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#1366 Post by Colonel Panic »

Two more good distros which I've installed recently; LXLE, a distro for older computers based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Scientific Linux 6.5 - a somewhat retro but very solid distro which is based on CentOS 6.5.

For the latter though I can't see that it offers a lot (if anything) more than Stella, which is a much smaller download - about 1.2 GB, as opposed to 4.3 GB and 0.5 GB for Scientific (it needs two DVDs), and is also based on the current release of CentOS.
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#1367 Post by jakfish »

Colonel Panic, have you tried Semplice's latest, 6.0?

It's quite something. Using Alan2, much faster menu display/refresh. And a systemd shutdown. Under 3 seconds, even w/ my old hardware.

Jake

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#1368 Post by James C »

Debian Sid with Icewm,Roxfiler,MtPaint,Iceweasel and.....no idea what else I'll add. :lol:

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#1369 Post by nooby »

Jakfish seems skeptical in the first post of this thread

Simplicity Linux - something fishy about it.

The Dev is almost never active here and seems
to not want a dialog? But I am only curious.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87159
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#1370 Post by James C »

Take Two....
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#1371 Post by jakfish »

Hi, nooby,

I think we're talking about two different linuxes there: simplicity vs semplice

Semplice is here http://semplice-linux.org/discover

I'm not certain, however, you could do one of your usb installs, even though semplice comes in at about 2gbs.

Best to you,
Jake

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#1372 Post by James C »

Take Three.....
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#1373 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
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#1374 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote:
James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
A lot of experimentation....... :lol:

When I boot that machine again I'll post the conky.conf. file.

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#1375 Post by nooby »

jakfish wrote:Hi, nooby,

I think we're talking about two different linuxes there: simplicity vs semplice

Semplice is here http://semplice-linux.org/discover

I'm not certain, however, you could do one of your usb installs, even though semplice comes in at about 2gbs.

Best to you,
Jake
I trust that you get this right and I get it wrong.

They are unrelated most likely
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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#1376 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
A lot of experimentation....... :lol:

When I boot that machine again I'll post the conky.conf. file.
Thanks James, that would be great. We could probably do with a thread for conky configs though (if there isn't one on this forum already).

I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
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#1377 Post by James C »

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alignment top_right


background yes
own_window yes
#own_window_type desktop
own_window_class Conky
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#own_window_type normal
#own_window_argb_visual yes
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes

xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0
#own_window_type override
#own_window_colour hotpink
minimum_size 300 200
draw_shades yes
draw_outline yes
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 8
border_width 1
maximum_width 250
default_color yellow
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
#no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer none

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

#template0 (hdd) mountpoint fs_free
template0 ${color1}\1 ${fs_free \2}

#template1 (hdd) mountpoint fs_used
template1 ${color1}\1 ${fs_used \2}


TEXT
${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}System ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine

${color yellow}${font bold:size=12}User ${font}
${color white}${uptime_short}
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}UpTime: $uptime

${color #00CCCC}Date     ${alignc}${color yellow}${time %a,} ${color yellow}${time %e %B %G}
${color #00CCCC}Time${color yellow}     ${time %I:%M %P}

${color #00CCCC}CPU0: ${color yellow}${cpu cpu0%}%${color}${offset 5}Core 0:  ${freq_g (1)} GHz
${color green} ${cpubar cpu0 16,70}
${color green} ${cpugraph cpu0 16,200 000000 7CFC00}

${color #00CCCC}CPU1: ${color yellow}${cpu cpu1%}%${color}${offset 5}Core 1:  ${freq_g (2)} GHz
${color green} ${cpubar cpu0 16,70}
${color green} ${cpugraph cpu1 16,200 000000 7CFC00}

${color #00CCCC}DISK:
${color green}/${color}${alignc}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} ${color}${alignr}${fs_free_perc /} %
${color green}${fs_bar 16,200 /}

#free:  ${template0 home /home}
#used:  ${template1 home /home}

${color #00CCCC}RAM: $color$mem/$memmax
${color green} ${membar 16,200}
${color #00CCCC}Swap:$color$swap/$swapmax
${color green} ${swapbar 16,200}

${color #00CCCC}eth0 Down: ${color yellow}${downspeed eth0}${alignr} k/s
${color green} ${downspeedgraph eth0 16,200 000000 77CFC00 150}
${color #00CCCC}eth0 Up:   ${color yellow}${upspeed eth0}${alignr} k/s
${color green} ${upspeedgraph eth0 16,200 000000  7CFC00 18}

${color green}Processes:$color $processes | $running_processes
${color} Cpu usage       CPU
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${offset -10} ${top cpu 1}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 2}${offset -10} ${top cpu 2}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 3}${offset -10} ${top cpu 3}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 4}${offset -10} ${top cpu 4}

#${color} Mem usage       MEM
#${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 1}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 2}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 2}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 3}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 3}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 4}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 4}

${color #5b6dad}# Connections   
$color ${offset 10}In: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}  Out: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}
Actual conky.conf file attached .......just remove the "gz" from the name ...added in order to upload.

Edit line 61 to replace "system" with your choice of distro name.

