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hhh · 2024-08-25 05:45:43

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOBOOKWORM!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmihe3eUM

johnraff · 2024-08-25 06:43:25

hhh wrote:

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.

Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.

altman · 2024-08-25 13:54:06

hhh wrote:

Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOBOOKWORM!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhmihe3eUM

Wow, time goes so fast !

marens · 2024-08-25 14:42:40

@hhh

Days?

$ echo $((($(date +%s -d 20240825) - $(date +%s -d 20150917)) / 86400))
3265

Average number of posts per day?

$ echo 15181 / 3265 | bc -l
4.64961715160796324655

Unbelievable!!!

How long will it take me to get to those numbers?

Oh, sorry.
My system crashed.

DeepDayze · 2024-08-25 15:22:52

darknetmatrix wrote:

After much distro hopping I currently have on desktop 1 debian trixie/sid (cinnamon), on desktop 2 LMDE (cinnamon) and on my laptop debian bookworm (gnome).
Should I suddenly decide to replace one it will be back debian, lmde or fedora, I have decided not to run any more small scale distros because sooner or later they die a quiet death.

You see that also happen on Arch based distros too, so many will just end up sticking with plain Arch.

Sector11 · 2024-08-26 03:19:36

johnraff wrote:

hhh wrote:
Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.
Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.

And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!

johnraff · 2024-08-26 05:25:29

Sector11 wrote:

johnraff wrote:
hhh wrote:
Well, we're a year away from a decade here at BL.
Only 9 years? Seems like for ever.
And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!

I think we joined #! around the same time - same year certainly.
So, wow that's ~16 years total...
Somehow in my mind early CrunchBang days and the Linux Outlaws podcast are sort of mixed together.

Sector11 · 2024-08-26 16:51:53

johnraff wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
And let us not forget #! before that.
Some time in 2008 for me.
It's been a RUSH!
I think we joined #! around the same time - same year certainly.
So, wow that's ~16 years total...
Somehow in my mind early CrunchBang days and the Linux Outlaws podcast are sort of mixed together.

July 2007 - Win2k Died, Ubuntu 06 went on my drive the next day, It was as slow as W2k on my old PIII so I tried Xubu. It lasted a few months. I remember recommending #! to a few people before I even tried it. I was still in the "I need the [Start] button phase.
Xubu started getting very slow as well, so I bit the bullet in just under a year of using "U" Linux and hopped on to #!. And #! was based on Ubuntu then too. I was one of the ones that voted for Debian when Core asked us.

Never looked back.

Nili · 2024-08-26 19:13:13

It made me fly out of joy as my old computer started breathing freely with #!.

The old forum had undoubtedly many specialists' assistants.

I have used so far from 1999 up to now, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, XP, 7. 2011, on this year i passed on Linux and i never returned to Windows in my personal computer. Desktop on Linux, Ubuntu, Mint, #!, Debian, Devuan, Fedora, Tumbleweed.

Periodically i had run Alpine, ArchLabs and a bit of BSD. In the latter BSD, i did not get familiar quickly and gave up, I had to have insisted more, but i pulled out quickly.

#! It was a good time to be.

Döbbie03 · 2024-08-27 05:35:27

#! blew me away when I saw it for the first time. That dark Openbox theme with the wallpaper. Iconic.

johnraff · 2024-08-27 06:57:22

^For sure! It was sort of as if the terminal had come to life or something.

Döbbie03 · 2024-08-27 07:03:06

Very much so, and that right click desktop menu of Openbox just did it for me.

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-27 18:40:30

I saw a good write-up of Oreon on the Register today and thought I'd give it a try. It's a distro based on Alma and Gnome but with some tweaks to make it more desktop friendly.

Oreon is quite a pretty-looking distro with a nice lime green theme and seems to work well as a live disk. The only downside I've seen so far is that apart from Wine, you don't get a lot of application software supplied as standard for a 2.5 GB download; there isn't even an office suite supplied with it.

I considered installing it but I couldn't find an option to use Blivet (which for me is a must when I'm installing rpm-based distros) so I decided not to take it any further.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet-gui

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-27 19:18:50

Colonel Panic wrote:

I saw a good write-up of Oreon on the Register today and thought I'd give it a try. It's a distro based on Alma and Gnome but with some tweaks to make it more desktop friendly.
Oreon is quite a pretty-looking distro with a nice lime green theme and seems to work well as a live disk. The only downside I've seen so far is that apart from Wine, you don't get a lot of application software supplied as standard for a 2.5 GB download; there isn't even an office suite supplied with it.
I considered installing it but I couldn't find an option to use Blivet (which for me is a must when I'm installing rpm-based distros) so I decided not to take it any further.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet-gui

Could you install Blivet from within the live-session then use that tool?

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-27 20:16:41

Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;

https://pypi.org/project/blivet

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-31 09:47:49

A further note on Oreon; it's got the best out-of-the-box implementation of Wine that I've ever seen. Windows applications once installed open with a simple click on the menu entry, just as they would in Windows itself, and when I use Vim for Windows all the characters are there in the text with no glitches or omissions.

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-31 15:33:49

Colonel Panic wrote:

Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;
https://pypi.org/project/blivet

That might be a good workaround for blivet in the Oreon live session if the deps are easily installable. Wonder why blivet wasn't in the live ISO?

I remember some of the older BL releases didn't have GParted so installed it in live session and it worked there to set up my partitions on a brand new disk then go install when all looks good.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-31 18:37:42

DeepDayze wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;
https://pypi.org/project/blivet
That might be a good workaround for blivet in the Oreon live session if the deps are easily installable. Wonder why blivet wasn't in the live ISO?
I remember some of the older BL releases didn't have GParted so installed it in live session and it worked there to set up my partitions on a brand new disk then go install when all looks good.

Thanks for replying. I managed to install Blivet in the live session but it made no difference in the end because it didn't show up in the installation menu. I took a chance and installed Oreon to hard drive without it (which worked out well).

You make a good point about Gparted in Bunsen. GParted might be different because it is actual software (or rather a front end to actual software) rather than a bunch of Python scripts as Blivet is, but otherwise I don't know the reason why it didn't work out with Blivet.

hhh · 2024-09-02 23:46:05

chromeOS Flex. scrot and pros/cons here...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 08#p137808

Döbbie03 · 2024-09-04 07:17:33

I see ArchBang have called it a day.

https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/

End of an era.

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