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#1966 Post by Bindee »

Q4OS Live CD is available

http://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/live/
Live CD, beta
29 June, 2015

The first beta version of Q4OS Live CD is available for download from our sourceforge archive. Anyone is welcome to give it a spin and report issues.

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Lubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Alpha 1

#1967 Post by peebee »

Lubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Alpha 1

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/relea ... y/alpha-1/

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Alpha1/Lubuntu

Still LXDE based - not LXQT (probably a good choice "LXQt is still in development, so Wily Werewolf is another bug fix release")

Kernel 3.19 (but will move to 4.0 by release)

Pretty small set of applications for a 700M iso............ (no screenshot in menu - had to use mtpaint -s)

LxAppearance crashes - but is Alpha 1 known bug
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Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64

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antiX-15 released

#1968 Post by James C »

antiX-15 released

http://antix.freeforums.org/antix-15-re ... t5697.html
A lot of time and work was spent getting antiX-15 (Killah P) ready for stable release; we hope you like it.

As with previous releases, antiX-15 comes in 3 flavours for 32 and 64 bit processors all fitting on a cd.
antiX-full (667MB) -4 windows managers - IceWM(default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-base (567MB) -3 windows managers - fluxbox(default), jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-core-libre (222MB) - no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build.

antiX-base and antiX-core versions use gzip compression of the squashfs/linuxfs file which means a faster boot
to desktop with less RAM usage, but file size is approximately 80MB larger. antiX-full uses xz compression.
So, what does antiX include?

Features:

*Based on Debian Jessie, but without systemd nor systemd-shim.
*Customised 4.0.5 kernel with fbcondecor splash
*libreoffice 4.3.3
*iceweasel 31.7.0esr
*claws-mail 3.11.1-3
*xmms -for audio
*gnome-mplayer - for playing video
*smtube - play youtube videos without a using a browser
*streamlight-antix - new application to stream videos with very low RAM usage.

Convert your video and audio files with:
*winff
*asunder - convert your

*grub-customizer
*hexchat
*luckybackup
*simple-scan
*spacefm
*rox-filer
*transmission-gtk

Connect to the net with
*wicd
*ceni
*or gnome-ppp if you are still on dial-up

*wingrid-antix
*xf86-video-sis-antix
*Xfburn for burning cd/dvd

*connectshares-antix for network shares
*droopy-antix - an easy way to transfer files over the net.
*flashplugin-nonfree

Editors
*geany
*leafpad

*install-meta-antix
*iso-snapshot
*Unetbootin
*antix2usb

Why not try out our included cli apps:

Editors: nano and vim
Newsreader: newsbeuter
Chat: irssi
Audio player: mocp
Video player: mpv
Email: alpine
Audio ripper: abcde
Torrent: rtorrent
Cd burner: cdw
Writer: Wordgrinder
Downloads at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... /MX-krete/

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#1969 Post by James C »

Fresh install. Switched from Icewm to JWM/Rox.

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-V_x64-full Killah P 30 June 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: N68-S UCC
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.70 date: 03/03/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-smp
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 51G used: 2.5G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda16
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 6.40GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 37.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 137 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 548.8/3955.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25 
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#1970 Post by Colonel Panic »

That's good James. I tried one of the pre-release versions of AntiX 15 but for some reason I wasn't able to get X Windows started, so I gave it up as a bad job.

Another one; ROSA Desktop Fresh R5, a Russian distro (I believe) which uses .rpm packages.

It comes in several different desktop environments; I'm using the LXDE version which looks good and is reasonably fast on my machine even with the live version.

The one downside of using it is that installation of new packages can be a long drawn out affair as it will request, say, 57 packages to go along with an application, stall after installing 53, and then you have to keep clicking on "update" to install the final ones.
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NanoLinux

#1971 Post by sheldonisaac »

Colonel Panic, or anyone.

May I ask for help with booting NanoLinux? (couldn't get much info from their forum, etc.)

I got it yesterday, and can't seem to get the GUI 'desktop' to happen.

Is it a matter of the kernel line parameters in menu.lst?

I think I did get it on my ASUS P5A motherboard computer.

But it's always iffy.

This is a Dell Latitude E6410.

