Ubuntu Netbook Remix Interface on ArchLinux

MetalheadGautham · 2009-01-15 12:40:17

How can I have the following interface in ArchLinux ?

I am thinking of buying an Acer Aspire One 9"Screen/1GBram/160GBhdd subnotebook in a few months.
So I was researching through netbook OSes.
I chanced upon this and I LOVE IT.

I don't want to leave archlinux because I can never get another equally comfortable fast and elegent OS (gentoo is great on powerful desktops, but on 1.6GHz atom compiling software would be a serious pain).

Now, whether I buy AspireOne or not, I definitely want this interface because it would make it easier for my non geek family to use linux and it looks somewhat neat.

AndyRTR · 2009-01-15 12:44:10

Arch is what you make it yourself. There's something similar you can use in the lxde project. Or look out what Ubuntu has used and adopt what you want.

leocross · 2009-01-15 12:50:35

Here's the link to the gui's project site:
https://launchpad.net/netbook-remix
You can download the source from here:
https://launchpad.net/netbook-remix/+download

So you just have to make a pkgbuild for it. It's a theme that changes the standard Ubuntu desktop.

Last edited by leocross (2009-01-15 12:51:56)

u_no_hu · 2009-01-15 13:19:17

Seems like a PKGBUILD is already in aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22072

buttons · 2009-01-15 13:22:53

I thought this was already in the aur repos as of like last month.

EDIT: Whoops. I didn't read; someone already mentioned it.

Last edited by buttons (2009-01-15 13:23:18)

MetalheadGautham · 2009-01-16 17:31:36

Hmm... nice to see that its in the repos.
What does it actually do ? Does it require gnome ?
Is it stable enough ?

Because I want to be 100% sure that I can safely install it in my extremely stable arch xfce system.

der_joachim · 2009-01-16 18:13:29

AFAIK it does require gnome. However, I never tried any other underlying DE. I absolutely dislike gnome, so I found myself something lighter.

Gnome + NBR ran very decently on my EEE900, so it will perform well on any netbook. Installing NBR from aur was a breeze. Stability wasn't a problem. I never had any crashes or freezes.

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