Openbox FreeBSD netbook software whatnot

Software

Obconf, Nitrogen, urxvt on Openbox, my cloud theme :)

It seems I'm never quite satisfied with the configuration of my Armada M300 subnotebook which despite it's age works as a fantastic netbook with a brighter screen and nicer keyboard than any of "them"!

My current software configuration having played around with Arch Linux and Debian at various times is now back to FreeBSD with 7.2-RELEASE i386 with the GEOM Gjournal system enabled on /usr and compiled-in kernel support for Vesa shells, all of which I'll be talking about here at some point.

And because I have new love for link clouds, here's my currently (and ever changing) list of software installed on it from the ports collection, some of which you can see in the screenshots.

Xorg
with Mach64 video drivers
Openbox
very lightweight window manager
pypanel
lightweight panel with transparency
urxvt
lighter xterm replacement with unicode
Nitrogen
display backgrounds with nice selection window
Midnight Commander
fast orthodox shell file manager
Vim
text editor
Cream
Tasty Vim extension
Firefox 3
grilled cheese sandwich iron
Elinks
shell web browser
Alpine
shell email client
Pan
newsgroup reader

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