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- Colonel Panic
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I've just booted up the live version of Ubuntu 16.04.3 (Budgie version). It works well but I'm not overly keen on the look (a kind of blue / purple theme) and Budgie itself doesn't offer a lot of options for moving and resizing windows compared to, say, fvwm.
Horses for courses I suppose; the devs have obviously gone for simplicity instead of power and flexibility.
Horses for courses I suppose; the devs have obviously gone for simplicity instead of power and flexibility.
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.
I've settled on Debian Jessie for its rock solid stability with a core of just xorg, jwm and pcmanfm. pcmanfm provides the filemanager and desktop icons control (i.e. pcmanfm --desktop run as a process) ... all with no themes installed. That way you just run the default inbuilt themes and pretty much the configuration is all contained within a single file (startup programs, windows decorations, panel layout ...etc all configured within .jwmrc).I've just booted up the live version of Ubuntu 16.04.3 (Budgie version). It works well but I'm not overly keen on the look (a kind of blue / purple theme)
A problem is even with that simplification there are still multiple files that have to be configured in order to have a common look-n-feel. gtk2 for instance has a default inbuilt theme of Raleigh whilst gtk3 has adwaita as its default inbuilt theme. What I've done is to set qt4 to use a default of gtk+ theme (gtk3), and tweaked gtk3 theme to look more like the gtk2 default theme. Such that relatively small edits in .Xresources, .gtk-2.0 and .config/.gtk-3.0/settings.ini (and gtk.css) is pretty much enough to get a common look-n-feel whilst keeping things relatively simple. I've replaced the show-desktop panel icon with a hot corner that toggles show-desktop (using brightside), so for instance if the browser is full screen I can mouse into that corner and up pops the desktop showing the favourite icons I have on that.
I've also dropped having a panel Menu ... or rather a very simple menu that just basically offers reboot/power off type options and just have my favourite programs as desktop icons, including one that opens the filemanager browsing the /usr/share/applications folder (so other programs can be easily launched). Along with the right super key (WIN key to the right of the spacebar) launching gmrun, so program names can be typed in along with auto-complete ... as yet another means to launch programs).
Full install of Debian Jessie with Libre Office, Firefox ...etc. weighs in at a main sfs of around 600MB, which includes all docs and locales. With no docs and just my own locale that could reduce down to <500MB in total, but typically that's around 2GB of extracted/non compressed. Generally less than half of that 2GB ever gets used during a session, so tends to remain memory bound (quick operationally).
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I did a new Xubuntu 16.04.3 install on my HP desktop.
I added some applications with synaptic,some with the software and
updates option,also added Kodi-17.3 and Smplayer/Smtube by following the
instructions on their hompages so the latest versions will be added with
software updates.
Using a 32" tv for a monitor via hdmi, the tv has decent speakers so
that works well.
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EDIT: I've been running Xubuntu 17.04 on my Macmini for a few months:
bill@bill-Macmini:~$ inxi -bw
System: Host: bill-Macmini Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: Ubuntu 17.04
Machine: Device: laptop System: Apple product: Macmini6 1 v: 1.0
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 v: Macmini6 1
UEFI: Apple v: MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202 date: 11/16/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3210M (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 1229/3100 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (5.9% used)
Weather: Conditions: 72 F (22 C) - Clear Time: August 13, 10:24 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 205 Uptime: 49 min Memory: 550.2/15952.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8
bill@bill-Macmini:~$
Smplayer/Smtube + Kodi + kernel updates are installed automatically when the
software updates utility downloads and installs other software updates.
I added some applications with synaptic,some with the software and
updates option,also added Kodi-17.3 and Smplayer/Smtube by following the
instructions on their hompages so the latest versions will be added with
software updates.
Using a 32" tv for a monitor via hdmi, the tv has decent speakers so
that works well.
