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Distros for my iMac

#1161 Post by rmcellig »

I have Crunchbang 11 and Mint 15 xfce on my iMac. The only one that works properly for my needs is Mint 15. It's the only one that allows me to record from Audio Line In..... But wait!

I just booted the new Puppy Precise 5.7.1 on my iMac and guess what? This is the first put that I have used that actually works in regards to recording from my attached radio through Audio Line In. Tomorrow, I will be getting rid of #! and Mint 15 ant installing Puppy Precise alongside Mac OS X.

Now the only thing I have to learn is JWM. I would much rather have the way Puppy Linux 5.2.8 is set up with ROX and Openbox and instead of using FBPanel, I would love to use Tint2.(fell in love with it while using Crunchbang. I guess it would be too much of a hassle to use these instead of the stock Precise 5.7.1?

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Re: Other Distros

#1163 Post by ardvark »

Lobster wrote:Then I was intrigued by a Linux for 2 year olds and older, called Doudou. I am probably not smart enough to use it but the average 5 year old will be painting, playing poker and blackjack and painting masterpieces in tuxpaint.
Perhaps I misunderstood but children playing poker and blackjack at 5 years of age? I hope not! I know my child won't be. :!:

Regards...

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#1164 Post by nubc »

I wish Mozilla would make an OS for desktop/laptop. Anyone try Firefox OS?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... Firefox_OS

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Re: Other Distros

#1165 Post by Monsie »

ardvark wrote:
Lobster wrote:Then I was intrigued by a Linux for 2 year olds and older, called Doudou. I am probably not smart enough to use it but the average 5 year old will be painting, playing poker and blackjack and painting masterpieces in tuxpaint.
Perhaps I misunderstood but children playing poker and blackjack at 5 years of age? I hope not! I know my child won't be. :!:

Regards...
I suspect that is an example of the crustacean's somewhat salty sense of humor... :)

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#1166 Post by ardvark »

Hi Monsie...

Thank you. Yes, I was wondering about that. :)

A few years ago, I visited a small corner of your province: Victoria. A very pretty town that was so clean that you could practically eat off the streets and sidewalks! I've never seen anything like it in my life. :)

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#1167 Post by James C »

Still experimenting with Debian unstable.......

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james@sid:~$ uname -r
3.10-0.towo-siduction-686

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#1168 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Not exactly new, but I rolled my old 333 MHz laptop back to 4.12 Retro (256MB RAM, 512 MB Swap). Wow does it respond nicely under that older puppy. Now I just need to see if it can handle a newer Seamokey...

I had been running 5.25 Retro, which worked pretty well (much better than the 4.2/4.3 families). Though Firefox was way too much bloat for it.

I couldn't get 2.14 Top10 to work correctly. It would boot and run fine, but the keyboard mapping was completely goofed up (numbers in the letter section, and vice versa -- which made it impossible to make changes from the console).
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#1169 Post by starhawk »

@RetroTechGuy -- that sounds to me exactly like what happens when someone accidentally enables numlock on a laptop ;)

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#1170 Post by RetroTechGuy »

starhawk wrote:@RetroTechGuy -- that sounds to me exactly like what happens when someone accidentally enables numlock on a laptop ;)
Hadn't thought about that, but seems unlikely (I will check it next time I decide to play with that machine -- I wonder if Top10 default numlocks it...).
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#1171 Post by starhawk »

Quite possibly. Although, I've not played with ClassicPup much. In my experience it's far too slow to be practical for its intended purpose.

Unless it's just meant to work on P3s and P4s like most of the other Pups do just fine already...? ;) I know it barely crawls on a P2 laptop I have... I would *not* want to try it on a P1...

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#1172 Post by James C »

Porteus 2.0 release candidate.Using the x86-64 version.KDE,Firefox and a bunch of goodies in about 230 mb.
http://www.porteus.org/

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guest@porteus:~$ uname -r
3.9.4-porteus
guest@porteus:~$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
4450 frames in 5.0 seconds = 889.942 FPS
4618 frames in 5.0 seconds = 923.428 FPS
4600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 919.881 FPS
4674 frames in 5.0 seconds = 934.618 FPS

Copied to ram,cd ejected and working well. :)
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#1173 Post by nooby »

What about this one?

Robo Linux

http://www.robolinux.org/

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Now you can run all your Windows compatible software sand boxed safely inside Robolinux. You no longer need anti virus software or Microsoft security patches! When you run Windows inside the Robolinux VM without anti virus software slowing it down, it operates much faster. Also when your Windows registry slows down then you can instantly click the "Restore Windows VM" button from our menu options to make Windows run as fast as a fresh new install in seconds!
/quote

So it is a wm ware they are usually rather slow are they not?
Hope somebody test it and tell the result.
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#1174 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed the release version of Mint 15 Cinnamon, and it's working well; no problems with it so far.
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#1175 Post by johnrpm »

just installed Linux lite, very nice and everything seems to work, I shall always have a puppy though.

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#1176 Post by Colonel Panic »

It's a long wait for Solus 2 (I think ikey said before Christmas that he'd had to find a full time job and so didn't have as much time to work on it as he'd like), but I've installed the latest alpha version anyway - 2.0a7. It's a smart looking system and more than adequate except that access to add-on software is a bit "hit and miss" - some of the reason for that though might be because I don't know where and how to access the necessary repositories.
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but looks like it's not for free

#1177 Post by Enrique Corbellini »

[quote="nooby"]What about this one?

Robo Linux

http://www.robolinux.org/

I didn't use it with windows apps yet, but it didn't let me install on my machine unless paying few money.
Proving it for some minutes, it doesn't show the card of my phone when connecting it through cable, and doesn't transfer files from the desktop to the puppy disc partition.
On the other hand, it looks pretty well, and has a "what you see is what you get" look, but personally I prefer linux dedicated to free software, cause that's why we developed it.
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#1178 Post by James C »

Porteus 2.1 released.
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2412
Major additions since our 2.0 release include restructuring our layout to have standalone iso's for five desktop environments (KDE4, RazorQT, Mate, Xfce and LXDE)
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#1179 Post by bark_bark_bark »

I am running a 32bit Porteus 2.1 system that uses the XFCE Desktop. I am having major issues with the time (OS side), but that really isn't life-threatening.

I had used a built-in tool to get VirtualBox 4.2.16 installed and running. I have a Arch Linux Vbox set-up with XFCE as the desktop as well.

The only negative real negative outcome of running a virtual machine on a netbook, is that it may overheat a bit and may use more battery power.

I also would like to make a Slack VBox, but I am a bit lazy to hook up a usb dvd rw burner.

IMHO Slackware is a lot better, but Arch has some similarites with Slack that I want to play around with a bit.
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#1180 Post by johnrpm »

Well I have been using Linux lite for a few days now,and it really is good, fast and so far, rock solid, I can recommend giving it a try.

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