Installing Firefox Aurora binary
I rarely use Firefox these days. I usually use Chrome, Lynx or Opera for web browsing. I think it’s because the latest Firefox version on BlankOn repository is 3.6 (or is it 3.5?). It’s still quite a good one, but I didn’t have any reason to use it while I got other browsers on their latest version at my disposal.
A couple days before, I decided to try Firefox again. But which one? I decided to get Aurora build. I’d like to get the nightly build but I guess it’s a bit overboard. Read more
Openbox on BlankOn Pattimura
I quite like Openbox. It’s lightweight, simple and sleek. I like it even more than LXDE or XFCE.
Openbox on its default setting isn’t very convenience though. I’ve got used to GNOME a little bit too much, I want some of its provided functionalities are present on my Openbox setup too. Read more
Some notes of BlankOn Pattimura
- The scrollbar is too small, but can be fixed by editing theme file
kde-plasma-desktopwork whilekde-plasma-netbookdidn’t. Still heavier than default BlankOnPanel. Need to installnetwork-manager-kdeto get networking working (wat?) since I didn’t install full KDE packages.- VLC really need to be made default media player. But I guess removing Totem is just to much hassle.
- GDM aren’t rendered right on netbook small screen
Update:
- KDE4 have tendency to crash. Hard. Seems the netbook resources aren’t enough for KDE to gracefully handle the load
(like several tabs of Google Chrome)
Debian multimedia repo
As the consequences of strict free software policy, multimedia softwares on Debian are somehow left on “barely enough” state. To get the fullest of multimedia capability you might want to enable debian-multimedia repository.
- Install the debian-multimedia keyring
- Put
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main non-freeor one of its many mirrors in your/etc/apt/sources.listand doapt-get update
The Canterbury Project
What happen when big Linux distribution combine each of their strength into one distribution? The answer: The Canterbury Project.
Canterbury is the future!
Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE.
Then again, this sort of thing usually is too good to be true 
Related links: The Canterbury Tales
