Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Tango

And it looks like I haven't done so in ages...
Sayonara to nearly 800 MB of old kernels.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Stilgar

The never ending battle against old kernels goes on and on and on...
This time on my beloved T60p, Stilgar.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Usul

Not many, that's true...
But every MB counts on SSD drives...

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Stilgar

Another instance of the never ending battle in the cause for the deletion of old kernels.
Stilgar gets back a hundred plus MB for stuff.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode ^2

Kernel crud deletion time, for both Usul and Stilgar.
I get a strange kinda pleasure deleting old kernels and re-gaining HDD space, even when, like this time, the HDD space is negligible.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Stilgar

Saturday is here, so its time to delete old kernels on Stilgar!
A measly amount, not even 400 MB, nothing compared to Usul's last cleansing.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Usul

Tonight it was Usul's turn...
1 GB of old kernels down the drain.

Kernel Crud Delete Mode for Tango

It was that time of the month once again...

Kernel Crud Delete Mode

Time to delete a couple of old kernels from Stilgar.

Precise Pangolin Minimal Install with MATE

Been using Precise Pangolin for about a week or so (mostly with GNOME 3), I like it so far, but I'm sort of missing GNOME 2... So comes MATE to the rescue.

GNOME 3 with a handful of extensions mimics its predecessor quite well, but it is not the same thing, and the same goes for the so called Fall Back alternatives; Unity is not my cup of tea, at least for the moment...

A viable alternative, then, might be Debian's Squeeze, but, I do like the 5 years of updates for a desktop that Precise Pangolin's LTS offers.. I'm old, and lazy, and I quite like the LTS's ability to install and forget; on my laptops (mostly old Thinkpads) Lucid Lynx didn't had a major problem with the myriad of updates along the years.

This is a quick test I did on a Dell Inspiron 1000 (Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz) with 768 MB of RAM and a 20 GB IDE HDD.

Install Precise Pangolin, from the Mini CD installer, making it as thin and as unbloated as possible, tried using the Alternate CD installer, but, even burned to CD I got the same error than before...

After that, and after installing any necessary updates, make a full fledged MATE installation, with the CLI only installation the system will be using about 1 GB of HDD

voyager:~$ df -ah 
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1        17G  1.2G   15G   8% /
proc               0     0     0    - /proc
sysfs              0     0     0    - /sys
none               0     0     0    - /sys/fs/fuse/connections
none               0     0     0    - /sys/kernel/debug
none               0     0     0    - /sys/kernel/security
udev            335M  4.0K  335M   1% /dev
devpts             0     0     0    - /dev/pts
tmpfs           137M  280K  137M   1% /run
none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none            342M     0  342M   0% /run/shm

Install some programs I need and the necessary X Window:

voyager:~$ sudo apt-get install xorg emacs23-nox openssh-server

And then add the MATE repository to the bottom of the sources.list file:

voyager:~$ sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list

Add this:

## -----------------------------------------------
## MATE
deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu precise main
## -----------------------------------------------

Then start the proper MATE installation:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mate-core

It will need to download 182 MB and installs about 500 MB of files.
After the installation is complete, the system will be using about 2 GB of HDD.

sudo apt-get install mate-desktop-environment

This will download 17 MB and use 42 MB HDD. Be aware there is an interactive setup involved, for the program hddtemp.

When that finishes, you can start using it, by typing:

startx

After that, install other apps as needed:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser pidgin

Only app I'm missing, but, really, really missing is Gnome Global Menu...
The laptop feels quite snappy.

Time to delete old kernels

Last night deleted a bunch of old kernels from Sojourner & Usul, getting rid of 700 + MB of files...

Bye Bye (some) TTF Fonts

Removed some fonts that I'm pretty sure I won't be using much, or never.

The hunt for (old) Trisquel

The quest is on and goes on and on... But, let me tell you, it doesn't seem to be any easy to find that old release...
Been searching all around yesterday, all to no avail...

In the meantime fun is Minimal Desktop for Ubuntu.

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (6)

Another one... Anything as long as I recover a few MBs for the measle SSD HD on Usul

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (5)

Yet another one... This time a mind freaking 650 MB of HDD space.

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (4)

Actually, this not unwanted, but, is a left over, and since the idea of these is getting rid of stuff that uses HDD space, SSD space that is; this one does.
If you removed Chromium from your system, check for this two directories:

~/.cache/chromium
~/.config/chromium/

These two dirs were using about 125 MB of HDD space, and that only after a very short Chromium usage.
I've tested Chromium a bit, and even tho it looks rather nice, it is not my cup of tea, I'm too used to Firefox by now...

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (3)

Another episode of trimming Ubuntu... Yet another time to delete old kernels.

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (2)

This time, removing unneeded kernels and kernel headers. A rebooting of the box after this is mandatory, and ballsy to the max :p

Unwanted Ubuntu crud (1)

A couple of things I got rid off on Ubuntu.
Specially since SSD are a little tight regarding space, from my point of view, I'll keep posting what stuff I usually throw away to regain a couple of MB back.

ttf-khmeros-core
ttf-kacst-one
ttf-umefont
ttf-takao-pgothic