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fredx181
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#2071 Post by fredx181 »

mcewanw wrote:
fredx181 wrote:Hi All,

Just a tip to install Windows 10 for free.
For free ? That must be illegal!!!.
Not illegal, lets call it .... 'unofficial' :D
...
Fred
Hi Fred,

I had legal win7 on a couple of computers but never bothered upgrading to win10 because I pretty much only use DebianDog or MintPup. So my question would be: is there a good reason to have win10 installed (especially if have win7 already for occasional times wanting to run some piece of windows only software)?

William
Hi William,
I have little experience with Win 7, so can't compare really, but I heard from other people that Win 10 is a little faster, and uses less memory.
I like the more simple looks of it, maybe that's also the reason why it runs faster.
But if you use Windows only occasional, and Win 7 runs well for you, I'd say just keep it.
For me the choice was to install again Win XP or install Win 10 (XP it's generally not recommended anymore, so I chose Win 10).

Fred

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#2072 Post by Burn_IT »

OOTB it probably is because MS have actually listened a little to public opinion and made many of what used to be default options recommended options instead.
They have also removed (as far as I can tell) many of the internal checks that were on by default.
Without that horrible voice, it would be even better!!
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett

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#2073 Post by James C »

Still using PCLOS MATE.....
http://www.pclinuxos.com/
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#2074 Post by zakjoh »

James C

What was your opinion on Tiny Core Pure 64 and will you be using it again ?

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#2075 Post by James C »

zakjoh wrote:James C

What was your opinion on Tiny Core Pure 64 and will you be using it again ?
Still have it installed.

For a stripped down,very fast system it's got a lot of potential.Think I'll experiment with it for a while.

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#2076 Post by James C »

New Beta 1 release of the upcoming MX-15....both 32 and 64 bit.

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#News
So what does it include?

Desktop environment: Xfce 4.12
Browser: Firefox 42.0
Video Player: VLC 2.2.1-2
Music Manager/Player: Clementine 1.2.3
Email client: Thunderbird 38.3
Office suite: LibreOffice 4.3.3.2
GIMP
MX-Tools - a set of handy tools to simplify many user tasks such as installing codecs, managing user account, installing amongst others.
UEFI support (64bit, experimental)

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james@mx1:~
$ inxi -Fff
System:    Host: mx1 Kernel: 4.2-3.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.2 Distro: MX-15-b1_x64-mx Fusion 7 November 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU:       Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 3500 MHz 1: 2000 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 1400 MHz
           4: 2000 MHz 5: 3000 MHz 6: 2000 MHz
           CPU Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm aes aperfmperf apic arat avx bmi1
           clflush cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de
           decodeassists extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fma4 fpu
           fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibs lahf_lm lbrv lm lwp mca mce
           misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor msr mtrr nodeid_msr nonstop_tsc nopl
           npt nrip_save nx osvw pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb
           perfctr_core perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdtscp
           rep_good sep skinit sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm svm_lock
           syscall tbm tce topoext tsc tsc_scale vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wdt
           xop xsave
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 High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.2-3.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (1.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 34G used: 3.7G (12%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb11
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 18.2C mobo: N/A gpu: 33.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 224 Uptime: 27 min Memory: 585.0/7891.0MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.25 
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#2077 Post by zakjoh »

James C wrote:
zakjoh wrote:James C

What was your opinion on Tiny Core Pure 64 and will you be using it again ?
Still have it installed.

For a stripped down,very fast system it's got a lot of potential.Think I'll experiment with it for a while.
Any better or worse than Fatdog or is it too soon to say ?

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#2078 Post by James C »

zakjoh wrote:
James C wrote:
zakjoh wrote:James C

What was your opinion on Tiny Core Pure 64 and will you be using it again ?
Still have it installed.

For a stripped down,very fast system it's got a lot of potential.Think I'll experiment with it for a while.
Any better or worse than Fatdog or is it too soon to say ?
Still testing but since Fatdog is ready to use out of the box and still pretty darn small I lean toward Fatdog.

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#2079 Post by nubc »

Firefox OS 2.5 Developer's Preview (app)
I downloaded this bomb to my in-use smartphone, thought better of it, deleted the file, and downloaded it to my recently abandoned Moto G 3rd gen with Lollipop 5.1.1. After installing I made an immediate mistake of selecting "Always" open FF OS 2.5 rather than "Just Once", and attempted to uninstall it from General Settings, so I could start over. The Uninstall button was grayed out, so I did the logical thing, I forced the app to stop. Nothing worked after that. The Uninstall button remained grayed out. I rebooted, and FF OS started loading, but then I got a black screen for Home. I never saw Home icons again, just the three navigation buttons at the bottom. I made the mistake of deleting all the running pages including Settings, so I never could find Settings again after that. In the end, I had to do a full wipe and factory reset. Luckily, I have a similar setup on my working phone, so I could use Moto Migrate to move most of my data over from the other phone. Lost about 3 hours, not counting some details. First time I ever had to recover an Android smartphone. Not many options, really. I inspected FF OS 2.5 through the mist of my panic, for less than 2 minutes, noticed that the icons look very VGA and large. Just what I needed at 10pm, a smartphone crash.

