Non-Slackware post

Working on my Dell Mini with gOS installed, I've edited the dock bar to include Mozilla's Thunderbird. Basically I edited .wbar in my ~/home dir...I've added the following:

i: /usr/share/icons/gOS3_Icons/scalable/apps/mozilla-thunderbird.png
c: glaunch thunderbird.desktop
t: Thunderbird

I added this under the Firefox entry.

The dock looked like this before the change:



The dock now looks like this:



I actually had to experiment with this. Apparently, the gOS forums lack this documentation, as I haven't seen any documentation on how to change the dock's format, so I'm posting it here.

EDIT: Wbarconf under "gOS/accessories" is apparently the tool to use to edit the dock bar. Found that tidbit of info here. Note the date of Oct 2008. Although I found the answer on my own, I searched the internet after I applied my edit, checking to see how prevalent the info is...its not that prevalent. That's about the only hit I got, other than one other explaining to download some GUI tool that would allow editing of the dock.

EDIT: Another link describing how to edit the dock bar. Look for "How to add edit and delete the content of the "dock" (Wbar)"

Also, after reading Linux Format LXF119, I've decided to try some hard disk information tools: Filelight, a tool that shows graphical representation of hard disk usage and HardInfo, which is a system profiler/benchmarker. Screenshots are below. Both are decent tools and I recommend them.

Filelight:



HardInfo:

No further issues with gOS so far

It has been a very good experience, so far.

In fact, I've also been leveraging Thunderbird...this is a first time for me (since Netscape Mail back in the 90s). It is very robust!

I've also aliased a few commands that I tend to use alot, mainly ssh commands that I use on remote hosts.

I've also found some decent background images that I've scaled (using Gimp) to 1024x600.

I've also been conducting my typical security audits (BASE and iptables and web server log perusing).

I've not used my Mac in like 3 weeks! I don't know if that's a good or bad thing (probably bad for the battery).

gOS v3.1 installed on Dell Mini 9

I took the plunge and installed gOS v3.1 Gadgets onto the Dell Mini 9.

The install went flawlessly.

The issues I have discovered so far:

1. Wireless would not work. I followed the instructions located at http://gosforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=48&p=203&hilit=broadcom#p223. I applied this fix (when I was using a cat5 connection) and it worked, so the wireless non-functionality is no longer an issue.

2. The Mini won't suspend when I close the lid. I can manually suspend, though. I'll hunt for a fix and apply it later.

I also just noticed that a swap partition was created and configured for use (automatically, when installing gOS). I already have a gig of physical RAM and I don't want to burn out my SSD card, so I'll disable it for now and consider a workaround if/when I need it.

Overall, this is a pretty solid distro and it is pretty cool to be able to use Google tools (this will save drive space and conserve the limited resources this machine has). The Gadgets can also be used offline, so I won't need to be connected to use them...now, that's cool.

Some screenshots:






EDIT:

Fixed the sound issue by following Step 4 of "Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Dell Inspiron Mini 9".

I turned off the swap partition by editing out the swap entry in /etc/fstab. I'll test to see how this impacts my install of gOS before removing the partition.