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EDIT: I've been running Xubuntu 17.04 on my Macmini for a few months:
bill@bill-Macmini:~$ inxi -bw
System: Host: bill-Macmini Kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: Ubuntu 17.04
Machine: Device: laptop System: Apple product: Macmini6 1 v: 1.0
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 v: Macmini6 1
UEFI: Apple v: MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202 date: 11/16/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3210M (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 1229/3100 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.3 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (5.9% used)
Weather: Conditions: 72 F (22 C) - Clear Time: August 13, 10:24 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 205 Uptime: 49 min Memory: 550.2/15952.3MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8
bill@bill-Macmini:~$
Smplayer/Smtube + Kodi + kernel updates are installed automatically when the
software updates utility downloads and installs other software updates.
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- Colonel Panic
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That's good; I'll certainly look at the software you mention, I agree that pcmanfm is very capable and I like the way it displays all the other partitions on your system as icons.rufwoof wrote:I've settled on Debian Jessie for its rock solid stability with a core of just xorg, jwm and pcmanfm. pcmanfm provides the filemanager and desktop icons control (i.e. pcmanfm --desktop run as a process) ... all with no themes installed. That way you just run the default inbuilt themes and pretty much the configuration is all contained within a single file (startup programs, windows decorations, panel layout ...etc all configured within .jwmrc).I've just booted up the live version of Ubuntu 16.04.3 (Budgie version). It works well but I'm not overly keen on the look (a kind of blue / purple theme)
A problem is even with that simplification there are still multiple files that have to be configured in order to have a common look-n-feel. gtk2 for instance has a default inbuilt theme of Raleigh whilst gtk3 has adwaita as its default inbuilt theme. What I've done is to set qt4 to use a default of gtk+ theme (gtk3), and tweaked gtk3 theme to look more like the gtk2 default theme. Such that relatively small edits in .Xresources, .gtk-2.0 and .config/.gtk-3.0/settings.ini (and gtk.css) is pretty much enough to get a common look-n-feel whilst keeping things relatively simple. I've replaced the show-desktop panel icon with a hot corner that toggles show-desktop (using brightside), so for instance if the browser is full screen I can mouse into that corner and up pops the desktop showing the favourite icons I have on that.
I've also dropped having a panel Menu ... or rather a very simple menu that just basically offers reboot/power off type options and just have my favourite programs as desktop icons, including one that opens the filemanager browsing the /usr/share/applications folder (so other programs can be easily launched). Along with the right super key (WIN key to the right of the spacebar) launching gmrun, so program names can be typed in along with auto-complete ... as yet another means to launch programs).
Full install of Debian Jessie with Libre Office, Firefox ...etc. weighs in at a main sfs of around 600MB, which includes all docs and locales. With no docs and just my own locale that could reduce down to <500MB in total, but typically that's around 2GB of extracted/non compressed. Generally less than half of that 2GB ever gets used during a session, so tends to remain memory bound (quick operationally).
I'm using Devuan Jessie at the moment, which is similar to Debian Jessie except that it doesn't have systemd (and it has a nice old-school feel to it as well).
It has some of the drawbacks of mainstream Debian though, you have to almost beg it to get it to do anything systemwise and it also overwrites my twm configuration file (which, say, Slackware doesn't do)
JWM's a very good window manager but I've had trouble in the past getting it to work with Softmaker Office for some reason. At the moment I'm posting from Devuan with the Openbox window manager, which is pretty good though not as easy to configure as Fluxbox (because it doesnt use plain text files for this purpose).
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.
The more I use systemD the more I like it. Simple to add along with start or stop 'services' (in effect scripts).
Just backed up Jessie and tried a Stretch upgrade. Went through easily. Some tweaking was required afterwards and ~/.xsession-error pointed to the lines and what to change to be rid of those warnings. I did also have some (around 20) obsoletes left over to clean out afterwards (which synaptic highlighted), together with around 100 Residuals (that synaptic also highlighted) ... which I believe are programs I've installed, tried and uninstalled one way or another in the past that left over unused configuration files/folders.
In Stretch a common theme is Adwaita. I believe gtk+/gtk3 has that as its inbuild default and there are Stretch repository themes for gtk2, qt4 and qt5 adwaita themes ... so I've switched over to that (and edited .jwmrc to also have a similar look-n-feel).
