Preston Grall – Lame Author – Firefox 3.6
I was looking through some posts about Firefox 3.6 and laughed as I still see that misinformed writers (Preston Gralla) and blog comment posters still blame Linux Operating Systems for 3rd party application developer failings.
Their idea is:
A: If Firefox developers create a Windows .exe installer for Firefox, then Windows is great.
B: If Firefox developers create a Firefox zip file that has to be compiled for Linux, then Linux still isn’t ready for the masses.
Let’stry this way of thinking on Preston Grall and Joe Bloggs
Ok, I think the Captcha system I had to use to comment on the post by Preston Gralla was unintuitive and hard to see, therefore Preston Gralla’s articles aren’t quite ready for primetime website use.
How does that sound? It’s all Preston’s fault. After all, that Captcha has to be used to comment on Preston’s posts, so Preston is crap.
On another blog by Joe Bloggs, I could just post with an easy to read Captcha, therefore Joe Bloggs is far superior to Preston Grall, all because the 3rd party Captcha wasn’t a problem.
Getting sick of lame not-talent writers deliberately posting misleading titles for digg-hits and troll comments by using anti-linux phrasing.
What’s more, these kind of posts always get jumped on by Windows using retards and Linux zealots who give the rest of us a bad name.
Rant over.
Howto Splashy on Debian
Tired of watching screens full of hardware releated info scrolling past during Startup and shutdown.
Welcome to the world of Splash Screen, Screenshots Here
In earlier stage bootsplash screen was configured throught a lot of kernel hacking and using it has a hell lot of hardwork including recompilling of kernel.
But the newest form SPLASHY in a userspace implementation of kernel so that it provides all the necessary features right at userspace.
In debian installing splashy is just a matter of few commands
1) IF you don’t have unstable repo’s in your source list then follow it otherwise skip to step 3
echo "deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo “deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
2) thenapt-get update
3) last
apt-get install splashy splashy-themes
After this what you need to is just one thing
open your menu.lst (/boot/grub/menu.lst)
and in the line with kernel value add these words at the end of that line
"vga=791 splash quiet"
Ex : – kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda8 ro vga=791 splash quiet
4)THIS STEP IS OPTIONAL
To run Splashy from initramfs you need to create a new initramfs image. An initramfs image is a little system that is
launched during the kernel’s initalization, before the system starts.
During Splashy’s installation Splashy sets everything up so you can get it integrated into initramfs whenever you wish by
just running a single command.
But first you must edit /etc/default/splashy and set ENABLE_INITRAMFS=1 so that Splashy will integrate itself into future initramfs images.
update-initramfs -u -t -k `uname -r`
then reboot and you will have a slashy desktop
ADVANCE SETTINGS
All the themes are by defaults installed in /etc/splashy/themes
configuration for splashy is in/etc/splashy/config.xml
and configuration for respective themes is available in /etc/splash/themes/ in XML file format
some of the configuration’s that can be done include changing the colour theme as well as the progress bar size color
direction and image shown.
TO CHANGE THEME
Once the theme is installed, just run splashy_config -s where name is the name of the theme
To get the complete list of all the splashy themes installed just type in
splashy_config --info
I hope this article will help you all.
Tota Linux – The Beginning
Well, after stepping down as Admin from Dreamlinux forums and passing everything over to djsroknrol, and also handing the Administration of Fossunet to Ch@d, I now have the freetime to finally get down to creating a distro.
It-s something I have played with in the past, LFS, Remastersys, Debian Live scripts etc, but things always got in the way, and there never was enough free time. I was (and still am) on the Dreamlinux dev team, and was working on a Fluxbox module for DL4.0, but after 4 months of little contact from the DL dev team and not knowing what was going to happen with the project. I decided to let it go, and use my time on something that I had more control over and to work with people who I am in regular contact with.
Luckily for me a few of the LxH Crew were also interested in putting something together (Bruce, Ch@d, Palemoon). We decided to create a Debian based WM and Conky using distro, as we are all Conky and Window Manager hackers.
The final decision was to include Window Maker (Palemoon), Fluxbox (Me), OpenBox and Awesome (Also popular), and create a whole heap of Conky configs (Bruce) and finish it all off with custom graphics, wallpapers, logos and themes (Chad).
So far so good, as of this post I am uploading our 3rd development Alpha which will hopefully be ok as the first Public-Alpha-One.
It’s still a bit rough around the edges, it is an Alpha after all, but considering it’s on a Debian Squeeze (Testing) base, it goes like lightening and is already pretty stable. Whatsmore, Bruce’s Conky scripts and Ch@d’s graphics have really made it a bit of an eye pleaser for all the Window Manager and Conky Hackers out there.
Although this is a personal project for us, and we are not competing against other distros, we are going to give it our all, hopefully learn something along the way, and you never know, other people might like it too.
http://totalinux.org
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