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#2080 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Linux Mint 17.2 KDE to the hard drive of my AAO netbook,
it has a 1920x1080 monitor connected.

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Memory 1790MB (591MB used)
Operating System Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sat 14 Nov 2015 01:00:27 PM EST
Display
Resolution 2944x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation

Installed applications with the software manager and also added Kodi
and Smplayer/Smtube.

It's working well with the single core AMD processor.
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#2081 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed the latest version of LXLE, which is based on Lubuntu and is another good distro for older computers in my view.

http://www.lxle.net/
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.

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#2082 Post by Colonel Panic »

The beta of Mint 17.3 has just come out, which I'm posting from (live disk), and it looks good so far; it uses Cinnamon by default.

It's codenamed Rosa though, which is a bit confusing for those who have used or know of the Russian distro of the same name.
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#2083 Post by nubc »

nubc wrote:Firefox OS 2.5 Developer's Preview (app)
I downloaded this bomb to my in-use smartphone, thought better of it, deleted the file, and downloaded it to my recently abandoned Moto G 3rd gen with Lollipop 5.1.1. After installing I made an immediate mistake of selecting "Always" open FF OS 2.5 rather than "Just Once", and attempted to uninstall it from General Settings, so I could start over. The Uninstall button was grayed out, so I did the logical thing, I forced the app to stop. Nothing worked after that. The Uninstall button remained grayed out. I rebooted, and FF OS started loading, but then I got a black screen for Home. I never saw Home icons again, just the three navigation buttons at the bottom. I made the mistake of deleting all the running pages including Settings, so I never could find Settings again after that. In the end, I had to do a full wipe and factory reset. Luckily, I have a similar setup on my working phone, so I could use Moto Migrate to move most of my data over from the other phone. Lost about 3 hours, not counting some details. First time I ever had to recover an Android smartphone. Not many options, really. I inspected FF OS 2.5 through the mist of my panic, for less than 2 minutes, noticed that the icons look very VGA and large. Just what I needed at 10pm, a smartphone crash.
It only now occurs to me that the Puppy Linux project should be working on a launcher like this. Don't let me spill the beans if Barry is already hard at work on it. In other words, design Puppy as an app that can run in Android.

Before you try FF OS 2.5 Dev Preview app, you should install AirDroid from Google Play to give you the ability to uninstall apps remotely from a PC, just in case an app crashes your phone.

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#2084 Post by peebee »

http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/[quote="Alien"]I thought it would be a cool idea to celebrate the “farewell to udev
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Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64

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#2085 Post by cimarron »

Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.

Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.

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#2086 Post by Colonel Panic »

cimarron wrote:Thanks for the good news about Slackware. They sound committed to offering a real alternative to systemd. If Mint is eventually forced to follow Debian's path, I'll look for a Slackware-based distro for my wife's computer.

Salix looks pretty nice. Anyone tried it? It has Mate and KDE versions and also a light Openbox version.
Hi,

I have tried Salix and it didn't go particularly well for me although others had more success with it.

I mentioned it at the top of page 131 of this thread; I made at least one mistake in installation, which may have accounted for at least some of the problems I had with it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 639#851819

Nevertheless, I use Absolute now which works well for me and is based on Slackware 14.1. Vector's also a good distro which is based on Slackware, as is Zenwalk.

Good luck anyway; it's good to see other people using Slackware or Slackware-based distros as it's one of the oldest Linux distros around and even predates Windows 95.
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#2087 Post by DJ Puppio »

I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.

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#2088 Post by rufwoof »

DJ Puppio wrote:I like to jump around and use different distributions and operating systems.. All I really use computers for nowadays is doing my college homework and Internet "stuff". Adds some variety, heh.

So I have a Chromebook and an android tablet from ZEKI, My hard drive has Mint 17.2 installed. I run Ubuntu and different versions of Puppy off the flash drive.
If you installed a vnc/rdp server on your Windows box, that RDP's a puppy box, and install vnc client on your tablet, you could have all three working at the same time and controlled from your tablet.

My pup has 5 desktops each with different backgrounds and icons. In the image below case its running a 3D/animated Openshot/Blender title render (that usually takes a while and hogs CPU) - but running in isolation/separately doesn't load the Windows box.

With Samba server also running on the Pup, files/directories are just another tree under the Windows directory tree.
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#2089 Post by eric52 »

Fav Windows distros: XP2, 98SE
Fav Windows replacements: Zorin, Q4OS
Fav stock distros: Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint
Fav small distros: Puppy, Bodhi, antiX, Porteus
Fav odd distros: Puppy, Knoppix, SliTaz
Fav portable distros: Puppy, Knoppix
Most used distros: Puppy, Windows
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#2090 Post by harii4 »

Anyone try DietPi?
http://fuzon.co.uk/phpbb/index.php?sid= ... 3d7482db38

They support more than just raspberry pi boards.
Based off raspbian with added tools.
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