So far everything I've tested is working really well, so much so I'm sorely tempted to stick with Stretch. Boots in around 16 seconds on my 10 year old PC. A nice feature is that during the animated splash screen (Plymouth) it even prompted to say that fsck was being run and a option to cancel that that's new (I believe, not seen it myself before) ... i.e. a visual indication of why the boot is taking longer than usual (rather than having to hit <esc> only to see that a fsck is being run).
For Jessie I had been running near pure debian Main repositories only, with the exception of jwm for which I pulled in a backport (2.3.6), however now that eliminates that backport so 100% pure main only. Nvidia works so well with the Debian supplied driver that I have no need to even bother with pulling that in from a external either.
2.4GB of disk space, around 1GB when made into a sfs using very light/fast compression (lzo level 1). I'd guess perhaps 750MB if xz high compression.
So far the 4.9 update 3 kernel seems to be working great
The internal cooling/fans seem much more dynamic compared to Jessie and it settles down to being really quiet when relatively idle really quickly.
Could just sit back and leave things as is ... receiving updates for the next 5 years which is likely beyond the hardware lifetime remaining. Having said that I bet the hardware now decides to throw a spanner into the works![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Just backed up Jessie and tried a Stretch upgrade. Went through easily. Some tweaking was required afterwards and ~/.xsession-error pointed to the lines and what to change to be rid of those warnings. I did also have some (around 20) obsoletes left over to clean out afterwards (which synaptic highlighted), together with around 100 Residuals (that synaptic also highlighted) ... which I believe are programs I've installed, tried and uninstalled one way or another in the past that left over unused configuration files/folders.
In Stretch a common theme is Adwaita. I believe gtk+/gtk3 has that as its inbuild default and there are Stretch repository themes for gtk2, qt4 and qt5 adwaita themes ... so I've switched over to that (and edited .jwmrc to also have a similar look-n-feel).
So far everything I've tested is working really well, so much so I'm sorely tempted to stick with Stretch. Boots in around 16 seconds on my 10 year old PC. A nice feature is that during the animated splash screen (Plymouth) it even prompted to say that fsck was being run and a option to cancel that that's new (I believe, not seen it myself before) ... i.e. a visual indication of why the boot is taking longer than usual (rather than having to hit <esc> only to see that a fsck is being run).
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user@debian:~$ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 6.688s (kernel) + 9.703s (userspace) = 16.391s
user@debian:~$ systemd-analyze blame
4.435s ufw.service
3.620s dev-sda1.device
2.961s wicd.service
1.483s systemd-fsck@dev-sda2.service
1.188s networking.service
1.109s plymouth-start.service
912ms ntp.service
788ms rsyslog.service
480ms systemd-journald.service
432ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
297ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
278ms kmod-static-nodes.service
223ms systemd-udevd.service
195ms plymouth-read-write.service
189ms rc-local.service
188ms systemd-user-sessions.service
179ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
178ms systemd-logind.service
169ms systemd-random-seed.service
167ms user@1000.service
162ms systemd-modules-load.service
146ms systemd-update-utmp.service
127ms systemd-remount-fs.service
126ms systemd-journal-flush.service
98ms systemd-sysctl.service
89ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
84ms plymouth-quit.service
80ms dev-hugepages.mount
77ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
74ms mnt-sda2.mount
56ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
14ms dev-mqueue.mount
9ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
3ms tmp.mount
2.4GB of disk space, around 1GB when made into a sfs using very light/fast compression (lzo level 1). I'd guess perhaps 750MB if xz high compression.
So far the 4.9 update 3 kernel seems to be working great
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user@debian:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 (2017-08-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Could just sit back and leave things as is ... receiving updates for the next 5 years which is likely beyond the hardware lifetime remaining. Having said that I bet the hardware now decides to throw a spanner into the works
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Yes, I'm also a closet systemd fan - seems to me that it is the future for Linux developments so best to embrace it and improve it rather than trying to hold onto the old sysvinit mechanisms with their lack of parallelism.
