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Colonel Panic

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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 04:35 Post subject:
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James C wrote: | Colonel Panic wrote: |
Interesting, because I thought Porteus was the evolutionary successor to Slax? So there are at least two forks of Slax now in development?
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Not really. Since Tomas is the original developer of Slax it's just a continuation of the original Slax ...... another case of real life causing a break in development. During the time Tomas took a break from development the Porteus developers forked.
So, the original Slax is back while Porteus is a fork. |
Oh I see James, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding. I'm downloading Slax now, it looks worth a try.
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CP .
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1972
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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 07:49 Post subject:
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I've just downloaded Slax 6.12 and am posting from it now. It's amazing what the devs have managed to pack into 200 MB - it'd no doubt be sacrilege here to say it's a rival for Puppy Slacko, but I feel I should say that I'm playing a music video in Firefox now without having to download Flash first and I wish that could be taken for granted with Puppy too.
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 09:04 Post subject:
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Colonel Panic wrote: | I've just downloaded Slax 6.12 and am posting from it now. It's amazing what the devs have managed to pack into 200 MB - it';d no doubt be sacrilege here to say it;s a rival for Puppy Slacko, but I shoukld say that I'm playing a music video in Firefox now without having to download Flash first and I wish that could be taken for granted with Puppy too. |
It's not bad for something that was released in 2009........ Still holds up well though. The new Slax 7 should be interesting ..... still in pre-alpha though.
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Colonel Panic

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Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2012, 09:30 Post subject:
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James C wrote: | It's not bad for something that was released in 2009........ Still holds up well though. |
Yeah, I've just noticed the Firefox version - 3.5.1, and it still works fine with Flash. KDE 3.5.10 is still a goodie too.
James C wrote: | The new Slax 7 should be interesting ..... still in pre-alpha though. |
Agreed.
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2012, 00:35 Post subject:
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Trying out Tiny Core .....
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Fri 28 Sep 2012, 07:51 Post subject:
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Tiny Core is my second favorite distro. (My first is Puppy.) I use TinyCore on my 1gb flash drive directly
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Sat 29 Sep 2012, 07:58 Post subject:
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Today I downloaded Slackware 14 32bit. I am having trouble installing it in Virtualbox though. Anyways the stable came out yesterday, so i'd thought I'll download it. Downloading it from the website on a slow connection sure beats having to pay $50 for it to be mailed to my house.
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Pelo
Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Posts: 12591 Location: Mer méditerrannée (1 kms°)
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 03:47 Post subject:
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Dpup exprimo : load dependancies again and again.
Is it a Puppy ?
If i want debian, i use Debian,
No plus-value.
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Pelo
Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Posts: 12591 Location: Mer méditerrannée (1 kms°)
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 03:54 Post subject:
Slax and Porteus are not the same ? Subject description: I like Porteus. |
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Slax and Porteus are not the same ?
I like Porteus. I have it on a USB Stick. Very pretty, Well. Nothing to say.
Perfect connexions, sound is perfect.
But... But....
But i am used to puppies.
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2682 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 04:28 Post subject:
Re: Dpup exprimo will soon be trashed ! Subject description: And the following Dpup too ! |
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Pelo wrote: | Dpup exprimo : load dependancies again and again.
Is it a Puppy ?
If i want debian, i use Debian,
No plus-value. |
Except for the speed and size, yes?
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 06:56 Post subject:
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Slackware 14 running Pmusic ????
(tip : ssh )
Also did a NFS install to my eeepc 701sd, no KDE. xfce is enough for that (and this, celeron 2.6)
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 07:09 Post subject:
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I am still having trouble installing Slackware 14. Since I will end up getting a 16GB USB flash Drive, I think I'll put it on there and use that with my old dell (my old dell got it's hard drive removed).
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01micko

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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 07:23 Post subject:
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bark_bark_bark wrote: | I am still having trouble installing Slackware 14. Since I will end up getting a 16GB USB flash Drive, I think I'll put it on there and use that with my old dell (my old dell got it's hard drive removed). |
I would advise against trying to install Slackware to a usb stick. The only thing to install to a usb stick is the usbboot.img which only contains the installer and some basic tools to get you installed from another location such as folder on your hard drive or a local network location. I had to use that to install to my eee pc and I'll have to again as I'm setting up a server with no DVD drive. I am going to lock that baby down tight!
If you want to persist I highly recommend reading all of the documentation contained on the DVD.
Just for interests sake, I had peppermint on the eee before I decided to put 14 on it. I could not think of a worse OS for a eee! Windows were off screen everywhere. Ships with google browser which is supposed to be netbook friendly. Not this one.
Horses for courses I guess.
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 09:26 Post subject:
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Well I have the CD version and not the DVD version. Do any the 4 main CDs have enough documentation? I know how to install it but I keep on getting "input/output" errors when the pkgs are being installed.
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01micko

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Posted: Sun 30 Sep 2012, 16:21 Post subject:
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bark_bark_bark wrote: | Well I have the CD version and not the DVD version. Do any the 4 main CDs have enough documentation? I know how to install it but I keep on getting "input/output" errors when the pkgs are being installed. |
Input/output errors are either one of two things, a bad burn or your CD reader is struggling, likely due to age. Maybe try a slower burn speed.
I haven't done a CD install in years, but I think all the docs are on the first CD. I don't know how much system you'll get with only 1 CD, you are likely not to get X, in which case, once installed you would need to run slackpkg (after manually choosing a mirror) and install packages. If you know how to setup an NFS server on another linux machine then it should install. You can also install it from a windows share, but you need password-less access, and the ability to mount the CD in windows. Of course a Linux samba share works similarly.
Here a fellow has installed to a USB stick, but he wants to make it portable, something lilo isn't really suited to. Grub4dos works fine with Slackware.
Don't be afraid to ask questions on LQ. It's a pretty friendly place there as long as you follow the etiquette.
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