{"id":481,"date":"2011-05-14T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2015-03-05T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:12:45","slug":"backtrack5-install-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soliloquyforthefallen.net\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Backtrack5 Install Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blog post, a Backtrack 5 review . . .  Awesomeness.  BT5 was released via torrent only on the 10th, and I managed to download it earlier this week.  I was finally able to install it last night.  Here are my thoughts and notes I made while using BT5 for the very brief bit of time that I have had.<\/p>\n<h3>Incidental thoughts<\/h3>\n<p><em>This are small things I found while installingusing Backtrack 5 and ways that I think it can be improved.  These are just incidental things that could be fixed, but don&#8217;t <u>have<\/u> to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The taskbar does not show a battery monitor by default.  It would be nice, although you can easily enable it by changing a setting in the system tray preferences.<\/li>\n<li>Taskbar is like 60% the width of the screen and slid to the left.  I&#8217;m not sure what the reason for this is, it would be nice for it to be centered, or full screen width.<\/li>\n<li>Backtrack 5 uses GRUB2, but does not have a decent theme.  It might be nice for the creators to BURG instead.<\/li>\n<li>It would be nice to have an option in the installer to adjust mobo time in the installer.  Backtrack 5 is using my motherboard time, which is set to actual time instead of GMT.  There is probably something I need to change but I haven&#8217;t taken the time to find it yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Larger complaints<\/h3>\n<p><em>These are items that I would consider bugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really wish the developers would have used a newer version of ubuntu. I know that 10.04 is in long term support, but I still have a few qualms.<\/li>\n<li>They really need to include some shutdown options.<\/li>\n<li>When the installer was finished, it said that &#8220;Ubuntu&#8221; had finished installing.<\/li>\n<li>When booting, it shows &#8220;Ubuntu 10.04&#8221; briefly.<\/li>\n<li>After starting KDE, KDE mentions something about an ensoniq audio device not being found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Happiness<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Backtrack 5 properly detects and uses the display driver for my netbook, something BT4 R2 did not do.  Awesomeness<\/li>\n<li>I saw that some updates had already been released for Backtrack 5.  I know that the point of switching to an Ubuntu base with Backtrack was to enable a better update system.  I don&#8217;t think that it was really used however in Backtrack4 like it should have been.  These updates were nice to see and I really really hope the trend continues.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m glad to see that the installer did not mess up my boot MBR like Backtrack 4 R2 did.<\/li>\n<li>Over all, I also think that Backtrack 5&#8217;s partition layout tool is clearer, which is very nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be playing with Backtrack 5 more over the next month and a half.  I&#8217;ll be discussing what I find on the <a href=\"http:\/\/techietrio.com\">Techie Trio<\/a> podcast.  By the way, we released a <a href=\"http:\/\/techietrio.com\/2011\/05\/09\/episode-5-all-good-things-must-come-to-an-end\/\">new episode<\/a> so you really should check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog post, a Backtrack 5 review . . . Awesomeness. BT5 was released via torrent only on the 10th, and I managed to download it earlier this week. I was finally able to install it last night. 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