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[Burn_IT]

It also leaves it so that just about any disk error will destroy the whole system.

[bark_bark_bark]

I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.

Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot yet. The only bad part about the distribution was systemd.

[James C]

In the past I've had basically unsuccessful attempts when upgrading any of the 'buntus to a newer version. Naturally I tried again......

Xubuntu Precise 12.04 lost support last month so I tried the upgrade to 14.04 (support till 2017).Downloaded over 1600 packages,removed over 400 old packages.

Not too many problems....needed to redo the menu.lst in Grub and edit fstab because swap was temporarily missing.Otherwise everything appears to be working.

http://xubuntu.org/

[James C]

Just updated Arch....other than systemd it's been really solid.

https://www.archlinux.org/

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 4.0.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 22 03:05:23 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[mikeb]

I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.

I like making a major difference to the speed of XP..boots and runs like puppy2 here. Atom board played 9 dragons nicely.

Featherweight was one of the few live distros thats was almost usable on me pentium 2 64MB ram machine at the time..and it had KDE 3!! Based on feather linux but more user friendly/useful.

mike

[Colonel Panic]

I decided to try Q4OS on an older Atom tower I own and with in the first minute after install, I saw a MAJOR difference in speed compared to Windows XP.

I like making a major difference to the speed of XP..boots and runs like puppy2 here. Atom board played 9 dragons nicely.

Featherweight was one of the few live distros thats was almost usable on me pentium 2 64MB ram machine at the time..and it had KDE 3!! Based on feather linux but more user friendly/useful.

mike

I remember using Featherweight Mike; that's a blast from the past! Someone called Ron Meinsler was its developer.

[EDIT: it's still available for download although it must be ten years old now];

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/O ... 5320.shtml

[Colonel Panic]

As it's a bank holiday weekend here I've got more time and I'm trying several distros I've wanted to try recently.

I'm posting from AntiX MX-14.4 at the moment and it seems like a decent distro. It has an attractive interface, reminiscent of KDE 3 although I believe it's based on XFce, and it's one of the few distros nowadays which lets you log in as root. It's definitely a good choice for older computers IMO.

http://distrowatch.com/images/slinks/antix.png

[mikeb]

Hmm wish i could remember the name but someone made an xfce4 version of Damn Small Linux... did it in a 2 part format..one was the core setup and the second was a bundle of nice apps... all the fun of the fair on a 2.4 kernel....All the addons went in local since its all knoppix so you need places to mount archives.

If that rings a bell for anyone.

mike

[Colonel Panic]

Hmm wish i could remember the name but someone made an xfce4 version of Damn Small Linux... did it in a 2 part format..one was the core setup and the second was a bundle of nice apps... all the fun of the fair on a 2.4 kernel....All the addons went in local since its all knoppix so you need places to mount archives.

If that rings a bell for anyone.

mike

Was it DSL-N (Damn Small Linux Not)?

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/

Either that or Feather, which we've covered here recently.

http://web.archive.org/web/200703211550 ... /index.php

(BTW, the Colonel Panic who appears as the last poster in the "Suggestions" forum, posting on the 21st February 2007, is me. Feather was one of the very first distros I tried.)

[mikeb]

https://livecdlist.com/luit-linux/

remembered just as i read your post... it was an ambitious turn on dsl breaking the 50MB barrier
Seems his site is no longer around and the iso lost in time.

featherweight was a nice variant of feather...always liked the knoppix boot up chatter.... small text, graphics and text animations...added to the spice of the newly discovered live CD's. PClinuxOS was smart but simply too big...dsl...well how DO you save. Puppy...wow that does look weird..commodore 64 meets windows 95 look..
Think that was about it..only PClinuxOS could use my modem and again it was too big... so i left linux for a year to grow up a bit...and my machine got more ram.

mike

[James C]

https://livecdlist.com/luit-linux/

remembered just as i read your post... it was an ambitious turn on dsl breaking the 50MB barrier
Seems his site is no longer around and the iso lost in time.

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

[mikeb]

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike

[James C]

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike

Taking a much-needed break so uploading now.

Links in a bit.

