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User Zone => Introductions => Topic started by: Mike W on May 26, 2014, 09:33:24 AM
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Just wanted to introduce myself. I've been using WattOS r6 for well over a year now on a 12-year-old Dell Dimension 2300, P4, 1GB RAM. It works great! Thanks to all the developers/testers/contributors for providing such a high-quality distro.
I've also played around with live CDs of Microwatt 7.5 and WattOS 8 LXDE. I'm very tempted to install 8, but since I have r6 tweaked to my liking, I may stick with it as long as it is actively supported, we'll see . . .
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Welcome to the new forums Mike and glad to see you're an existing Watt user!
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Hello everybody, i am WattOS user from Montenego.I'm still using old 32 bit pc, i tried about ten lightweight distros and WattOS R8 the was best one to choose.There is no need for new pc ;)
Thank you for this fantastic distro !
I'm apologise for my bad English language. :o
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@Mike W; just enjoy your live session, no hurry to install, but why later than sooner ;D
@madjo; why buy a new pc when you can turn your old crappy lappy into a really great one with Watt 8)
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I'm very familiar with the layout of this new forum.
Editing is more comfortable. I like that.
;)
I'm a computerfreak of the first hour beginning with selfmade 'Unior-computers' via Atari ST and Falcon to what we use nowadays. I'm somewhat a 'hopper', but I keep an eye on WattOS, which served me very, very well on an old Dell. All the best to you all! ;)
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Hello Mike: I just installed WattOS today, surprised to find an excellent solid distro on such a small image. I have been with Linux for about 9 months. Started with Ultimate Linux, and moved slowly away from anything Ubuntu. Use VSIDO, ANTIX, DMDC, SPARKY, CRUNCHBANG and now WATT OS. I have an active 6 drive PC, and trying hard to find a good distro that isn't fluxbox or openbox. Very impressed with WattOS, very stable and it just looks and feels right, everything works. LXDE is probably the most tweak-able and customizable desktop in the Linux world, just the opposite end of KDE. By the way, just jumped in here, welcome page was a little obscure and appreciate the invite. Thank you. Zephyr
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hi, welcome rinsjma and zephyr.
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Hi, I'm new, too. New to Watt anyway. I tried Watt 6 or 7 prior to this on my N270 Atom based notebook. Not bad, but I was, and still am primarily an Ubuntu/Mint user, and Mint/Mate was pretty light. Until....
Now I'm using MicroWatt R8 as a VM currently. I absolutely love the Ivi_ob theme! It remindes me of my favorite light(er)weight distro of all time: Mint 9 Fluxbox. And this one is lighter, and pretty much pure debian.
I've three compliants though, one with a fix.
1. Re: Ivi_ob, Why are the icons left for you to guess the functionallity. Its not to save space. I did my own icons, trying to stay within the clean, subdued and minimalist bounds of the Ivi-ob theme. Use them if you like. For a system-wide fix, Just copy them into the theme file (assuming you saved them to your Downloads directory:
cd Downloads
sudo cp iconify.xbm close.xbm max.xbm /usr/share/themes/Ivi_ob/openbox-3/then restart openbox.
I suppose a safer way would be to save them locally and create a local themerc file, but...
2. Installing Gimp.... I kept getting unmet dependencies. frequently the dependents were not available or would not install themselves.
3. Installing mysql-server. Fails on configuration for mysql-server-5.5. I'm trying an older mysql-server version now, not sure exactly what's going on yet. As I want this for a lightweight webserver for my virtual network, this is kindof important.
Anyway, Gimp and MySQL issues are for a different category.
Nice work though, on MicroWatt R8. Loving it.