Comments on: Giving new life to an old computer

By: Thuban

Thuban — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:31:41 +0000

I think I’m a bit too late.

Instead of Awesome, you also could use wmii, or even dwm. It is very very light, and easy to configure!

By: spiralofhope

spiralofhope — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:22:34 +0000

Thanks for this post.

I ended up checking out canto. It’s wonderful, and I think it’ll easily replace Google Reader – the reader for people too lazy to download.

I’ll have to check out the rest of your apps. I’ve also got my own listing brewing, and I hope to do thorough reviews of each choice over the years it’ll take.. =)

By: Oldschool Linux « Spiral of Hope

Oldschool Linux « Spiral of Hope — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:21:05 +0000

[...] Giving life to an old computer – mentioned Canto, which is gold. Check the rest out. [...]

By: voltaic

voltaic — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:42:49 +0000

urukrama, it looks like your midnight commander ini file is not accessible any longer. do you mind reuploading it to dotfiles?

By: havoc

havoc — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:23:21 +0000

Hi, I’m using awesome, alpine, mocp too. And I use pcmanfm for file manager. it’s like a thunar without xfce library dependency.

By: 2008: The year in screenshots « urukrama’s weblog

2008: The year in screenshots « urukrama’s weblog — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:33:21 +0000

[...] The screenshots are arranged per computer, roughly chronologically. Yantra is my main computer, on which I do most of my work. Grantha is the computer at my office. Mitra is the old Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop I wrote about earlier. [...]

By: urukrama

urukrama — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:09:08 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions, Phillip. I’ll look into some of those apps.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:36:35 +0000

oh and aterm is another good terminal emulator (also supports tinting and transparency). It is lighter than mrxvt.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:33:09 +0000

Thank you for this post. It had some nice suggestions for applications. Here are my additions:

herrie is a *great* light cl audio player. With the exception of crossfading, it has all the features you would expect from an audio player. It even supports remote control, transparency, audioscrobbler, and it can chroot itself. I use the last feature to boot my computer into an mp3 mode.

There is a build script for Slackware for it at SlackBuilds.org. It includes patches for extra functionality such as file name filtering.

cmatrix is a nice cl “screensaver”

diakonos is becoming an excellent cl editor. One of the neat features about it is that you can use keybindings that are typical (CTRL+c to copy, CTRL+s to save, etc).

CurseTheWeather is a nice cl weather checker. It also can be configured to have a transparent background.

parcellite is a nice lightweight clipboard manager

By: Mikko

Mikko — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:21:45 +0000

Great article!