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#1816 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've installed Slackware 14.1 (32-bit) and was pleased to discover that it still ships with the fvwm window manager as one of the options (one of the very few distros that still does). So, I was able to try out one of the excellent themes which have been created for fvwm, FVWM-Nightshade;

http://box-look.org/content/show.php/Fv ... ent=156697

What I particularly like about this theme as that when it iconifies a window, it creates a thumbnail-size version of it, on the left hand side of the desktop. Very cool.

The highly regarded Fvwm-Crystal desktop is available for it too.

On the whole, Slackware is a lot more user-friendly than it used to be, which makes me wonder whether Ubuntu has forced all other distros to "up their game" in this regard.
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#1817 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed the previous version of Exton MeX (64 bit), which is based on Mint with the Cinnamon window manager. It seems and looks good so far except that it doesn't come with an office suite, so you have to apt-get the one you want (I chose LibreOffice). I added a couple of other programs I liked too, such as the database program Portabase and Qalculate! (the Queer Calculator).
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#1818 Post by James C »

Just a work in progress,Debian Jessie using the unstable Sid repo along with the Devuan repos with systemd pinned .

Running XFCE now but planning to see if MATE will go without systemd.

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james@exefce:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.0
james@exefce:~$ cat /proc/1/comm
init

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#1819 Post by David Andrew »

I tried out Linux Deepin the other week and was very impressed. Uses its own DE that can be switched to be Mac or Windows like. Software centre is one of the better ones I've seen as well. Still, there's a lot of bells and whistles which generally isn't my cup of tea, but I reckon it will soon rise the ranks.

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#1820 Post by technosaurus »

James C wrote:Just a work in progress,Debian Jessie using the unstable Sid repo along with the Devuan repos with systemd pinned .

Running XFCE now but planning to see if MATE will go without systemd.

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james@exefce:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
8.0
james@exefce:~$ cat /proc/1/comm
init
To avoid systemd I did a minimal install of wheezy, then (as root) did something like:
sed -i "s/wheezy/jessie/g" /etc/apt/sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
Though with the latest chrome I have to add --no-sandbox and --disable-gpu with my old ati rage 128 card or it just says "Aborted"
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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#1821 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Ubuntu-15.04 beta2 64bit to the hard drive of my macmini.
I used apt-get to install xfce4 so can log out and switch to a xcfce4
session.
I've been using both for a couple of days with no problems.
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#1822 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just downloaded the latest version of Calculate (14.16), which is based on Gentoo, and so far it's looking good; it uses Chromium for its main browser.

(EDIT: I've just discovered why Gentoo-based distros (including Calculate) aren't more popular; because everything is compiled from scratch, it takes ages to install a new piece of software. It took me the best part of an hour to install Firefox, and Thunderbird's taking even longer.
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#1823 Post by rokytnji »

Out of curiosity I went to the 1st post on the 100+ page thread and checked out AV linux that lobster posted about. If I was a musician. I'd be running that distro more than likely.

At 3.5 gig. It has a lot on it. The 6 version is based on Debian Squeeze and from what I read. The distro maker needs a break from building a testing Debian based release.

The forum maint. answering questions, distro building, is straining the main.
I hate it when people only want support. But do not give back in help or money or time.
Like vampires.

Golden rule is golden rule, always. Anyways AV looks pretty nifty to me. Too bad all I play is harmonica. But not professionally.

http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

So here is post #1 bump! :D

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#1824 Post by Colonel Panic »

ConnochaetOS (a distro for old computers built entirely on free software) has resurrected, only this time based on Slackware rather than Arch as previously;

http://www.connochaetos.org/

I haven't tried it yet but to me it looks an interesting option for people with older computers (the minimum recommended spec being a Pentium 3 with 128 MB of RAM).
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#1825 Post by darry1966 »

New version of LinuxBBQ here JWM version:
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2040

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#1826 Post by James C »

Lubuntu 15.04 final. Still fits on a cd.

http://lubuntu.net/

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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux lubuntu 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:01 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2055156     882184    1172972      99824     116524     510188
-/+ buffers/cache:     255472    1799684
Swap:      3177972          0    3177972
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#1827 Post by James C »

darry1966 wrote:New version of LinuxBBQ here JWM version:
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2040
Screenie.....Debian Sid,JWM and no systemd......

