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#2806 Post by Colonel Panic »

I've just installed Crunchbang Plus Plus (32-bit). It's a bit more "vanilla" than its close relative (Bunsen Labs Helium), but it works very well and IMO merits a recommendation, especially for people with older computers.
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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#2807 Post by Colonel Panic »

I managed to install Sparky 5.4 (the latest version) but it wouldn't boot :( so I've gone back to an old favourite - MX 16, which on updating works really well (Firefox updates to 60, for example).

It's getting to the stage now where there seem to be very few distros that work without a hitch on this machine, which at ten years old is frankly showing its age, but after all you only need *one (and Puppy still works).

* In practice I'd have a minimum of two apart from Puppy, because there are some programs which work well on Debian-based distros but which don't work well on Slack-based ones, and vice versa. I'd have at a minimum one of each.

[UPDATE, 23rd September; Sparky 5.5 is even worse on my machine. I couldn't get it to boot even to a live session.]
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Bar connection requests from certain countries

#2808 Post by rufwoof »

After seeing regular probes of various kinds, more often originating from within China, I've opted to totally bar connection requests from certain countries (using OpenBSD and pf) as per https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article ... 0527054301

Was interesting to watch what type of penetration methods are being deployed, but time to ring the bell.

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#2809 Post by rufwoof »

I've been pretty hard core jwm/rox for years now. However increasingly I'm booting cwm. Key combinations are 'awkward' at first, but with practice become second nature. I have mostly been using full screen windows and flipping between those windows, however more recently I've moved from using ctrl-alt-f for full screen to ctrl-alt-m for maximise to full screen bar the gap border (that I have set to be the left screen edge).

https://youtu.be/9oTIsPe_x_g

ctrl-alt-f is still of course available and useful in some cases.

I'm not a great one for using many different combinations of key-combinations. In addition to the above the only others I tend to use are alt-shift-? to invoke the execute program prompt (i.e. type fir ... and press enter to start firefox etc.), alt tab (thumb and pinky) to flip between windows, ctl-alt-x to quit a window (crab finger arrangement) ... oh and I also set/use ctrl-alt-comma (<) and ctl-alt-period (>) for volume up and down.

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#2810 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Mint 19 to my HP mid tower pc:

System: Host: bill-260-p029 Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP product: 260-p029 serial: N/A
Mobo: HP model: 81B4 v: 01 serial: N/A UEFI [Legacy]: AMI v: F.04 date: 05/10/2016
Battery hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
hidpp__1: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-6100T (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 800/3200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel HD Graphics 530
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Card-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723be
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (2.5% used)
Weather: Conditions: 82 F (28 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: July 3, 7:59 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 196 Uptime: 1:22 Memory: 601.4/3807.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

I installed some applications, didn't try flatpaks yet.
Turned on time shift, other features are available but haven't tried
them yet.

It's running fine so far.
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Linux Mint 19 Tara

#2811 Post by Billtoo »

I installed to the hard drive of my Compaq Presario:

System: Host: bill-DQ182A-ABA-S6700NX-NA410 Kernel: 4.15.0-24-generic i686 bits: 32 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: desktop System: Compaq Presario 061 product: DQ182A-ABA S6700NX NA410 v: 0nB1411RE101COBRA10 serial: N/A
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Cobra v: 1.xx serial: N/A BIOS: American Megatrends v: 3.28 date: 08/27/2004
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-MT-) speed: 2799 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV530 [Radeon X1600 PRO]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1600x900@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: ATI RV530 version: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Network: Card: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver: 8139too
Drives: HDD Total Size: 320.1GB (5.1% used)
Weather: Conditions: 88 F (31 C) - Clear Time: July 4, 4:08 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 165 Uptime: 1:22 Memory: 413.1/2262.7MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

This processor is 32bit, was surprised to see that there's a 32bit mint
19 so gave it a try.

Mint 19 runs not too badly on this pc.
I run radky's Stretch-7.5 rc3 from the second hard drive and it runs
a little faster.
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Slax now based on Debian !

#2812 Post by fredx181 »

Since a long time ago I looked at Slax by Tomas M.
https://www.slax.org/nl/
Around ten years ago it was the first portable system I discovered (later Puppy and Porteus) and I was excited !!
Although looking back it was a big hassle to to create a properly working module with all dependencies included, but it was fun !

