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Zorin OS 7 ...... based on Ubuntu. Looks much better to me than that mess called Unity.
http://zorin-os.com/free.html

http://zorin-os.com/

I have Zorin on a USB stick using rcrsn51 isobooter
but I get curious on what you accomplish with the code

Code:
live@live:~$ uname -r
3.8.0-23-generic
live@live:~$

what does that do for you?

nooby wrote:I have Zorin on a USB stick using rcrsn51 isobooter
but I get curious on what you accomplish with the code

Code:
live@live:~$ uname -r
3.8.0-23-generic
live@live:~$

what does that do for you?

Tells the kernel version.

Ah okay. Thanks for your patience with a noob question.

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I've recently installed the April version of Mint Debian and even on my old machine it works pretty well; Mint Debian is definitely lighter than the Ubuntu-based version. The only drawback so far was that I couldn't get Firefox to load, so I had to install IceWeasel instead (and I added IceApe and Opera for good measure).

I also strongly recommend adding Xfce to Debian-based distros - they go together very well and do in this case too.

Another new 'buntu spin...... Australis. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS w/ Mate and all sort of goodies.
http://rackingman.wix.com/australis

Hi all, this...

whoops don't know how you guys got your screenshots inserted?
just check attached file please

...is my new toy and would just like to say thank you again to Barry and everyone who put all the hard work into developing these distros!

I'd also like to add at this point that I'd like to be able to watch bbc iplayer and other streaming services like itvplayer etc. but don't know which version of flash to install for this version of puppy, is there a pet or indeed an sfs?
If there is an sfs how to enable sfs support in this version of puppy or is it to remain experimental until further notice?

Any other pointers as to how to optimise my system so that it runs a wee bit faster would be great as even typing this reminds me of my crappy cheap android rip off tablet from china that I used to own and loathed, no offense guys,like I said earlier I am very greatful for all the work you do.
Just thought I'd also mention, I've just noticed the arrow keys aren't responding at all on my wireless keyboard, well not the main ones anyway. The ones on the numberpad work strangely enough and I have all the correct settings for a uk setup?

I recall when I first set this up using berryboot (quite nifty) I am able to add custom distros by holdong and clicking mouse over "Add OS" button and then by choosing copy from usb option. Would my favourite OS of all time "Puppy 5.2.5" be a contender for the RPi or perhaps Saluki 0.2.3?

Any help would be massively appreciated even if it was merely a link to another thread that would point me in the right direction.

Many Thanks in advance

PS. we are in serious need of a raspberry emoticon!
Anyone been thinking the same thing???

PSS. how could I change the background colour of my desktop so that there is not so much white? It's got too much white light!

Cheers All

michaellowe wrote:
PSS. how could I change the background colour of my desktop so that there is not so much white? It's got too much white light!

Cheers All

R-click any icon
Rox-filer
Options
Pinboard
Background
Eyedropper lets you pick a color

I've been running PCLinuxOS (LXDE) as well. I have things set up nicely. I also installed Razor-QT.

One of my favorite distros to run live ..... the latest Knoppix 7.20.

http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07933

I just got rid of my pclinuxos install and grabbed the CD version of the new knoppix. The reason why I found out that a new version came out, was I went on distrowatch today.

I was curious to give knoppix a try so I downloaded it with ktorrent
and then used unetbootin to put it on a 16gb SDHC card which is
plugged into an usb card reader (running PClinuxOS FullMonty64).
I created a save file which took a while but is working okay.
I have the wobbly etc. screens by default, some windows can be resized
but others can't for some reason.
I installed a few things with Synaptic too.

EDIT: I don't know if XBMC is included on the dvd but I installed it
from Synaptic, it took quite a while to download and install but it
got the job done.
XBMC is a must-have application

Knoppix has to be tested so I try to do a frugal install
could someone share what code to use and how does
one do the save file on knoppix?

Does one still have to wget the adobe flash thing?

i couldn't get flash player to install. You may need to grab it manually.

simargl wrote:

musher0 wrote:It was a real consolation to see how lazy the Debian Live developers had been in categorizing the menu items -- as compared to the "logic" and effort that we invest in the creation of our own Puppy menus. An example of that sloppy menu can be found at http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#709758

I never understood why they need to add those "applications" at all - or actually why someone even bothered to make them. Xeyes for example is a program with 2 circles that move around following mouse pointer - so what's use of that, just wasting space and cluttering the menu. And, please don't say Puppy's menu is more logical , and what size are menu icons in Puppy, 8 pixels I think, so that can also be called lazy

Debian autogenerates the menus (by way of a program called "menu") from files that each package installs, so the package maintainer gets to say whether to have an entry.
Of course, a maintainer is likely the last person to recognize that their pet program is a waste of menu-space.

xeyes, etc. are part of the original X11 applications (x11-apps), mainly available because of tradition ("use xyz, it's always available" & "keep xyz available, it's widely used").

xeyes is a bit of fun...

My grandson loves the sugar implementation on the XO (olpc) laptops.

BTW you can get Sugar on a Stick (soas) on any PC, only ~500MB download, great for kids.

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Of course you can have some fun in JWM with xeyes too, even on a raspberry pi..

James C wrote:Another new 'buntu spin...... Australis. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS w/ Mate and all sort of goodies.
http://rackingman.wix.com/australis

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linux@linux:~$ uname -r
3.5.0-27-generic
linux@linux:~$ 

That looks cool!

I recently decided to switch from Slackware (and Slackware-based distros) to just basic Debian. I didn't want to do Debian itself,...(too hard for someone still on dialup, having to download a net-install). And I for SURE didn't want to have to buy all 10 (I think it is now) DVDs.

So I have re-discovered CrunchBang. I've gotten quite hooked on the Openbox desktop,....and the fact that it is basically just Debian. In all fair-ness,...I haven't tired the latest Antix yet (which I may like as well).

I missed the late DreamLinux,...but these two smaller Debian-based distros seem really very nice!