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#1231 Post by musher0 »

James C wrote:Got tired of Linux Mint so replaced it with LXLE 12.04.3.(Lubuntu Extra Life Extension )
http://lxle.net/
(...)
http://lxle.net/about/
That is indeed a very nice distro. But it's only available in English or Spanish.
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Bert
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#1232 Post by Bert »

Hi Musher0,

The language problem (and solution) is discussed in this thread:

http://lxle.net/forum/#/discussion/63/language-support.

Have not tested this myself, as I still have to download LXLE... :wink:
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#1233 Post by Billtoo »

I installed kubuntu 13.10 64 bit version.
It has a lot of effects available, wobbly windows etc, and they are fun.
No problems so far.
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I installed kubuntu 13.10 64 bit on my intel imac as well, it's working great, wobbly windows and all.
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#1234 Post by linuxbear »

problems, problems, problems I updated a single lib file while running Bodhi and my whole GUI was deinstalled for some reason. Bodhi, while very fast has some problems and you certainly do not want to use Ubuntu's auto updater, It does strange things to E17.
.... I went back to the one distro which never gave me problems: Ubuntu Studio 10.04

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#1235 Post by nooby »

If you know Spanish then maybe this OS distro is for you.
A variant of Ubuntu where they have tried to include
what most people expect to be there from scratch.

My Spanish is zero so I wait for others to tell how good it is. :)

And what about Keyboard layout if it is for Spanish keyboard
it will be rather different unless it allow you to specify your owncountry
during boot process?
http://bt-tech.wix.com/loc-os-linux
http://sourceforge.net/projects/locosli ... urce=files
A Remix of Ubuntu, with all you need in your internet coffe(in spanish "ciber")
Password and username is "loco"(no quotes)
password for root account is a space
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not an ideal solution though

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#1236 Post by James C »

My Ubuntu Precise 12.04 Openbox spin......538 mb using gz compression for older hardware. Planning to redo with xz compression to get in the mid to upper 400's.
Fairly basic....PCManFM,Gnome Mplayer,MTPaint,Geany and Chromium...... but should work well on older hardware.

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#1237 Post by linuxbear »

Time to start distro hopping again. I just bought a quad-core 14" lappy with 4 gig of RAM. All for the stunning price of $300.- This with with a year's guarantee thrown for free because I asked for a professional discount :) It's amazing the savings you can get on what was once an almost 1600 dollar machine if you are willing to buy a refurbished laptop and are patient enough to find a good price. That being said, I am going to experiment with Puppy as a platform for virtual machines. I want to start with Lighthouse 64 and try Fatdog 64 too. Hopefully, they will run vmware player. Any suggestions on what other Puppies can take full advantage of the hardware in this machine?

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#1238 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed Slackel 5.0 Openbox (a Greek distro based on Slackware and Salix), and it's working well although it suffers somewhat from Slack's restricted package repository (no Osmo, for example).
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.

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#1239 Post by rokytnji »

Any suggestions on what other Puppies can take full advantage of the hardware in this machine?
It's a little hard to ride this pony but it races like a mustang on my Acer Aspire 5534.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 141#729141

I use it mainly because it fit on a 128MB SD card and the save file sits OK in NTFS windows. I am not going to vouch that it will take full advantage of your hardware though.

When I am concerned about that. I just boot and run AntiX 64bit and enable Debian experimental repos, (not concerning myself with breakage)..
My Ubuntu Precise 12.04 Openbox spin......538 mb using gz compression for older hardware. Planning to redo with xz compression to get in the mid to upper 400's.
Fairly basic....PCManFM,Gnome Mplayer,MTPaint,Geany and Chromium...... but should work well on older hardware.
Nice, me likey. :wink:

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#1240 Post by nooby »

Linux Bear is it a x86 compatible machine?

And if it is that new does it maybe have win 8 with UEFI
and that makes it a bit harder to put puppy on it.

