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[James C]

Ubuntu MATE 14.10 is now up to RC status.

https://ubuntu-mate.org/

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james@james-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux james-desktop 3.16.0-22-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 9 16:22:22 UTC 2014 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/

Ubuntu MATE 14.10 release candidate is now available for download. This is the last release prior to the final 14.10 release and fixes a few issues that were present in Beta2 please make sure you read the release notes below because there are still unresolved issues you'll need to be aware of.

[nubc]

4MLinux 10.0 All-In-One Edition
http://www.4mlinux.com/index.php?page=about
size of ISO: 393 MB
desktop environment: JWM
default browser: QupZilla, lightweight multiplatform browser
http://www.qupzilla.com/
QupZilla default seach engine: DuckDuckGo
file manager: Xfe (X File Explorer)
default apps: Xine, MPlayer, SMPlayer, Audacity, Wine, TestDisk, PhotoRec, Skype, XPaint, GNUParted, Firefox (in Wine), Seamonkey (in Wine), Thunderbird (in Wine), LibreOffice, VirtualBox, conky, wbar launcher

Two Mozilla browsers are available from menu tree, Firefox and Seamonkey, but these extra browsers run in Wine. QupZilla has integrated AdBlock.

4MLinux Blog (announcements, screenshots)
http://4mlinux.blogspot.com/p/news.html

issues:
-won't play a YT video, get error, maybe flash is disabled?
-during boot, loading/unpacking of initrd.gz takes a long time, display fills with continuation dots
-since tray won't eject, assume that 4MLinux not running in RAM
-systemd

[rokytnji]

-won't play a YT video, get error, maybe flash is disabled?

I run qupzilla in MX-14. If a libflashplayer.so is in the /usr/lib/mozzila/plugins
folder. Qupzilla should see it.

Not sure how the file structure is set up though in what you are using.
If the locate program is installed and working.

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locate libflashplayer.so

since tray won't eject, assume that 4MLinux not running in RAM

Type

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eject

in terminal. See if you stay running or not?

during boot, loading/unpacking of initrd.gz takes a long time, display fills with continuation dots

Could be sysvinit or systemd related maybe?

[nubc]

I'm looking at the announcement of 4MLinux 10.1 Allinone Edition Beta which says, "with Flash Player 15 support enabled." Maybe FlashPlayer support is disabled in earlier versions.

[Bert]

Tested 4MLinux some weeks ago. Very nice JWM implementation. I liked the speed and clarity once up and running. However, booting time is horrible, loading initrd.gz takes ages (many minutes), filling the whole screen with dots endlessly, just like rokytnji reported.

Also, running the major browsers in their MS version thru wine must be one of the best ways to insult Linux

[James C]

GhostBSD. Not Linux.

http://www.ghostbsd.org/

[bark_bark_bark]

Which BSD is GhostBSD based on?

[James C]

Which BSD is GhostBSD based on?

It's based on FreeBSD 10.

[Scooby]

Can you boot ghostbsd as a livecd, that is directly from iso file?

With grub2 or grub4dos?

if so menuentry?

[Billtoo]

I installed xubuntu 14.10 to my hp desktop pc.
It's working nice so far.

[Moat]

I've been using two Mint 17 Qiana LTS versions (Cinnamon and Mate) daily for the last few months, switching between both about evenly - dual booting on this circa 2006 HP Pavilion DV5000 laptop (dual core T2050 @ 1.60GHz, 2Gb RAM) - both have been outstanding, nearly flawless and solid as a rock - even through all of the regular updates.

Initially had the Xfce Mint 17 version installed to one partition, but found it just a bit "buggy" around the edges - so installed Cinnamon in it's place. Both Mate and Cinnamon are quite fast/responsive on this old machine, but I'd give the nod to Mate in that regard... although Cinnamon is by no means "slow" - just a hair behind Mate in "snappiness", really.

Only real (minor!) bugs I've found;

App windows in Cinnamon occasionally lag a second or two to close, spiking the CPU 100% while doing so (odd...). That's about it.

For Mate, there's an annoying bug that's been in the default Mint Menu through the last few Mint releases, where it apparently doesn't load the icon cache during boot - therefore taking 4-5 seconds to load and open the menu upon first click after booting (opening instantly after that, for the remainder of the session). Seems like it would be an easy bug to address (??), but hasn't been yet, for some reason...