Here's part of menu.lst
title NanoLinux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet vga=794
initrd /boot/core.gz
I've also tried with a CD-RW and a USB flash drive.

Thanks,
Sheldon
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#1972 Post by Galbi »

Have you tryed with the more conventional vga=791?

Just to see what happens.

Saludos.
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NanoLinux

#1973 Post by Keef »

Just add 'cde' to the kernel line and that will do it.

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Re: NanoLinux

#1974 Post by sheldonisaac »

Keef wrote:Just add 'cde' to the kernel line and that will do it.
Thank you, Keef!!

I'm on here with Dillo.


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Re: NanoLinux

#1975 Post by Colonel Panic »

sheldonisaac wrote:Colonel Panic, or anyone.

May I ask for help with booting NanoLinux? (couldn't get much info from their forum, etc.)

I got it yesterday, and can't seem to get the GUI 'desktop' to happen.

Is it a matter of the kernel line parameters in menu.lst?

I think I did get it on my ASUS P5A motherboard computer.

But it's always iffy.

This is a Dell Latitude E6410.

Here's part of menu.lst
title NanoLinux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz quiet vga=794
initrd /boot/core.gz
I've also tried with a CD-RW and a USB flash drive.

Thanks,
Sheldon
Hi Sheldon,

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I'm afraid I don't know enough to help in this instance (though I am looking to expand my knowledge so that may change). Others have contributed with some good advice though and I expect that will work for you.
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#1976 Post by Billtoo »

Installed Ubuntu-15.04 to hard drive of hp desktop pc.

Computer
Processor 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1045T Processor
Memory 8175MB (716MB used)
Operating System Ubuntu 15.04
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sat 04 Jul 2015 10:51:10 AM EDT
Display
Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer AMD Radeon HD 5570
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.19.0-21-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #21-Ubuntu SMP Sun Jun 14 18:31:11 UTC 2015
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.9.2 (Ubuntu 4.9.2-10ubuntu13)
Distribution Ubuntu 15.04

Monitors
Monitor 0 1920x1080 pixels
Monitor 1 1920x1080 pixels

OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer AMD Radeon HD 5570
Version 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013
Direct Rendering Yes

It's working well.
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#1977 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed Vector 7.1 Final Release (32-bit), and so far it's looking good. I've been able to install some extra applications to use, such as LibreOffice, without too much trouble.
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LXLE

#1978 Post by 6502coder »

I've been using LXLE for over a year now as the main OS on my 12-year-old WinXP desktop system and been very happy with it. I'm currently running the 32-bit "12.04.4 Revisited" edition. This is not the most recent edition, but being of the "ain't broke/don't fix" school I haven't bothered to update. LXLE is still a bit "fat" for my tastes, but it works without hassles and makes an excellent replacement for XP (which I still keep around, dual-boot, to handle the odd legacy app).

Dell Dimension 8300 P4, 2.8 GHz, 3 GB ram, Nvidia Geforce FX 5200

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#1979 Post by James C »

Fresh install of Mageia 5 x86-64 KDE.
http://www.mageia.org/en/community/

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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5 #1 SMP Sat Jun 13 17:05:48 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4048832    1653640    2395192      12864      32580     827908
-/+ buffers/cache:     793152    3255680
Swap:      6249248          0    6249248
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#1980 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:Fresh install of Mageia 5 x86-64 KDE.
http://www.mageia.org/en/community/

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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.19.8-desktop-3.mga5 #1 SMP Sat Jun 13 17:05:48 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4048832    1653640    2395192      12864      32580     827908
-/+ buffers/cache:     793152    3255680
Swap:      6249248          0    6249248
Were you able to get sound working in Mageia, James? I wasn't able to do so for playback of videos, although I could for sound files. I also find I have to add "nokmsboot" to the kernel options on bootup to be able to get X Windows.

Other news update; I finally managed to get sound working in Neptune, but using AlsaMixer (which isn't indicated in the Neptune KDE menu).
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#1981 Post by Billtoo »

Installed Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela to the hard drive of a hp desktop pc.

Operating System
Version
Kernel Linux 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64)
Compiled #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8 09:43:57 UTC 2015
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04)
Distribution Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Desktop Environment MATE (mate)

Monitors
Monitor 0 1920x1080 pixels
Monitor 1 1920x1080 pixels

OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer AMD Radeon R7 200 Series
Version 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013
Direct Rendering Yes

It's working well.