Now Slax has changed very much, still a modular system but now based on Debian Stable, I like that !
Can be frugal installed by copying the "slax" directory from the ISO for example to sda1, then grub4dos menu.lst:

Code: Select all

title Run Slax
root (hd0,0)
kernel /slax/boot/vmlinuz vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=perch,automount
initrd /slax/boot/initrfs.img
Didn't find out yet how to save changes, btw.
EDIT: See now that the changes are automatically saved to directory: /slax/changes , nice !

Fred
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#2813 Post by Galbi »

+1 for Slax !!

Booting from the IPXE.iso from a virtual machine, it's nice toy to play with. :D

Downloading now...

Thanks.

Saludos.
Remember: [b][i]"pecunia pecuniam parere non potest"[/i][/b]

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#2814 Post by nic007 »

Going to try this as a frugal install, looks promising.

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Re: Slax now based on Debian !

#2815 Post by Billtoo »

fredx181 wrote:
Now Slax has changed very much, still a modular system but now based on Debian Stable, I like that !
Can be frugal installed by copying the "slax" directory from the ISO for example to sda1, then grub4dos menu.lst:

Code: Select all

title Run Slax
root (hd0,0)
kernel /slax/boot/vmlinuz vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 slax.flags=perch,automount
initrd /slax/boot/initrfs.img
Didn't find out yet how to save changes, btw.
EDIT: See now that the changes are automatically saved to directory: /slax/changes , nice !

Fred
Hi

I followed your example and slax boots from the 2nd hard drive on my old Compaq.

It's all new to me, kodi runs well.

Thanks
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#2816 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Mint 19 to the hard drive of my Macmini:

System: Host: bill-Macmini Kernel: 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1
Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine: Device: laptop System: Apple product: Macmini6 1 v: 1.0 serial: N/A
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 v: Macmini6 1 serial: N/A
UEFI: Apple v: MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202 date: 11/16/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3210M (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 1201/3100 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile version: 4.2 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl
Drives: HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (6.8% used)
Weather: Conditions: 59 F (15 C) - Clear Time: July 8, 7:36 AM EDT
Info: Processes: 183 Uptime: 42 min Memory: 653.4/15947.7MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

Works well.
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#2817 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Slax to a 64gb flash drive.

System: Host: slax Kernel: 4.9.0-6-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)
Machine: Device: laptop System: Apple product: Macmini6 1 v: 1.0 serial: C07JV98EDWYL
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-031AEE4D24BFF0B1 v: Macmini6 1 serial: C072496085YF1HCAG
BIOS: Apple v: MM61.88Z.0106.B03.1211161202 date: 11/16/2012
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-3210M (-HT-MCP-) speed/max: 1199/3100 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.org 1.19.2 drivers: vesa (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev)
tty size: 80x24 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Network: Card-1: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM57766 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
driver: tg3
Card-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n
driver: bcma-pci-bridge
Drives: HDD Total Size: 561.6GB (8.2% used)
Weather: Conditions: 68 F (20 C) - Clear Time: July 8, 11:28 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 142 Uptime: 15 min Memory: 267.0/15958.8MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.5

I added synaptic and a few others including Kodi.
It's working okay, haven't figured out how to setup for 2 monitors.
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#2818 Post by Colonel Panic »

Fun and games today. I decided to install LXLE 16.04 but the installer stalled and wouldn't accept my choice of user name or password, so I couldn't log in.

I logged into MX-16 and from there managed to chroot into the LXLE partition and add in my user name and password, only to find, when I did finally log in to LXLE, that the menu text was in either (I'd guess) Persian or Arabic - very pretty to look at but I haven't a clue what it all means or how to navigate it all. I'm coping by launching uxterm by clicking on its icon on the taskbar, and then typing in whichever application I wish to launch.

[EDIT; I solved this in the end by clicking on a couple of buttons at the top right of the login screen, to change the keyboard and language settings; it was Arabic originally].

I'm probably not part of the target market for LXLE though since for me, Ubuntu 16.04 works just fine on its own. I've installed Openbox in it and a handful of other programs such as dmenu, gkrellm and tint2 too, and plank, which comes with Budgie, is a perfectly good program dock.
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#2819 Post by Colonel Panic »

Another good one; Slint, a distro based on Slackware and Salix but with extra features for the benefit of users with sight problems, and so far it looks to be working well.

