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Posted: Sat 17 Aug 2013, 20:44
by rmcellig
At the moment I have three distros that I use. Linux Lite 1.0.6, Crunchbang 11 and Puppy Linux (various flavors, or should I say pups or breeds
).
My main sticking point at the moment is getting GRUB to work after doing a frugal install of Slacko.
Posted: Sat 17 Aug 2013, 23:26
by James C
Colonel Panic wrote:Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.
It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.
My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.
Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.
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live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
$
To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running
pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran
pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with
pisi help.
Posted: Sun 18 Aug 2013, 08:30
by Colonel Panic
James C wrote:Colonel Panic wrote:Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.
It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.
My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.
Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.
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live@solusos ~
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~
$
To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running
pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran
pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with
pisi help.
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it another go.
Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 11:29
by Colonel Panic
Another good one: ZevenOS 3.2 Neptune. A Debian stable-based distro with the KDE desktop as standard.
I think it's 64-bit only though so not suitable for older computers.
Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 22:24
by toowoombalinux
Just installed SolusOS 1.3 (not the developing 2 series) - seems a nice desktop and hopefully can get it as productive as my Ubuntu desktop ....then i can ditch Ubuntu.
btw. I'm also a fanatic Puppian - Lupu + Puppy 3.01 (with glibc + gtk2+ upgrade)
Cheers
Martin
Posted: Fri 23 Aug 2013, 05:45
by James C
Latest Archbang....
http://archbang.org/
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OS: ArchBang i686
/\ Hostname: archbang
.;#. Kernel: 3.10.6-2-ARCH
/####\ Uptime: 9
;## #; Window Manager: openbox
+### .## Packages: 445
+#### ;### RAM: 104 / 1005 MB
###### #####; CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
####### ###### Shell: bash
######## ######## Root: 1.2G / 2.6G (ext4)
.########;;########;
.########; ;#######
#########. .########;
######' '######
;#### ####;
##' '##
#' '#
[live@archbang ~]$
Other Distros
Posted: Wed 04 Sep 2013, 14:08
by Billtoo
I installed Slackware 14.0 64 bit version to an Acer desktop.
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8160MB (974MB used)
Operating System Slackware 14.0
Date/Time Wed 04 Sep 2013 01:35:04 AM EDT
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
Direct Rendering Yes
It took a few minutes to update everything with slackpkg but it's
working well.
EDIT:I did another install to an Acer desktop pc.
Posted: Sun 08 Sep 2013, 12:56
by Colonel Panic
Just installed ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 (64-bit), mainly to have a functioning GRUB after installing VLocity 64-bit and losing the boot manager. It's early days yet but so far it looks like an attractive RPM-based distro.
Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 02:57
by linuxbear
...... Well, it's not actually a new distro, but look at the USB computer Puppy is running on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qhqMlWGdM
Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 05:11
by James C
Trying out the latest Semplice 5.Debian Sid naturally.....
http://semplice-linux.org/
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luckyuser@SempliceLive:~$ uname -r
3.10-2-686-pae
Posted: Mon 09 Sep 2013, 20:52
by bark_bark_bark
I have been running antiX 13.1 core-libre on my Abit BH6 computer.
I am not using a mouse, just a keyboard. No internet (there is no device to connect to the internet anyway). Running as normal user.
128MB of ram only!!
sda, 8.7GB ibm drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sda1, 8.1GB EXT2
sda2, 372MB Swap (v1)
sdb, 160GB WD Caviar Blue drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sdb1, 8.4GB unformatted partition (id/type marked as '83/Linux')
Posted: Thu 12 Sep 2013, 03:39
by James C
Trying out Rosa Marathon ......forked from Mandriva. 5 yr LTS release.
http://www.rosalab.com/products/desktop
Posted: Fri 13 Sep 2013, 02:21
by nubc
Anybody try out LXLE 12.04.3 (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension)? It's kinda big at 1252 MB, but it runs nice. Recently reviewed by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 09#feature
about LXLE
http://lxle.net/about/
Posted: Fri 13 Sep 2013, 03:55
by Ted Dog
Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison
Posted: Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:41
by linuxbear
Ted Dog wrote:
Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison
I have been watching these thumbdrive devices for a while and now that many of them have 2G of RAM, I might buy one.
... Here's a good source of info
http://www.liliputing.com
Posted: Sun 15 Sep 2013, 11:33
by gerry
On my old Thinkpad T60 I've been running various Puppies and Debian for some time. Decided that Debian Squeeze should be replaced by Wheezy, so I installed it, rebooted into it, only to find a nice blank screen and a message to say that Gnome could not start 'cos it didn't find the needed video drivers. Then I remembered that I'd been through all that last time, decided that I didn't feel like doing it again (wifi driver too). So I scrubbed that and tried Mint 15 off of a magazine cd.
Wifi worked ok, but video only works at the highest resolution possible, which is no good foe my old eyes. Can't change resolution because the right drivers (ATI) are missing.
So at the moment Slacko 5.6, which comes with all the needed video and wifi drivers, has the computer to itself.
Other Distros
Posted: Mon 16 Sep 2013, 00:01
by darry1966
Hi,
Yes at the end of the day I have tried the "others" and come back to a Pup because wireless etc is so much easier and there is a pup from various "eras" to meet the need. At the moment on main machine an updated firehydrant - thankyou Mr Tuxxx. Then updates are in your hands.
In my experience Puppy seems easier to upgrade through some experimenting which leads me to encourage those with new ideas for old pups that can benefit others to share.
Posted: Sat 21 Sep 2013, 19:43
by Colonel Panic
I've just installed the latest beta of Slackware 14.1 (64-bit). It works pretty well except that Flash is a bit "hit and miss" and I can't get KDE to load at the moment (not a great loss though IMO as Slack comes with a full compliment of other WMs including Blackbox, Fluxbox, WindowMaker and XFCE).
(EDIT: I've now gotten Flash to work properly by downloading the 64-bit version, extracting the libflashplayer.so file manually and copying it to the mozilla plugins directory.)
android
Posted: Tue 24 Sep 2013, 14:12
by L18L
I am running an emulation of ANDROID right now.
www.android-x86.org
Very nice
You can run it live or install.
Other Distros
Posted: Tue 24 Sep 2013, 17:59
by Billtoo
I installed Archbang 2013.09.01 64 bit to a hp desktop pc.
Linux arch 3.11.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 14 19:30:21 CEST 2013
x86_64 GNU/Linux
It's working well so far.