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[nitehawk]

Nitehawk will be pleased to see this;

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0

HA, HA!!! Already saw it!!!!
Been back fooling around with plain ol' slackware again, though.
Recently tried Pinguy,...but somehow It didn't seem to catch my interest all that much. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.

[James C]

VL 64 7.1. Xfce 4.10,Firefox ESR 31.7.0, etc.Seems pretty solid so far.

http://vectorlinux.com/

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0

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vlocity:/~
james:$ uname -a
Linux vlocity.linux.vnet 3.18.16 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 16 16:29:26 CDT 2015 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
vlocity:/~

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james:$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4025448    1150064    2875384          0      33404     646252
-/+ buffers/cache:     470408    3555040
Swap:      6246396          0    6246396
vlocity:/~

[Colonel Panic]

Nitehawk will be pleased to see this;

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0

HA, HA!!! Already saw it!!!!
Been back fooling around with plain ol' slackware again, though.
Recently tried Pinguy,...but somehow It didn't seem to catch my interest all that much. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.

Hi again Nitie,

Plain ol' Slackware's just fine nowadays, which is a problem for devs of Slack-based distros like Zenwalk and Vector because they have to work extra hard to create enough added value to make their own distros seem worth having.

Its Achilles heel for me though is installing new applications, especially ones which involve getting new dependencies. Vector used to have its 'Quick Picks' application, which automated the addition of a number of applications such as LibreOffice, but they got rid of it for some reason; it would be good if they returned to it.

Other news; I've been giving OpenSUSE 13.2 (Educational edition) a spin but have found that Firefox has frozen up on me a couple of times and for no obvious reason.

[Bindee]

How's tiny core 64 doing these days , Anyone had a play recently?

[Bindee]

I have released a new 32bit version of Nanolinux (version 1.3) now.

I agree with the posters here that I should make a 64 bit version, but that will require quite some time.

Hmmmmmmmm

Talk of a 64 bit version of NanoLinux.

[Bindee]

Q4OS Live CD is available

http://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/live/

Live CD, beta
29 June, 2015

The first beta version of Q4OS Live CD is available for download from our sourceforge archive. Anyone is welcome to give it a spin and report issues.

[peebee]

Lubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Alpha 1

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/relea ... y/alpha-1/

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Alpha1/Lubuntu

Still LXDE based - not LXQT (probably a good choice "LXQt is still in development, so Wily Werewolf is another bug fix release")

Kernel 3.19 (but will move to 4.0 by release)

Pretty small set of applications for a 700M iso............ (no screenshot in menu - had to use mtpaint -s)

LxAppearance crashes - but is Alpha 1 known bug

[James C]

antiX-15 released

http://antix.freeforums.org/antix-15-re ... t5697.html

A lot of time and work was spent getting antiX-15 (Killah P) ready for stable release; we hope you like it.

As with previous releases, antiX-15 comes in 3 flavours for 32 and 64 bit processors all fitting on a cd.
antiX-full (667MB) -4 windows managers - IceWM(default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-base (567MB) -3 windows managers - fluxbox(default), jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-core-libre (222MB) - no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build.

antiX-base and antiX-core versions use gzip compression of the squashfs/linuxfs file which means a faster boot
to desktop with less RAM usage, but file size is approximately 80MB larger. antiX-full uses xz compression.

So, what does antiX include?

Features:

*Based on Debian Jessie, but without systemd nor systemd-shim.
*Customised 4.0.5 kernel with fbcondecor splash
*libreoffice 4.3.3
*iceweasel 31.7.0esr
*claws-mail 3.11.1-3
*xmms -for audio
*gnome-mplayer - for playing video
*smtube - play youtube videos without a using a browser
*streamlight-antix - new application to stream videos with very low RAM usage.

Convert your video and audio files with:
*winff
*asunder - convert your

*grub-customizer
*hexchat
*luckybackup
*simple-scan
*spacefm
*rox-filer
*transmission-gtk

Connect to the net with
*wicd
*ceni
*or gnome-ppp if you are still on dial-up

*wingrid-antix
*xf86-video-sis-antix
*Xfburn for burning cd/dvd

*connectshares-antix for network shares
*droopy-antix - an easy way to transfer files over the net.
*flashplugin-nonfree

Editors
*geany
*leafpad

*install-meta-antix
*iso-snapshot
*Unetbootin
*antix2usb

Why not try out our included cli apps:

Editors: nano and vim
Newsreader: newsbeuter
Chat: irssi
Audio player: mocp
Video player: mpv
Email: alpine
Audio ripper: abcde
Torrent: rtorrent
Cd burner: cdw
Writer: Wordgrinder

Downloads at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... /MX-krete/

[James C]

Fresh install. Switched from Icewm to JWM/Rox.

