I’ve installed Crunchbang Linux on the old Thinkpad X24. It’s based on the Openbox window manager, and it is faaaaast, and so far very pleasant to use. The only issue I encountered was Openbox’s reliance on the super key (aka the windows key, which the X24 doesn’t have). This is easily solved though, thanks to this blog post at iceflatline. w00t.

Update: It turned out to be a little different, the script example in iceflatline needed to be tweaked slightly for my setup. The command

xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap

is a useful one – it pointed me to an error that was preventing the new binding from working. A useful article on Xmodmap can be found here.

Linux.com reports that “Brasero will replace Serpentine as the CD-writing utility in the upcoming April release of Ubuntu 8.10”. That’s a good thing, although I’ll still keep the totally awesome K3b

I love YaKuake. Oooooohhhh yes it’s nice. Screenshots here.

Which isn’t necessarily a good thing. It looks as though hoards of upgraders to Feisty are finding that they can no longer connect to wireless networks. One of my machines could not even connect down the wire…. Oh why didn’t I just stick with 6.10? Come back Edgy Eft!

While I like Ubuntu I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Gnome (I prefer KDE). However, the Dive into Mark man’s essential software list has some gems on it (such as k9copy for copying DVDs).