of a follow up on my last post about Linux Desktops I wanted to take a few hundred words to mention some of the projects I’m interested in and why.

The Linux Landscape as of Mid-2011

As anyone reading my blog regularly must know, I closely follow the Linux operating system and its developments.  For those who are unfamiliar with Linux, it is actually an operating system’s kernel rather than a fully featured operating system.  It’s the heart and brain if you will of an OS constructed by distributors who add software to fill in the other features you want and need.  Linux is also free, free to use, free to change, free to distribute, more free than most things in the world.  The main problem with Linux operating systems is that there are about a thousand of them and it’s hard to keep track of what’s going on.  At the same time, this makes for an interesting playing field and lots of competition.  In order to keep up a Linux distribution has to offer something valuable to a wide audience, or appeal strongly to a niche.  So in the next 30 minutes I’m going to lay out my completely biased view of the most important distributions.