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#1636 Post by James C »

Updated the kernel and forgot to reboot....... :lol:

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james@testing-ob:~$ uname -a
Linux testing-ob 3.14-2-486 #1 Debian 3.14.13-2 (2014-07-24) i686 GNU/Linux
james@testing-ob:~$ 

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#1637 Post by James C »

New Porteus 3.0.1 just released.Bugfix release.

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3716

KDE4, RazorQT, MATE,XFCE and LXDE versions available. Both 32 bit and X86-64.

I'm running MATE 64 bit at the moment.

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root@porteus:~# uname -a
Linux porteus 3.14.15-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 3 12:01:20 Local time zone must be set--s x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
root@porteus:~# 
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#1638 Post by Moat »

Have any of you guys ever given a recent Knoppix a serious run?

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix740-en.html

The idea of a well proven, full-blown/feature-rich Debian based system with a very recent kernel (3.15.6), running - with persistence - from a USB flash drive, sounds quite intriguing. If I can come up with a thumb drive with enough capacity, I might give this new release a try... just, umm, because... :wink:

Bob

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#1639 Post by darry1966 »

Moat wrote:Have any of you guys ever given a recent Knoppix a serious run?

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix740-en.html

The idea of a well proven, full-blown/feature-rich Debian based system with a very recent kernel (3.15.6), running - with persistence - from a USB flash drive, sounds quite intriguing. If I can come up with a thumb drive with enough capacity, I might give this new release a try... just, umm, because... :wink:

Bob
Hi Bob,

Here is a review by Spatry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IcBaz ... 5CPUfuQADg

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#1640 Post by Moat »

Thanks for the link, darry1966. 8) Holy cow... comes with enough default apps to make your head spin! Might be a slow, bloated mess... or maybe not. Big download, too @ ~4.2Gb.

About 2/3rds of the way there (thank you, McD's free WiFi :) )...

Bob

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#1641 Post by darry1966 »

Yeah I remember when it was on one cd.

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#1642 Post by rokytnji »

Little spare 9" netbook I pack on the bikes when I go for free wifi at the Dairy Queen.

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#1643 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed Simplicity 147 Desktop, which is based on Puppy Precise 5.7.1. It's mostly good (and comes complete with the secure Tor browser and Dropbox), except that so far I've been unable to get sound working on it.

(Update, 26th August; I have now got the sound working.)
Last edited by Colonel Panic on Tue 26 Aug 2014, 17:20, edited 1 time in total.
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#1644 Post by Billtoo »

I downloaded the Knoppix 7.4 dvd a week or so ago, I had it install to
a 16gb flash drive.
The flash drive has the OS plus a ten gb space to save any session
changes.
I used synaptic to update the system (708 files), took a long time to
download and install but everything is up to date now.
I used synaptic to install Cairo-dock as well.

It's working well from the flash drive so far.

Edit:I added arandr to setup for 2 monitors.
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#1645 Post by James C »

Just installed Ubuntu MATE 14.10......
https://ubuntu-mate.org/

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james@james-GeForce7050M-M:~$ uname -a
Linux james-GeForce7050M-M 3.16.0-11-generic #16-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 25 20:07:26 UTC 2014 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
james@james-GeForce7050M-M:~$ 
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#1646 Post by James C »

Still running Ubuntu Mate 14.10........ pretty solid for a beta.....

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james@james-GeForce7050M-M:~$ inxi -F
Resuming in non X mode: glxinfo not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends
System:    Host: james-GeForce7050M-M Kernel: 3.16.0-11-generic i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop: MATE 1.8.1  Distro: Ubuntu 14.10 utopic 
Machine:   Mobo: ECS model: GeForce7050M-M v: 1.0
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 080014 date: 05/30/2008
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 2000 MHz 2: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a]
           Display Server: X.org 1.15.1 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: 80x24
Audio:     Card NVIDIA MCP67 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.0-11-generic
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP67 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full 
           mac: 00:1e:90:fe:92:50
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 330.1GB (3.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST380811AS size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 16G used: 3.9G (27%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 6.40GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5 
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 143 Uptime: 8 min Memory: 527.1/3794.9MB 
           Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28 
james@james-GeForce7050M-M:~$ 

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#1647 Post by James C »

Latest Knoppix 7.4.1 dvd........ 4 gb download.
http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

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noppix@Microknoppix:~$ uname -a
Linux Microknoppix 3.16.2-64 #6 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 9 16:12:33 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
knoppix@Microknoppix:~$ 
Has a lot of software on the dvd.
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#1648 Post by James C »

