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Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 05:58**

Quickly installed mtPaint.......

Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 08:28**

Bah, just another pretty girl!

Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 14:47**

Downloaded and not long ago installed Mageia 6 dev 1; a more than 4GB download to find I couldn't get networking to work in it.

Yes. I could spend what past experience has shown me could be an hour or more trying to get it to work, but at the moment I just don't feel like it; life's too short and there are plenty of other distros to use (including Puppy of course).

[EDIT: I did finally manage to configure networking in Mageia through the Mageia Control Centre. I'm posting from Mageia now

].

Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 18:53**

I installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04 beta2 to a 128gb usb-3.0 SSD, it's
running on my HP mini Stream:

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.40GHz
Memory 1896MB (382MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sun 03 Apr 2016 02:09:15 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDMI
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
SCSI Disks
Verbatim USB External SSD
ATA SanDisk SDSA6MM-
Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 4.4.0-16-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 24 22:38:01 UTC 2016
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 5.3.1 20160330 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-13ubuntu3)
Distribution Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Current Session
User Name bill (Bill)
Home Directory /home/bill
Desktop Environment MATE (mate)

The Broadcom STA wireless driver in the Additional Drivers section of
the control center is working well with the built-in wireless adapter.

I did all the software updates and added a few applications, it's
working well so far.

Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 20:30**

mcewanw wrote:Now if only we could get Toni (saintless) and Fred to become curious enough about Fedora to get to grips with making a dog out of a good, preferably official, version of it...

I can't promise anything but maybe this will help as starting point for someone:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 229#897229

Toni

Posted: **Sun 03 Apr 2016, 22:48**

Another sad message from someone (Ed Snyder) who has decided to cease developing his distro due to apparent lack of interest;

http://liquidlemurlinux.org/

For the record, I still use Liquid Lemur and find it to be a good distro. It's unusual in that it has WindowMaker as its main window manager, but you can easily install others; I installed Cinnamon and find it works well.

Maybe the problem is and was that there are just so many distros around now, and Lemur didn't have what it took to stand out from the crowd, at least not in the eyes of most Linux users?

Posted: **Tue 05 Apr 2016, 13:48**

I installed PCBSD 10.3 to the hard drive of an Acer desktop pc.
The computer is an i3 with 6gb ram.
You get a choice of kde or fluxbox as the window manager.
You can search for and add applications from the AppCafe, I added
geany,mtpaint, and gkrellm so far.
Lots to explore but it's working well so far.

Edit: I did another install to a 128gb usb-3.0 SSD on my Acer laptop
(ati hd 5470 graphics card)

Posted: **Tue 05 Apr 2016, 20:08**

Colonel Panic wrote:...have to watch videos in Chromium (which I had to install using dnf), so it's a bit more limited than what I'm used to.

More specifically, after installing the chromium pepperflash rpm get libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so from here:
https://github.com/zma/libfreshwraper-f ... yer-fedora
and place it in /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins (substitute spot with your own non-root user). Then create a symlink to libpepflashplayer like this:

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cd /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins
ln -sf /usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so ./libpepflashplayer.so

Link from /usr/lib instead if using a 32-bit Korora.

To work, libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so needs to have ownership of your non-root user (assuming you are not running Firefox as root), e.g.

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su root
cd /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins
chown spot:spot libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so

Posted: **Wed 06 Apr 2016, 15:48**

I installed PCBSD 10.3 to the hard drive of my dual core lenovo ThinkCentre
desktop pc.
I added some applications with the AppCafe.
It's working well.

Posted: **Thu 07 Apr 2016, 04:20**

The latest Refracta version of Devuan Jessie. No systemd.

http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta/

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user@refracta:~$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: refracta Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.4) 
           Desktop: N/A dm: lightdm Distro: Refracta 8.0 jessie 
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: 42142 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz
           5: 1400 MHz 6: 3000 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: k3.16.0-4-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: NA (-)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: WD-WCC3F6XAKRLY temp: 24C
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: 50026B7256076A16 temp: 23C
RAID:      System: supported: N/A
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 14.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 33.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 147 Uptime: 58 min Memory: 398.0/15987.9MB 
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 2 default: 2 
           Gcc sys: 4.9.2 alt: 4.8 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 2.1.28

Posted: **Thu 07 Apr 2016, 11:51**

hmm... I never heard of Refracta before. How long has it been around for?

