I have just installed Crunchbang 10 Statler which is the first of Crunchbang’s move to Debian, Squeeze to be precise. Here is the release announcement: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/6843/crunchbang-10-statler-alpha-1-released/ The first alpha of CrunchBang 10 “Statler” is now available. Download it at your own risk! If you do decide to give it a try, please do not forget [...]

As Ext4 was experimental during the release of Lenny, it wasn’t fully implemented. However, you can mount an Ext4 file system on Ext3 with Debian Lenny, but only in “Read Only” mode. As root tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/XXX mount -t ext4dev -o ro /dev/XXX /mnt/ZZZ I had Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Windows 7 on [...]

I needed a stable, fast environment to get some work done so I decided that as I had a spare partition on my Acer 3004 laptop i’d go back to Debian Lenny. I installed Debian Lenny Netinstall via a wired connection to my router. I chose to install to an Ext3 partition, and only selected [...]

Tota Linux Final version “Showcase” is now available to download. What is Tota Linux? A Debian Squeeze based distro with 4 window managers; Fluxbox, Window Maker, Openbox and Awesome, Conky-Full and Tint2. Who is Tota for? Desktop and Conky hackers, and people who want to create their own Linux distro. T.O.T.A stands for Tools Of [...]

Well, I just found time from developing Tota to post a few bits and bobs on my blog. Tota Beta was released: http://www.totalinux.org/forum/index.php/topic,82.0.html Palemoon supplied and awesome Window Maker config, Bruce has kept us all on our toes testing his latest and greatest Conky scripts. We also just invited Mahngiel to the dev team as [...]