Fresh install..... Salix 14.1 MATE. Based on Slackware.

http://www.salixos.org/

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james[~]$ uname -a
Linux darkstar 3.10.17-smp #2 SMP Wed Oct 23 17:13:14 CDT 2013 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

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james[~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2055908    1898296     157612          0      47260    1476440
-/+ buffers/cache:     374596    1681312
Swap:      2150396          0    2150396
james[~]$ 
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#1649 Post by smokey01 »

I thought I would try Linux Mint 17. A big mistake that was. It came bundled on a magazine disk with three other distros. I booted it up on my laptop in the DVD drive. All worked quite well although it did take a long time to load. I've been spoiled with Fatdog.
What I didn't realise until later that night the bloody thing had stolen almost 2G of my mobile data. What a piece of crap. I will stick with Puppy in the future.
Anyone else seen this behavior before?
:x

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#1650 Post by jamesbond »

smokey01 wrote:I've been spoiled with Fatdog.
Thank you for the endorsement :lol:
Fatdog64 forum links: [url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117546]Latest version[/url] | [url=https://cutt.ly/ke8sn5H]Contributed packages[/url] | [url=https://cutt.ly/se8scrb]ISO builder[/url]

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#1651 Post by nubc »

For those who tried it, how did you pick the desktop environment of Salix 14.1? (KDE, Ratpoison, Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox) Please give details, and feel free to compare the different DEs. Did you notice that, at least for Xfce, the devs changed root access from "su" to "sudo"? Am I correct that I have to install Salix because it doesn't run as a liveCD? [Edit: I just checked the Salix website, and read that one dev is in charge of liveCD architecture.] Generally, does each DE/WM have the same apps, or do apps substantially differ between DE/WMs?

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#1652 Post by James C »

nubc wrote:For those who tried it, how did you pick the desktop environment of Salix 14.1? (KDE, Ratpoison, Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox) Please give details, and feel free to compare the different DEs. Did you notice that, at least for Xfce, the devs changed root access from "su" to "sudo"? Am I correct that I have to install Salix because it doesn't run as a liveCD? [Edit: I just checked the Salix website, and read that one dev is in charge of liveCD architecture.] Generally, does each DE/WM have the same apps, or do apps substantially differ between DE/WMs?
I chose MATE because I prefer it. KDE is usually fairly bloated while Openbox and Fluxbox are usually lacking in bells and whistles. For me personally, XFCE is a close second to MATE it's just a matter of personal preference.

Salix live releases are generally a bit behind the install discs but I see they have both KDE and XFCE 14.1 live Beta's available now.I've tried enough of the live discs that I know what to expect so I generally just go straight to an install.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... o/download

Lots of the older versions are available live at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/salix/f ... rce=navbar

The different versions usually share some of the same apps but have different file managers,burning apps, etc. Don't keep up with all the different versions so can't go into specific detail.
HTH.

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#1653 Post by James C »

Another new install...... Korora 20 MATE. Based on Fedora 20.

https://kororaproject.org/

https://kororaproject.org/download

[quote]Korora was born out of a desire to make Linux easier for new users, while still being useful for experts.

Originally based on Gentoo Linux in 2005, Korora was re-born in 2010 as a Fedora Remix1 with tweaks and extras to make the system “just work
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#1654 Post by James C »

New Vsido release.....

http://vsido.org/index.php?topic=12.msg16#msg16
VSIDO is a front line Debian Sid installation built with the goal of providing both basic and advanced users the toolset needed to be productive, protected yet flexible enough to enjoy

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vsido@vsido:~$ uname -a
Linux vsido 3.16-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
vsido@vsido:~$ 

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#1655 Post by James C »

I decided to go very,very cutting edge....... I just installed Arch Linux. :)
https://www.archlinux.org/

There is a choice of about 15 WM/DE..... I installed MATE because I like MATE.

Probably not recommended for beginners.... if you feel the urge to try Arch I'd recommend reading over the Wiki....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/

The official Arch download page......
https://www.archlinux.org/download/

When installing you can choose between the stable LTS kernel or cutting edge.Latest and greatest for me.

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 3.16.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 6 08:22:27 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[james@evo ~]$ 

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[james@evo ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3794184    1194852    2599332       9588      35380     599972
-/+ buffers/cache:     559500    3234684
Swap:      8294396          0    8294396
[james@evo ~]$ 
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