Edit line 64 to replace "user" with whatever you wish.
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#1378 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote: I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
Some distros use .conkyrc (a hidden file) in the home/user/ directory. That appears to be where a lot of Debian/Ubuntu spins put it...... just checked in LXLE.

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#1379 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote: I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
Some distros use .conkyrc (a hidden file) in the home/user/ directory. That appears to be where a lot of Debian/Ubuntu spins put it...... just checked in LXLE.
Thanks James (and for your conky config file too).

Cheers,

CP.
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#1380 Post by konaexpress »

@james C

Love the black and blues of your take 3.

What distro did you say that is? Guess I will have to go play with ice.

John

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#1381 Post by James C »

konaexpress wrote:@james C

Love the black and blues of your take 3.

What distro did you say that is? Guess I will have to go play with ice.

John
Short answer....Debian Sid.

Longer answer ..... I used to start with a very minimal net-install of Sid (occasionally testing) and add onto the base to get a fairly small end result to remaster. Then I discovered http://www.linuxbbq.org/ .Saves a whole lot of work. :)
The particular ICEWM spin is Wuxbuntu http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download . Only 300Mb download, installs to about 1 Gb ...not bad for Debian.

Wallpaper,themes,etc. are from various Puppy releases.And a bit of tweaking.


http://linuxbbq.org/about.html
Minimum requirements (hardware)

CPU 32-bit: Intel Pentium Pro / II or Intel Atom or AMD K7 or VIA C3-2 Nehemiah
CPU 64-bit: AMD64 / Sempron or Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge or Intel Atom or VIA Nano
RAM: 512MB for MATE/XFCE4, 1024MB for GNOME3/KDE4
RAM: 256MB for all other WMs
VGA graphics adapter, acceleration only recommended for GNOME3
optical disk drive or capable of booting from USB
HDD minimum 3GB of disk space, 6GB for "Roast your own"

For older hardware (older than 12 years) we also offer experimental 486 releases.
If you plan to run Linux on even older computers (386DX or equivalent), you might consider
using specialized distros like TinyCore, slitaz, DSL, PuppyLinux or the like.
Minimum requirements (user)

Of course you should have a basic understanding of computers and high interest in Linux
to run and configure LinuxBBQ. If this is your first journey to Linuxland, bring with you a
big bag of time and patience. We tried to make LinuxBBQ work 'as good as possible' out of the
box for most hardware on the world, but it is very likely
- or even a requirement -
that you need to tweak your configurations and your setup. This is the beauty of LinuxBBQ,
it gives you the freedom and the full control over your computer. As long as you have an open mind,
you're brave enough to ask, and ready to take advice we guarantee that you will have
a lot of fun and -- most impotantly -- that you will learn a lot about GNU/Linux with LinuxBBQ.
Users who are 'afraid' of using the Sid (unstable) branch of Debian are of course welcome
to participate in discussions and development around LinuxBBQ, too. It is very unlikely, though,
that LinuxBBQ changes the Debian branch. On the other hand, by 2014 LinuxBBQ will feature new
bases, like the U-Series (Ubuntu), the F-Series (Fedora), and forks of dormant and inactive distros.

Those who need a more 'corporate' version of Debian Sid are recommended to visit and try Siduction.
Those interested in using the Testing variant might find joy with AntiX.
Our recommendation for a stable Debian desktop is Crunchbang.
If you have just switched from Windows to Linux, take a look at SolusOS.
Everybody else: come in and have a bite!

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#1382 Post by konaexpress »

Thanks buddy!

John

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#1383 Post by nubc »

Firefox OS for smartphones
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/
What is Firefox OS?
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How is Firefox OS different from other operating systems?
Firefox OS is the only operating system with Adaptive App Search. While every other phone today is static, giving you the exact same apps each time you turn it on, Firefox OS is always changing to offer exactly the apps you need at any moment in your life. It adapts so you can live every moment to its fullest.

Firefox OS is brought to you by Mozilla, a global nonprofit organization that emphasizes principle over profit. We believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web. The result is great products built by passionate people and better choices for everyone.

Firefox OS Frequently Asked Questions
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/faq/
"From our community to yours...Most smartphones are made by a small number of people, all in one place, probably pretty far from where you live. Firefox OS phones are different. They’re made by a huge global community and are the only smartphones that understand and deliver what you want and need."

"Transform the future...We’re out to make a difference, not a profit. When you choose Firefox OS, you’re helping build a brighter future for the Web and users everywhere."

"The best of the Web...Firefox changed browsing forever by putting users first and offering a new level of choice and innovation online. Now we’re doing it all over again with Firefox OS, while bringing the same superior browsing experience to your smartphone. So you can take control of your life online and get the best the Web has to offer no matter where you go."
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#1384 Post by nooby »

If I get it which I almost never do.

Java and Java scrip is out the make.
hat kind of computer do you maybe
wants to work with.

Then what about those that tells us that
one of the Java is very bad at at protecting
it's skin and that one rather watch out.

Which java is FF browser linux about?
Too much Google text to read for my poor brain
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#1385 Post by rokytnji »

Still a AntiX user . Icewm desktop. Conky. It is my Mint/Ubuntu style go to distro.

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