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rmcellig
Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 968 Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada
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Posted: Sat 17 Aug 2013, 16:44 Post subject:
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At the moment I have three distros that I use. Linux Lite 1.0.6, Crunchbang 11 and Puppy Linux (various flavors, or should I say pups or breeds ).
My main sticking point at the moment is getting GRUB to work after doing a frugal install of Slacko.
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Sat 17 Aug 2013, 19:26 Post subject:
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Colonel Panic wrote: | Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.
It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.
My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed. |
Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.
Code: | live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
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To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help.
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1968
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Posted: Sun 18 Aug 2013, 04:30 Post subject:
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James C wrote: | Colonel Panic wrote: | Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.
It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.
My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed. |
Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.
Code: | live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
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To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help. |
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it another go.
_________________ Acer Aspire M1610 (Core 2 Duo, 2.3 GHz), 3 GB of RAM, 320 GB hard drive running Devuan 2.0.0 Beta, Slackel 7.0 Openbox, Bunsen Labs Deuterium, VLocity 7.2 Final, X-Slacko 4.4, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Budgie,Stella 6.8 and Gecko Mate (rolling edition).
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1968
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 07:29 Post subject:
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Another good one: ZevenOS 3.2 Neptune. A Debian stable-based distro with the KDE desktop as standard.
I think it's 64-bit only though so not suitable for older computers.
_________________ Acer Aspire M1610 (Core 2 Duo, 2.3 GHz), 3 GB of RAM, 320 GB hard drive running Devuan 2.0.0 Beta, Slackel 7.0 Openbox, Bunsen Labs Deuterium, VLocity 7.2 Final, X-Slacko 4.4, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Budgie,Stella 6.8 and Gecko Mate (rolling edition).
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toowoombalinux
Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 95
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Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 18:24 Post subject:
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Just installed SolusOS 1.3 (not the developing 2 series) - seems a nice desktop and hopefully can get it as productive as my Ubuntu desktop ....then i can ditch Ubuntu.
btw. I'm also a fanatic Puppian - Lupu + Puppy 3.01 (with glibc + gtk2+ upgrade)
Cheers
Martin
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Fri 23 Aug 2013, 01:45 Post subject:
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Latest Archbang....
http://archbang.org/
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OS: ArchBang i686
/\ Hostname: archbang
.;#. Kernel: 3.10.6-2-ARCH
/####\ Uptime: 9
;## #; Window Manager: openbox
+### .## Packages: 445
+#### ;### RAM: 104 / 1005 MB
###### #####; CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
####### ###### Shell: bash
######## ######## Root: 1.2G / 2.6G (ext4)
.########;;########;
.########; ;#######
#########. .########;
######' '######
;#### ####;
##' '##
#' '#
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Billtoo

Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3421 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Wed 04 Sep 2013, 10:08 Post subject:
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I installed Slackware 14.0 64 bit version to an Acer desktop.
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8160MB (974MB used)
Operating System Slackware 14.0
Date/Time Wed 04 Sep 2013 01:35:04 AM EDT
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
Direct Rendering Yes
It took a few minutes to update everything with slackpkg but it's
working well.
EDIT:I did another install to an Acer desktop pc.
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1968
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Posted: Sun 08 Sep 2013, 08:56 Post subject:
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Just installed ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 (64-bit), mainly to have a functioning GRUB after installing VLocity 64-bit and losing the boot manager. It's early days yet but so far it looks like an attractive RPM-based distro.
_________________ Acer Aspire M1610 (Core 2 Duo, 2.3 GHz), 3 GB of RAM, 320 GB hard drive running Devuan 2.0.0 Beta, Slackel 7.0 Openbox, Bunsen Labs Deuterium, VLocity 7.2 Final, X-Slacko 4.4, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Budgie,Stella 6.8 and Gecko Mate (rolling edition).
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linuxbear
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 623 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Posted: Sun 08 Sep 2013, 22:57 Post subject:
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...... Well, it's not actually a new distro, but look at the USB computer Puppy is running on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qhqMlWGdM
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 01:11 Post subject:
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Trying out the latest Semplice 5.Debian Sid naturally.....
http://semplice-linux.org/
Code: | luckyuser@SempliceLive:~$ uname -r
3.10-2-686-pae |
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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 16:52 Post subject:
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I have been running antiX 13.1 core-libre on my Abit BH6 computer.
I am not using a mouse, just a keyboard. No internet (there is no device to connect to the internet anyway). Running as normal user.
128MB of ram only!!
sda, 8.7GB ibm drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sda1, 8.1GB EXT2
sda2, 372MB Swap (v1)
sdb, 160GB WD Caviar Blue drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sdb1, 8.4GB unformatted partition (id/type marked as '83/Linux')
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Wed 11 Sep 2013, 23:39 Post subject:
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Trying out Rosa Marathon ......forked from Mandriva. 5 yr LTS release.
http://www.rosalab.com/products/desktop
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nubc

Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 1907 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 22:21 Post subject:
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Anybody try out LXLE 12.04.3 (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension)? It's kinda big at 1252 MB, but it runs nice. Recently reviewed by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20130909#feature
about LXLE
http://lxle.net/about/
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Ted Dog

Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4013 Location: Heart of Texas
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Posted: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 23:55 Post subject:
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Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison
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linuxbear
Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 623 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Posted: Fri 13 Sep 2013, 14:41 Post subject:
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Ted Dog wrote: |
Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison |
I have been watching these thumbdrive devices for a while and now that many of them have 2G of RAM, I might buy one.
... Here's a good source of info http://www.liliputing.com
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