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hhh · 2026-05-21 18:33:59

Ha this been posted? Potato OS

https://www.lutherconaway.dev/

Sector11 · 2026-05-22 03:58:57

Döbbie03 · 2026-05-22 06:43:26

hhh wrote:

Ha this been posted? Potato OS
https://www.lutherconaway.dev/

Is the OS as potato as the webpage?

hhh · 2026-05-22 18:47:09

Döbbie03 wrote:

Is the OS as potato as the webpage?

I appreciate the dedication to the theme of 'potato'. Did you click the devlog link? The release names are parodying Ubuntu.

potato-os-devlog wrote:

If you take a closer look at the names, you might notice that they form a poem about Ethereal Workshop, an island in the videogame My Singing Monsters
1.0: Mindful Meeb (current release!)
2.0: Masterful Meebkin
3.0: Yearning Yooreek
4.0: Blaring Blarret
5.0: Ghastly Gaddzooks
6.0: Augmented Auglur
7.0: Fluid Flasque
8.0: Nifty Nitebear
9.0: Popular Piplash
10.0: Xenial X'rt
11.0: Teetering Teeter-Tauter
12.0: Wailing Whaill
13.0: Visualizing Vhenshun
14.0: Prickly Pentumbra
15.0: Riveting Rhysmuth
16.0: Ocular Oogiddy
17.0: Bending BeMeebEth
18.0: Wistful Workshop
19.0: Eternally Ethereal

https://sites.google.com/view/potato-os-devlog

Döbbie03 · 2026-05-22 19:36:40

Interesting The whole site felt more like a piss take than anything serious.

Jimbo_G · 2026-05-26 12:24:03

Was hoping the release names would all be different varieties of potato...

hhh · 2026-05-27 00:02:22

Spudly Do-Right

I'm not a Parsnip Dipshit

Idaho? Udaho!

boil 'em mash 'em

Rotten au Gratin (<-- I'm proud of this one.)

Freedom Fries

Sector11 · 2026-05-27 02:52:10

hhh wrote:

Spudly Do-Right

being a Canuck I saw this right away

Spudly Do-Right of the RCMP¹

¹ Royal Canadian Monty Python

hhh · 2026-05-28 00:37:50

^ I had to Wiki that, I didn't think it was literal. I remembered it as Dudley Doorite (I skipped the movie).

Sector11 · 2026-05-28 12:05:16

The movie was actually quite funny.
I'll forgive you for the name though, you're not a Canuck.

Colonel Panic · 2026-05-29 20:23:37

Just installed the latest version of Besgnulinux (4.0), and this time the installation went well. It's one of the few distros I've seen which has Brave as its main browser, and also has a good selection of games.

The (admittedly very pretty) interface has in the past had a tendency to break and dump me back at a very bare bones installation of JWM, but touch wood that hasn't happened so far.

hhh · 2026-05-29 20:34:11

@Sector11, what's Montreal-ish French-Canadian Argentinian for Besgnulinux? Lionel Messi?

https://www.intermiamicf.com/news/calle … d-cup-2026

Colonel Panic · 2026-06-03 08:31:49

i was excited to see yesterday that Exton has just released a new version of his distro based on Gentoo, ExGent, because I am a big fan of this one. The problem is that it's really large (just over 5 GB), so I'm going to have to either make space for it on my hard drive (i.e. by deleting another distro or more) or buy a bigger drive.

https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-5-min/

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chroot · 2026-06-03 13:02:09

Colonel Panic wrote:

i was excited to see yesterday that Exton has just released a new version of his distro based on Gentoo, ExGent, because I am a big fan of this one. The problem is that it's really large (just over 5 GB), so I'm going to have to either make space for it on my hard drive (i.e. by deleting another distro or more) or buy a bigger drive.
https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-5-min/

I am a bit confused. How can a distro be based on so many other distros? In this case, it's based on Arch, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Puppy, Slackware.

Colonel Panic · 2026-06-03 13:06:04

chroot wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
i was excited to see yesterday that Exton has just released a new version of his distro based on Gentoo, ExGent, because I am a big fan of this one. The problem is that it's really large (just over 5 GB), so I'm going to have to either make space for it on my hard drive (i.e. by deleting another distro or more) or buy a bigger drive.
https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-5-min/
I am a bit confused. How can a distro be based on so many other distros? In this case, it's based on Arch, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Puppy, Slackware.

They're all different distros It's perhaps clearer if you look at the download page for them all.

https://www.exton.se/download/

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2026-06-03 17:44:15)

PackRat · 2026-06-03 14:42:10

Colonel Panic wrote:

chroot wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
i was excited to see yesterday that Exton has just released a new version of his distro based on Gentoo, ExGent, because I am a big fan of this one. The problem is that it's really large (just over 5 GB), so I'm going to have to either make space for it on my hard drive (i.e. by deleting another distro or more) or buy a bigger drive.
https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-5-min/
I am a bit confused. How can a distro be based on so many other distros? In this case, it's based on Arch, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Puppy, Slackware.
They're all different distros :)It's perhaps clearer if you look at the download page for them all.
https://www.exton.se/download/

From the 'About Exton Linux" page:

MORE ABOUT EXTON LINUX (the text below is generated by AI (Gemini)
“Exton Linux” is the collective brand for the extensive work of Swedish developer Arne Exton. Instead of focusing on one single distribution, he creates and maintains a vast number of customized “respin” or “live systems” of major Linux distributions.

hhh · 2026-06-03 14:58:28

Gnoppix 26.6 Xfce, I'm going to install Commodore OS Vision soon.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 91#p151191

Martin · 2026-06-04 14:04:11

Back in FreeBSD after a rather long break.

* updating
* installing some more software
* setting up email client (Thunderbird for the first time in many years)

Very uneventful. Everything just works.

Disclaimer: I have not tried anything fancy and I know that some favorite things like Zotero are not available.

/Martin (posting from FreeBSD)

Colonel Panic · 2026-06-04 14:47:43

^^ Looks interesting.

I've just updated Slackware (current) using slackpkg. It left some packages (notably Firefox ESR) untouched, so I've had to download the latest versions of those separately from Eric's website and install them myself.

All the same though, Slackware just keeps on working and doing what it's supposed to without any issues.

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2026-06-04 15:23:04)

PackRat · 2026-06-04 20:29:53

A new Arch-based one for anyone interested - Kiro Linux

https://kiroproject.be/

Eric Dubois (ArcoLinux) back releasing a distro.

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