EDIT:I installed Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela Mate to the hard drive of another
desktop pc.
Also installed XFCE4 and KDE window managers with synaptic.
This release gets updates until 2019.
It's working well on this pc too.
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distro hopping on a problem machine

#1982 Post by prehistoric »

I've been distro-hopping with a purpose, though not one others here may have considered. (I'd post screenshots if I could get both installation and networking up at the same time. I'm sure you've seen screenshots of Quirky 7 April 64.)

Recently, I built a machine with 8-cores I had no excuse for. ("But the used parts were so cheap!")
It has a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P rev. 1.0 motherboard with an AMD 8320 processor. There is a rev. 2.0 board, so I'm guessing this one is not suitable for overclocking. It seems OK if I stick to specs. Some distros are more tolerant than others. I'm not worried by problems which show up with high-performance video cards; I don't play games. I'm even willing to downgrade to an old GeForce card which is very stable.

I checked basic reliability by using it to compute Pi to 5,000,000,000 decimal places.

I'm using this as a testbed for problems we have with installing on newer machines with a UEFI bios and GPT disks.

At the moment I'm booting from either an SSD small enough to use a conventional MBR or a flash drive. I have terabytes of rotating storage. As much as possible, I would like to dedicate resources on this machine to computational tasks, not eye candy or compatibility. For this reason I've been running BarryK's Quirky 7.

An unexpected problem cropped up when the gigabit Ethernet using a RT8169 chip repeatedly failed to connect, on a line my other machine uses all the time. I've even connected two 50' CAT5 cables end-to-end to go directly from my router to the machine without using the powerline adapter I typically use.

After I traced the problem to an error reported in the dmessage, we decided it must be a kernel issue, because this did not show up with BarryK's April 64 Quirky 7.0.4.1, which has a 3.19.2 kernel. I've now found the same problem in a distro with a 4.0x kernel.

Even stranger, when I stuck in an old Netgear PCI card with a 100 Mb/s Ethernet interface it had a problem in networking with the same distros that failed on the RT8169. I'm now looking for a problem in initialization and DNS handling.
(One discovery I've made is that some distros ignore having the built-in interface disabled in the BIOS. This is a problem for people who get a buggy chip, and need to work around with a separate card.) I may need to tweak PCI bus latency.

I've concluded that BarryK's networking is simply more robust than some very popular distributions, and I'm trying to track down the offending code, and the reason it is in so many distros. Most distros with automatic network setup have no GUI for problematic machines, and for debugging you go directly to CLI tests which vary between distros. Simply telling me which interfaces are available, and asking which I want to configure, without demanding CLI skills specific to the distro, is a big help. Quirky 7 is also the fastest and least resource hogging.

My standard vanilla heavyweight Linux is Linux Mint 17.2 "Rebecca". This installed on this machine, but had the Internet fail, even when it claimed this was connected. Ubuntu 15.04 ran into some problem which prevented easy installation, and I'm not enough of a guru to get around it easily. The Fatdog 700/701 I'm using at the moment on an older machine is the one which had the dmesg showing network problems during boot. (On a recent attempt it failed to boot from DVD to a live desktop, probably because of video. I can work around this, but that still leaves networking.)

The distro with the latest kernel which installed properly was Sparky Linux 4.0, a rolling-release based on Debian unstable. It also had the network problem. Similar problem with Sabayon 15.06, another rolling release.

The 64-bit version of Vector Linux, VLocity 7.1, had multiple problems which stopped me from installing. After experimenting with it I had a boot failure in which it appeared the processor clock was set to 4.0 GHz. That processor is only rated for 3.5 GHz. It might be tweaked carefully to get to 4.0 GHz, but I am not trying. Reset the BIOS and it booted without problems.

I've used the distros which installed themselves properly to get a working bootloader, while waiting for BarryK's version that handles that problem itself.

This machine may have buggy I/O, depending on how you use it, but there is an enormous range of behavior between different distros. On most, tracking the problem down looks like an ordeal.

