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#1361 Post by rokytnji »

MX14 Beta 2. I have been a tester and team member for a while.

After this. I'll setup my Carolina 1.2 to look like this also.

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#1362 Post by nooby »

Thanks to Ro and MX14 Beta 2 that one looks nice.

I usually make use of young animals or similar

Or I use Space pictures like seeing earth from our Moon.
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#1363 Post by nooby »

So how am I supposed to do a frugal boot of Slitaz now?

I fail to guess it on my own so some hints would be nice.
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#1364 Post by mcewanw »

Not a distribution per se but just came across a norske linux site with a forum. Looks like they cover a wide range of relevant Linux topics - just no english translation...

http://linux1.no/
github mcewanw

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#1365 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed another beta; that of Zenwalk 7.4. It looks pretty stable so far if a bit spartan (Zenwalk is noted for only giving you the software its devs think you need, rather than what you might want, and it usually works out at about one app per task).

Still, it makes for a very light install; less than 3 GB, which is unusual for a full distro in this day and age. Also, as someone who remembers Zenwalk from years back (Zenwalk 4 was one of my first distros; I ordered the CD-R by post in time for Christmas 2006!), it's great to see it's still going.
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#1366 Post by Colonel Panic »

Two more good distros which I've installed recently; LXLE, a distro for older computers based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Scientific Linux 6.5 - a somewhat retro but very solid distro which is based on CentOS 6.5.

For the latter though I can't see that it offers a lot (if anything) more than Stella, which is a much smaller download - about 1.2 GB, as opposed to 4.3 GB and 0.5 GB for Scientific (it needs two DVDs), and is also based on the current release of CentOS.
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#1367 Post by jakfish »

Colonel Panic, have you tried Semplice's latest, 6.0?

It's quite something. Using Alan2, much faster menu display/refresh. And a systemd shutdown. Under 3 seconds, even w/ my old hardware.

Jake

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#1368 Post by James C »

Debian Sid with Icewm,Roxfiler,MtPaint,Iceweasel and.....no idea what else I'll add. :lol:

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#1369 Post by nooby »

Jakfish seems skeptical in the first post of this thread

Simplicity Linux - something fishy about it.

The Dev is almost never active here and seems
to not want a dialog? But I am only curious.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87159
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#1370 Post by James C »

Take Two....
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#1371 Post by jakfish »

Hi, nooby,

I think we're talking about two different linuxes there: simplicity vs semplice

Semplice is here http://semplice-linux.org/discover

I'm not certain, however, you could do one of your usb installs, even though semplice comes in at about 2gbs.

Best to you,
Jake

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#1372 Post by James C »

Take Three.....
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#1373 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
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#1374 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote:
James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
A lot of experimentation....... :lol:

When I boot that machine again I'll post the conky.conf. file.

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#1375 Post by nooby »

jakfish wrote:Hi, nooby,

I think we're talking about two different linuxes there: simplicity vs semplice

Semplice is here http://semplice-linux.org/discover

I'm not certain, however, you could do one of your usb installs, even though semplice comes in at about 2gbs.

Best to you,
Jake
I trust that you get this right and I get it wrong.

They are unrelated most likely
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#1376 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
James C wrote:Take Two....
It's looking good. Where did you get your Conky config from though?
A lot of experimentation....... :lol:

When I boot that machine again I'll post the conky.conf. file.
Thanks James, that would be great. We could probably do with a thread for conky configs though (if there isn't one on this forum already).

I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
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#1377 Post by James C »

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alignment top_right


background yes
own_window yes
#own_window_type desktop
own_window_class Conky
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
#own_window_type normal
#own_window_argb_visual yes
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes

xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=10
xftalpha 0.8
update_interval 5.0
total_run_times 0
#own_window_type override
#own_window_colour hotpink
minimum_size 300 200
draw_shades yes
draw_outline yes
draw_graph_borders yes
stippled_borders 8
border_width 1
maximum_width 250
default_color yellow
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color black
gap_x 10
gap_y 10
#no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer none

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders yes

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 4

# border width
border_width 1

#template0 (hdd) mountpoint fs_free
template0 ${color1}\1 ${fs_free \2}

#template1 (hdd) mountpoint fs_used
template1 ${color1}\1 ${fs_used \2}


TEXT
${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}System ${hr 2}
${font sans-serif:bold:size=10}$sysname $kernel $alignr $machine

${color yellow}${font bold:size=12}User ${font}
${color white}${uptime_short}
#${offset 240}${color slate grey}UpTime: $uptime

${color #00CCCC}Date     ${alignc}${color yellow}${time %a,} ${color yellow}${time %e %B %G}
${color #00CCCC}Time${color yellow}     ${time %I:%M %P}

${color #00CCCC}CPU0: ${color yellow}${cpu cpu0%}%${color}${offset 5}Core 0:  ${freq_g (1)} GHz
${color green} ${cpubar cpu0 16,70}
${color green} ${cpugraph cpu0 16,200 000000 7CFC00}

${color #00CCCC}CPU1: ${color yellow}${cpu cpu1%}%${color}${offset 5}Core 1:  ${freq_g (2)} GHz
${color green} ${cpubar cpu0 16,70}
${color green} ${cpugraph cpu1 16,200 000000 7CFC00}

${color #00CCCC}DISK:
${color green}/${color}${alignc}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} ${color}${alignr}${fs_free_perc /} %
${color green}${fs_bar 16,200 /}

#free:  ${template0 home /home}
#used:  ${template1 home /home}

${color #00CCCC}RAM: $color$mem/$memmax
${color green} ${membar 16,200}
${color #00CCCC}Swap:$color$swap/$swapmax
${color green} ${swapbar 16,200}

${color #00CCCC}eth0 Down: ${color yellow}${downspeed eth0}${alignr} k/s
${color green} ${downspeedgraph eth0 16,200 000000 77CFC00 150}
${color #00CCCC}eth0 Up:   ${color yellow}${upspeed eth0}${alignr} k/s
${color green} ${upspeedgraph eth0 16,200 000000  7CFC00 18}

${color green}Processes:$color $processes | $running_processes
${color} Cpu usage       CPU
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${offset -10} ${top cpu 1}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 2}${offset -10} ${top cpu 2}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 3}${offset -10} ${top cpu 3}
${color #7CFC00} ${top name 4}${offset -10} ${top cpu 4}

#${color} Mem usage       MEM
#${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 1}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 2}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 2}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 3}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 3}
#${color #7CFC00} ${top_mem name 4}${offset -10} ${top_mem mem 4}

${color #5b6dad}# Connections   
$color ${offset 10}In: ${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}  Out: ${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}${alignr}
Actual conky.conf file attached .......just remove the "gz" from the name ...added in order to upload.

Edit line 61 to replace "system" with your choice of distro name.

Edit line 64 to replace "user" with whatever you wish.
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#1378 Post by James C »

Colonel Panic wrote: I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
Some distros use .conkyrc (a hidden file) in the home/user/ directory. That appears to be where a lot of Debian/Ubuntu spins put it...... just checked in LXLE.

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#1379 Post by Colonel Panic »

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote: I like the one on Pinguy, but couldn't find its config file when I looked for it recently; it's quite similar to yours.
Some distros use .conkyrc (a hidden file) in the home/user/ directory. That appears to be where a lot of Debian/Ubuntu spins put it...... just checked in LXLE.
Thanks James (and for your conky config file too).

Cheers,

CP.
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#1380 Post by konaexpress »

@james C

Love the black and blues of your take 3.

What distro did you say that is? Guess I will have to go play with ice.

John

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