Other Distros

[nooby]

i guess this is the right area to ask ,

does anyone know , which download or whatever is the lxde version of unity linux??

http://unity-linux.org/

their site is rather confusing...

Don't ask me, I never understand Geekish.

They say

The current release for Unity Linux is 2011 Alpha 2. Unity is released in both 32 and 64bit versions.
The release is command line only but a GUI can be added with relative ease by the Smart Package Manager.

Then they have an Alpha 2 too so maybe that one add to confusion.

So either both are a CLI but you can chose LXDE using the SPM.

As easy as PanCakes. I made Waffle the other day. So just follow
their recipe here
http://unity-linux.org/unity-getting-started-guide/

I vaguely remember that I tried to boot it frugally but don't know if
I managed to to it.

Myabe you need to have grub2 to do it? or a CD burner?

[linuxbear]

Ubuntu/Unity

I'm running superOS with unity on a single core rig. Unity requires a very good video card on an older PC or it will not install. That being said, I am not altogether smitten with Unity and like Gnome III even less. KDE seems a lot more usable @ present

[nooby]

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]

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]

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

[James C]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 . . .

Good question.My answer is some Porteus packages work,some had so many missing libs that I lost interest.Using the 32 bit version by the way.
Because the Porteus packages (modules) are in the xzm format I extracted them while running Porteus and saved the extracted files.... to a flash drive in my case.
Booted into Slacko and then either install the extracted files manually or make a pet.And hunt missing libs.
Some will work but it's not just click and go... someone else may have had better luck though.

[big_bass]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

H Billtoo,
I'm using Bodhi 1.2 with openbox and tint2 as my main OS - i see 1.3 updates are in the repo but as they are mostly enlightenment related im in no rush as i dont use it.

Here is a little Yad gui for downloading Bodhi .bod packages.

[nooby]

I tried booting ArtistX an Ubuntu variation that is 3GB big.
Sadly it used script that did not allow me to "cheat"
so I tried to use an ubuntu that do work for me.
LM12 and that booted and it had most of the programs
that only ArtixtX had but it was very slow responding so
my 1GB RAM is too small for that distro.

But it had many cool music and other artist programs
so one can boot maybe Bodhi and then add those one
get to love in ArtistX it is a way to get to know these progs.

[RSH]

Would you please post the links to download ArtistX and LM12?

[Colonel Panic]

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.

Agreed, Zenwalk's good. I sometimes use Zenwalk 7 Openbox, which is lighter on system resources than standard Zenwalk.

[nooby]

Sorry forgot to include links. ArtistX
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07072
Distrowatch announcement of that version.

Marco Ghirlanda has announced the release of
ArtistX 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for
musicians and other artists, and featuring a large
collection of multimedia and graphics software:

http://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/artist ... 6_2012.iso

Check their home site for more choices?
http://www.artistx.org/site3/download.html

LM12 is a bit more problematic. They have a "Huge"
supporter base so they have mirrors all over the world.
Maybe the Germany mirror is faster than the one that DW links to http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
but here is the DW announcement
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07000

The much-awaited Linux Mint 12, code name "Lisa", has been released

http://mirror.netcologne.de/mint/stable ... -32bit.iso
that is the 32 bit version.

They also has a Debian version but that one don't boot
as a "cheat" boot as I do it. So I don't know more about that one.

[stu90]

Never herd of Artistx before - just had a look at the website, very sad reading on the Artistx main page
http://www.artistx.org/site3/