It's a big distro though, occupying about 11 GB of hard disk space, and I had to enable internet connectivity myself (with dhclient) as it wasn't working straight from installation.
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#2820 Post by Colonel Panic »

Shark Linux is a distro based on Ubuntu but with a pleasant, sea-related theme and wallpaper and a relaxed attitude to the free software / open source question;

http://sharklinuxos.org/?page_id=7449

I tried to install the latest version of Shark but it got to the startup screen and then wouldn't boot. I installed last year's version of Shark instead (which went without a hitch) and then updated it, and it's been fine.

[EDIT: it's now frozen up on me when I've left it for about a quarter of an hour and then come back to it. I may install a different window manager on it and see what it's like then.]
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#2821 Post by Colonel Panic »

Just installed the beta of Mint Debian 3 (Cinnamon). It's working very well and I honestly can't see any difference between this and the Ubuntu-based version of Mint.

Just one small gripe though; I much prefer the wallpaper and standard theme of the old Mint. Dark is the order of the day now it seems.
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#2822 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Ubuntu-18.04 to the hard drive of my Hp desktop:

System: Host: bill-260-p029 Kernel: 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.28.2
Distro: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Machine: Device: desktop System: HP product: 260-p029 serial: N/A
Mobo: HP model: 81B4 v: 01 serial: N/A UEFI [Legacy]: AMI v: F.04 date: 05/10/2016
Battery hidpp__0: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
hidpp__1: charge: N/A condition: NA/NA Wh
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-6100T (-MT-MCP-) speed/max: 800/3200 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel HD Graphics 530
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 ) driver: i915 Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
Card-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver: rtl8723be
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1031.7GB (1.1% used)
Weather: Conditions: 77 F (25 C) - Partly Cloudy Time: August 4, 10:04 PM EDT
Info: Processes: 261 Uptime: 1:38 Memory: 1112.8/3807.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

I was running another OS on this pc but I prefer Ubuntu to it.
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#2823 Post by Colonel Panic »

The latest beta of Slackel 7.1, a Greek distro based on both Salix and Slackware, is out now and includes recent versions of both Firefox (61.0.2) and LibreOffice (6.0.5.2). I've been testing the Openbox version (the only one they've released so far in the 7.1 series) and it comes with a pleasant green theme and matching soft focus wallpaper of what to me looks like a field of long grasses.

And as far as I can see, everything seems to work. Definitely worth a look in my view.
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#2824 Post by Colonel Panic »

Installed AntiX 17.1 (64-bit) today, and it's working well and seems very economical on resources (the default wallpaper of a train station in the evening is surprisingly effective
too);

https://distrowatch.com/images/cgfjoewdlbc/antix.png

BTW, although I haven't done any comparison test between the system resources the 64-bit version uses compared to the 32-bit, I haven't so far noticed any great difference between the two.

[EDIT: Nope, the second time I tried it the X server broke and hasn't come back. I'm getting seriously tired of this.]
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#2825 Post by Billtoo »

I installed Manjaro to the hard drive of my Lenovo desktop:

System: Host: bill-pc Kernel: 4.14.66-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 7491B8U v: ThinkCentre M58e serial: <root required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A serial: <root required> BIOS: LENOVO v: 5HKT39AUS date: 06/17/2009
CPU: Dual Core: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 type: MCP speed: 2529 MHz min/max: 2003/3003 MHz
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GT216 [GeForce GT 220] driver: nvidia v: 340.107
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.1 driver: nvidia resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 220/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.107
Network: Device-1: Marvell 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet driver: sky2
Drives: Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 6.44 GiB (2.2%)
Weather: Temperature: 17 C (63 F) Conditions: N/A
Current Time: Thu 30 Aug 2018 11:57:04 PM EDT (America/Rainy_River)
Info: Processes: 138 Uptime: 59m Memory: 3.86 GiB used: 1.24 GiB (32.2%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.21

I installed a legacy nvidia card so I'd be able to connect two monitors,
Manjaro installed the proprietary driver.
There is an option to select from 7 or 8 kernels, I chose the
recommended LTS kernel.

Works well so far.
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