Posted: **Thu 07 Apr 2016, 20:33**

Keisha wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:...have to watch videos in Chromium (which I had to install using dnf), so it's a bit more limited than what I'm used to.
More specifically, after installing the chromium pepperflash rpm get libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so from here:
https://github.com/zma/libfreshwraper-f ... yer-fedora
and place it in /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins (substitute spot with your own non-root user). Then create a symlink to libpepflashplayer like this:
Code: Select all
cd /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins
ln -sf /usr/lib64/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so ./libpepflashplayer.so
Link from /usr/lib instead if using a 32-bit Korora.

To work, libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so needs to have ownership of your non-root user (assuming you are not running Firefox as root), e.g.
Code: Select all
su root
cd /home/spot/.mozilla/plugins
chown spot:spot libfreshwrapper-flashplayer.so

Thanks for all that; I tried it and it worked!

In other news; I've recently installed the latest testing version of Vector Standard (7.2 A1.2), and it's working well.

Posted: **Thu 07 Apr 2016, 22:42**

Hiya, Colonel Panek..!

I didn't know you frequented MakeUseOf..?

(I assume that IS your 'alter ego'? From the description of the systems in use, it sounded very like you.....)

Mike.

Posted: **Fri 08 Apr 2016, 00:56**

bark_bark_bark wrote:hmm... I never heard of Refracta before. How long has it been around for?

Not sure but I've been using it for several years.

An easy way to remaster and Debian/Devuan without systemd.

Posted: **Sun 10 Apr 2016, 10:59**

Mike Walsh wrote:Hiya, Colonel Panek..!

I didn't know you frequented MakeUseOf..?

(I assume that IS your 'alter ego'? From the description of the systems in use, it sounded very like you.....)

Mike.

Sorry to disappoint, but that isn't me; I (very) occasionally visit MakeUseOf but don't post there and haven't done so in the past either.

In other news; I've recently installed Scientific Linux 6.7, and as far as I can tell it doesn't do anything that Stella (which is also based on Centos 6) doesn't.

Posted: **Sun 10 Apr 2016, 15:03**

Just discovered Manjaro-OpenRC yesterday. James C posted about it recently, but I didn't realize OpenRC meant "without systemd, at all" (it's the default init in systemd-free Gentoo).

Really nice looking and fast. Xfce desktop uses only 150M RAM on my old P4 laptop (Openbox desktop also available at 110MB). Based on Arch, which I never tried before, but am very impressed with now. Rolling release, so no major upgrades and always up to date. The "stable" version of Manjaro is just two weeks behind cutting-edge Arch. I found Palemoon, Avidemux, and Skype in the repository, which are all unavailable in Debian repositories. And no problem running as root (except for the warnings...) Very well done distro.

Edit: Manjaro-OpenRC also worked on my old Inspiron 8200, which hasn't been able to get to the desktop with anything newer than Ubuntu Precise. Runs nice.

Manjaro-OpenRC available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjaro-openrc/

Feature comparison with systemd: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

Posted: **Sun 10 Apr 2016, 22:04**

bark_bark_bark wrote:hmm... I never heard of Refracta before. How long has it been around for?

Several years now,...
I can remember that a Debian forum member started it back when I was a regular there. Hmmm,..think that was about 2009 or so.

There was a LOT of concern then about some of the Debian devs working on Ubuntu also,...(and vice versa). The fear was that Debian would become more "Ubuntu-like" (amonst other things)..and not pure Debian. Forgot the name of the forum member,..but he later changed his username to "Refracta" as well. ( Ahhhh, such trivia I can remember.)

EDIT: Ah yes,...the fellow's forum name was "meandean" (before he went with "Refracta" for awhile). Just went to Refracta's site and saw the name,..jogged the ol' memory.

Since I'm having some trouble with my install of pure Debian,...might just try this out for now. Looks like fun.

Posted: **Wed 13 Apr 2016, 05:39**

Still running Tiny Core Pure 64......

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Posted: **Mon 18 Apr 2016, 00:46**

I installed Slackware 14.2 rc2:

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 4.4.7 (x86_64)
Compiled #2 SMP Tue Apr 12 15:45:52 CDT 2016
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 5.3.0 (GCC)
Distribution Slackware 14.2
Current Session
Desktop Environment XFCE 4

No problems so far.

Posted: **Mon 18 Apr 2016, 13:47**

Beam me up scottie!!!

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