Comments for firmit - a nomad in the Debian world

Comment on LXDE installation - first successful run! by firmit

firmit — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:01 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write a response

You might also want to monitor the new wiki for the LXDE. http://lxde.org/wiki/Main_Page.

Comment on LXDE installation - first successful run! by Ken

Ken — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:52:00 +0000

I wanted to thank you for writing this out. As a Linux noob, I found it to be a great help and resource in setting up an old Cyrix P166+ CPU, 128M RAM, with Debian and LXDE. An ancient machine for sure, but with this software setup one that seems quite usable on each mouse click without the constant “hurry up and wait” disk paging!

Comment on LEXOS by firmit

firmit — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:22:59 +0000

I simply removed the packages that gave me trouble. As I recall, only exim4 one other package gave me the most difficulty, but I don’t remember which. Just “apt-get remove exim4″ and run upgrade to see which packages that gives you trouble, and remove them.

Comment on LEXOS by matias

matias — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:44:20 +0000

hi im having the same problems with exim4 and mail-server… what packages did u remove? im a little green in linux… tnks =]

Comment on Decibel - an all-you-need-player by Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:05:47 +0000

Hell yeah mpc rules, especially combined with keyboard shortcuts

Comment on Decibel - an all-you-need-player by firmit

firmit — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:53:03 +0000

I was aware of mpd - but I did not see my need for it. But, I took your word for it, and checked it out!

I installed mpd, mpc, sonata and gmpc. The mpd itself needed some configuration. But once up, and realizing it still played ( state-file ) after rebooting - I kind of got a kick! mpc (cli) rules. Sonata is nice, Gmpc needs some getting used to.

I might, very soon, write a post of what I did - like to keep notes

Comment on Decibel - an all-you-need-player by Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:05:27 +0000

You really need to check out MPD with MPC for the command line and Sonate for the GUI part

Comment on LXDE - Desktop Environment by Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:29:38 +0000

Those look like excellent use cases for this DE, as it is pretty similar to Windows *and* speedy

Comment on LXDE - Desktop Environment by firmit

firmit — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:11:22 +0000

I believe it will fit perfectly for my family, to whom have grown comfortable with Windows, and need an easy transition to linux due some skepticism.

I also have a couple of laptops I plan bringing back to life

Comment on LXDE - Desktop Environment by Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:51:46 +0000

OK, I gave it a shot, and while it’s pretty interesting, it’s not for me. I do like the idea of lxappearance though, and if it matures a bit more I suppose it might be a good candidate for inclusion in Xubuntu.