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-V_x64-full Killah P 30 June 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: N68-S UCC
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.70 date: 03/03/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-smp
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 51G used: 2.5G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda16
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 6.40GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 37.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 137 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 548.8/3955.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25 

[Colonel Panic]

That's good James. I tried one of the pre-release versions of AntiX 15 but for some reason I wasn't able to get X Windows started, so I gave it up as a bad job.

Another one; ROSA Desktop Fresh R5, a Russian distro (I believe) which uses .rpm packages.

It comes in several different desktop environments; I'm using the LXDE version which looks good and is reasonably fast on my machine even with the live version.

The one downside of using it is that installation of new packages can be a long drawn out affair as it will request, say, 57 packages to go along with an application, stall after installing 53, and then you have to keep clicking on "update" to install the final ones.

[sheldonisaac]

Colonel Panic, or anyone.

May I ask for help with booting NanoLinux? (couldn't get much info from their forum, etc.)

I got it yesterday, and can't seem to get the GUI 'desktop' to happen.

Is it a matter of the kernel line parameters in menu.lst?

I think I did get it on my ASUS P5A motherboard computer.

But it's always iffy.

This is a Dell Latitude E6410.

Here's part of menu.lst

title NanoLinux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet vga=794
initrd /boot/core.gz

I've also tried with a CD-RW and a USB flash drive.

Thanks,
Sheldon

[Galbi]

Have you tryed with the more conventional vga=791?

Just to see what happens.

Saludos.

[Keef]

Just add 'cde' to the kernel line and that will do it.

[sheldonisaac]

Just add 'cde' to the kernel line and that will do it.

Thank you, Keef!!

I'm on here with Dillo.


Sheldon

[Colonel Panic]

Colonel Panic, or anyone.

May I ask for help with booting NanoLinux? (couldn't get much info from their forum, etc.)

I got it yesterday, and can't seem to get the GUI 'desktop' to happen.

Is it a matter of the kernel line parameters in menu.lst?

I think I did get it on my ASUS P5A motherboard computer.

But it's always iffy.

This is a Dell Latitude E6410.

Here's part of menu.lst

title NanoLinux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet vga=794
initrd /boot/core.gz

I've also tried with a CD-RW and a USB flash drive.

Thanks,
Sheldon

Hi Sheldon,

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm afraid I don't know enough to help in this instance (though I am looking to expand my knowledge so that may change). Others have contributed with some good advice though and I expect that will work for you.

[Billtoo]

Installed Ubuntu-15.04 to hard drive of hp desktop pc.

Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8175MB (716MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu 15.04
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sat 04 Jul 2015 10:51:10 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer AMD Radeon HD 5570
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.19.0-21-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #21-Ubuntu SMP Sun Jun 14 18:31:11 UTC 2015
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13)
Distribution Ubuntu 15.04

Monitors
Monitor 0 1920x1080 pixels
Monitor 1 1920x1080 pixels

OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer AMD Radeon HD 5570
Version 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013
Direct Rendering Yes

It's working well.

[Colonel Panic]

I've just installed Vector 7.1 Final Release (32-bit), and so far it's looking good. I've been able to install some extra applications to use, such as LibreOffice, without too much trouble.

[6502coder]

I've been using LXLE for over a year now as the main OS on my 12-year-old WinXP desktop system and been very happy with it. I'm currently running the 32-bit "12.04.4 Revisited" edition. This is not the most recent edition, but being of the "ain't broke/don't fix" school I haven't bothered to update. LXLE is still a bit "fat" for my tastes, but it works without hassles and makes an excellent replacement for XP (which I still keep around, dual-boot, to handle the odd legacy app).

Dell Dimension 8300 P4, 2.8 GHz, 3 GB ram, Nvidia Geforce FX 5200

[James C]

Fresh install of Mageia 5 x86-64 KDE.
http://www.mageia.org/en/community/

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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5 #1 SMP Sat Jun 13 17:05:48 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4048832    1653640    2395192      12864      32580     827908
-/+ buffers/cache:     793152    3255680
Swap:      6249248          0    6249248

[Colonel Panic]

Fresh install of Mageia 5 x86-64 KDE.
http://www.mageia.org/en/community/

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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5 #1 SMP Sat Jun 13 17:05:48 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4048832    1653640    2395192      12864      32580     827908
-/+ buffers/cache:     793152    3255680
Swap:      6249248          0    6249248

Were you able to get sound working in Mageia, James? I wasn't able to do so for playback of videos, although I could for sound files. I also find I have to add "nokmsboot" to the kernel options on bootup to be able to get X Windows.

Other news update; I finally managed to get sound working in Neptune, but using AlsaMixer (which isn't indicated in the Neptune KDE menu).