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Colonel Panic
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#931 Post by Colonel Panic »

nooby wrote:Colonel Panic say I boot up chruchbang on one usb
in live install using rcrsn51 isobooter can I then use that live version
and install a full install to a 4GB USB and then add phyton
and makehuman so it works? http://www.makehuman.org/content/download_alpha_7.html

That program need latest phyton but that does not work
in live version one need full install as I get it?
I don't see why you couldn't, but I don't know for certain.
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#932 Post by nooby »

Like your Linux very small? Shell Linux.

http://shellinux.us.to/

Welcome to Shell-Linux. Shell-Linux is a Small linux distro
built from Micro Core Linux 2.5 with many user friendly features.
So it has an entery at TinyCore forum
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=14899.0


As usual with forks of Micro or TinyCore they don't
comment much about the features of the fork instead
the comments are about other things.

not many seems to care about it? But DW at least accepted to link to it.

I tried to use this boot code which failed. Error says something
about path or name. So it needs some correct way to set it up.

title shell
kernel (hd0,0)/shell/kernel loglevel=3
initrd (hd0,0)/shell/rootfs.gz

It boot well on NTFS? but it end up in a prompt
so one has to know what to do to get something going.
I have no clue so I rebooted
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#933 Post by jakfish »

Just tried Joli OS 1.2, full install on a partition of a fast 32gb ssd on my Asus EEE 900.

Could not believe how slow it was, everything from browsing to bringing up the control panel. Plus the layout is incomprehensible.

First Linux I've tried that was really bad. All others so far have had their positive sides, but I didn't find one here, other than the fact that I like the *premise* of Jolicloud.

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#934 Post by Bligh »

I was disappointed that alinux would not boot for me. It took over 5 hrs to download it but the md5 appeared to be ok so I burned a rw dvd. There is a post in the comments section of distrowatch indicating that the dl links are dead and that there may be an issue with the dvd.
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#935 Post by nooby »

I read about Slax 7.0 and got curious and downloaded it
and made a frugal install and it booted fast and well.
Root and can do much of what Puppy do to but maybe
us a bit different due to K windows instead of JWM

flash already install in Firefox so it was easy to use it.

About 200MB

title Slax
kernel (hd0,0)/slax/boot/vmlinuz vga=773 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=perch,xmode
initrd (hd0,0)/slax/boot/initrfs.img
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#936 Post by Colonel Panic »

Bligh wrote:I was disappointed that alinux would not boot for me. It took over 5 hrs to download it but the md5 appeared to be ok so I burned a rw dvd. There is a post in the comments section of distrowatch indicating that the dl links are dead and that there may be an issue with the dvd.
Cheers
You could be right. I got a failed download when I tried to download alinux (which used to be called Peanut Linux), which was a bit annoying after I'd spent nearly 4 hours trying to download it. So I downloaded the pre-release version of Mint Debian instead, which was a lot quicker, and now that I've installed it it seems to work well.
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#937 Post by nooby »

What about this one then?
http://distrowatch.com/7742
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Paweł Pijanowski has announced the availability of a release candidate for SparkyLinux 2.1, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with a choice of Enlightenment or LXDE desktops: "SparkyLinux 2.1 release candidate 'Eris' (Main edition) is out. The system is built as all 2.x releases on Debian testing 'Wheezy'. New ISO images E17/LXDE providing a lot of updates, bug fixing and new features, such as: Linux kernel 3.2.35; Enlightenment 0.17.1; all packages have been updated; fixed USB live system works; added full system installation on USB stick; new wallpapers and LaGaDesk-BlackWhite icon set; added 12 new Enlightenment themes. To change the desktop between E17 and LXDE while in live mode log out and log in back with user - live, password - live.
/quote


Only 165 MB is that not ususally small for to be Debian?
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#938 Post by Colonel Panic »

nooby wrote:What about this one then?
http://distrowatch.com/7742
quote
Paweł Pijanowski has announced the availability of a release candidate for SparkyLinux 2.1, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution with a choice of Enlightenment or LXDE desktops: "SparkyLinux 2.1 release candidate 'Eris' (Main edition) is out. The system is built as all 2.x releases on Debian testing 'Wheezy'. New ISO images E17/LXDE providing a lot of updates, bug fixing and new features, such as: Linux kernel 3.2.35; Enlightenment 0.17.1; all packages have been updated; fixed USB live system works; added full system installation on USB stick; new wallpapers and LaGaDesk-BlackWhite icon set; added 12 new Enlightenment themes. To change the desktop between E17 and LXDE while in live mode log out and log in back with user - live, password - live.
/quote


Only 165 MB is that not usually small for to be Debian?
I think that "165 MB" is a mistake. When I clicked on the link to download it I got "1.6 GB" inside the box, which I believe is much more likely.
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#939 Post by nooby »

Colonel Panic yes it is me naive I should ahve realized
it to be a typo. AntiX told me about my mistake in Pussy thread.

Good that you guys make me aware of what is real in life :)
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#940 Post by James C »

Trying the latest Kanotix..... 1.2 Gb download.......

