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#2086 Post by Colonel Panic »

cimarron wrote:Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.

Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.
Hi,

I have tried Salix and it didn't go particularly well for me although others had more success with it.

I mentioned it at the top of page 131 of this thread; I made at least one mistake in installation, which may have accounted for at least some of the problems I had with it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 639#851819

Nevertheless, I use Absolute now which works well for me and is based on Slackware 14.1. Vector's also a good distro which is based on Slackware, as is Zenwalk.

Good luck anyway; it's good to see other people using Slackware or Slackware-based distros as it's one of the oldest Linux distros around and even predates Windows 95.
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#2087 Post by DJ Puppio »

I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.

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#2088 Post by rufwoof »

DJ Puppio wrote:I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.
If you installed a vnc/rdp server on your Windows box, that RDP's a puppy box, and install vnc client on your tablet, you could have all three working at the same time and controlled from your tablet.

My pup has 5 desktops each with different backgrounds and icons. In the image below case its running a 3D/animated Openshot/Blender title render (that usually takes a while and hogs CPU) - but running in isolation/separately doesn't load the Windows box.

With Samba server also running on the Pup, files/directories are just another tree under the Windows directory tree.
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#2089 Post by eric52 »

Fav Windows distros: XP2, 98SE
Fav Windows replacements: Zorin, Q4OS
Fav stock distros: Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint
Fav small distros: Puppy, Bodhi, antiX, Porteus
Fav odd distros: Puppy, Knoppix, SliTaz
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#2090 Post by harii4 »

Anyone try DietPi?
http://fuzon.co.uk/phpbb/index.php?sid= ... 3d7482db38

They support more than just raspberry pi boards.
Based off raspbian with added tools.
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#2091 Post by eric52 »

Hold the phone. harii4, do I understand correctly from the site that these tinker toys run Kodi?
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#2092 Post by James C »

Arch still working well here.....https://www.archlinux.org/

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[james@evo ~]$ uname -a
Linux evo 4.2.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 27 08:13:28 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        4051784      804676     2774336       34908      472772     3162200
Swap:       8294396           0     8294396
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#2093 Post by James C »

Got Arch updated,moving on to Open Mandriva.....
https://www.openmandriva.org/




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[james@localhost ~]$ inxi -Fx
System:    Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 3.13.11-nrjQL-desktop-1omv i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.3)
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 4.12.4 (Qt 4.8.5)
           Distro: OpenMandrivaLinux 2014.0 Phosphorus
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
           flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 10849
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 02:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.9hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.1 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 02:00.1
           Sound: ALSA v: k3.13.11-nrjQL-desktop-1omv
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet
           driver: forcedeth port: d480 bus-ID: 00:07.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 25G used: 4.7G (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
           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
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 36.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 157 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 616.8/3537.8MB
           Init: systemd Gcc sys: N/A
           Client: Shell (bash 4.2.452) inxi: 2.2.27 
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#2094 Post by Colonel Panic »

So far so good with the latest version of AntiX (15.1 alpha).
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#2095 Post by Colonel Panic »

Tried Zorin with the Razor-QT desktop, and they go together really well. Unfortunately at the moment I have no sound on it and the distro doesn't come with alsamixer (which is what I normally use to correct this problem), so I'll probably have to swap it out for something else.
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#2096 Post by Colonel Panic »

Amother interesting distro; I'm posting this from Makulu Aero Edition, which uses the Cinnamon desktop, is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and comes form South Africa.

It's got an offbeat choice of software; the main browser is Opera Developer (although you can install Firefox as well, which I've done), and the office suite is Kingsoft Office.

http://www.open-source-feed.com/2015/11 ... eased.html
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#2097 Post by James C »

MX-15 is now at RC-1.
http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx

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james@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25) dm: lightdm
           Distro: MX-15-RC1_x64 Fusion 17 December 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42141
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz
           3: 2000 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 2500 MHz 6: 1400 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           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 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: 50026B7256076A16
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: WD-WCC3F6XAKRLY
Partition: ID-1: / size: 34G used: 3.6G (12%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb11
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.1C mobo: N/A gpu: 35.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 174 Uptime: 47 min Memory: 521.2/7890.5MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 2.2.31 
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#2098 Post by James C »

MX-15 final was just released.
http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtop ... 94&t=39136

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james@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 (Gtk 2.24.25) dm: lightdm
           Distro: MX-15_x64 Fusion 24 December 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42140
           clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz
           3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 1400 MHz 6: 2000 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
           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 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
           bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: 50026B7256076A16
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: WD-WCC3F6XAKRLY
Partition: ID-1: / size: 96G used: 3.6G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 16.5C mobo: N/A gpu: 35.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 180 Uptime: 21 min Memory: 641.9/7890.5MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in xfce4-terminal) inxi: 2.2.31 
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#2099 Post by Colonel Panic »

Thanks James, I'm using it now and it's to AntiX's usual high standards. Only thing is; conky manager is very hit and miss in MX in my experience so a good conkyrc file would go a long way in it.
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#2100 Post by LazY Puppy »

Hi.

Anyone heard about Ubuntu dropping 32bit OS after their 2016 releases?

Some information available on this?

What does this mean to Puppy?
RSH

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#2101 Post by eric52 »

I think Chrome support for 32-bit Linux, in particular Ubuntu Precise and Debian Wheezy, is ending in March. It will still work, but no more updates. Ubuntu support for 14.04 32-bit continues until 2019. I don't think too many future distros will offer 32-bit versions. I would suppose 32-bit Puppy will be needed until all the old machines die, but it is time to move toward 64-bit as per Lighthouse, FatDog, etc.
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#2102 Post by Colonel Panic »

32-bit software is still very useful for those of us with older machines though. I think Slackware will continue to be available for 32-bit hardware for a long time yet, so if Ubuntu does abandon 32-bit computer architecture then maybe it will be time for Puppy to consolidate around Slacko.
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#2103 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote:Thanks James, I'm using it now and it's to AntiX's usual high standards. Only thing is; conky manager is very hit and miss in MX in my experience so a good conkyrc file would go a long way in it.
I attempted to install Conky Manager but Synaptic reported it as broken. Luckily I can come up with a basic config...... or two.....
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#2104 Post by James C »

So many installs,so little time..... :lol:

Vector Linux 64 still rolling along.

http://vectorlinux.com/

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james:$ uname -a
Linux vlocity.linux.vnet 3.18.16 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 16 16:29:26 CDT 2015 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
vlocity:/~
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#2105 Post by James C »

http://www.raspbian.org/

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ inxi -Fxx
System:    Host: raspberrypi Kernel: 4.1.7-v7+ armv7l (32 bit gcc: 4.8.3) 
           Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.2) dm: lightdm 
           Distro: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 
Machine:   No /sys/class/dmi, using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
CPU:       Quad core ARMv7 rev 5 (v7l) (-MCP-) (ARM)bmips: 230  
           Clock Speeds: 1: 900 MHz 2: 900 MHz 3: 900 MHz 4: 900 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Failed to Detect Video Card!
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: N/A
           Resolution: 1552x868@0.00hz
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
Audio:     Card bcm2835 ALSA driver: bcm2835 Sound: ALSA v: k4.1.7-v7+
Network:   Card: Standard Microsystems SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
           usb-ID: 001-003 chip-ID: 0424:ec00
           IF: N/A state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.1G used: 3.3G (58%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/root 
           ID-2: /boot size: 60M used: 20M (33%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/mmcblk0p5 
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 110 Uptime: 2:13 Memory: 140.0/925.9MB 
           Init: systemd v: 215 runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2 
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in lxterminal) inxi: 2.1.28 

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