Personally, I feel much the same about pulseaudio - it doesn't add so much to the system size that I wouldn't want it, and again it is the way Linux is going.
Main thing is that I want to try and keep my Linux system knowledge/practice up to date and ignoring systemd (or pulseaudio) would leave me a bit in the dark in terms of keeping up-to-date.
Should some other new mechanisms replace these, I would tend to always just go with the flow unless there was some particularly devastating reason why that wasn't the best approach.
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with traditions and sometimes some of these Unix-philosopy type traditions are indeed worth fighting for (if only to make sure the new alternatives try to incorporate as many of the old benefits as possible).
I get your point about just needing to stick with official Debian, especially since storage-space issues are really not important any more. Still being able to make a much smaller download version remains a nice convenience. Also, I think we lose something if we just use the version produced by the masters (though not anything like as bad as relying on Microsoft for all our computing needs and limited understanding). So I really think Linux would become boring if no-one tried to provide something 'different' than standard, despite how good standard might be. Size of distribution seems to me much less important than window manager/desktop-environment developed and used in terms of overall resource usage and ability to run fast and efficient even on older machines. I'm also not over-convinced of the advantages of creating a 'small distriibution' via the technique of strong file compression - that's too big of a trade off in terms of actual running speed in my opinion (cos slow to decompress in many cases - lz4 apparently not being too bad though).
What I really like about Fred's mklive-stretch efforts is simply that the script teaches a lot about how these systems work! Just reading the script teaches me a lot I find.
wiak
Personally, I feel much the same about pulseaudio - it doesn't add so much to the system size that I wouldn't want it, and again it is the way Linux is going.
Main thing is that I want to try and keep my Linux system knowledge/practice up to date and ignoring systemd (or pulseaudio) would leave me a bit in the dark in terms of keeping up-to-date.
Should some other new mechanisms replace these, I would tend to always just go with the flow unless there was some particularly devastating reason why that wasn't the best approach.
Having said that, there is nothing wrong with traditions and sometimes some of these Unix-philosopy type traditions are indeed worth fighting for (if only to make sure the new alternatives try to incorporate as many of the old benefits as possible).
I get your point about just needing to stick with official Debian, especially since storage-space issues are really not important any more. Still being able to make a much smaller download version remains a nice convenience. Also, I think we lose something if we just use the version produced by the masters (though not anything like as bad as relying on Microsoft for all our computing needs and limited understanding). So I really think Linux would become boring if no-one tried to provide something 'different' than standard, despite how good standard might be. Size of distribution seems to me much less important than window manager/desktop-environment developed and used in terms of overall resource usage and ability to run fast and efficient even on older machines. I'm also not over-convinced of the advantages of creating a 'small distriibution' via the technique of strong file compression - that's too big of a trade off in terms of actual running speed in my opinion (cos slow to decompress in many cases - lz4 apparently not being too bad though).
What I really like about Fred's mklive-stretch efforts is simply that the script teaches a lot about how these systems work! Just reading the script teaches me a lot I find.
wiak
lz4 can throughput at close to ram speeds. Doesn't pack in that tightly, but still typically 50% reduction. It can be quicker to IO (disk) read half the amount of data + decompress quickly than it takes to IO the raw (non compressed).wiak wrote:not over-convinced of the advantages of creating a 'small distriibution' via the technique of strong file compression - that's too big of a trade off in terms of actual running speed in my opinion (cos slow to decompress in many cases - lz4 apparently not being too bad though)
That said, with low cost per byte of storage, not really that viable excepting perhaps if being communicated over a slower medium (remote). I somewhat threw the towel in and just settled for no compression ... full like installs with snapshots of those full installs so I can roll back to any one if so desired. I tried freebsd partially for that reason ... its zfs is solid and creates/restores snapshots very quickly. A great userspace choice (cli) ... however freebsd is let down by its packages that wrap around that compared to debians. So I've dropped freebsd. Compare for instance the rigor that Debian takes before letting things into its Main repository with that of freebsd's In FreeBSD, anyone may submit a new port, or volunteer to maintain an existing unmaintained port. No special commit privilege is needed.. I found that a number of popular choices of packages (pre-built binaries) had poor choice of defaults or simply conflicted with other packages (for instance choice of Openshot and Blender versions are mismatched such that Openshot cannot produce 3D animated titles). Let alone the security implications that introduces (invalidates freebsd's proclamation of being a secure choice ... if the packages it caters to be laid on top are weak).
