[openbox] which linux works the best with pure openbox

[Andras Fink]

On Sunday 06 September 2009 17:04:31 Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Hello,
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> Thank you for your answer.
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> I made a mistake.
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> My problem with Ubuntu was that you must use repostieries that are not
>  mainted.
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> So i never know if the packages are good and if there was newer packages.
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> Crunchbang linux can be a solution to my problem.
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> Does it have tint2 or only tint ?
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> Roelof
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> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:46:42 -0400
> From: blu3b0y16 at gmail.com
> To: r.wobben at hccnet.nl; openbox at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [openbox] which linux works the best with pure openbox
> 
> I am using crunchbang linux ( http://crunchbanglinux.org/ ) and
>  out-of-the-box had nitrogen, tint and conky running perfectly. The author
>  corenominal, is a genius and is constantly on the crunchbang forums
>  helping people. Crunchbang Linux is based off of Ubuntu. What was your
>  problem w/ OB + Ubuntu before with dependencies exactly?
> 
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> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Roelof Wobben <rwobben at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> Im working now with a slackware box.
> But when i want to use tint2 or nitrogen on a AMD-64 machine the packages
>  doesn't exist. To make the packages you need a good understanding of
>  slackware.
> And with questions almost nobody can help you because most of them uses kde
>  or xfce.
> 
> I tried Archlinux but when i want to install tint there are so many
>  depecencies i can better work on a gnome box. Ubuntu the same.
> I tried Debian but most of the packages only exist on a unstable version.
> 
> Also I tried LFS but that's to difficult for me. I can't make it work.
> 
> Have someone a good tip for me of a linux version where people can help me
>  with openbox problems and have all the packages. (Openbox, nitrogen,
>  tint2)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Roelof
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I am using Gentoo. It's a source based distribution with quite a lot of 
packages in the package manager. 
To check out what packages exist have a look at www.gentoo-portage.com

Regards
Andreas