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Döbbie03 · 2024-12-29 16:45:55

Sector11 wrote:

Döbbie03 wrote:
@S11 especially if you have an underpowered machine and your network is slow. Would be painful.....
And a memory system that looks like a badly made block of Swiss cheese.

Sounds like it would go with some nice crackers.

DeepDayze · 2024-12-31 23:09:18

Döbbie03 wrote:

@S11 especially if you have an underpowered machine and your network is slow. Would be painful.....

Such as on a Dell Mini 9 :-)

Colonel Panic · 2024-12-31 23:10:45

Still updating at the moment. I've just updated OpenSUSE Leap 15.5, probably for the last time at it reached its end of life date today (31st December). After today you're advised to upgrade to Leap 15.6.

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-03 10:11:55

I've now installed Exton's spin on Fedora 41 (Defender). It's working well except that as is usual with Exton's spins it comes with the bare minimum of installed software so you have to add in a lot of extra software (it doesn't even come with an office suite).

I've also installed IceWM as the main window manager I find that works better with Fedora than Gnome does (or maybe I just don't like Gnome).

https://www.exton.se/extondefender-fc41 … ld-241210/

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Sector11 · 2025-01-03 16:53:58

Colonel Panic wrote:

I{snip} (it doesn't even come with an office suite).

In my books that's a plus

{snip 2} (or maybe I just don't like Gnome).

Yup, me neither.

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-05 19:03:21

Glad to see I'm in good company! Google Earth runs very well in it too, much better than it does in XOrg, because it has Wayland installed as standard (the same goes for Nobara, which is also based on Fedora).

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-10 22:57:35

Just installed the latest version of ExTix (24.12), which is based on Ubuntu 24.10. It's working reasonably well so far except that I couldn't get Opera 114 to install for some reason.

https://www.exton.se/extix-24-12-based- … ld-241223/

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Döbbie03 · 2025-01-11 03:59:01

Wow, just spent an hour and half or so trouble shooting as to why my kernel wouldn't update to the latest version and why I couldn't see the kernel in /boot/efi etc etc etc in Gentoo.

Turns out a tool called "installkernel" that is meant to automatically update the configs for efistub in fact did not automatically update anything. Removed it, rebuilt the kernel, followed usual steps to update and BOOM!

Kernel 6.12.9 booting by default.

hhh · 2025-01-11 05:58:11

^ Sweet. Only at 6.11.0-13 here on Ubuntu, but no problems with it. And rebuild the kernel? Oh yeah, Gentoo.

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-11 06:46:51

This time I went with the binary package. Saves some time

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-16 11:43:43

I've just downloaded the latest version of DebEX, Exton's spin on the forthcoming version of Debian (Trixie) and with KDE as standard, and am running it in RAM. Although I haven't installed it yet it all seems to be working OK.

[Edit: the installation went well too. I had to enable the OS prober in Grub to bring back the full range of installed distros onto the bootup menu though.]

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Colonel Panic · 2025-01-19 19:16:21

Just installed EndeavourOS from a magazine cover disk. It's early days yet but everything looks OK so far except that grub wouldn't install (so I had to use the grub on DebEX instead).

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Colonel Panic · 2025-01-23 00:48:38

Me, near the end of last year; "I think I'm done with this distrohopping lark. Just a few well-chosen distros from now on."

Also me, a bit later last year; "Oh look, there's a pack of 50 blank DVD disks for sale on EBay for a bargain price ...."

Just downloaded deadbang, will try it tomorrow.

Sector11 · 2025-01-24 13:32:45

Colonel Panic wrote:

Me, near the end of last year; "I think I'm done with this distrohopping lark. Just a few well-chosen distros from now on."
Also me, a bit later last year; "Oh look, there's a pack of 50 blank DVD disks for sale on EBay for a bargain price ...."
Just downloaded deadbang, will try it tomorrow.

There's only one thing to say:

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-29 22:32:07

Döbbie03 wrote:

Today was the day I learnt of ExGent! Thanks for the link, I will save that for another day.
I'm glad I did it the traditional way, it's real sense of satisfaction.

You're welcome Dobbie, there's a new version out now. I've downloaded it but haven't yet burnt it off or installed it to my hard drive; on past experience though, it should be good.

https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-3-min/

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-30 04:12:54

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

Colonel Panic · 2025-01-30 08:02:12

You;re welcome Dobbie. I've just updated Spiral (based on Debian oldstable, although the newer versions are based on Debian stable), and it's an amazingly light download; just 215 MB, and a lot of that was due to the fact that I use Opera amongst other browsers. It's a refreshing change from the likes of Fedora with their need for frequent and heavy updates.

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Sector11 · 2025-01-30 12:22:54

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:

That's great, thanks for the heads up.

MY MIND: Great another AI spammer

so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead

OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.

DeepDayze · 2025-01-30 17:57:32

Sector11 wrote:

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:
That's great, thanks for the heads up.
MY MIND: Great another AI spammer
so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead
OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.
https://i.ibb.co/D85HV3v/big-smile-sm.png

Lol you need more coffee in the morning!

Döbbie03 · 2025-01-31 05:03:17

Sector11 wrote:

I just woke up and still half a sleep I see in my email:
That's great, thanks for the heads up.
MY MIND: Great another AI spammer
so I look for the funny name in the email: Döbbie03
YUP a spammer ... a lovable little brother but still a spammer in good stead
OK folks, move alone nothing to see here.
We now return you to your regular distro-hopping, enjoy your day.
https://i.ibb.co/D85HV3v/big-smile-sm.png

Hey! I definitely spam one thread in particular, but I'm no spammer!!!!

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