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bark_bark_bark
Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 09:42 Post subject:
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i couldn't get flash player to install. You may need to grab it manually.
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Ibidem
Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 553 Location: State of Jefferson
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Posted: Sat 29 Jun 2013, 01:24 Post subject:
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simargl wrote: |
I never understood why they need to add those "applications" at all - or actually why someone even bothered to make them. Xeyes for example is a program with 2 circles that move around following mouse pointer - so what's use of that, just wasting space and cluttering the menu. And, please don't say Puppy's menu is more logical , and what size are menu icons in Puppy, 8 pixels I think, so that can also be called lazy  |
Debian autogenerates the menus (by way of a program called "menu") from files that each package installs, so the package maintainer gets to say whether to have an entry.
Of course, a maintainer is likely the last person to recognize that their pet program is a waste of menu-space.
xeyes, etc. are part of the original X11 applications (x11-apps), mainly available because of tradition ("use xyz, it's always available" & "keep xyz available, it's widely used").
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Sat 29 Jun 2013, 09:37 Post subject:
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xeyes is a bit of fun...
My grandson loves the sugar implementation on the XO (olpc) laptops.
BTW you can get Sugar on a Stick (soas) on any PC, only ~500MB download, great for kids.
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Of course you can have some fun in JWM with xeyes too, even on a raspberry pi.. Code: | <Swallow name="xeyes" width="32">
xeyes -bg "#ffffff" -fg red
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1970
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Posted: Sun 30 Jun 2013, 04:28 Post subject:
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James C wrote: | Another new 'buntu spin...... Australis. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS w/ Mate and all sort of goodies.
http://rackingman.wix.com/australis
Code: | linux@linux:~$ uname -r
3.5.0-27-generic
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That looks cool!
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nitehawk

Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 655 Location: West Central Florida
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Posted: Mon 01 Jul 2013, 17:21 Post subject:
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I recently decided to switch from Slackware (and Slackware-based distros) to just basic Debian. I didn't want to do Debian itself,...(too hard for someone still on dialup, having to download a net-install). And I for SURE didn't want to have to buy all 10 (I think it is now) DVDs.
So I have re-discovered CrunchBang. I've gotten quite hooked on the Openbox desktop,....and the fact that it is basically just Debian. In all fair-ness,...I haven't tired the latest Antix yet (which I may like as well).
I missed the late DreamLinux,...but these two smaller Debian-based distros seem really very nice!
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Tue 02 Jul 2013, 04:09 Post subject:
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Grabbed one of my old P3's off the shelf...... don't even remember when I installed this.
http://bodhilinux.com/
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drongo

Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 378 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue 02 Jul 2013, 15:11 Post subject:
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Hi,
All the other Puppies are compiled for x86 or 64 bit variants. Only something specifically for ARM will run on a Raspberry Pi.
Barry had recently started work again on an ARM Puppy for the Pi but he seems to be working on more fundamental infrastructure stuff at the moment.
So I guess we'll have to wait.
Sorry.
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James C

Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Tue 02 Jul 2013, 23:32 Post subject:
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Fedora 19 XFCE released today.
http://fedoraproject.org/
and
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-July/003167.html
Been using Puppy too long...... the first thing I installed was SeaMonkey.
Comes with Midori and I don't really like Midori so.......
Trying to decide between XFCE and MATE.Looks like some testing is in order.
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Billtoo

Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3421 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Wed 03 Jul 2013, 01:20 Post subject:
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I installed Fedora 19 KDE 64 bit to an external usb 3.0 hard drive on
an hp desktop pc.
I've been using Clementine on my PclinuxOS FullMonty64 and like it,
works good on Fedora 19 too.
Fedora 19 is working nice, there are so many distros to choose from
EDIT:I installed Fedora 19 on an Acer desktop:
Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 5975MB (1421MB used)
Operating System Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Thu 04 Jul 2013 10:01:32 AM EDT
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Resolution 3840x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop
X11 Vendor Fedora Project
Multimedia
Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA Intel MID
After using this for a day and learning a little more about it I'd say
that Fedora 19 is a keeper
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1970
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Posted: Thu 04 Jul 2013, 12:31 Post subject:
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Some good distros here, but I note that Billtoo's got 6 GB of Ram on the PC he's running Fedora 19 on. Do we need a separate thread for distros which will run on old computers, which I'm guessing Fedora won't?
For my part, now that I'm back on my old Compaq for a while I'm both using and appreciating Puppy a lot more.
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Billtoo

Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3421 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Thu 04 Jul 2013, 14:49 Post subject:
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Colonel Panic wrote: | Some good distros here, but I note that Billtoo's got 6 GB of Ram on the PC he's running Fedora 19 on. Do we need a separate thread for distros which will run on old computers, which I'm guessing Fedora won't?
For my part, now that I'm back on my old Compaq for a while I'm both using and appreciating Puppy a lot more. |
Hi Colonel Panic, I installed Fedora 19 on an older HP desktop just to
give it a try.
Product number
PP164AA
Introduction date
12/28/2004
Country/region sold in
United States
Canada
Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Memory 1535MB (506MB used)
Operating System Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Thu 04 Jul 2013 02:32:35 PM EDT
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Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
X11 Vendor Fedora Project
Multimedia
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
Fedora 19 is running pretty well on this pc, I've added ram and a
better graphics card + a usb sound card .
I'll have to give the new Lighthouse 64 beta 2 a try as well.
This pc isn't really old I guess but it's getting up there
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nitehawk

Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 655 Location: West Central Florida
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Posted: Fri 12 Jul 2013, 16:01 Post subject:
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nitehawk wrote: | I recently decided to switch from Slackware (and Slackware-based distros) to just basic Debian. I didn't want to do Debian itself,...(too hard for someone still on dialup, having to download a net-install). And I for SURE didn't want to have to buy all 10 (I think it is now) DVDs.
So I have re-discovered CrunchBang. I've gotten quite hooked on the Openbox desktop,....and the fact that it is basically just Debian. In all fair-ness,...I haven't tired the latest Antix yet (which I may like as well).
I missed the late DreamLinux,...but these two smaller Debian-based distros seem really very nice! |
OK,..
eating my own words!
...got tired of trying to fool with Openbox. Just went back to Slackware 14 (Xfce). It just seems easier,...maybe because I'm used to the combination of setting up Slackware,...and the Xfce desktop environment. Feels more like home. (As far as Puppies,...got one on all my machines.) Gotta use what works for you and on your particular computers, I guess.
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nooby
Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope
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Posted: Sat 13 Jul 2013, 16:39 Post subject:
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I got curious on if this new Linux Mint would load in frugal install on NTFS desktop and it did
Writing using it now. Here is what DW says
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Linux Mint 15 "Xfce" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Xfce. The highlight of this edition is the lightweight Xfce 4.10 desktop. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment which aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly. |
I downloaded this iso linuxmint-15-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso (925MB I then made an emty Dir on my HD and named it lm15 but typically accidently gave it lm13 but that worked without problem too
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title lm13
root (hd0,0) /linuxmint-15-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso
kernel /lm13/casper/vmlinuz file=/preseed/mint.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/linuxmint-15-xfce-dvd-64bit.iso
initrd /lm13/casper/initrd.lz
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so give it a name you feel for. I copied from the iso these directories seed and casper and made changes to the menu.lst and rebooted and it just works./ Loads rather fast and works fast
The HD is named isodevice and one can write to a file using gedit and save it and one can delete files without needing any sudo or to be root. it works as one want it live.
Very practical the only bad thing is if they do updates behind the scene that could be problematic maybe. Look into such if you need to have a reliable version how to avoid it do such things. Flashplayer works on youtube so that is a good thing.
FF is still version 20 so that is old now maybe
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not an ideal solution though
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Colonel Panic

Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1970
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Posted: Sun 14 Jul 2013, 03:55 Post subject:
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I've just installed the latest version of AntiX (13.1). It's working well except that I've so far not been able to enable the repos so my choice of extra software to install is limited at the moment.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 2287
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Posted: Sun 14 Jul 2013, 10:22 Post subject:
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@CP
password. enter
enter
Is required after every AntiX fresh install to get the repos going.
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