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#1666 Post by James C »

GhostBSD. Not Linux. :lol:

http://www.ghostbsd.org/
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#1667 Post by bark_bark_bark »

Which BSD is GhostBSD based on?
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#1668 Post by James C »

bark_bark_bark wrote:Which BSD is GhostBSD based on?
It's based on FreeBSD 10.

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#1669 Post by Scooby »

Can you boot ghostbsd as a livecd, that is directly from iso file?

With grub2 or grub4dos?

if so menuentry?

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#1670 Post by Billtoo »

I installed xubuntu 14.10 to my hp desktop pc.
It's working nice so far.
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#1671 Post by Moat »

I've been using two Mint 17 Qiana LTS versions (Cinnamon and Mate) daily for the last few months, switching between both about evenly - dual booting on this circa 2006 HP Pavilion DV5000 laptop (dual core T2050 @ 1.60GHz, 2Gb RAM) - both have been outstanding, nearly flawless and solid as a rock - even through all of the regular updates.

Initially had the Xfce Mint 17 version installed to one partition, but found it just a bit "buggy" around the edges - so installed Cinnamon in it's place. Both Mate and Cinnamon are quite fast/responsive on this old machine, but I'd give the nod to Mate in that regard... although Cinnamon is by no means "slow" - just a hair behind Mate in "snappiness", really.

Only real (minor!) bugs I've found;

App windows in Cinnamon occasionally lag a second or two to close, spiking the CPU 100% while doing so (odd...). That's about it.

For Mate, there's an annoying bug that's been in the default Mint Menu through the last few Mint releases, where it apparently doesn't load the icon cache during boot - therefore taking 4-5 seconds to load and open the menu upon first click after booting (opening instantly after that, for the remainder of the session). Seems like it would be an easy bug to address (??), but hasn't been yet, for some reason...

Otherwise, both have been amazingly solid day-to-day, beautifully laid out and feature-filled, tweakable workhorses. Two thumbs up!

Bob
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#1672 Post by grump »

Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.

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#1673 Post by infromthepound »

Yes.
Picked up a second hand laptop for my wife; it turned out to have it on.
It seems OK, a lot more like 7
I can't install anything though as the wireless drivers don't work.
I will try with a wired network in the next few days.
JB

More testing.
It will work with the wireless drivers. I have installed most of the programs or alterenatives I sometimes use.
Some of the normal ones (Zone alarm, Avast etc. ) say "Incompatible with this version of windoze"
Installation seems to be hit or miss. Some worked for my son but not for me and vice versa, it could be the laptop I suppose.
On the hole (A deep one) it is useable at the moment
JB
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#1674 Post by bark_bark_bark »

both mint and lmde make netbooks heat up really fast. when that happens the display goes crazy.
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#1675 Post by James C »

Did a full system upgrade on Arch ..... nothing crashed and burned. :)

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 3.17.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 30 20:49:39 CET 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[james@evo ~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3794084     526652    3267432       8032      21184     159308
-/+ buffers/cache:     346160    3447924
Swap:      8294396          0    8294396

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#1676 Post by Ted Dog »

grump wrote:Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.
lol told me my system was not compatible ( a win8 laptop running FatDog64 ) Bluffed my way thro and downloading it now.

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#1677 Post by James C »

grump wrote:Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?
I've had it downloaded for quite a while but Windows 8 sucked so bad I can't bring myself to install 10. Sticking with 7.

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#1678 Post by James C »

Tanglu Linux.Debian based.
http://tanglu.org/

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Linux testing 3.12-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.12.24-0tanglu1 (2014-06-06) i686 GNU/Linux
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#1679 Post by infromthepound »

Ted Dog wrote:
grump wrote:Anyone had a play with Windows 10 Technical Preview release?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

The current build 9860 is a bit unstable but otherwise seems ok to me.
lol told me my system was not compatible ( a win8 laptop running FatDog64 ) Bluffed my way thro and downloading it now.
Yes.
Picked up a second hand laptop for my wife; it turned out to have it on.
It seems OK, a lot more like 7
I can't install anything though as the wireless drivers don't work.
I will try with a wired network in the next few days.
JB

