Hello, I'm New Here

[Mike W]

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 . . .

[cheiron]

Welcome to the new forums Mike and glad to see you're an existing Watt user!

[madjo]

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. 

[blaze]

@Mike W; just enjoy your live session, no hurry to install, but why later than sooner 

@madjo; why buy a new pc when you can turn your old crappy lappy into a really great one with Watt 

[rijnsma]

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! 

[zephyr]

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

[blaze]

hi,  welcome rinsjma and zephyr.

[jeliotcranch]

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:

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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.