Other Distros

[Colonel Panic]

I've just installed the latest version of LXLE, which is based on Lubuntu and is another good distro for older computers in my view.

http://www.lxle.net/

[Colonel Panic]

The beta of Mint 17.3 has just come out, which I'm posting from (live disk), and it looks good so far; it uses Cinnamon by default.

It's codenamed Rosa though, which is a bit confusing for those who have used or know of the Russian distro of the same name.

[nubc]

Firefox OS 2.5 Developer's Preview (app)
I downloaded this bomb to my in-use smartphone, thought better of it, deleted the file, and downloaded it to my recently abandoned Moto G 3rd gen with Lollipop 5.1.1. After installing I made an immediate mistake of selecting "Always" open FF OS 2.5 rather than "Just Once", and attempted to uninstall it from General Settings, so I could start over. The Uninstall button was grayed out, so I did the logical thing, I forced the app to stop. Nothing worked after that. The Uninstall button remained grayed out. I rebooted, and FF OS started loading, but then I got a black screen for Home. I never saw Home icons again, just the three navigation buttons at the bottom. I made the mistake of deleting all the running pages including Settings, so I never could find Settings again after that. In the end, I had to do a full wipe and factory reset. Luckily, I have a similar setup on my working phone, so I could use Moto Migrate to move most of my data over from the other phone. Lost about 3 hours, not counting some details. First time I ever had to recover an Android smartphone. Not many options, really. I inspected FF OS 2.5 through the mist of my panic, for less than 2 minutes, noticed that the icons look very VGA and large. Just what I needed at 10pm, a smartphone crash.

It only now occurs to me that the Puppy Linux project should be working on a launcher like this. Don't let me spill the beans if Barry is already hard at work on it. In other words, design Puppy as an app that can run in Android.

Before you try FF OS 2.5 Dev Preview app, you should install AirDroid from Google Play to give you the ability to uninstall apps remotely from a PC, just in case an app crashes your phone.

[peebee]

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/[quote="Alien"]I thought it would be a cool idea to celebrate the “farewell to udev

[cimarron]

Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.

Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.

Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.

Hi,

I have tried Salix and it didn't go particularly well for me although others had more success with it.

I mentioned it at the top of page 131 of this thread; I made at least one mistake in installation, which may have accounted for at least some of the problems I had with it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 639#851819

Nevertheless, I use Absolute now which works well for me and is based on Slackware 14.1. Vector's also a good distro which is based on Slackware, as is Zenwalk.

Good luck anyway; it's good to see other people using Slackware or Slackware-based distros as it's one of the oldest Linux distros around and even predates Windows 95.

[DJ Puppio]

I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.

[rufwoof]

I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.

If you installed a vnc/rdp server on your Windows box, that RDP's a puppy box, and install vnc client on your tablet, you could have all three working at the same time and controlled from your tablet.

My pup has 5 desktops each with different backgrounds and icons. In the image below case its running a 3D/animated Openshot/Blender title render (that usually takes a while and hogs CPU) - but running in isolation/separately doesn't load the Windows box.

With Samba server also running on the Pup, files/directories are just another tree under the Windows directory tree.

[eric52]

Fav Windows distros: XP2, 98SE
Fav Windows replacements: Zorin, Q4OS
Fav stock distros: Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint
Fav small distros: Puppy, Bodhi, antiX, Porteus
Fav odd distros: Puppy, Knoppix, SliTaz
Fav portable distros: Puppy, Knoppix
Most used distros: Puppy, Windows

[harii4]

Anyone try DietPi?
http://fuzon.co.uk/phpbb/index.php?sid= ... 3d7482db38

They support more than just raspberry pi boards.
Based off raspbian with added tools.

[eric52]

Hold the phone. harii4, do I understand correctly from the site that these tinker toys run Kodi?

[James C]

Arch still working well here.....https://www.archlinux.org/

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[james@evo ~]$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        4051784      804676     2774336       34908      472772     3162200
Swap:       8294396           0     8294396

[James C]

Got Arch updated,moving on to Open Mandriva.....
https://www.openmandriva.org/

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[james@localhost ~]$ inxi -Fx
System:    Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 3.13.11-nrjQL-desktop-1omv i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.3)
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 4.12.4 (Qt 4.8.5)
           Distro: OpenMandrivaLinux 2014.0 Phosphorus
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
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 10849
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 02:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.9hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.13.11-nrjQL-desktop-1omv
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet
           driver: forcedeth port: d480 bus-ID: 00:07.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 25G used: 4.7G (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
           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
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 36.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 157 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 616.8/3537.8MB
           Init: systemd Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.2.452) inxi: 2.2.27 

[Colonel Panic]

So far so good with the latest version of AntiX (15.1 alpha).

[Colonel Panic]

Tried Zorin with the Razor-QT desktop, and they go together really well. Unfortunately at the moment I have no sound on it and the distro doesn't come with alsamixer (which is what I normally use to correct this problem), so I'll probably have to swap it out for something else.

[Colonel Panic]

Amother interesting distro; I'm posting this from Makulu Aero Edition, which uses the Cinnamon desktop, is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and comes form South Africa.

It's got an offbeat choice of software; the main browser is Opera Developer (although you can install Firefox as well, which I've done), and the office suite is Kingsoft Office.

http://www.open-source-feed.com/2015/11 ... eased.html

[James C]

MX-15 is now at RC-1.
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx

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james@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25) dm: lightdm
           Distro: MX-15-RC1_x64 Fusion 17 December 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42141
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz
           3: 2000 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 2500 MHz 6: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           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 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: 50026B7256076A16
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: WD-WCC3F6XAKRLY
Partition: ID-1: / size: 34G used: 3.6G (12%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb11
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 35.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 47 min Memory: 521.2/7890.5MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 2.2.31 

[James C]

MX-15 final was just released.
http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtop ... 94&t=39136

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james@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25) dm: lightdm
           Distro: MX-15_x64 Fusion 24 December 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42140
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz
           3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 1400 MHz 6: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           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 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: 50026B7256076A16
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: WD-WCC3F6XAKRLY
Partition: ID-1: / size: 96G used: 3.6G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 35.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 180 Uptime: 21 min Memory: 641.9/7890.5MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 2.2.31 

[Colonel Panic]

Thanks James, I'm using it now and it's to AntiX's usual high standards. Only thing is; conky manager is very hit and miss in MX in my experience so a good conkyrc file would go a long way in it.

[LazY Puppy]

Hi.

Anyone heard about Ubuntu dropping 32bit OS after their 2016 releases?

Some information available on this?

What does this mean to Puppy?