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07744

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Linux Kanotix 3.8.0-10-generic #19kanotix1 SMP Tue Mar 5 14:05:42 CET 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
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#941 Post by rokytnji »

Trying the latest Kanotix..... 1.2 Gb download.......
If you have the specs and the inclination

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n ... px=MTMyMTM

It is the only Linux distro I know of so far that installs Steam and Graphics drivers automagically

Me, I am running on newer 64bit Samsung RV510

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 $ inxi -F -z
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: MATE 1.4.2  Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Machine:   Mobo: SAMSUNG model: RV410/RV510/S3510/E3510 Bios: Phoenix version: 02UC.P026.20100916.LX date: 09/16/2010
CPU:       Dual core Pentium CPU T4500 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1200.00 MHz 2: 1200.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller 
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45 Express GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.25
Network:   Card-1: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver: sky2 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (1.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HM321HI size: 320.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 18G used: 4.0G (24%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 163G used: 401M (1%) fs: btrfs 
           ID: swap-1 size: 4.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0C mobo: 40.0C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 152 Uptime: 3:35 Memory: 556.5/3887.8MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.8.45 

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#942 Post by Colonel Panic »

Another good distro to report; now that CentOS 6.4 is out there's a new release of Stella, which is a CentOS respin and also numbered 6.4. I've just downloaded and installed it and it's up to the distro's usual high standards.

I can recommend it for anyone who wants a good stable distro which does all the necessary stuff and who doesn't mind its looking a bit "vanilla".
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#943 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote:Another good distro to report; now that CentOS 6.4 is out there's a new release of Stella, which is a CentOS respin and also numbered 6.4. I've just downloaded and installed it and it's up to the distro's usual high standards.

I can recommend it for anyone who wants a good stable distro which does all the necessary stuff and who doesn't mind its looking a bit "vanilla".
Just updated my Stella 6.3 install last night...... almost 400 updates so I should be up-to-date with 6.4. It is solid as a rock though.

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#944 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:Another good distro to report; now that CentOS 6.4 is out there's a new release of Stella, which is a CentOS respin and also numbered 6.4. I've just downloaded and installed it and it's up to the distro's usual high standards.

I can recommend it for anyone who wants a good stable distro which does all the necessary stuff and who doesn't mind its looking a bit "vanilla".
Just updated my Stella 6.3 install last night...... almost 400 updates so I should be up-to-date with 6.4. It is solid as a rock though.
Great. It never occurred me to do that - I'll bet you didn't have to download as much to update 6.3 as the 1.2 GB the 6.4 iso took.
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#945 Post by James C »

The Stella update was only about 350 mb. :lol:

Just did a manual frugal install of the latest Porteus 2.0. About 228 mb download.
http://www.porteus.org/

Took just a minute to get the menu.lst correct but working now.
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#946 Post by nooby »

Took just a minute to get the menu.lst correct but working now.
Then I hope you would share that one with us. :)
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#947 Post by Eyes-Only »

Same here with me James. Waiting with baited breath in fact! I'll check the homepage but usually I get lost in a tangent reading and then forget why I'm there. lol! Far easier when someone writes, "This is what I did to get a frugal install and how it's written in the menu.lst..." and then I can replicate it to the "T" with 99.99% sucess. Nooby may remember having helped me in just such a proceedure a few years ago with another fork from SLAX which distro name eludes me at the moment ( Nimbus 2000 maybe? ).

But solely at your leisure James for sure! Far be it from us to presume upon your time! :oops:

TIA.

Cheers/Amicalement,

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#948 Post by James C »

Eyes-Only wrote:Same here with me James. Waiting with baited breath in fact! I'll check the homepage but usually I get lost in a tangent reading and then forget why I'm there. lol! Far easier when someone writes, "This is what I did to get a frugal install and how it's written in the menu.lst..." and then I can replicate it to the "T" with 99.99% sucess. Nooby may remember having helped me in just such a proceedure a few years ago with another fork from SLAX which distro name eludes me at the moment ( Nimbus 2000 maybe? ).

But solely at your leisure James for sure! Far be it from us to presume upon your time! :oops:

TIA.

Cheers/Amicalement,

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I will probably boot that box sometime later today. Too much hardware ,,,,,, not enough time. :)

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#949 Post by seaside »

I don't know if this is applicable to version2, but here's my grub menu for version 1.1
title Porteus-v1.1-i486
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz from_dev=UUID:b28af40f-3652-4c51-af68-0df8f533f328 changes=/porteus/ vga=791 toroot autoexec=xconf; max_loop=256
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
This was a frugal install booted from a usb thumb drive. I found in this case that the UUID descriptor was necessary.

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Semplice 3.0

#950 Post by jakfish »

This is a great Linux, though I think nooby had trouble with a frugal install (and apparently 3.0 doesn't allow any persistence--it has to be a full install, I believe).

This thing is based on Sid Unstable, but except for a weird Bleachbit disaster, I find Semplice very sure of itself.

On the EEE 900, faster boot than even Lubuntu 12.10, maybe a one-second longer shut-down than Lubuntu.

Semplice has the bare minimum--current Chromium, Claws email, video/music--just enough to get you going. But a full Synaptic manager to choose apps. Openbox, whose simplicity I'm also enjoying.

Highly recommend it, for a full install.

Jake

Edit: for EEE users, I posted a little how-to for setup in Semplice forum, including a .conkyrc/screenshot. Conky is already installed in Semplice and aids the OS's uncluttered approach to Linux. Fancontrol works, too.

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