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rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 1039 Location: Pecos/ Texas

In case anyone is interested. I am downloadng it from sourceforge for later.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5323 Location: Kentucky

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10231 Location: SwedenEurope

Saintless here in our forum created something similar to that one
but using another browser and use apt-get to download the browser
you want.

I know too little though http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90586

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 1039 Location: Pecos/ Texas

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10231 Location: SwedenEurope

Oops that explained it then. To squeeze the Wheezy
seems to be hard and the one you mention succeeded?

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1373

Stella 6.5 (a CentOS respin) is out now and I've installed it this past week. It is working well as Stella always does - unflashy, plain-looking and almost boring, but thoroughly competent with no unpleasant surprises.

I see the Red Hat / CentOS family of distros as being like the Windows NT of Linux; somewhat retro and "behind the times" (Stella uses Firefox 17 ESR, for example), but they're stable and reliable and get the job done, and Stella is the most user-friendly Red Hat-based distro I've seen - even Flash works right out of the box.

The only downsides it has are that its repertoire of applications isn't as extensive as Debian's, and it probably runs more slowly on older machines than some other distros.

bark_bark_bark · Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 667 Location: USA

Installed Debian 7.2 using the a Debian live image with xfce and non-free hardware support. Maybe I'll build a little debian live modification using the saintless's method but with Wheezy instead of Squeeze.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10231 Location: SwedenEurope

bark_bark_bark that would be a cool thing
looking forward to that no hurry though because
computing should be fun so do what you feel for.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1873 Location: Ontario Canada

I installed pclinuxos64-kde-minime-2013.12.iso to a gateway desktop.

Summary
Computer
Processor 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Memory 8184MB (568MB used)
Operating System PCLinuxOS
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Mon 09 Dec 2013 09:22:05 AM EST
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
Direct Rendering Yes

It uses synaptic for installing packages, has the latest vlc available,
Chromium web browser too.
It installed the proprietary driver for the graphics card.

No problems so far.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10231 Location: SwedenEurope

I am too confused to read all that text
and to get the implications. But seems
they promise you can tailor make your
own Suse using the SUSE Studio tools.

Sounds interesting to me. It is easy they say?
Has any of you tested to do it ?

http://susestudio.com/
Download from links on Distrowatch?
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08167

Dean · Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Posts: 47 Location: UK

Manjaro 0.8.8
http://manjaro.org/

stu91 · Posted: Mon 16 Dec 2013, 10:06 Post subject:

Switched from Bodhi to Crunchbag for my full HDD install - going to try and leave it be and just use it as my main OS over the Christmas period.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5323 Location: Kentucky

Latest Vsido.Debian Sid w/Fluxbox.
http://vsido.org/

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10231 Location: SwedenEurope

James C thanks for the link to Vsido
New to me so that was interesting.

Being Debian based did you test
if it allow you to boot as root?

If you did that could you share the code needed
on the menu.lst ?

I failed getting it to boot using a grub4dos menu.lst
on NTFS it lacked something that it exoected be there

It had a directory I had no idea how to relate to in the code