Comments on: Whee! Crux at 1Ghz

By: Howto: Desktop “widgets” for the console « Motho ke motho ka botho

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:38:37 +0000

[...] the difference between the left and the right? (I hope Onyros doesn’t mind if I borrow an old screenshot. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:38:35 +0000

You might search in here. There are a lot of user-supplied ports available there, but not all those are up-to-date. I’m finding that the most frequently updated are still the “official,” crux.nu-hosted ones.

By: Gunblade IV

Gunblade IV — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:41:14 +0000

any ports on fluxbox?
i wonder is there any simple method to set fluxbox running on my CRUX?

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:44:16 +0000

I've never used lilo either, to be honest. I omitted lilo from the package installation process and stuck with grub. I'll post my fstab later today; mine was very straightforward though ... something like: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/hda4 /home ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1 Note that I wandered away from the official Crux installation guide there; I like a partition array like that, and I only use ext2.

By: justin

justin — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:32:19 +0000

I have a question, when installing crux, you hit the part where you edit fstab, could someone post their fstab? Im messing something up. Also, you install, ignore a partition, and then add that partition (a small windows one) to the boot menu. this is easy with grub, but ive never used lilo

By: Onyros

Onyros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:19:40 +0000

Hehe, check your UF PM’s tonight (it’s 2:13 pm here) or tomorrow morning in your case. I haven’t released anything since v0.2 (nicknamed Stray Dog) but will provide you with a link for v0.5 (nicknamed Holy Cow), which is still very much in BETA.

(BTW, the release candidate mentioned in the last comment was Awesome’s, not the LiveCD’s).

And after all this, I still haven’t mentioned it: the LiveCD has a name, and everything. It started out as Onyric (LiveCD), as it was just a personal pet project, not meant for distribution. After thinking about it, I renamed it Satori LiveCD (because the primary version was based on Enlightenment, if you know what I mean, pun intended).

And it’s a beauty booting into a LiveCD in 44 seconds, while using 18MB of RAM. This is a pic of the old, 1st version, with Fluxbox as WM – http://img153.imageshack.us/my.php?image=onyric2id9.jpg – but a lot has changed since. A whole lot

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:56:14 +0000

And a link … ?

By: Onyros

Onyros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:43:38 +0000

Ah, it’s not forgotten. Turns out Awesome v2.0 still had a few quirks I thought were deal-breakers (windows focus related things), which made it somewhat unintuitive. Imagine having to ALT+K to make a window which should be on top gain focus again? It only happens in floating mode, obviously, but I am configuring it to use different types of windows layouts, for different kinds of apps and workspaces (or tags, in Awesome lingo).

The release candidate is out, the mailing list and bug reporting are incredibly active, so I suppose it’s not far from a stable release. By then, I’ll tweak the awesome dot file to fit my “model” and it’ll be good to go.

And I really expect it to stop being a one-man “LiveCD-config-of-a-distro”, I’ll surely be garnering some extra help, if people are interested.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:01:31 +0000

Hey, I forgot about that: Where is this mysterious one-man distro you’ve been putting together? You promised a link.

By: Onyros

Onyros — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:07:31 +0000

You know what? I reboot such few times that I don’t really bother much with startup times, even on my Thinkpad (I just keep it in suspension whenever it’s not being used or pulling something with rTorrent). But being able to boot in 16 seconds is better than resuming from hibernation, altogether; probably faster than resuming from suspension in Ubuntu?

But that boot udev lag issue had me wondering, too, as I was finishing up my little config-of-a-distro/LiveCD-based-on-Arch. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be able to boot into Awesome or Fluxbox with a LiveCD in under 40 seconds. Even with that, the boot time is around the 44 second mark on that same Thinkpad. After installed to disk, the boot time is exactly @ 18 seconds (for Awesome) on a 4200 rpm HDD!, but I could still shave a few things off. Especially so, because I was aiming at keeping it under 180MB, so I could use it on a Mini-CD.

The same Thinkpad on Ubuntu registers 29 seconds on bootchart. Add a few seconds for it to start Awesome, and it’s over 30 seconds right there.