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I already had a notebook, so I found myself not really using the netbook. The small keyboard made it somewhat difficult to type (long fingers), and looking down isn’t great for the neck. So I decided to put the netbook to another use: it became our family media center after I added a remote control, receiver, a couple of drives attached via USB and XBMC (formerly known as XBox Media Center). It served that purpose for a couple of years until I recently replaced it with a desktop machine. As much as I don’t like craning my neck down to look at the netbook, I’d been missing it at the local Ubuntu hour meetings I hold each month. My notebook is a bit big for the cramped desk space where we have the meetings (the desk is usually covered with food).** | I already had a notebook, so I found myself not really using the netbook. The small keyboard made it somewhat difficult to type (long fingers), and looking down isn’t great for the neck. So I decided to put the netbook to another use: it became our family media center after I added a remote control, receiver, a couple of drives attached via USB and XBMC (formerly known as XBox Media Center). It served that purpose for a couple of years until I recently replaced it with a desktop machine. As much as I don’t like craning my neck down to look at the netbook, I’d been missing it at the local Ubuntu hour meetings I hold each month. My notebook is a bit big for the cramped desk space where we have the meetings (the desk is usually covered with food).** | ||
- | Il y a plusieurs années, les netbooks ont fait fureur. J'ai acheté mon Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) au plus fort du boom des netbooks. Pendant deux jours, j'ai essayé d' | + | Il y a plusieurs années, les netbooks ont fait fureur. J'ai acheté mon Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (1012) au plus fort du boom des netbooks. Pendant deux jours, j'ai essayé d' |
- | Puisque j' | + | Puisque j' |
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- | Initially I tried Ubuntu 12.10 on the netbook. Ubuntu ran on it, but just barely. Performance was as bad as, if not worse than, Windows 7 Starter Edition. I could have tried Xubuntu or Lubuntu, both of which run lighter than Ubuntu 12.10, but a friend suggested I give Crunchbang a try. | + | **Initially I tried Ubuntu 12.10 on the netbook. Ubuntu ran on it, but just barely. Performance was as bad as, if not worse than, Windows 7 Starter Edition. I could have tried Xubuntu or Lubuntu, both of which run lighter than Ubuntu 12.10, but a friend suggested I give Crunchbang a try. |
Crunchbang is Debian-based so it shares some of the roots of Ubuntu. Installing it to USB key wasn’t as simple as other Ubuntu-based distributions I’ve installed. Normally, I use the usb-creator-gtk application to install distributions to a USB key, but Crunchbang kept failing at the bootloader install stage. I ended up unmounting the USB key, running mkfs.vfat to format the key, pulling it out and installing using unetbootin. The Inspiron Mini 10 uses a 64-bit Atom processor so I installed the 64-bit version of Crunchbang. | Crunchbang is Debian-based so it shares some of the roots of Ubuntu. Installing it to USB key wasn’t as simple as other Ubuntu-based distributions I’ve installed. Normally, I use the usb-creator-gtk application to install distributions to a USB key, but Crunchbang kept failing at the bootloader install stage. I ended up unmounting the USB key, running mkfs.vfat to format the key, pulling it out and installing using unetbootin. The Inspiron Mini 10 uses a 64-bit Atom processor so I installed the 64-bit version of Crunchbang. | ||
- | Once I figured out how to get Crunchbang to the USB key, the rest of the installation was very similar to a graphical Ubuntu install. Crunchbang uses the Openbox window manager, so it’s very lightweight. The initial installation installs a handful of desktop programs: Abiword, Gnumeric, Gimp, VLC, XFBurn, gFTP, Transmission and XChat are among the more common programs. | + | Once I figured out how to get Crunchbang to the USB key, the rest of the installation was very similar to a graphical Ubuntu install. Crunchbang uses the Openbox window manager, so it’s very lightweight. The initial installation installs a handful of desktop programs: Abiword, Gnumeric, Gimp, VLC, XFBurn, gFTP, Transmission and XChat are among the more common programs.** |
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+ | Au départ, j'ai mis Ubuntu 12.10 sur le netbook. Ubuntu y fonctionnait, | ||
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+ | Crunchbang est basé sur Debian et partage ainsi certaines des racines d' | ||
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- | To keep things lean and mean, Crunchbang doesn’t include LibreOffice, | + | **To keep things lean and mean, Crunchbang doesn’t include LibreOffice, |
