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Posted: Sat 09 Mar 2013, 03:38
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
Posted: Thu 14 Mar 2013, 23:10
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".
Posted: Fri 15 Mar 2013, 13:32
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.
Posted: Sat 16 Mar 2013, 00:38
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.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 04:30
by James C
The Stella update was only about 350 mb.
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.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 09:23
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.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 14:47
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!
TIA.
Cheers/Amicalement,
Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 15:33
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!
TIA.
Cheers/Amicalement,
Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge d'Acadie"
I will probably boot that box sometime later today. Too much hardware ,,,,,, not enough time.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 16:04
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.
Cheers,
s
Semplice 3.0
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 16:19
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.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 16:36
by James C
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title Porteus 2.0
root (hd0,7)
kernel /porteus/boot/vmlinuz ramdisk=1 vga=792 changes=porteus toroot autoexec=xconf
initrd /porteus/boot/initrd.xz
Fairly similar but UUID not needed here.And looks like my install is in a directory "porteus". As long as it works.....
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 21:10
by nooby
Much appreciated I give it a try.
Thanks to both Seaside and James C
I test it on Tues(Wednesday most likely is busy Monday
Porteus and Slax is not exactly same. Porteus is
the community version of Slax and Slax is made
by the original dev. So they can be different maybe.
I will try both.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 22:03
by musher0
Yeah... about Porteus... If you think the Puppy Package Manager is bizarre, have a go at the Porteus one: this one will bring about the
ultimate confusion.
Besides, it has next to nothing in its 228 Mb, whereas Puppy has lots in +/- 2/3'rds of that.
So, bye-bye Porteus, to the land of reformatted bytes.
BFN.
musher0
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 22:36
by nitehawk
What I am looking for,.....is a small Debian-based distro (for somewhat older computers). I am trying to find something that is a lot like VectorLinux standard (but that is based on Debian, not Slackware). VectorLinux is just loaded with usable apps,...and comes with all the codecs already installed. Unfortunately, I just prefer Debian based stuff.
DreamLinux used to be pretty good (until it went RIP). Antix and CrunchBang are fair,..but rathar incomplete. I'm using CrunchBang right now,....but find it a bit frustrating in trying to get things done.
Being on dialup,....I can't do a lot of downloading to "fill-out" something as Spartan as Antix or CrunchBang. When I had the plain vanilla Debian DVDs,...I could put together a really nice little set-up that suited me and my various older computers. But I just don't want to spring for the upcoming 11 DVDs that Wheezy will have.
So do any of you know of a nice, small, Debian-based distro (on the same par as VectorLinux) that comes with something like Xfce, Lxde, etc.etc. ? So far I haven't seen anything besides Antix and CrunchBang (which are incomplete IMO).
.....and don't mention Xubuntu,....as it doesn't even have a way to setup dialup (unless you do a lot of fiddling and stuff). Besides,..it's an Ubuntu variant,...not pure Debian.
Any suggestions?
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 22:54
by James C
Might want to check out GALPon MiniNo.
http://minino.galpon.org/en/about
Wheezy with LXDE. I've only done a little live testing but everything appeared to work.
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Minimum requirements
Minimum requirements for daily use, including web surfing:
1.0 GHz processor
256 MB RAM
3,6 GB hard drive
Minimum requirements for a desktop, with little use of the web:
500Mhz processor
128Mb RAM
2,5 GB hard drive
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 23:42
by nitehawk
James C..
That sounds pretty interesting! I can't download it right now (the dialup thingy). Have to wait until I'm at my daughter's place (she has the high speed internet). It'll be awhile until I can go anywhere just now, though (just had major surgery,..and will have another in about 3 weeks). Stuck at home with my old computers and dialup. (Thank goodness for Puppy.)
Maybe "OSDisk" or "ShopLinuxOnline.com" might have a CD I could order. It sounds like a little known distro,...so might be hard to find.
Posted: Sun 17 Mar 2013, 23:52
by starhawk
Nitehawk, PM me your address and I'll send Minino to you on a CD-RW. My Internet's behaving tonight, so I can do that for you.
Posted: Mon 18 Mar 2013, 00:10
by nitehawk
Thanks for the offer, Star,....
But I wouldn't want you to go out of your way like that
...and if I am going to use a distro (like Puppy or some other) I want to make SURE it is something that I will also be able to get on my own in the future. Right now,..you can get a Puppy (and several different Puppies) from several online linux shops. And I can download one whenever I am able to be at my daughter's place, as well. So I know I can always get myself a Puppy (and I have several of the older ISOs as well,...like Puppy 431 etc. etc. etc.).
So thanks
so much for the offer,...but guess I best stick with something that I could get for myself in the future, as well.
Posted: Mon 18 Mar 2013, 10:04
by Colonel Panic
nitehawk wrote:Thanks for the offer, Star,....
But I wouldn't want you to go out of your way like that
...and if I am going to use a distro (like Puppy or some other) I want to make SURE it is something that I will also be able to get on my own in the future. Right now,..you can get a Puppy (and several different Puppies) from several online linux shops. And I can download one whenever I am able to be at my daughter's place, as well. So I know I can always get myself a Puppy (and I have several of the older ISOs as well,...like Puppy 431 etc. etc. etc.).
So thanks
so much for the offer,...but guess I best stick with something that I could get for myself in the future, as well.
Hi nitehawk, good to see you here again.
Either Solus or Mint Debian sound like what you need; both Debian-based but loaded with applications. Not sure about the dialup support though.
Failing that, there's Swift which is based on Mint Debian. Only thing is, I don't think it's any better specced than AntiX which you've said isn't enough for you.
Posted: Mon 18 Mar 2013, 10:36
by Colonel Panic
Other news; I've given up waiting for WattOS for the time being and have installed the new Openbox version of Manjaro 0.8.4 instead. It's lightweight in operation and the iso fits on a CD, but the downside of that compactness is that it's something of a "skeleton" system; you have to install any office software, browsers, flash etc. that you want, yourself as they don't come with the distro.
I also have trouble (in common with other Arch-based distros I've tried) with getting the locality set properly; it keeps on defaulting to the US keyboard instead of the UK one and giving me " instead of @ for example. I've been told the fix for it a while back, but as my gran used to say, I've slept since then.