• seth
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Topic: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

well, i've been itching to walk myself through installing slackware, but i still love crunchbang, so i thought, why not make "slackbang"? i'm going to try to teach myself how to make my own slack  based crunchbang lookalike. i want it to be just like CB except for the easy stuff tongue i'll be getting a sempron-based system pretty soon and i'm hoping to make a light distro, so this should be perfect.

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

Hello seth smile

Sounds like a fun and rewarding project, good luck with it! Please keep us informed on your progress.

On an unrelated subject, I rebuilt the crunchbang-look and crunchbang-wallpapers packages tonight, your HUGE wallpaper should now be included by default with all future CrunchBang releases. Nice work and thank you again for your contribution! smile

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

wow, thanks! i'm honored smile

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

Seth, keep me updated with how you get on with this... I've also been thinking of doing an Arch or Slack based Openbox system for a while, it'll be interesting to see what you come out with...

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

hey guys, i think we gonna crunch every light distro we can....  corenominal open the way to a "crunchy open world" big_smile
about "crunchy-like-distro", i made my crunch-3D for fun and it's fun to play with linux distro with #! features wink

ps: you can take a look to this page for inspiration: this is a doc about a script to build openbox distro from ubuntu 8.10 or debian 5.0 minimal . it's in french but easy to understand. (not my work)
if you really need, i can translate it for you (at your own risks big_smile ).

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  • seth
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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

wench wrote:

Seth, keep me updated with how you get on with this... I've also been thinking of doing an Arch or Slack based Openbox system for a while, it'll be interesting to see what you come out with...

yeah, i thought about doing arch before slack, as arch is my favorite distro (sorry phillip tongue), but i've never used slackware and i want to give it a try.
it might be a little while before i get that hardware but i do have a windows partition on my macbook that i don't NEEEEEEEED to have (though it's nice since i'm in an A+ program). i'd prefer not to use that though, just because most distros, even ubuntu and cb, don't run how i like on macbooks without a LOT of work.

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

Hi Seth, there are some guys who are trying to put together a similar sort of project using Arch as a base. You may be able to collaborate with them. You can find them in IRC on the #crashx channel using the Spotchat (irc.spotchat.org) servers.

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

cool, thanks for the tip.

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

*adds to autojoin list*

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Re: experiment i'm thinking of doing...

There are no packages for Openbox, tint, deluge etc in the Slackware repo. A lot of things available in #! are just not there.

There is slackbuilds.org, a site with buildsscripts to create packages:
http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=openbox&sv=
http://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=tint&sv=

I'm running slackware 12.2 on my other box and I used the scripts on slackbuilds to create openbox (easy), tint2 (easy), deluge (easy), vlc (pain in the ass) and other packages.

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