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#1951 Post by Colonel Panic »

I tried Salix 14.1 Fluxbox, and unfortunately was very unimpressed with it. First of all I couldn't log in because the installation was missing a crucial file (.dmrc) which told the bootup manager which window / desktop manager to load; this was fixable (and I did fix it, using instructions from the Ubuntu forums) but IMO a beginner would have no chance of working this out for him or herself.

Next, when I did log in I found that the devs hadn't bothered to set up the Fluxbox menu for the apps the distro actually had, which I think is inexcusable for a distro with only one window manager. There also isn't any option on the menu for regenerating it, so you have to edit it by hand.

Finally, the distro wouldn't let me access my pendrive even though I had stipulated on installation that it be mounted in my home directory. Again, there's probably a workaround for this but it isn't something a newbie would be likely to know how to do and I'd already written the distro off by this time so I didn't bother to find out how to do it myself.
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#1952 Post by rokytnji »

Colonel Panic wrote:I tried Salix 14.1 Fluxbox, and unfortunately was very unimpressed with it. First of all I couldn't log in because the installation was missing a crucial file (.dmrc) which told the bootup manager which window / desktop manager to load; this was fixable (and I did fix it, using instructions from the Ubuntu forums) but IMO a beginner would have no chance of working this out for him or herself.

Next, when I did log in I found that the devs hadn't bothered to set up the Fluxbox menu for the apps the distro actually had, which I think is inexcusable for a distro with only one window manager. There also isn't any option on the menu for regenerating it, so you have to edit it by hand.

Finally, the distro wouldn't let me access my pendrive even though I had stipulated on installation that it be mounted in my home directory. Again, there's probably a workaround for this but it isn't something a newbie would be likely to know how to do and I'd already written the distro off by this time so I didn't bother to find out how to do it myself.

You must have been in a bad spot in the universe at that time. My SaliX Fluxbox and Slackel Fluxbox netbooks don't even come close to having the problems you encountered/decribe happening.
Like Zero. Nada. Zilch.

Too each their own poison I guess.
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#1953 Post by Colonel Panic »

rokytnji wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:I tried Salix 14.1 Fluxbox, and unfortunately was very unimpressed with it. First of all I couldn't log in because the installation was missing a crucial file (.dmrc) which told the bootup manager which window / desktop manager to load; this was fixable (and I did fix it, using instructions from the Ubuntu forums) but IMO a beginner would have no chance of working this out for him or herself.

Next, when I did log in I found that the devs hadn't bothered to set up the Fluxbox menu for the apps the distro actually had, which I think is inexcusable for a distro with only one window manager. There also isn't any option on the menu for regenerating it, so you have to edit it by hand.

Finally, the distro wouldn't let me access my pendrive even though I had stipulated on installation that it be mounted in my home directory. Again, there's probably a workaround for this but it isn't something a newbie would be likely to know how to do and I'd already written the distro off by this time so I didn't bother to find out how to do it myself.

Seriously, don't bother with this one. Salix Mate is much better, and Zenwalk 7.4 too.

You must have been in a bad spot in the universe at that time. My SaliX Fluxbox and Slackel Fluxbox netbooks don't even come close to having the problems you encountered/decribe happening.
Like Zero. Nada. Zilch.

Too each their own poison I guess.
OK, I've edited my post and removed the last paragraph; in the light of your comments it doesn't seem appropriate now. Thanks for your feedback.
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#1954 Post by rokytnji »

Edited my quote to match your post CP.

I aint ragging on you. I was just surprised because those 2 distros have be problem free for me compared to Debian based distros even.

That is why I said to each their own poison.

Edit: Figured I should back up my post also so here goes.

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System:    Host: slackel.example.net Kernel: 3.14.13-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.3)
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 dm: gdm Distro: Slackware 14.1
Machine:   System: manda (portable) product: Intel powered classmate PC v: Gen 1.5L
           Mobo: N/A model: N/A
           Bios: American Megatrends v: CM94515A.86A.0024.2008.0715.1716 date: 07/15/2008
CPU:       Single core Intel Core N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3191
           clock speeds: min/max: 800/1600 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 1333 MHz
Memory:    Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27ae
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@53.33hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.5.4 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.14.13-smp
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ec00
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: wlan0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (21.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HS030GB size: 30.0GB serial: S1MBJ16Q727672
           Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 26G used: 4.1G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           label: N/A uuid: 8bd07441-689d-4079-ba3f-124ca4c68892
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.11GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
           label: N/A uuid: c7e5d23e-43de-4e75-a2aa-bb4fe3b2f451
RAID:      System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4 multipath
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 131 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 120.4/987.2MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 4 default: 4 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in lxterminal) inxi: 2.2.25 
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#1955 Post by Colonel Panic »

Thanks. I agree that I was wrong in that last paragraph though to assume that my experience of Salix Fluxbox should be taken as typical or as the norm, and apologise for doing so.
rokytnji wrote:Edited my quote to match your post CP.