More testing.
It will work with the wireless drivers. I have installed most of the programs or alterenatives I sometimes use.
Some of the normal ones (Zone alarm, Avast etc. ) say "Incompatible with this version of windoze"
Installation seems to be hit or miss. Some worked for my son but not for me and vice versa, it could be the laptop I suppose.
On the hole (A deep one) it is useable at the moment
JB

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#1680 Post by J_D_ »

Moat wrote:I've been using two Mint 17 Qiana LTS versions (Cinnamon and Mate) daily for the last few months, switching between both about evenly - dual booting on this circa 2006 HP Pavilion DV5000 laptop (dual core T2050 @ 1.60GHz, 2Gb RAM) - both have been outstanding, nearly flawless and solid as a rock - even through all of the regular updates.

Initially had the Xfce Mint 17 version installed to one partition, but found it just a bit "buggy" around the edges - so installed Cinnamon in it's place. Both Mate and Cinnamon are quite fast/responsive on this old machine, but I'd give the nod to Mate in that regard... although Cinnamon is by no means "slow" - just a hair behind Mate in "snappiness", really.

Only real (minor!) bugs I've found;

App windows in Cinnamon occasionally lag a second or two to close, spiking the CPU 100% while doing so (odd...). That's about it.

For Mate, there's an annoying bug that's been in the default Mint Menu through the last few Mint releases, where it apparently doesn't load the icon cache during boot - therefore taking 4-5 seconds to load and open the menu upon first click after booting (opening instantly after that, for the remainder of the session). Seems like it would be an easy bug to address (??), but hasn't been yet, for some reason...

Otherwise, both have been amazingly solid day-to-day, beautifully laid out and feature-filled, tweakable workhorses. Two thumbs up!

Bob

Ive been using Mint 17 Mate since it was released. Same bug with the Mint menu but its not really a problem.
I still keep going right to Puppy 5.7 when I boot up. I have 3 laptops with Puppy. 2 also have XP but Puppy has become the normal. Need to make myself learn how to make use of more of the programs though, I am just a slacker sometimes and I hate that.

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#1681 Post by Billtoo »

I installed PCLinuxOS 64 bit Mate edition to a usb 3.0 hard drive on
this pc and I've been running it for about a week with no problems.
It's a rolling release so security and software updates are reported by
the QT-update-notifier which checks for updates daily.
The latest versions of many applications are available in the repo.
The synaptic package manager works well and downloads are fast.

Display
Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Desktop
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Memory 8068MB (383MB used)
Operating System PCLinuxOS

PCLinuxOS runs well on the hardware that I've tested it on which includes
intel dual core, intel dual core with hyperthreading, intel quad core,
and an amd 6 core processor.
Two of the computers have intel graphics and
one has an ati hd 5470 graphics card, the other has a nvidia GT430
graphics card.

It's a keeper in my opinion.

EDIT: I installed VirtualBox and find that it's a great way to check out other distros, it works well.
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#1682 Post by Colonel Panic »

I'm posting this from OpenSUSE 13.1.1 (educational edition) as a live disk in a community centre, and I have to say it's working very well although it's clearly not a distro for old computers. KDE 4 hasn't crashed yet (touch wood).
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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#1683 Post by Billtoo »

I installed PCLinuxOS 32 bit version LXDE to the hard drive of my
compaq presario S6700NX desktop pc.

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1552MB (172MB used)
Operating System PCLinuxOS
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Fri 21 Nov 2014 04:42:14 PM EST
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5960) x86/MMX/SSE2 DRI2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
Input Devices
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Power Button
Power Button
Chicony 2.4G Multimedia Wireless Kit
Chicony 2.4G Multimedia Wireless Kit
Printers
No printers found
SCSI Disks
ATA ST3160021A
ATA WDC WD1600BB-00G

I added google chrome,palemoon,vlc,smplayer,and other applications
from the repo.

It's working well on this 10+ year old computer.

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#1684 Post by James C »

The next two releases of Debian are scheduled to be......
Codenames
=========

Our release managers chose the following codenames for future
releases:

* Debian 9 "Stretch"
* Debian 10 "Buster"
https://lists.debian.org/debian-release ... 00749.html

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#1685 Post by James C »

Still running Salix.... an extended test. And no systemd. :)

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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
james[~]$ 
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