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musher0 · Posted: Thu 16 May 2019, 17:48 Post subject:

Hi Fredx181.

Could one use a similar script or set of scripts to build a Sid Dog? Then the user
would have the latest versions of pretty much everything on his distro.

Some may fear the "unstable" label. However, the Debian people are serious people,
they wouldn't offer anything that would be a nuisance, I think.

And it's been done before. I can't find it now, but there used to be a smallish distro
based on "Sid" ( aside from "Sid" itself ).

Just a thought. Continue the good work!

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6735 Location: Kentucky

musher0 · Posted: Thu 16 May 2019, 19:53 Post subject:

Thanks for this add'l info, James C.

Edit, a couple of hours later --
I just took VsidO for a test drive.

Were it not for pcmanfm and for the annoyance of not being root OOTB,
it would be a keeper!

But VsidO is serious competition for Puppy, folks.
Small size, nimble WM ( fluxbox ).
Add gnumeric, replace Firefox with seamonkey ( because of the html editor ),
replace pcmanfm with ROX-Filer, and you've got a "quasi-Puppy".

BFN.

darry19662018 · Joined: 31 Mar 2018 Posts: 731 Location: Rakaia

I believe Sparky is based on Sid
https://sparkylinux.org/

musher0 · Posted: Fri 17 May 2019, 04:56 Post subject:

darry19662018 · Joined: 31 Mar 2018 Posts: 731 Location: Rakaia

Yeah that is pretty big - fair enough.

I think I have outlived my welcome here. Not even using Puppy anymore.
I have been part of this community along time. It is time to move on.

I am signing out before I piss somebody else off. Signing out goodbye all.

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4481 Location: holland

@Darren, sad to see you go, what happened ?!!

musher0 · Posted: Fri 17 May 2019, 11:33 Post subject:

Not you as in you personally, darry!

Sorry if I offended you. Bad translation. In certain contexts, and this is one of them, in
French we can use "vous" ( " you" ) as a kind of neutral, without pointing a finger at anyone

I mean the Sparky people. The nerve THEY have to call THEIR 864 Mb distro "minimal".
That's how I should have said it in the first place.

Again, sorry.

musher0 · Posted: Fri 17 May 2019, 11:36 Post subject:

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4481 Location: holland

New! DevuanDog "mklive-ceres" build system
The unstable branch of Devuan named “ceres” is the systemd-free version of Debian Sid.
At this point of time there's not much difference between Beowulf and Ceres because Beowulf is still the Devuan "testing" branch which is always pretty close to "unstable" (ceres), but sometime this year, I guess, beowulf will become the stable branch.

Download, see here: https://debiandog.github.io/MakeLive/Readme-build-devuandog-beowulf.html

Update 2019-08-07, discontinued "mklive-ceres" build system, too many issues because of the many changes in Debian Sid.

Fred

westwest · Joined: 10 Apr 2015 Posts: 72

Mklive-ceres64 script, choosing LXDE minimal, produced a 219mb iso.
Frugal install, apt2sfs used for VLC (which had to be patched to run as root).

Flawless distro for my purposes, much appreciated.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 18 May 2019, 17:16 Post subject: Re: ceres

dancytron · Joined: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 1555

built one with ceres 64 application.

Chose "skip" and removed firefox and flashplayerchoice. Added my usual unrar dirmngr libgl1-mesa-dri mesa-utils firmware-realtek xserver-xorg-video-intel.

Got 189 meg ISO. Posting from it now. Seems stable enough.

Musher - sometimes the freezing at desktop is graphic's driver missing or needs mesa-dri (or needs mesa-dri uninstalled because driver missing).

musher0 · Posted: Sat 18 May 2019, 17:38 Post subject:

Thanks dancytron. Will check. TWYL.