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sujoy
January 23rd, 2008, 03:38 AM
Well I dont really want to install and configure openbox or awesome myself, rather, is there a distro out there that comes packed with only openbox or awesome? ( Like say Ubuntu comes with only GNOME)

I am eager to try them out. :)
kellemes
January 23rd, 2008, 06:38 AM
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&desktop=Openbox&architecture=All&status=Active

There are a lot of distro's that come with no wm preinstalled, and installing openbox or awesome shouldn't take longer than 2 or 3 seconds ;-)
sujoy
January 23rd, 2008, 06:44 AM
oh! thanks.

but I understand English better so Greenie Linux is not an option. Will try out Tiny Me tough.

btw, why is awesome not there?:confused:

There are a lot of distro's that come with no wm preinstalled, and installing openbox or awesome shouldn't take longer than 2 or 3 seconds

the problem is with offline installs. thats why i have been searching for a packaged one.
kellemes
January 23rd, 2008, 06:49 AM
oh! thanks.

but I understand English better so Greenie Linux is not an option. Will try out Tiny Me tough.

btw, why is awesome not there?:confused:



the problem is with offline installs. thats why i have been searching for a packaged one.


Heard good thing about TinyMe.

Also.. you can also use a distro like Debian that does package a lot of wm's on disk, although it installs Gnome by default.
sujoy
January 23rd, 2008, 06:57 AM
yes thats another option. :)
urukrama
January 23rd, 2008, 08:08 AM
TinyMe and GrafPup come with Openbox.

Give TinyMe a try. I think a stable release still has to come out, but so far the developers have done an excellent job. TinyMe is fast, fairly beautiful (though they could have dropped the big conky slab) and very polished. I am very impressed with it.
sujoy
January 23rd, 2008, 01:44 PM
yes I have TinyMe in mind :)
eljoeb
January 23rd, 2008, 03:36 PM
Just do an Ubuntu minimal install and put it on.
sujoy
January 24th, 2008, 12:21 AM
Just do an Ubuntu minimal install and put it on.

like I said before, its realy not possible because I need to install it on a lot of older machines where I wont get a connection to the internet. :(
heri
January 24th, 2008, 01:23 PM
I just found this remaster of Ubuntu with Openbox called CrunchBang Linux.
I have tried it on my old PIII laptop and surprisingly it is very nice !

Check it out here (http://crunchbang.org/archives/2008/01/22/crunchbang-linux-7-dot-10-dot-01-release-notes/) and give it a try, I bet you will love it :)

Cheers,