You have have to start with FatDog that has special preparation
for UEFI unless your machine allow you to turn it off entirely

But I know nothing. I have postponed buying new machines
for some year now due to the UEFI thing on all the new cheap ones here locally.

None of our local cheap machines allow UEFI to be easily turned off AFAIK
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#1241 Post by d4p »

Tazchrome is an almost perfect clone of google chrome OS and will work on allmost any computer.

http://sourceforge.net/p/tazchrome/wiki/Home/

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SolusOS shuts down

#1242 Post by James C »

Sad to see it end.

http://solusos.com/closing-doors/
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the closure of SolusOS. Simply put, there is no longer enough manpower to fulfil the vision.

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Re: SolusOS shuts down

#1243 Post by nooby »

James C wrote:Sad to see it end.

http://solusos.com/closing-doors/
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the closure of SolusOS. Simply put, there is no longer enough manpower to fulfil the vision.


such is sad. I have dedicated a whole USB flash mem for it :)

d4p suggest TazChrome OS.
I have not tested it yet. I would expect it to be Slitaz OS
with the Chrome browser added?

I mean Chrome OS as such is a very different thing.
In what way can it be Tazified but I know too little.
Thanks for the link though i've downloaded the ISO
but I'm too lazy to set up anything just now. :)

so tell us more about menu.lst or other ways to do a frugal install of it?
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#1244 Post by oligin10 »

I agree. I was highly impressed with the first version. And was hoping for more from them. On another note, TazChrome is based on Slitaz. And Slitaz is going through some major problems as their leader has stepped away for a while and not sure if he is coming back. Thanks, Rob

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#1245 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:Sad to see it end.

http://solusos.com/closing-doors/
It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the closure of SolusOS. Simply put, there is no longer enough manpower to fulfil the vision.
Yeah, me too (but thanks for letting me know anyway). I thought the distro had a lot of promise.

Another update; I installed the latest version of Sabayon, 13.08, but it was a sad disappointment (on my machine anyway, in case any of the Sabayon devs are reading this). I wasn't able to update the system once it had been installed or install any additional software (and it doesn't come with an office suite as standard).

Sabayon 10 was pretty good in my experience so I hope this is just a one-off. Manjaro 0.8.7.1's next on my list of distros to try.
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#1246 Post by d4p »

@nooby

isobooter

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#1247 Post by nooby »

d4p wrote:@nooby

isobooter
Here is one link to rcrsn51 IsoBooter

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=517250
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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#1248 Post by linuxbear »

nooby wrote:Linux Bear is it a x86 compatible machine?

And if it is that new does it maybe have win 8 with UEFI
and that makes it a bit harder to put puppy on it.

But I know nothing. I have postponed buying new machines
for some year now due to the UEFI thing on all the new cheap ones here locally. None of our local cheap machines allow UEFI to be easily turned off AFAIK
BTW Secure boot which is what really messes up the new machines actually means "thou shalt install no other operating system than Microsoft"

I bought a new machine with Win 8 and UEFI/Secure-boot and after trying to get consistent functionality as well as speed while running legacy bios, I took the thing back to the store and got my money back. I bought another machine. It is a refurbished machine. Refurbished means that the machine is two years old, (therefore no UEFI or secure boot) but has been certified as "like new" by Hewlitt Packard and as such has a factory warranty. This machine is a dual processor machine with each processor having dual cores which makes it a quad-core machine. So far, Ubuntu 10.04 Ultimate Edition (with Ubuntu Studio apps and desktop) installed and found all the correct drivers. Precise 5.28-005 does not work, but Fatdog 64 and Precise 5.6.1 run very well!

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#1249 Post by nooby »

linuxbear Cool that you manage to get something that easily worked.

I have postponed buying the UEFI machines until
enough people can confirm that even people like me
are able to install things easily

fortunately the FatDog team are working on it from their perspective
and hopefully others too so we get as much info as possible
how one can get things going. Thanks for sharing
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#1250 Post by James C »

Sparkylinux Mate. Debian Testing.
http://sparkylinux.org/

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