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I installed Solus-3 Gnome to my Lenovo desktop:
bill@lenovo ~ $ inxi -bw
System: Host: lenovo Kernel: 4.12.7-11.current x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome 3.24.3 Distro: Solus 3
Machine: Device: desktop System: LENOVO product: 7491B8U v: ThinkCentre M58e
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A BIOS: LENOVO v: 5HKT39AUS date: 06/17/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E8400 (-MCP-) speed/max: 2003/3003 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.18.4) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.102
Network: Card: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (3.6% used)
Weather: Conditions: 77 F (25 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: August 18, 11:35 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 225 Uptime: 57 min Memory: 1940.4/3953.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.23
bill@lenovo ~ $
It has a good selection of software available in the package manager.
It downloaded and installed the proprietary driver for my Nvidia
graphics card.
It is working well so far, lots more to learn though.
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I installed the Budgie version of Solus-3 to my Acer desktop:
bill@acer ~ $ inxi -bw
System: Host: acer Kernel: 4.12.7-11.current x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Budgie 10.4 Distro: Solus 3
Machine: Device: desktop System: ACER product: Aspire M5620 v: R01-A4
Mobo: ACER model: G33T-AM v: 1.0 BIOS: American Megatrends v: R01-A4 date: 12/19/2007
CPU: Quad core Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1603/2403 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.18.4) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.102
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 126.3GB (8.0% used)
Weather: Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: August 18, 2:26 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 228 Uptime: 48 min Memory: 1620.9/7985.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.23
bill@acer ~ $
This version works well too.
bill@lenovo ~ $ inxi -bw
System: Host: lenovo Kernel: 4.12.7-11.current x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome 3.24.3 Distro: Solus 3
Machine: Device: desktop System: LENOVO product: 7491B8U v: ThinkCentre M58e
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A BIOS: LENOVO v: 5HKT39AUS date: 06/17/2009
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo E8400 (-MCP-) speed/max: 2003/3003 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.18.4) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.102
Network: Card: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (3.6% used)
Weather: Conditions: 77 F (25 C) - Mostly Cloudy Time: August 18, 11:35 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 225 Uptime: 57 min Memory: 1940.4/3953.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.23
bill@lenovo ~ $
It has a good selection of software available in the package manager.
It downloaded and installed the proprietary driver for my Nvidia
graphics card.
It is working well so far, lots more to learn though.
*************************************************************************
EDIT:
I installed the Budgie version of Solus-3 to my Acer desktop:
bill@acer ~ $ inxi -bw
System: Host: acer Kernel: 4.12.7-11.current x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Budgie 10.4 Distro: Solus 3
Machine: Device: desktop System: ACER product: Aspire M5620 v: R01-A4
Mobo: ACER model: G33T-AM v: 1.0 BIOS: American Megatrends v: R01-A4 date: 12/19/2007
CPU: Quad core Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 (-MCP-) speed/max: 1603/2403 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.18.4) driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2 version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.102
Network: Card: Intel 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
Drives: HDD Total Size: 126.3GB (8.0% used)
Weather: Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: August 18, 2:26 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 228 Uptime: 48 min Memory: 1620.9/7985.6MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.23
bill@acer ~ $
This version works well too.