Otherwise, both have been amazingly solid day-to-day, beautifully laid out and feature-filled, tweakable workhorses. Two thumbs up!

Bob

[grump]

Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.

[infromthepound]

Yes.
Picked up a second hand laptop for my wife; it turned out to have it on.
It seems OK, a lot more like 7
I can't install anything though as the wireless drivers don't work.
I will try with a wired network in the next few days.
JB

More testing.
It will work with the wireless drivers. I have installed most of the programs or alterenatives I sometimes use.
Some of the normal ones (Zone alarm, Avast etc. ) say "Incompatible with this version of windoze"
Installation seems to be hit or miss. Some worked for my son but not for me and vice versa, it could be the laptop I suppose.
On the hole (A deep one) it is useable at the moment
JB

[bark_bark_bark]

both mint and lmde make netbooks heat up really fast. when that happens the display goes crazy.

[James C]

Did a full system upgrade on Arch ..... nothing crashed and burned.

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 3.17.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 30 20:49:39 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[james@evo ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3794084     526652    3267432       8032      21184     159308
-/+ buffers/cache:     346160    3447924
Swap:      8294396          0    8294396

[Ted Dog]

Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.

lol told me my system was not compatible ( a win8 laptop running FatDog64 ) Bluffed my way thro and downloading it now.

[James C]

Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

I've had it downloaded for quite a while but Windows 8 sucked so bad I can't bring myself to install 10. Sticking with 7.

[James C]

Tanglu Linux.Debian based.
http://tanglu.org/

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james@testing:~$ uname -a
Linux testing 3.12-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.12.24-0tanglu1 (2014-06-06) i686 GNU/Linux

[infromthepound]

Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.

lol told me my system was not compatible ( a win8 laptop running FatDog64 ) Bluffed my way thro and downloading it now.

Yes.
Picked up a second hand laptop for my wife; it turned out to have it on.
It seems OK, a lot more like 7
I can't install anything though as the wireless drivers don't work.
I will try with a wired network in the next few days.
JB

More testing.
It will work with the wireless drivers. I have installed most of the programs or alterenatives I sometimes use.
Some of the normal ones (Zone alarm, Avast etc. ) say "Incompatible with this version of windoze"
Installation seems to be hit or miss. Some worked for my son but not for me and vice versa, it could be the laptop I suppose.
On the hole (A deep one) it is useable at the moment
JB

[J_D_]

I've been using two Mint 17 Qiana LTS versions (Cinnamon and Mate) daily for the last few months, switching between both about evenly - dual booting on this circa 2006 HP Pavilion DV5000 laptop (dual core T2050 @ 1.60GHz, 2Gb RAM) - both have been outstanding, nearly flawless and solid as a rock - even through all of the regular updates.

Initially had the Xfce Mint 17 version installed to one partition, but found it just a bit "buggy" around the edges - so installed Cinnamon in it's place. Both Mate and Cinnamon are quite fast/responsive on this old machine, but I'd give the nod to Mate in that regard... although Cinnamon is by no means "slow" - just a hair behind Mate in "snappiness", really.

Only real (minor!) bugs I've found;

App windows in Cinnamon occasionally lag a second or two to close, spiking the CPU 100% while doing so (odd...). That's about it.

For Mate, there's an annoying bug that's been in the default Mint Menu through the last few Mint releases, where it apparently doesn't load the icon cache during boot - therefore taking 4-5 seconds to load and open the menu upon first click after booting (opening instantly after that, for the remainder of the session). Seems like it would be an easy bug to address (??), but hasn't been yet, for some reason...

Otherwise, both have been amazingly solid day-to-day, beautifully laid out and feature-filled, tweakable workhorses. Two thumbs up!

Bob

Ive been using Mint 17 Mate since it was released. Same bug with the Mint menu but its not really a problem.
I still keep going right to Puppy 5.7 when I boot up. I have 3 laptops with Puppy. 2 also have XP but Puppy has become the normal. Need to make myself learn how to make use of more of the programs though, I am just a slacker sometimes and I hate that.