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James C


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PostPosted: Mon 23 Jul 2012, 02:01    Post subject:  
Just finished installing SolusOS-1 on my main Athlon XP box...... seems pretty quick even on this old underpowered box.
One big plus..... it's not Gnome 3....... Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon 23 Jul 2012, 02:13    Post subject:  
Colonel Panic wrote:

I'm currently testing out the latest alpha release of Solus 2. It looks good and, unlike the last version of Solus I tried, Flash actually works in Firefox now..


Since the newer Flash doesn't work on Athlon XP's (and most P3's) I had to downgrade to 10.3.183.19 myself,.No problems now though.
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PostPosted: Tue 24 Jul 2012, 01:45    Post subject:  
Testing another one , live this time....... the XFCE version seems much faster than the KDE.

one[~]$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1019400 754704 264696 0 116304 373316
-/+ buffers/cache: 265084 754316
Swap: 0 0 0
one[~]$
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PostPosted: Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:04    Post subject:  
James C wrote:
Just finished installing SolusOS-1 on my main Athlon XP box...... seems pretty quick even on this old underpowered box.
One big plus..... it's not Gnome 3....... Laughing


Solus is a good distro IMO. I think the lead developer was originally working on Mint Debian before he got disillusioned.

Yeah, Gnome 3 is a mess at the moment; it seems there's no clear concept of what it's for or which direction it's supposed to be going in. The 3-D overview feature looks cool but interposes an extra layer between you and what you're trying to do with your computer. Besides, Gnome has the same deficiency as Windows, the left mouse button does nothing when you click with it on the desktop, which is a waste when it could be bringing up the menus as it does in JWM.

I can't see a lot wrong with JWM except that it doesn't look quite as slick as the competition. It does pretty much everything I want a window manager to do except one; minimise windows down to icons on the desktop (in the way FVWM and even TWM can). I can live without that facility though even though it looks good.
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PostPosted: Fri 27 Jul 2012, 19:37    Post subject:  
I still prefer Macpup but doing a quick test of the new Bodhi 2.....
Naturally, it's only 449 MB......... Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:46    Post subject:  
Been there, Done that one....



" only 449 MB" Laughing
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nooby

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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 04:39    Post subject:  
I trust that MacPup has many more small programs by default.
On Bodhi you have to install these? And Bodhi gets much bigger
than MacPup?

But what do I know Smile
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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 05:22    Post subject:  
runtt21 wrote:

" only 449 MB" Laughing


Yep. Only 449 MB with basically just Midori....... practically nothing installed.... Smile
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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 10:23    Post subject:  
Smile Hello,
@Colonel Panic
In the Rox settings, Click "Show Iconified Windows".....
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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 13:37    Post subject:  
I have bragged about how good AntiX is
and how easy to do frugal install on NTFS
and then I downloaded the latest version
and I totally failed using it. Access denied.

I am not clever enough.

I also tried the xfce version of Linux Mint
only did a frugal live install that do work
with older versions but this one they had
changed something so it failed to boot.
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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 14:35    Post subject:  
I just tried/used (for only 5 hours so far) a copy of Ubuntu 12.04 (through Wubi). I'm not too crazy about Unity either, that is why I removed it and installed Openbox (my fav WM) instead. Screenshots of it soon (that's if I'm not too lazy to do it). My config of Ubuntu though is:

-Openbox (Window Manager)
-fbpanel (Panel)
-hsetroot (wallpaper setter)
-idesk (Desktop Icons)
-lxterminal (Terminal)
-xfe (File Manager)

I like dark themes, and that is what you'll see in my screenshot.
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PostPosted: Sat 28 Jul 2012, 15:13    Post subject:  
nooby wrote:
I have bragged about how good AntiX is
and how easy to do frugal install on NTFS
and then I downloaded the latest version
and I totally failed using it. Access denied.

I am not clever enough.

I also tried the xfce version of Linux Mint
only did a frugal live install that do work
with older versions but this one they had
changed something so it failed to boot.


I posted a reply as to why it 'failed' and how it is fixed. (You made the same mistake when you tested antiX before you were shown the correct way) Smile
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PostPosted: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 03:27    Post subject:  
Thanks Anti, that is so typical of me. Good you took time
to comment on it here. I trust it will help others that are
like me but who are not active on forums.

I have to travel for some hours now today so I take a look
some 6 hours from now. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun 29 Jul 2012, 03:34    Post subject:  
BSD OS There is this one recently on DW and many others.
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07358
Quote:

GhostBSD Eric Turgeon has announced that the first beta release
of GhostBSD 3, a FreeBSD-based desktop-oriented operating system
with GNOME 2, is now ready for testing


Now my naive question. Has any of the many BSD guys
ever considered to allow frugal install of BSD and
what is their views on being root?

I do remember vaguely that when one used a Virtual install
I used VBox and a few times Qemo. Never VMware?

Anyway using VBox I did test some 75 different OS and
a few of them where BSD don't remember which but I took
all of them from Distrowatch.

What is it about frugal install that makes so few Developers interested
in allowing it for their OS?

Knoppix where know already in 2003 or earlier.
And he allowed frugal? Or is that my poor memory?
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