I aint ragging on you. I was just surprised because those 2 distros have be problem free for me compared to Debian based distros even.

That is why I said to each their own poison.

Edit: Figured I should back up my post also so here goes.

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System:    Host: slackel.example.net Kernel: 3.14.13-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.3)
           Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 dm: gdm Distro: Slackware 14.1
Machine:   System: manda (portable) product: Intel powered classmate PC v: Gen 1.5L
           Mobo: N/A model: N/A
           Bios: American Megatrends v: CM94515A.86A.0024.2008.0715.1716 date: 07/15/2008
CPU:       Single core Intel Core N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB
           flags: (nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 3191
           clock speeds: min/max: 800/1600 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 1333 MHz
Memory:    Using dmidecode: you must be root to run dmidecode
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
           bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:27ae
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x600@53.33hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.5.4 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:27d8
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.14.13-smp
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ec00
           bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8136
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
           WAN IP: <filter> IF: eth0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
           IF: wlan0 ip: N/A ip-v6: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (21.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HS030GB size: 30.0GB serial: S1MBJ16Q727672
           Optical: No optical drives detected.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 26G used: 4.1G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           label: N/A uuid: 8bd07441-689d-4079-ba3f-124ca4c68892
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.11GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
           label: N/A uuid: c7e5d23e-43de-4e75-a2aa-bb4fe3b2f451
RAID:      System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4 multipath
           No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
           Unused Devices: none
Unmounted: No unmounted partitions detected
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 131 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 120.4/987.2MB
           Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 4 default: 4 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301 running in lxterminal) inxi: 2.2.25 
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#1956 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've already found one thing I did wrong in Salix which may have contributed to the situation - when setting it up I checked the option to read and write to the pendrive (and the Windows partition too, though that is less important) only when one is root, so obviously (i realise now) I'm not going to be able to do it when I'm logged in under my user name.

Other news - I've installed Slackware 14.1 (32-bit) and it was much easier to set up and use than Slackware used to be; I remember the days when you had to hand edit the xorgconfig file, for instance. Distros which base their offerings on Slackware really have a fight on their hands now to produce something with added value.

I've also installed Black Lab Linux, which is based on Ubuntu but with full multimedia playback of various formats: Windows Media, Apple Quicktime, Flash, HTML 5 as well as DVD and Blu-Ray, and (reading from the Black Lab website) you also get full audio playback functionality including: Windows Audio, Apples AAC and Real Media. Early days yet but it's looking good so far.
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#1957 Post by James C »

AntiX-15-RC1.1 was just released.

http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtop ... 6fa31ff057

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james@antix1:~
$ uname -a
Linux antix1 4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 8 00:21:57 EEST 2015 i686 GNU/Linux

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-rc1.1-V_386-full Killah P 20 June 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: k4.0.5-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 (1.3% 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: 2.4G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9
           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: 37.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 111 Uptime: 28 min Memory: 409.2/3542.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25
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#1958 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed Mageia 5, which has recently been released. It's a huge distro with both KDE and Gnome available, but I've so far failed to get any sound with Youtube videos (which I watch and listen to a lot, so it's not an insignificant feature for me).
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#1959 Post by Colonel Panic »

Nitehawk will be pleased to see this;

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0
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#1960 Post by Moat »

Broken record here. I'm now a year and a few months into having Mint 17/17.1 Mate installed on this old duo-core laptop, and use it every day. It's been flawless. Have regularly applied all updates, and never has anything broken/frozen/locked up/etc... nada. Actually is running better and better as time goes by - smooth as silk, quiet as a mouse.

I keep trying out all of the latest distro releases, curious to see if anything might knock this one off of the hard drive. So far... nope. This one just consistently rises above the rest.

For a user/noob-friendly, greatly capable (huge repo selection!), stable and polished all-around OS that "just works", day in and day out... I can think of none better. Exemplary!

Bob
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#1961 Post by nitehawk »

Colonel Panic wrote:Nitehawk will be pleased to see this;

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0
HA, HA!!! Already saw it!!!! :lol:
Been back fooling around with plain ol' slackware again, though.
Recently tried Pinguy,...but somehow It didn't seem to catch my interest all that much. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.

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#1962 Post by James C »

VL 64 7.1. Xfce 4.10,Firefox ESR 31.7.0, etc.Seems pretty solid so far.

http://vectorlinux.com/

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0

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vlocity:/~
james:$ uname -a
Linux vlocity.linux.vnet 3.18.16 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 16 16:29:26 CDT 2015 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
vlocity:/~

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james:$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       4025448    1150064    2875384          0      33404     646252
-/+ buffers/cache:     470408    3555040
Swap:      6246396          0    6246396
vlocity:/~
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#1963 Post by Colonel Panic »

nitehawk wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:Nitehawk will be pleased to see this;

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=18607.0
HA, HA!!! Already saw it!!!! :lol:
Been back fooling around with plain ol' slackware again, though.
Recently tried Pinguy,...but somehow It didn't seem to catch my interest all that much. Maybe I didn't give it enough time.
Hi again Nitie,

Plain ol' Slackware's just fine nowadays, which is a problem for devs of Slack-based distros like Zenwalk and Vector because they have to work extra hard to create enough added value to make their own distros seem worth having.

