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15:34 07/12/2007

Au revoir Archlinux!

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A la suite de quelques étranges erreurs sur mon PC (snoopy), je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de réinstaller un nouveau système.

C'est donc après seulement quelques hésitations que j'ai installe Debian Sid sur mon PC.

Ça faisait plus de trois ans que snoopy etait sous Archlinux, ce qui est un exploit. Archlinux était la première distribution linux que j'ai vraiment gardée. Avant ça, je ne faisait vraiment que les tester pendant quelques semaines.

Cette fois-ci j'ai choisi Debian Sid pour sa modernité, sa légèreté, son gestionnaire de paquets et son Contrat Social, assurant la libre redistribution des logiciels fournis.

Je ne me souviens plus de la date a laquelle j'ai installé archlinux sur snoopy, mais ce qui est sur c'est que le vendredi 1er décembre est le jour a laquelle j'ai installée SID. On va voir si ça tient la distance.

17:48 13/11/2006

Idéfix gets a more storage

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idéfix

Idéfix's hard-drive had been showing some signs

of tiredness for the last few days, so I installed a brand new 40 gig drive. It was the first time I open up a laptop so I was a little nervous. It took me a good hour to find my way to the drive and replace it properly. it then took me 3 good hours to reinstall and update a famous proprietary operating system on a 6 gigabyte partition. Anyway the most important thing today is that I have now enough space for a dual boot so I installed arch. The first I will have to overcome will be the wifi drivers. My Asus WL107g has a rt2500 chipset so it should be possible, if the kernel module from the community repository compiles against the stock kernel 2.6.16.6 shipped with the install CD.
15:11 04/10/2006

FVWM-Crystal and Archlinux

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FVWM-Crystal on Archlinux

FVWM-Crystal with a custom recipe (thanks Miguel) and a clean blue wallpaper.Xorg Composite extensions are activated and we can see mrxvt, gaim, gkrellm and gdeskcal.
01:03 03/02/2006

quick look at wmii

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Here are a couple of screnshots of archlinux running wmii - Windows Manager Imroved - version 2.5.
I use from time to time when I realise I don't nedd all the bloat of KDE. Because wmii is very stripped down. It's a window manager that is here to mange windows. period. It's well oriented console mode and uses an original concept of frames and pages. pages are equivalent to virtual desktop on other WM but here they are created only when required with a quick key kind. Frames are subsets of a page where windows can be stuck in. The first great thing about wmii is the ability to attach or merge frames - thinks tabbed browsing of firefox but with windows frames. Notice on the screenshot that firefox is merged with liferea. This allows me to stick all my favourites apps and the required number of x terminals, on only 2 pages... where I use 6 virtual desktops on KDE.
the second great thing in my opinion is the relatively easy scripts that tweaks your wmii to your taste. They control key bindings to autolaunch at login and are very useful to automate the utilisation of wmii.
I must admit that I had some difficulties at the beginning with it. I was co ming from XFCE4 so it was a bit of a dive in. If you want to try it out don' t hesitate. Their website is a wiki so it's very clear and you can add your own pages in once you are familiar with it. The guys on #wmii on irc.oftc.net are very helpful and weren't mean with me and my stupid questions.
There is only one disadvantage I can think of .... it doesn't pass the girlfriend test. So I am forced to switch quite often between kde of xfce4 and wmii.
But still great stuff, guys.

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