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Just wanted to follow-up what Billtoo showed: When not banging my head on pup & ddog builds (don't get me wrong, I luv 'em), but during breaks of doing this, I've looked at mid-sized Linux distros. One of these is the recent Solus-3-Budgie. It's running on this i3 Intel 2011 laptop with an external SSD (sata-wired straight into the latpop SSD slot---but it's not "in" the laptop, if you know what I mean), and Solus 3 is zippy and quite nice. Jason S. & gang have done a heck of a job with Solus these past few years, as I was a budgie user a few years ago too. This iteration is so far impressive. The distro includes what is basically needed, really all you need, but yet the Software Center provides you access to nearly all else. And Solus includes (imho) nice touches like "Nightlight" ( a redshift spin) and tight integration of theming & icon setup & desktop/tray control with budgie. In my eyes, distros like this (and like MX-16) show what Linux can be like without having to go the full hog route of Linux Mint 18.2-Ubuntu-OpenSuse-Fedora (which in itself they are not bad, it is just they are mobydick whales in the making). ![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
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I've just installed the latest version of Shark Linux (2017.08 ), which I think used to be based on Gentoo but is now based on Ubuntu with Mate as the desktop manager. It works quite well except that so far I've not been able to get any sound from it, so it might require either PulseAudio or Alsamixer (or both) to be installed in addition to the distro itself.
Looks good though with an attractive aquatic blue theme.
Looks good though with an attractive aquatic blue theme.
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I've now installed the latest beta of Anti X 17 (beta 3), and as far as I can tell it's ready for "prime time;" I haven't seen any faults with it so far.
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The last post I made was duplicated and I couldn't see how to delete it, so I may as well not waste it
Vector has now released the final versions of its "standard" 32-bit and 64-bit distros, though for some reason they haven't announced it yet. Here they are anyway, if anyone wants to download them;
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-7.2/iso-release/
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/VL64-7.2/iso-release/
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Vector has now released the final versions of its "standard" 32-bit and 64-bit distros, though for some reason they haven't announced it yet. Here they are anyway, if anyone wants to download them;
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-7.2/iso-release/
http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/VL64-7.2/iso-release/
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.
OpenBSD 6.1
Removed my second FreeBSD partition (sda4) that I was using as a admin boot for the primary FreeBSD (sda3) partition ... and installed OpenBSD into that partition. Nice easy install more or less just hitting ENTER for the defaults. On boot it didn't pickup on my nvidia 8600GT but still booted to desktop (I installed xfce) and generally worked OK. I tried booting to my onboard Radeon with similar performance to nv. Both play mp4 fine in firefox, but not so well in mpv (choppy). I've had Libre core dump a few times, and firefox also. Likely something I haven't configured and outside of that it's generally running well.
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Superior to FreeBSD IMO as it includes X and fvwm as part of the base system, and is a lot kinder on the configuration front ... whilst being more secure than FreeBSD.
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Superior to FreeBSD IMO as it includes X and fvwm as part of the base system, and is a lot kinder on the configuration front ... whilst being more secure than FreeBSD.
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Antergos-Mate build
Hi all,
Finally got around (used Arch for quite a long time some years back) to doing an Antergos-build with their new install script method, and I gotta say it is pretty nifty. When setting Antergos up for an install, it lets you choose what you want in the build. So I did a Mate build, chose Chromium as my browser, and took all of the standard Mate offerings, and sat back as it built/installed. Everything went smoothly, and I was presented with this very nice, clean layout.
As usual with an Arch-based system (a rolling one at that), the Antergos OS is snappy and fast (easily rivals pups in window response & boot up time, but of course not in overall size of the OS), and I cannot (yet) find anything wrong with it. Actuallly, there's a lot of nice little touches going on here. Kudos to the Antergos team. Now I understand why Antergos is always so high in "Distrowatch's" download rankings...it's deserved.
Anyhow, here's, the pics, enjoy![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Finally got around (used Arch for quite a long time some years back) to doing an Antergos-build with their new install script method, and I gotta say it is pretty nifty. When setting Antergos up for an install, it lets you choose what you want in the build. So I did a Mate build, chose Chromium as my browser, and took all of the standard Mate offerings, and sat back as it built/installed. Everything went smoothly, and I was presented with this very nice, clean layout.
