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Colonel Panic
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#1221 Post by Colonel Panic »

NixOS certainly looks promising, but it's clearly not for beginners. Here's an excerpt from its homepage;

You configure a NixOS system by writing a specification of the functionality that you want on your machine in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix.

For instance, here is a minimal configuration of a machine running an SSH daemon:

{
boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda";

fileSystems."/".device = "/dev/sda1";

services.sshd.enable = true;
}

After changing /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, you realise the configuration by running this command:

$ nixos-rebuild switch

This command does everything necessary to make the configuration happen, including downloading and compiling OpenSSH, generating the configuration files for the SSH server, and so on.
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#1222 Post by James C »

Got tired of Linux Mint so replaced it with LXLE 12.04.3.(Lubuntu Extra Life Extension )
http://lxle.net/
What is it?

LXLE is simply a respun Lubuntu OS with different goals.

Sticks with LTS only releases of Ubuntu to ensure hardware & software support.
Based on Lubuntu Linux to ensure a fast capable desktop for aging computers.
No rebranding of the OS to ensure no confusion when looking for help/tutorials.
Stays with Ubuntu at the core of the system to ensure plentiful support options.
Keeps desktop and other major software updated to the latest current version.
Provides a complete drop in and go replacement for XP, Vista, 7 Starter/Basic.
Covers most users everyday needs by providing an excellent set of default apps.
Adds useful necessary mods and tweaks, to improve performance & functions.
Develops a beautiful modern looking intuitive desktop for anyone to use easily.
http://lxle.net/about/
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#1223 Post by d4p »

CruxEX 3.0 64bit 2013 v131008 (LXDE) with savefile dynamic size.

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#1224 Post by rokytnji »

Image

Mint 14 Mate. Bike tuner laptop with Windows 7.

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#1225 Post by James C »

Debian Sid w/ Mate 1.6.0.

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#1226 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Lubuntu 13.10 beta 2 to an Acer desktop.

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.11.0-11-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #17-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 1 19:42:04 UTC 2013
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.8.1
(Ubuntu/Linaro 4.8.1-10ubuntu6)
Distribution Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)

It has a Lubuntu Software Center which works well but I needed to
choose the Run option from the menu to start kshisen because clicking
on it from the Games menu didn't work.

Lubuntu is working well .
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#1227 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed PC-BSD 9.2 (the latest version). It's early days yet but it seems pretty stable and works well. The only problem I've found so far is that if you want to install any additional programs from the App Cafe (yes that's what it's called), the program sizes are almost insanely big. Geeqie, for example, is a 56 MB download, GKrellM is an 85 MB one (I kid you not) and Firefox 17 ESR is about 98 MB.
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#1228 Post by James C »

Installed PCLOS 2013 MATE the other day.......seems to be working very well.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/

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#1229 Post by Colonel Panic »

I recently installed Korora 19.1 (the latest version), which is based on Fedora, and it seems to be working well. Sadly I couldn't get Flash to work consistently in PC-BSD so I've gone back to ZevenOS Neptune for the time being (there's a new version out now, 3.3), which is based on Debian and includes KDE and the Calligra office suite. Looks like a "keeper" for me at the moment as it does almost everything well.
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#1230 Post by James C »

One of my little side projects.......Debian Testing aka Jessie. Have it trimmed down to a bit over a 400 mb cd with a browser and Synaptic.Running Openbox and still experimenting with kernels.

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Temporarily decided about the kernel.....

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#1231 Post by musher0 »

James C wrote:Got tired of Linux Mint so replaced it with LXLE 12.04.3.(Lubuntu Extra Life Extension )
http://lxle.net/
(...)
http://lxle.net/about/
That is indeed a very nice distro. But it's only available in English or Spanish.
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#1232 Post by Bert »

Hi Musher0,

The language problem (and solution) is discussed in this thread:

http://lxle.net/forum/#/discussion/63/language-support.

Have not tested this myself, as I still have to download LXLE... :wink:
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#1233 Post by Billtoo »

I installed kubuntu 13.10 64 bit version.
It has a lot of effects available, wobbly windows etc, and they are fun.
No problems so far.
EDIT:
I installed kubuntu 13.10 64 bit on my intel imac as well, it's working great, wobbly windows and all.
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#1234 Post by linuxbear »

problems, problems, problems I updated a single lib file while running Bodhi and my whole GUI was deinstalled for some reason. Bodhi, while very fast has some problems and you certainly do not want to use Ubuntu's auto updater, It does strange things to E17.
.... I went back to the one distro which never gave me problems: Ubuntu Studio 10.04

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#1235 Post by nooby »

If you know Spanish then maybe this OS distro is for you.
A variant of Ubuntu where they have tried to include
what most people expect to be there from scratch.

My Spanish is zero so I wait for others to tell how good it is. :)

And what about Keyboard layout if it is for Spanish keyboard
it will be rather different unless it allow you to specify your owncountry
during boot process?
http://bt-tech.wix.com/loc-os-linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/locosli ... urce=files
A Remix of Ubuntu, with all you need in your internet coffe(in spanish "ciber")
Password and username is "loco"(no quotes)
password for root account is a space
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#1236 Post by James C »

My Ubuntu Precise 12.04 Openbox spin......538 mb using gz compression for older hardware. Planning to redo with xz compression to get in the mid to upper 400's.
Fairly basic....PCManFM,Gnome Mplayer,MTPaint,Geany and Chromium...... but should work well on older hardware.

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#1237 Post by linuxbear »

Time to start distro hopping again. I just bought a quad-core 14" lappy with 4 gig of RAM. All for the stunning price of $300.- This with with a year's guarantee thrown for free because I asked for a professional discount :) It's amazing the savings you can get on what was once an almost 1600 dollar machine if you are willing to buy a refurbished laptop and are patient enough to find a good price. That being said, I am going to experiment with Puppy as a platform for virtual machines. I want to start with Lighthouse 64 and try Fatdog 64 too. Hopefully, they will run vmware player. Any suggestions on what other Puppies can take full advantage of the hardware in this machine?

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#1238 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed Slackel 5.0 Openbox (a Greek distro based on Slackware and Salix), and it's working well although it suffers somewhat from Slack's restricted package repository (no Osmo, for example).
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#1239 Post by rokytnji »

Any suggestions on what other Puppies can take full advantage of the hardware in this machine?
It's a little hard to ride this pony but it races like a mustang on my Acer Aspire 5534.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 141#729141

I use it mainly because it fit on a 128MB SD card and the save file sits OK in NTFS windows. I am not going to vouch that it will take full advantage of your hardware though.

When I am concerned about that. I just boot and run AntiX 64bit and enable Debian experimental repos, (not concerning myself with breakage)..
My Ubuntu Precise 12.04 Openbox spin......538 mb using gz compression for older hardware. Planning to redo with xz compression to get in the mid to upper 400's.
Fairly basic....PCManFM,Gnome Mplayer,MTPaint,Geany and Chromium...... but should work well on older hardware.
Nice, me likey. :wink:

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#1240 Post by nooby »

Linux Bear is it a x86 compatible machine?

And if it is that new does it maybe have win 8 with UEFI
and that makes it a bit harder to put puppy on it.

You have have to start with FatDog that has special preparation
for UEFI unless your machine allow you to turn it off entirely

But I know nothing. I have postponed buying new machines
for some year now due to the UEFI thing on all the new cheap ones here locally.

None of our local cheap machines allow UEFI to be easily turned off AFAIK
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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