- | One of the Openbox claims is that it’s infinitely configurable. This does appear to be true, but configuration isn’t quite as easy as the days when Gnome 2 was actively developed. Part of the Openbox configuration can be found in Settings > Openbox > GUI Config Tool the other part in Settings > User Interface Settings. If you want to set the background you need to use a third menu option Settings > Choose Wallpaper, and, if you want your own wallpaper, you’ll need to click the Preferences button in Nitrogen’s (the wallpaper program) UI to add the path to the wallpapers you want to add. I suppose this could be following the UNIX philosophy – one tool doing one thing really well, but a single tool to do all three activities would be nice for new Linux users. I found Nitrogen to be buggy; it seemed to forget the path added the next time I launched it. The path remained in the preferences, | + | One of the Openbox claims is that it’s infinitely configurable. This does appear to be true, but configuration isn’t quite as easy as the days when Gnome 2 was actively developed. Part of the Openbox configuration can be found in Settings > Openbox > GUI Config Tool the other part in Settings > User Interface Settings. If you want to set the background you need to use a third menu option Settings > Choose Wallpaper, and, if you want your own wallpaper, you’ll need to click the Preferences button in Nitrogen’s (the wallpaper program) UI to add the path to the wallpapers you want to add. I suppose this could be following the UNIX philosophy – one tool doing one thing really well, but a single tool to do all three activities would be nice for new Linux users. I found Nitrogen to be buggy; it seemed to forget the path added the next time I launched it. The path remained in the preferences, |
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+ | Pour que tout reste épuré, LibreOffice n'est pas inclus dans Crunchbang, mais installer LibreOffice est l'une des options du programme « firstboot » qui se charge dans un terminal au premier démarrage de Crunchbang. Le programme de premier démarrage vous demande si vous voulez mettre le système à jour, installer les paquets de développement, | ||
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- | Many of the hot keys that work in Gnome 2, such as Ctrl+Alt+arrow to switch workspaces, work in the Openbox window manager. When Crunchbang first loads, it also loads a Conky file that shows some common hotkeys to do things like launch VLC, control volume, open the Geany text editor, or launch the run dialog. The super key (Windows key) based programs are generally commonly used programs like the web browser, a terminal, VLC, and text editor, in addition to Logout and a couple of menus. | + | **Many of the hot keys that work in Gnome 2, such as Ctrl+Alt+arrow to switch workspaces, work in the Openbox window manager. When Crunchbang first loads, it also loads a Conky file that shows some common hotkeys to do things like launch VLC, control volume, open the Geany text editor, or launch the run dialog. The super key (Windows key) based programs are generally commonly used programs like the web browser, a terminal, VLC, and text editor, in addition to Logout and a couple of menus. |
From the perspective of someone who doesn’t mind editing a .config file, I really like Crunchbang. Crunchbang is fast, the super hotkeys make doing the most common tasks easy, it’s based on Debian, and everything worked out of the box for me after the install (including the wireless). | From the perspective of someone who doesn’t mind editing a .config file, I really like Crunchbang. Crunchbang is fast, the super hotkeys make doing the most common tasks easy, it’s based on Debian, and everything worked out of the box for me after the install (including the wireless). | ||
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I’m not quite sure Crunchbang will appeal to everyone, but, if you don’t mind doing a bit of editing, and love your system fast, Crunchbang might just be for you. | I’m not quite sure Crunchbang will appeal to everyone, but, if you don’t mind doing a bit of editing, and love your system fast, Crunchbang might just be for you. | ||
- | P.S. if you like conky, the .conkyrc I’m using can be found here: http:// | + | P.S. if you like conky, the .conkyrc I’m using can be found here: http:// |
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+ | Beaucoup des raccourcis clavier qui fonctionnent dans Gnome 2, tels que Ctrl+Alt+flèche pour changer d' | ||
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+ | Je ne suis pas certain que Crunchbang plaise à tout le monde, mais, si cela vous est égal de faire quelques modifications et que vous aimez que votre système soit vraiment rapide, il se peut que Crunchbang soit juste ce qu'il vous faut. | ||
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+ | P.S. Si vous aimez conky, vous trouverez le .conkyrc que j' |
issue71/labo_linux.1371131050.txt.gz · Dernière modification : 2013/06/13 15:44 de auntiee