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Mike Walsh · #1901 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Sat 23 May 2015, 14:37

No, I tried one of them meself.

My old man was always into yachts in a big way (like I told you, I believe). This was back when he was having his first venture into power boats.....a 50 ft Dutch 'Fleur-de-lys' class motor sailer; he wanted the comfort of something he knew, hence the big steadying sail on the back.

I strung it up between the mast on the rear deck and the corner of the wheelhouse. Jumped into it.....and promptly fell straight out again! Never could get the hang of them.....

Very similar to this one, except the mast was at the back of the wheelhouse.

Mike 2 Mike.

Mike Walsh · #1902 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Sat 23 May 2015, 14:50

Very similar to this one, except the mast was at the back of the wheelhouse.

Actually, more like this..... Sorry for the crap picture quality.

Mike 2 Mike.

Burn_IT · #1903 Post by **Burn_IT** » Sat 23 May 2015, 15:18

I would seriously avoid anything that does that to a drive.
If it was deliberate, it is absolutely terrible design.
If not, it is seriously buggy.

Added: It seems it IS seriously deliberate.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/ch ... isk-format

mikeb · #1904 Post by **mikeb** » Sat 23 May 2015, 19:33

Posting pictures like that will cause severe drooling which is likely to short out th ekeyboard.....

Actually all I want in life is a supply of rice that is not utter crap...seems impossible at the moment

I liked featherweightlinux and still have a copy tucked away.

mike

wboz · #1905 Post by **wboz** » Sat 23 May 2015, 19:52

It's completely deliberate. I don't fully understand why Google partitions like that, though. I think they just like to compartmentalize: one for the boot record, one for the file systems, one for autoupdates, one for restoration etc ... keeps it very secure and robust.

Burn_IT · #1906 Post by **Burn_IT** » Sat 23 May 2015, 20:13

It also leaves it so that just about any disk error will destroy the whole system.

bark_bark_bark · #1907 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Sat 23 May 2015, 22:38

I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.

Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot yet. The only bad part about the distribution was systemd.

James C · #1908 Post by **James C** » Sun 24 May 2015, 05:05

In the past I've had basically unsuccessful attempts when upgrading any of the 'buntus to a newer version. Naturally I tried again......

Xubuntu Precise 12.04 lost support last month so I tried the upgrade to 14.04 (support till 2017).Downloaded over 1600 packages,removed over 400 old packages.

Not too many problems....needed to redo the menu.lst in Grub and edit fstab because swap was temporarily missing.Otherwise everything appears to be working.

http://xubuntu.org/

James C · #1909 Post by **James C** » Sun 24 May 2015, 06:37

Just updated Arch....other than systemd it's been really solid.

https://www.archlinux.org/

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 4.0.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 22 03:05:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

mikeb · #1910 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 24 May 2015, 08:25

I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.

I like making a major difference to the speed of XP..boots and runs like puppy2 here. Atom board played 9 dragons nicely.

Featherweight was one of the few live distros thats was almost usable on me pentium 2 64MB ram machine at the time..and it had KDE 3!! Based on feather linux but more user friendly/useful.

mike

Colonel Panic · #1911 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sun 24 May 2015, 09:35

mikeb wrote:
I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.
I like making a major difference to the speed of XP..boots and runs like puppy2 here. Atom board played 9 dragons nicely.

Featherweight was one of the few live distros thats was almost usable on me pentium 2 64MB ram machine at the time..and it had KDE 3!! Based on feather linux but more user friendly/useful.

mike

I remember using Featherweight Mike; that's a blast from the past! Someone called Ron Meinsler was its developer.

[EDIT: it's still available for download although it must be ten years old now];

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/O ... 5320.shtml

Colonel Panic · #1912 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sun 24 May 2015, 14:29

As it's a bank holiday weekend here I've got more time and I'm trying several distros I've wanted to try recently.

I'm posting from AntiX MX-14.4 at the moment and it seems like a decent distro. It has an attractive interface, reminiscent of KDE 3 although I believe it's based on XFce, and it's one of the few distros nowadays which lets you log in as root. It's definitely a good choice for older computers IMO.

http://distrowatch.com/images/slinks/antix.png

mikeb · #1913 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 24 May 2015, 19:17

Hmm wish i could remember the name but someone made an xfce4 version of Damn Small Linux... did it in a 2 part format..one was the core setup and the second was a bundle of nice apps... all the fun of the fair on a 2.4 kernel....All the addons went in local since its all knoppix so you need places to mount archives.

If that rings a bell for anyone.

mike

Colonel Panic · #1914 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sun 24 May 2015, 19:33

mikeb wrote:Hmm wish i could remember the name but someone made an xfce4 version of Damn Small Linux... did it in a 2 part format..one was the core setup and the second was a bundle of nice apps... all the fun of the fair on a 2.4 kernel....All the addons went in local since its all knoppix so you need places to mount archives.

If that rings a bell for anyone.

mike

Was it DSL-N (Damn Small Linux Not)?

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/

Either that or Feather, which we've covered here recently.

http://web.archive.org/web/200703211550 ... /index.php

(BTW, the Colonel Panic who appears as the last poster in the "Suggestions" forum, posting on the 21st February 2007, is me. Feather was one of the very first distros I tried.)

mikeb · #1915 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 24 May 2015, 19:52

https://livecdlist.com/luit-linux/

remembered just as i read your post... it was an ambitious turn on dsl breaking the 50MB barrier

Seems his site is no longer around and the iso lost in time.

featherweight was a nice variant of feather...always liked the knoppix boot up chatter.... small text, graphics and text animations...added to the spice of the newly discovered live CD's. PClinuxOS was smart but simply too big...dsl...well how DO you save. Puppy...wow that does look weird..commodore 64 meets windows 95 look..
Think that was about it..only PClinuxOS could use my modem and again it was too big... so i left linux for a year to grow up a bit...and my machine got more ram.

mike

James C · #1916 Post by **James C** » Sun 24 May 2015, 19:59

mikeb wrote:
https://livecdlist.com/luit-linux/
remembered just as i read your post... it was an ambitious turn on dsl breaking the 50MB barrier
Seems his site is no longer around and the iso lost in time.

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

mikeb · #1917 Post by **mikeb** » Sun 24 May 2015, 20:12

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is

Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike

James C · #1918 Post by **James C** » Sun 24 May 2015, 20:56

mikeb wrote:
I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.
ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike

Taking a much-needed break so uploading now.

Links in a bit.

James C · #1919 Post by **James C** » Sun 24 May 2015, 22:11

James C wrote:
mikeb wrote:
I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.
ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike
Taking a much-needed break so uploading now.

Links in a bit.

http://www.smokey01.com/JamesC/luit-lin ... ux-0.2.iso

luitlinux-0.2 0481052e55c329cc9f452cd346313ee2

http://www.smokey01.com/JamesC/luit-lin ... ux-0.4.iso

luitlinux-0.4 83c9f30dc708a2b4374b406b317f6e06

mikeb · #1920 Post by **mikeb** » Mon 25 May 2015, 07:52

Well thats very decent of you...cheers

mike

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