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user@grill:~$ uname -a
Linux grill 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) i686 GNU/Linux

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user@grill:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2064636     712912    1351724     356316      50720     549592
-/+ buffers/cache:     112600    1952036
Swap:            0          0          0

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user@grill:~$ cat /proc/1/comm 
init
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#1828 Post by darry1966 »

Yep love it so far James been using Chicken Wings for a while and this new one is just as good if not better 8) .

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#1829 Post by Billtoo »

Installed Debian Wheezy 7.8 to a 10 year old imac powerpc G5 using the
net installer.

Computer
Processor PowerPC PPC970FX, altivec supported (1800.00MHz)
Memory 2005MB (374MB used)
Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 7.8
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sat 25 Apr 2015 05:07:39 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 (ppc64)
Compiled #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14)
Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 7.8

It's working well.
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#1830 Post by James C »

Nowhere near as easy as the systemd fanbois will have you believe but Debian 8.0 Jessie XFCE with no systemd in sight.

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Computer
Processor   2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory   4148MB (312MB used)
Operating System   Debian GNU/Linux 8.0
User Name   james (james)
Date/Time   Sat Apr 25 22:26:21 2015
Display
Resolution   1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer   Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor   The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter   HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter   HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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Operating System
Version
Kernel   Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (i686)
Compiled   #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13)
C Library   Unknown
Default C Compiler   GNU C Compiler version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
Distribution   Debian GNU/Linux 8.0
Current Session
Computer Name   nosystemd
User Name   james (james)
Home Directory   /home/james
Desktop Environment   XFCE 4

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james@nosystemd:~$ cat /proc/1/comm
init

james@nosystemd:~$ uname -a
Linux nosystemd 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13) i686 GNU/Linux
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#1831 Post by James C »

AntiX 15 has moved to Beta 2.
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.0-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: JWM sn-579
           Distro: antiX-15-beta2-V_386-full Killah P 11 April 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: N68-S UCC
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.70 date: 03/03/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.0-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 49G used: 3.1G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda15
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 6.40GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 46.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 115 Uptime: 15 min Memory: 401.1/3542.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16 
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#1832 Post by James C »

One final distro before it's sleepy time.....fsmithred of Refracta http://refracta.freeforums.org/ released an unofficial Devuan live disc.

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root@devuan:~# uname -a
Linux devuan 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) i686 GNU/Linux

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root@devuan:~# cat /proc/1/comm 
init
Seems to be working well.
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#1833 Post by darry1966 »

Discovered this has Systemd though so won't be everyone's cup of tea. Awesome is the Window Manager.

http://awbian.com/what-is-awbian/

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#1834 Post by musher0 »

darry1966 wrote:Discovered this has Systemd though so won't be everyone's cup of tea. Awesome is the Window Manager.

http://awbian.com/what-is-awbian/
Yikes!

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#1835 Post by David Andrew »

During winter 2013, I downloaded a (now dead) distro called Pear OS. Last week, my Windows 7 restore process got interrupted by a power failure, which resulted in a whole Windows directory getting wiped. It just happened to be the directory where most of my important files resided, including all of my ISO's.

Why am I mentioning this dead distro? Well, apparently it got discontinued due to an anonymous "big name" (strongly alluded to be Apple) of buying it out, as apparently it had some innovations / technology not seen in any other Linux distro. Though for the most part, it was intended to be a Mac OS clone in terms of look and feel and user friendliness.

I never got round to trying it out. And I'm having no luck in recovering my lost files. I'm probably one of very few people who had an ISO of the last surviving release.

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