Happy for you to continue on the Ubuntu base, since I use Watt as a lightweight, unbloated entry point into Ubuntu packages. It's a great distro on its own as well. However, r6 is still working very well for me so I'll probably skip r7, just like I stayed on r4 until r6 arrived.

Adam Ostrožlík said:I like cinnamon and most i would like to have percentage expressing Wi-Fi signal power. Is it possible ?   Cinnamon is not a good choice for old hardware. The graphics have heavy requirements inherited from Gnome 3 (which it's based on). I can't run any distro running Cinnamon (nor Gnome 3 nor Unity) on my old PC.

Biff, I don't know if this is the thread to post this in, but I've read from Fuduntu news that Jupiter won't be supported or maintained anymore. What alternatives are you considering for WattOSr.7 to keep it light and power-miserly? This may be related to Dave's post above - I'm not sure.

biff baxter said:Hey there...thanks for the feedback. I will post the wallpapers for you. I appreciate your loyalty and continued support of wattOS even though its not perfect :) I will post the wallpapers or message you directly with the one you requested. tks....biff   Thanks, Biff. I look forward to the wallpapers. Am I weird for liking all the bug pictures?     As for Compiz, I found out there was nothing wrong with the xorg.conf settings copied from Mepis after all. I had just neglected to tick a key setting in the Compiz Settings Manager. So it now works fine in r6.  

Hello, everyone. A short introduction:   My home PC is a 2005 Dell running on a Pentium 4 chip with 1 GB RAM. I find it works pretty well still, and I don't believe in spending money on a new machine until this one really conks off.   The WindowsXP partition has long been erased, and I multiboot a few Linux distros, primarily Debian variations (Mepis, Crunchbang, Parsix). I wanted a Ubuntu distro for the wide and modern selection in its repos, but found the main versions like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, even Mint, a bit too heavy graphically for my old ATI Radeon card to handle ever since Gnome 3 etc came into the picture. To be frank, I didn't really like them for whatever reason, and I'd even tried Mint Xfce.   I discovered Wattr4 and loved it. It was super fast on my PC (including booting in less than 30 sec), lightweight, unfussy and unbloated, and I could install whatever I wished from the Buntu repositories without too much hassle. I could even get Compiz to run on it with a little tweaking of a xorg.conf file copied from Mepis.   I did try out a live version of r5, scratched my head over the strange selection of programs (midori as the only browser??), and decided to keep r4 as it was running along so nicely.    When r6 arrived, I tried it live and liked it because it seemed to be a return to the r4 feel and vibe. Today, I finally installed it afresh over my r4 because the support for Ubuntu 11.04 was coming to an end.   So far, it's working well, although it took me a while to figure out why there were no printing services I could configure (CUPS not installed as default), and my xorg.conf settings that I used for r4 don't seem to work perfectly for Compiz in r6. Oh well.    I do have one question and request, Biff. I liked the wallpapers in r4, esp the default green grasshopper/locust one. Is there any way I can get hold of them again for r6?   POST-EDIT: maybe it's not a grasshopper/locust? The insect has huge eyes and it's set against a green background.     Thanks. This post was edited by asqwerth w at October 26, 2012 3:35:37 AM PDT