Ideas for my Terrible Start?

Raymii

So I make this debian linux respin called Terrible Linux: http://raymii.org/cms/p_terriblelinux
and Linux Mint has a nice startup screen, which I thought I also should do. The above picture is what I made this morning in python/isc.
It's fairly simple, opens some software, shows IP, has notes and a browser opener.
I'm soon going to release a new version of Terrible Linux, with this included and updated software.

Now, does anyone of you have ideas/features he or she would like to see in a start screen?

prometeus

Beautiful work!

MrDOS

Now, does anyone of you have ideas/features he or she would like to see in a start screen?

At risk of sounding snarky, I would like to see a way to easily disable it.

prometeus

@MrDOS said: snarky

just a little

Infinity

Offtopic: Someone seed!
Ontopic: How about open Terminal instead of send command? Or both?

yomero

IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION, IT MAY F*CK UP YOUR SYSTEM AND IT MAY SPAWN 10 HELLHOUNDS IN A BORG CUBE WHICH EAT YOUR BRAIN

Superb

Raymii

@yomero said: IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION, IT MAY F*CK UP YOUR SYSTEM AND IT MAY SPAWN 10 HELLHOUNDS IN A BORG CUBE WHICH EAT YOUR BRAIN

Superb

Raymii

@MrDOS said: At risk of sounding snarky, I would like to see a way to easily disable it.

Of course you will be able to disable it. The "target audience" of the respin are "power users" who do not want to be bothered with it

MrAndroid

I always wanted to make my own distro, but i find making the LiveCD part and creating the ISO difficult

Raymii

@Daniel said: I always wanted to make my own distro, but i find making the LiveCD part and creating the ISO difficult

Remastersys really makes it a breeze... I'm so happy that they have a debian version... Still looking for the same thing on Arch...

gsrdgrdghd

@Infinity said: Offtopic: Someone seed!

I'm seeding now with 5mb/s up. Btw theres something wrong with your speed, i got an average download speed of 1000 kB/s.
Maybe provider throtteling?

twain

I think the most important thing that can be gleaned from your terriblelinux page is the statement "my girlfriend is happy." That is a good thing indeed.

KuJoe

Personally, I'm done with Debian-based OSes. Just can't stand them after fighting with Crunchbang and Linux Mint Debian all last week.

It's a nice project, but when you offer one based on Arch I'll be all over it.

Raymii

@KuJoe Hell I want to make an arch one Just, after I had done Linux from Scratch I was happy I could go back to arch. Only I have not found an easy way to create a liveCD + install (like archbang) for arch.

And the whole point about arch is that you can customize it the way you like, so if I would make an arch one, would it be used? (Still, I want to do it )

@twain hehe, her netbook (atom n280, 2gram, 250gb hdd) was so slow with win7, but the main reason she wanted to switch according to her was not so much the speed, but now she can change the wallpaper without extra software (win7 starter does not allow that). But afterwards the speed was also a great +1 from her...

KuJoe

@Raymii said: And the whole point about arch is that you can customize it the way you like, so if I would make an arch one, would it be used? (Still, I want to do it )

I like Arch Linux but right now the only options out there are building from scratch using Arch Linux or ArchBang. Some people just want an out of the box OS leaving them with only ArchBang as an option (no complaints, but would be nice to have options).

If you build it, they will come.

Raymii

Just built a .deb package for all you who run debian:

http://irixos.nl/Terrible Linux/terriblelinux-start_0.1_all.deb

Go ahead and try! I am aware of the text not fitting in the entire window, will be fixed soon...

Infinity

@gsrdgrdghd Nah, its just BuyVM and probably the rest of the DC they are in is terribly slow from here, don't ask me why. The pony seems to have a curse on me. I had something come on which was in BurstNET US IIRC and I downloaded the rest in a matter of minutes.

Edit: Yeah, and I get similarly crap speeds from QuadraNET when I had a Hostigation LA VPS. At first I thought it was an West Coast thing but I remembered I could get better speeds from iMountain on my KiloServe which is in LA. Not sure why, might be something to do with the routing.

quirkyquark

It did look like last night the two BuyVM seeders were the bottlenecks...glad to see Burst took care of you

karl

Will seed this from 2 123systems vps's that i have that do nothing

netomx

@Raymii said: @twain hehe, her netbook (atom n280, 2gram, 250gb hdd) was so slow with win7, but the main reason she wanted to switch according to her was not so much the speed, but now she can change the wallpaper without extra software (win7 starter does not allow that). But afterwards the speed was also a great +1 from her...

I just Google some software that removed that cap on my laptop with Win7

Akira

@Daniel

I always wanted to make my own distro, but i find making the LiveCD part and creating the ISO difficult

You can use SuSE Studio. Kind of basic, you create an ISO for "your own" distro, based on OpenSuSE. You upload/ choose your own Logo, Wallpaper and add which applications should come inside the OS, so you can make it very lightweight or add everything like Games, Office Apps, Multimedia Apps, etc.

http://susestudio.com/

Freek

Looks nice. I won't be using it but I'm downloading it to my SeedBox right now and will seed for a while.