[James C]

I have luitlinux 0.2 (64.9 mb) and 0.4 (50mb) archived if anyone is interested.No problem to do a quick upload.

ah that would be nice... just for nostalgias sake if nothing else.
Featherweight took some digging when i went looking for it again and luit seemed lost...surprised this stuff is not on archive.org or similar...or maybe it is Plenty of pup stuff on there including rare bits ...and was only place i found some earlier slaxes too.

mike

Taking a much-needed break so uploading now.

Links in a bit.

http://www.smokey01.com/JamesC/luit-lin ... ux-0.2.iso

luitlinux-0.2 0481052e55c329cc9f452cd346313ee2

http://www.smokey01.com/JamesC/luit-lin ... ux-0.4.iso

luitlinux-0.4 83c9f30dc708a2b4374b406b317f6e06

[mikeb]

Well thats very decent of you...cheers

mike

[Colonel Panic]

Another of my Bank Holiday tryouts - Solus Beta 2. It's good to see that Ikey and the team are back in business as I liked SolusOS 1.3 a lot.

Anyway, Beta2 works well enough as a live disk (if a bit spartan in appearance), but when I tried installing it to my hard drive I wasn't able to get Grub set up properly and the installed distro wouldn't boot (and nor would anything else, because it wiped out my MBR). So, unfortunately I think it still needs some more work before it's ready for release.

[Colonel Panic]

Yet another "Bank Holiday" one; Sabayon 15.05 Forensics. This one has a set of system tools which are supposed to do things like recover Windows passwords from the hard drive, though I haven't found any of these tools yet (maybe I don't have the necessary security clearance ).

Apart from that, it's a perfectly competent distro. If you don't need the security tools, though, you'll do just as well with one of the other Sabayon variants such as Xfce (which would be my choice), Gnome or KDE.

[EDIT; I can't install midnight commander on it though, which I use a lot in Linux, I don't believe it has any compilation tools (gcc etc.) either.]

[bark_bark_bark]

I bought an 80GB WD laptop hard drive for my Acer Aspire 5532 and I put windows 7 64-bit on it.

[Colonel Panic]

I've just installed Neptune 4.3, which is a spinoff from ZevenOS Neptune and is based on Debian but uses the KDE desktop environment. It's working well.

[rokytnji]

Slackel Fluxbox on a netbook.
Conky shows ram usage.
Everything works.




Setting this up as a saddlebag netbook for trips this summer.

Needed a stable , no need to worry about latest upgrades poking up.
Type of traveling computer.

Besides Puppy.

Just install and forgettaboutit. Gslapt, Sourcery, and slapt-get -i when needed for this Lazy Biker.

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harry[~]$ ./cl2


 ·····················································
 ·             select a station and play             ·
 ·                                                   ·
 · [space] to pause, [q] to stop, [Ctrl]+[c] to quit ·
 ·····················································

 ·····················································
 ·    1   Addict Alternative     2   Audio Ink       ·
 ·    3   Addict Rock            4   The Buzz        ·
 ·    5   Power_Rock             6   Schizophonic    ·
 ·    7   80s radio              8   Rock-Radio      ·
 ·    9   90s Radio             10   Radio Xenu      ·
 ·   11   WFMU                  12   Rage Radio      ·
 ·   13   KikiNovak Radio       14   AGX             ·
 ·   15   Progressive           16   BadRok Radio    ·
 ·   17   Classic Gator Rock    18   All Dixie Rock  ·
 ·   19   AMPZ Adult            20   106 Radio       ·
 ·····················································

 select a  number  from 1 to 20 then hit [Enter]

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MPlayer 20150425-4.9.2 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team

Playing http://sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us:8030/1/.
Resolving sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us
Resolving sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us for AF_INET...
Connecting to server sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us[23.29.71.154]: 8030...

Name   : Schizophonic Radio
Genre  : Hard Rock
Website: http://www.shoutcast.com
Public : yes
Bitrate: 128kbit/s
Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)   
ICY Info: StreamTitle='Candlebox - Far Behind';
Cache fill: 15.00% (49152 bytes)   

Audio only file format detected.
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mpg123] MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16000->176400)
Selected audio codec: [mpg123] afm: mpg123 (MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III)
==========================================================================
[AO OSS] audio_setup: Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: No such file or directory
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  26.6 (26.5) of 0.0 (unknown)  4.7% 42%