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linuxbear · Posted: Tue 03 Jan 2012, 16:24 Post subject:

[quote="stu90"][quote="DaveS"]

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

linuxbear I have KDE in Netrunner OS which is a Kubuntu variety.

I find it too demanding on my CPU and RAM only having 1GB
and I do "cheating" iso boot so that maybe is more demanding.
If I have more than three things going at same time then it totally stall
and I have to go to prompt and start all over.

What I like about Netrunner is that it has all the adobe flash for Firefox
installed from scratch. That suites me using a live session but still can do
anything I can on Puppy without being root nor using sudo.

Linus Torvalds like Xfce and Mr Knopper of Knoppix fame he like LXDE
if I get it.

So everybody has their own taste it seems.

sickgut · Posted: Wed 04 Jan 2012, 03:32 Post subject:

KDE or Gnome, as i see it is like using a nice linux base then slapping a whole lot of vista b__ S___ on top.....

I know here at Puppy we are overly obsessed about size, but i think using old hardware like i do mostly forces you to be more fussy.

LXDE itself is 80mb this is almost the size of Puppy. Xfce is more like 250mb
If Torvalds is using Xfce.... maybe this actually means something, maybe the guy who invented linux might actually know a good desktop environment when he uses it. I personally see no advantage in upgrading from my JWM and optional Rox-Filer but if a new computer is used then Xfce may very well be capable of doing everything you would expect a desktop environment to do while not being a complete bloat/ bling whore.

i dont understand why people need to upgrade just so they can run the latest KDE or Gnome and waste money, electricity in the form of CPU cycles etc. Does it actually increase efficiency so you get more done in less time that cost you less money?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

Both Netrunner 3.2 and 4.0 make use of KDE so that makes them too big
for my 1GB and one cor Atom CPU. Slow and FF stall when I have more
that one tab?

But it could be something else. KDE told me it shut down some Bling bling
it had because them took too long time to launch

Haha that explain why it totally went to stand still. One could not even
shut down apps that was open.

So I will use KUbuntu only when I need to do grub2 install to flash drives
or something. Or some prog that only exists for Ubuntu?

Knoppix works rather well on my little Netbook because I use an external
screen for it so my old eyes can read what I write Smile

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4743 Location: Kentucky

Just installed Semplice 2.0.0 on one of my old P3's last night.(866 Mhz/512 Mb ram w/1 Gb of swap) Based on Debian Sid "unstable" with Openbox.Pretty quick and solid so far on that old P3.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=semplice

Posting this now from the new Porteus x86_64 that just came out today...... looks worthy of further testing.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=porteus

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

The old Porteus worked for me using frugal install
but none of the later or newer versions.
Maybe I did something wrong. But I am an impatient
guy so I deleted all of it.

I stay with Puppy, Knoppix, Cheat booting Netrunner
and out of curiosity I have also CorePlus from TinyCore.

Lobster · Posted: Mon 09 Jan 2012, 06:24 Post subject:

James C
I am wondering if Slacko is or ever was compatible with porteus packages. I know the early versions were meant to be - don't expect the 64 bit version you are using to be compatible . . .

meanwhile . . . last week I spent probably 2hrs with Gentoo 12 live CD. Thought it was excellent in many ways. Very cutting edge as one might expect. Could not eject the DVD (by pressing its button) - enough already - not for me.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

If Slax is a fork on Slackware then Porteus being slax remixed
maybe would not work using it's repo for Slacko?

Or do you know if all slax variations are 100% compatible
with slackware repo?

Is NimbleX maybe compatible?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4743 Location: Kentucky

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1736

Hey I am very happy using Porteus !

my package tools works perfectly so I dont need to use modules I can install TXZ packages directly
with a GUI ... isnt that cool

They did an excellent job
I signed up to their forum also
will keep you posted on the progress

I offered them my tools for those who prefer just simple
packages and any help they could use
http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/snapshot1.png

Joe

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9393 Location: SwedenEurope

Congratulations!

I got porteus working some months ago and felt very happy
about it then something went wrong and now I totally fail
to boot it.

I got so sad that I deleted all downloads and entries in menu.lst

I do have an account on their forum but I don't want
to take up their time with my impossible questions.

So I give up on porteus until I feel less scared of failures.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4743 Location: Kentucky

Been trying out Zenwalk 7.0 for a while on an old test box.Another Slackware based distro ....not as cutting-edge as Porteus or Vector but pretty solid.Works pretty well.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I installed Bodhi 1.3 to a partition on my emachines laptop, it uses the enlightenment window manager.
It comes with Midori but I added chrome and firefox 9.0.1 by using the synaptic package manager.
It needs all codecs to be downloaded and installed too but the first page of Midori has links to them and they are installed with synaptic.
I like it so far, seems fast on this not so powerful laptop.

stu90