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jakfish · #1546 Post by **jakfish** » Sat 03 May 2014, 14:34

Jeff Hoogland put together a custom Bodhi for the C720. It's pretty much perfect.

Jake

James C · #1547 Post by **James C** » Sun 04 May 2014, 21:23

James C wrote:Finally had someone talk me into trying Windows 8 earlier today so I gave in and installed it.I still don't like it but a start menu replacement app makes it at least tolerable.
This old box now has Windows 8 Pro,Windows 7 Ultimate,LXLE, MX-14, Point Linux, PCLOS Gnome 2 and Sparkylinux as well as Slacko,FatDog,Lighthouse and other Puppy frugal installs.
I have to scroll through the Grub menu........

Update..... Windows 8 had to go.No rant but I can't stand using it........ more room for Linux.

Thank goodness for Dban.

EDIT:
Reclaimed Windows 8 hdd space with 4 ext4 partitions.

Colonel Panic · #1548 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Mon 05 May 2014, 21:32

I'm back using the latest stable version of Anti X (13.2); it's a godsend for older computers such as mine. Looking forward to trying the latest alpha release (14.1) soon.

nitehawk · #1549 Post by **nitehawk** » Mon 05 May 2014, 22:47

@Colonel Panic...
I've tried Antix 13.2,..and really do like it (a LOT!). But I wanted to use some Debian DVDs as an added repository,...and sadly Antix 13.2 said they couldn't be mounted. Neither could MX14 mount Debian DVDs. Guess that's 'cause both of those are on CDs only,..and don't recognize DVDs. <sigh>

I was hoping to add some of the Debian apps to Antix (instead of having to do a lot of downloading, which is a PITA with dialup)

CrunchBang is only on a CD, though,...and it easily mounted the Debian DVDs,...and let me add some apps from them. Hmmmm.

Colonel Panic · #1550 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Tue 06 May 2014, 10:42

nitehawk wrote:@Colonel Panic...
I've tried Antix 13.2,..and really do like it (a LOT!). But I wanted to use some Debian DVDs as an added repository,...and sadly Antix 13.2 said they couldn't be mounted. Neither could MX14 mount Debian DVDs. Guess that's 'cause both of those are on CDs only,..and don't recognize DVDs. <sigh>

I was hoping to add some of the Debian apps to Antix (instead of having to do a lot of downloading, which is a PITA with dialup)

CrunchBang is only on a CD, though,...and it easily mounted the Debian DVDs,...and let me add some apps from them. Hmmmm.

Hi again nitehawk,

That's strange, I haven't heard of that problem before. Have you tried mentioning it on the AntiX forum and seeing what they say about it?

nitehawk · #1551 Post by **nitehawk** » Tue 06 May 2014, 23:54

Well,...actually I haven't asked about it. I just uninstalled it,...and just put old stable Debian in its place. It's good to just run good old plain vanilla Debian ..dual-booted with Puppies of some kind. Always have a Puppy on the hard drives. (Using Debian right now)....

Actually,...on this old P4,..I believe that Slackware will run much better than a Debian install. I really do like Slackware, too,..and it does run a lot quicker and better than Deb does on this rig.

nitehawk · #1552 Post by **nitehawk** » Wed 07 May 2014, 19:47

Update: Just decided to go back to Slackware. What is it that they say? "Once you Slack, you can never go back". Yeah,..guess that may be true after all.

darry1966 · #1553 Post by **darry1966** » Wed 07 May 2014, 19:50

nitehawk wrote:Update: Just decided to go back to Slackware. What is it that they say? "Once you Slack, you can never go back". Yeah,..guess that may be true after all.

Hi Nitehawk,

Have you tried the latest Vector Linux 7.2?

bark_bark_bark · #1554 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Wed 07 May 2014, 21:09

nitehawk wrote:"Once you Slack, you can never go back". Yeah,..guess that may be true after all.

Agreed,

it only applies to me though when i want to use linux.

nitehawk · #1555 Post by **nitehawk** » Wed 07 May 2014, 23:20

darry1966 wrote:
Hi Nitehawk,

Have you tried the latest Vector Linux 7.2?

I haven't tried the newest Vector,....but I've been using Vector 7.0 for quite some time. Actually,..Vector has always been my "go to" distro since Vector 5.9 (can't remember when that was,..I think about 2006 or 2007).