Its Achilles heel for me though is installing new applications, especially ones which involve getting new dependencies. Vector used to have its 'Quick Picks' application, which automated the addition of a number of applications such as LibreOffice, but they got rid of it for some reason; it would be good if they returned to it.

Other news; I've been giving OpenSUSE 13.2 (Educational edition) a spin but have found that Firefox has frozen up on me a couple of times and for no obvious reason.
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#1964 Post by Bindee »

How's tiny core 64 doing these days , Anyone had a play recently?

Bindee

#1965 Post by Bindee »

I have released a new 32bit version of Nanolinux (version 1.3) now.

I agree with the posters here that I should make a 64 bit version, but that will require quite some time.
Hmmmmmmmm

Talk of a 64 bit version of NanoLinux.

Bindee

#1966 Post by Bindee »

Q4OS Live CD is available

http://sourceforge.net/projects/q4os/files/live/
Live CD, beta
29 June, 2015

The first beta version of Q4OS Live CD is available for download from our sourceforge archive. Anyone is welcome to give it a spin and report issues.

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Lubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Alpha 1

#1967 Post by peebee »

Lubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Alpha 1

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/relea ... y/alpha-1/

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Alpha1/Lubuntu

Still LXDE based - not LXQT (probably a good choice "LXQt is still in development, so Wily Werewolf is another bug fix release")

Kernel 3.19 (but will move to 4.0 by release)

Pretty small set of applications for a 700M iso............ (no screenshot in menu - had to use mtpaint -s)

LxAppearance crashes - but is Alpha 1 known bug
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antiX-15 released

#1968 Post by James C »

antiX-15 released

http://antix.freeforums.org/antix-15-re ... t5697.html
A lot of time and work was spent getting antiX-15 (Killah P) ready for stable release; we hope you like it.

As with previous releases, antiX-15 comes in 3 flavours for 32 and 64 bit processors all fitting on a cd.
antiX-full (667MB) -4 windows managers - IceWM(default), fluxbox, jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-base (567MB) -3 windows managers - fluxbox(default), jwm and herbstluftwm
antiX-core-libre (222MB) - no X. Just enough to get you connected (wired) and ready to build.

antiX-base and antiX-core versions use gzip compression of the squashfs/linuxfs file which means a faster boot
to desktop with less RAM usage, but file size is approximately 80MB larger. antiX-full uses xz compression.
So, what does antiX include?

Features:

*Based on Debian Jessie, but without systemd nor systemd-shim.
*Customised 4.0.5 kernel with fbcondecor splash
*libreoffice 4.3.3
*iceweasel 31.7.0esr
*claws-mail 3.11.1-3
*xmms -for audio
*gnome-mplayer - for playing video
*smtube - play youtube videos without a using a browser
*streamlight-antix - new application to stream videos with very low RAM usage.

Convert your video and audio files with:
*winff
*asunder - convert your

*grub-customizer
*hexchat
*luckybackup
*simple-scan
*spacefm
*rox-filer
*transmission-gtk

Connect to the net with
*wicd
*ceni
*or gnome-ppp if you are still on dial-up

*wingrid-antix
*xf86-video-sis-antix
*Xfburn for burning cd/dvd

*connectshares-antix for network shares
*droopy-antix - an easy way to transfer files over the net.
*flashplugin-nonfree

Editors
*geany
*leafpad

*install-meta-antix
*iso-snapshot
*Unetbootin
*antix2usb

Why not try out our included cli apps:

Editors: nano and vim
Newsreader: newsbeuter
Chat: irssi
Audio player: mocp
Video player: mpv
Email: alpine
Audio ripper: abcde
Torrent: rtorrent
Cd burner: cdw
Writer: Wordgrinder
Downloads at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... /MX-krete/

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#1969 Post by James C »

Fresh install. Switched from Icewm to JWM/Rox.

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-V_x64-full Killah P 30 June 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: ALSA v: k4.0.5-antix.2-amd64-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 (1.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 51G used: 2.5G (6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda16
           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: 37.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 137 Uptime: 24 min Memory: 548.8/3955.2MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25 
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#1970 Post by Colonel Panic »

That's good James. I tried one of the pre-release versions of AntiX 15 but for some reason I wasn't able to get X Windows started, so I gave it up as a bad job.

Another one; ROSA Desktop Fresh R5, a Russian distro (I believe) which uses .rpm packages.

It comes in several different desktop environments; I'm using the LXDE version which looks good and is reasonably fast on my machine even with the live version.

The one downside of using it is that installation of new packages can be a long drawn out affair as it will request, say, 57 packages to go along with an application, stall after installing 53, and then you have to keep clicking on "update" to install the final ones.
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