Added: now posting from April 64 Quirky 7.0.4.1 booted from SSD on that machine. I used Sparky linux 4.0 to install a bootloader (grub2) then added a custom menuentry using clues from the alternate Grub4Dos entry suggested by Barry to get the uuid. This was originally 40_custom in /etc/grub.d; moved to 7_custom after checking that it worked to put Quirky at the top of the list.

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#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry "Quirky April64 7.0.4.1 frugal in sda2 dir april64-7.0.4.1"{
set root='(hd0,2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set c02f47ec-bc89-4742-af5e-97f54efa5769
linux /april64-7.0.4.1/vmlinuz
initrd /april64-7.0.4.1/initrd.q
}
Naturally, I had to run update-grub from a root console within Sparky linux to execute the update scripts. This strikes me as a problem if you are trying to recover a damaged installation.

Still not a clue as to why this machine seems solid while running Quirky, and problematic while running other distros.

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#1983 Post by wyzguy »

Prehistoric

On newer Gigabit motherboards with rtl8169 problems, try changing
IOMMU in the bios to enabled. If that does not work, or has some undesirable side effect, try adding the iommu=soft kernel boot parameter.

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#1984 Post by prehistoric »

wyzguy wrote:Prehistoric

On newer Gigabit motherboards with rtl8169 problems, try changing
IOMMU in the bios to enabled. If that does not work, or has some undesirable side effect, try adding the iommu=soft kernel boot parameter.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm on a different machine at the moment, but will try that right away.

In the past, I've been able to salvage some machines declared defective by adjusting things like PCI latency in BIOS settings. I now see that option no longer available, though I'm getting evidence of device timeouts, and not just on that one chip.

I started this exercise in an attempt to prepare for the day when most machines will not have MBR disks, and vendors will make another attempt to freeze out those who want to boot systems they have compiled themselves. Last year's disclosures about widespread fundamental vulnerabilities in USB devices cause me to suspect we will have problems in booting from external USB devices after the next generation of security measures.

(This morning's news doesn't make the security situation look better, certainly not for individuals.)

The W10 preview seems to be aiming toward a white-list approach to security, with that list of certificates for approved programs coming from centralized authorities who have strong economic reasons for anti-competitive behavior.

At present I am unable to boot on a machine with all GPT disks without some workarounds that may well be disabled by later security updates. We haven't yet been frozen out by innovations, but I can easily see the "security through obscurity" approach gaining ground. This benefits large organizations over individuals and small organizations.

Reliance on identical code from a single source has made attacks on current security measures highly profitable. The only long-term solution is to get rid of the idea of a world-wide monoculture of code, and encourage diversity of implementations, making the benefits of any particular hack less attractive, and raising the costs of finding vulnerabilities common to many systems.

Added: Now posting from the problem machine. The iommu is definitely part of the solution. I knew something had changed when it tried to boot from a non-existent PXE server on that network.

(I don't recall ever telling the BIOS to boot from PXE, but that is apparently an option inserted automatically if other boot options fail. Other BIOS strangeness involves an entry concerning a network stack on a different tab from the entry for the IOMMU. What is more it is off the first visible page on that tab, making it easy to overlook.)

This is the first I've heard about the kernel option iommu=soft.

I'm getting too old to deal with steadily increasing confusion about the minimum requirements to get a computer to do anything useful. I have no idea how people without years of IT experience are supposed to cope.

Part of my collection of IT junk is a router which had been remotely modified to redirect all searches to an engine which paid the perpetrators. I have yet to find one which directs Internet banking to a site run by a perp, but I know these are out there.

Most of the computers people give me are not actually broken. I've returned several machines to people, after finding why they couldn't use them. One case with true hardware problems ran fine after I removed several pounds of dust, replaced the thermal paste on the heatsink for the chipset and the one on the video card, and reinstalled the OS.

Part of the problem we have is that IT people can make money by selling new equipment to replace equipment the owner simply does not understand. Obfuscation pays.

I am no longer clear on the difference between legitimate businesses which sell software which limits your access to data you create, and ransomware.

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success!

#1985 Post by prehistoric »

Just to make up for anything bad I said about Sparky Linux 4.0, here is a screenshot of it running on that problem machine. The problem really was the IOMMU setting in the BIOS.
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