So I really use Vector the most, but sometimes I use just plain Slackware. I'm very fond of Vector for sure. Great "little" distro. And I will most likely be using it when the newest version officially comes out. I know a lot of people say that it's not as close to Slackware as Salix is,...but there are a LOT of things that Vector does to make Slackware a bit more "friendly" and easier to use. And it's super-good looking, too!

James C · #1556 Post by **James C** » Thu 08 May 2014, 07:06

Used part of the free space from getting rid of 8 and installed Kubuntu 14.04. Didn't want to cooperate with my Nvidia graphics but it finally surrendered.

Won't have this installed that long but it's a 5 year LTS release.

http://www.kubuntu.org/

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james@ubunturwiii:~$ uname -a
Linux ubunturwiii 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
james@ubunturwiii:~$

James C · #1557 Post by **James C** » Thu 08 May 2014, 07:07

Don't try to post much in the middle of the night........

darry1966 · #1558 Post by **darry1966** » Thu 08 May 2014, 08:37

".but there are a LOT of things that Vector does to make Slackware a bit more "friendly" and easier to use. And it's super-good looking, too!"

Yes Nitehawk it certainly does make Slack more friendly and looks great as you say I have used 7 on several occasions it is very stable.

James C · #1559 Post by **James C** » Tue 13 May 2014, 07:14

Siduction w/the new LXQT desktop.

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siducer@siduction:~$ uname -r
3.14-3.towo-siduction-amd64
siducer@siduction:~$

Colonel Panic · #1560 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Tue 13 May 2014, 08:03

James C wrote:Siduction w/the new LXQT desktop.
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siducer@siduction:~$ uname -r
3.14-3.towo-siduction-amd64
siducer@siduction:~$ 

That looks good

LXDE and razor-qt getting together sounds like a very good idea to me.

RetroTechGuy · #1561 Post by **RetroTechGuy** » Sun 18 May 2014, 15:33

rokytnji wrote:My ChromeBook, Acer 11.6" Chromebook 4GB 16GB | C710-2457
came in Today. Still learning this ChromeOS way of doing things like 2 finger tap copy/select all/paste . Screenshot using hot keys. Terminal via Cntrl+t.

It's a wonderment OS. Boots in seconds. Chromium opens instant. Only dual core celeron. I am not trying to sell one or bump the seller but if interested
because I got it on the cheap.

Ebay link

Inserted a 32 gig SD card to boost the 16 gig SSD internal drive.

Like I said. Still learning this operating system that was stupid simple to set up on initial power up if you have a gmail account.
Wifi was stupid simple also.

Now to make a reinstall image on a 2 gig usb drive so when I break this trying to install something else. I'll have my backup.

Don't know anything about these, but I see that Newegg is putting out at $125 soon...

"Acer C710-2856 11.6

bark_bark_bark · #1562 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Sun 18 May 2014, 15:46

The thing that sucks about chromebooks is that, you can't replace with the OS with something worth using.

RetroTechGuy · #1563 Post by **RetroTechGuy** » Mon 19 May 2014, 04:19

bark_bark_bark wrote:The thing that sucks about chromebooks is that, you can't replace with the OS with something worth using.

Good to know. I wondered if it could be Puppied...

James C · #1564 Post by **James C** » Mon 19 May 2014, 06:34

RetroTechGuy wrote:
bark_bark_bark wrote:The thing that sucks about chromebooks is that, you can't replace with the OS with something worth using.
Good to know. I wondered if it could be Puppied...

For Ubuntu or Debian, probably yes....
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/76 ... chromebook

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/4020 ... chromebook

No idea if this method could be used with Puppy though.....

Billtoo · #1565 Post by **Billtoo** » Mon 19 May 2014, 10:52

I installed Mint 17 rc Cinnamon to a Gateway desktop pc.
It's working well so far.
Edit:
I installed Mint 17 Mate rc to an emachines laptop.
Needed to use an ethernet connection to do the installation and was
able to add the broadcom driver later with the driver managment
utility.
I added Qupzilla 1.6.6 using the instructions on the Qupzilla site for
Ubuntu, I also installed XBMC 13.1 from the XBMC site using the Ubuntu
instructions.
So Mint 17 rc is working well on a very fast desktop and a not very
fast laptop.
EDIT2:
And a Macmini too.

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