As usual with an Arch-based system (a rolling one at that), the Antergos OS is snappy and fast (easily rivals pups in window response & boot up time, but of course not in overall size of the OS), and I cannot (yet) find anything wrong with it. Actuallly, there's a lot of nice little touches going on here. Kudos to the Antergos team. Now I understand why Antergos is always so high in "Distrowatch's" download rankings...it's deserved.
Anyhow, here's, the pics, enjoy
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I've just installed the latest version of Rosa (R9, LXQT edition). So far, no problems and as usual it comes with an attractive light blue theme. I also tried the latest version of CentOS 7, but once again I was unable to get it to recognise my network card and frankly life's too short to persevere with it when there are plenty of other, less troublesome options.
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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.
i Have been using a razor-Qt Puppy this morning.
i Have been using a razor-Qt Puppy this morning.
I judge an OS on what it produces,
in french we have two words
efficacité : what is produced
efficience : ressources, means used to arrive to the result.
Puppy Linux should get the best quota.
I keep windows on my computers, because puppies are so tiny that many can be installed beside the big monster.
About Linux i began first with Muti-boot DVD with five Linux. None is worth the pain, worth the candle, worth the electricity..
Excepted for Datacrow, the java collection manager, Distrowatch provides so many that you can test, waiting for your end of life.
Like women, you can test many before you find the one (an LTS one
)
I judge an OS on what it produces,
in french we have two words
efficacité : what is produced
efficience : ressources, means used to arrive to the result.
Puppy Linux should get the best quota.
I keep windows on my computers, because puppies are so tiny that many can be installed beside the big monster.
About Linux i began first with Muti-boot DVD with five Linux. None is worth the pain, worth the candle, worth the electricity..
Excepted for Datacrow, the java collection manager, Distrowatch provides so many that you can test, waiting for your end of life.
Like women, you can test many before you find the one (an LTS one
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I'm now using the latest version of Austrumi, 3.6.9 (the goose drank wine, if anyone's old enough to remember that song
). It's certainly different; it's the only distro I can think of which uses fvwm as its standard window manager. It is quite an attractive distro, has light resouirce demands and fits on a single CD.
Just one problem; the distro is Hungarian and all the menu instructions are in that language, which makes it pretty hard to figure out (you can't change the default language when you don'y understand any of the language).
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Just one problem; the distro is Hungarian and all the menu instructions are in that language, which makes it pretty hard to figure out (you can't change the default language when you don'y understand any of the language).
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Colonel Panic
I tried 3.7.0. (It is Latvian, not Hungarian by the way)
To change language, click on the settings icon (cog and spanner).
Select Voladyus (flag icon), whichh brings up the language chooser.
You then get a log in screen which asks for a password. I guessed at 'austrumi' and it worked.
The download link on the website is wonky. If anyone else wants to try it, use this:
ftp://austrumi.ru.lv
I tried 3.7.0. (It is Latvian, not Hungarian by the way)
To change language, click on the settings icon (cog and spanner).
Select Voladyus (flag icon), whichh brings up the language chooser.
You then get a log in screen which asks for a password. I guessed at 'austrumi' and it worked.
The download link on the website is wonky. If anyone else wants to try it, use this:
ftp://austrumi.ru.lv
Just downloaded knoppix 8.1 dvd .iso and booted that using qemu. From a cursory browse around its packed as usual with loads of programs and worked well.
I used qemu boot command of
I used qemu boot command of
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I just upgraded to knoppix 8.1 too.
Triple booting iso using grub2win with puppy
looks good so far, very quick boot, responsive and excellent hardware support as always. My mum has dementia so I've been trying to teach her to use some of the simpler Gcompris games.
Triple booting iso using grub2win with puppy
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loopback loop (hd0,4)/knoppix/knx.iso
linux (loop)/boot/isolinux/linux64 bootfrom=/dev/sda4/knoppix/knx.iso lang=en
initrd (loop)/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
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