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Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-02 10:11:17

Slackware 14.2 is out!

http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.2.php

Downloading...
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PackRat · 2016-07-02 11:19:01

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Slackware 14.2 is out!
http://www.slackware.com/announce/14.2.php
Downloading...
8)

And Zenwalk 8.0 -for those that like having a package manager; I tried a couple of their beta releases, awesome job putting this one together.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-07-02 12:36:11

^ Nice, thanks PackRat

I wrote:

Downloading...

Got Slack:

It was a bit of a bugger though -- the LILO (bootloader) installation failed so I had to chroot into the system from an Arch live ISO image and install and configure GRUB from there and then the root password failed on bootup (keyboard setup, probably) so I had to boot using /bin/bash as init then remount the root filesystem read-write and change the root password.

PackRat · 2016-07-02 13:52:53

^ No problem - I suspect salixos will have their new iso's ready soon.

in the meantime - default Zenwalk:

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hhh · 2016-07-02 17:38:01

Mate Yakkety-Yak, they've rebuilt the mate libraries against GTK3 to make it even less resource hungry. Of course, less resource hungry bloat is still nearly twice the resources actually needed. Gorgeous theming, though, among many other niceties...

Mate is the desktop I'd recommend for a n00b, fo' sho'.

hhh · 2016-07-14 08:02:05

^Dang, that is so much nicer than what I just tested.

Ubuntu Unity via their 64 bit mini.iso

I should have just used the standard torrent download instead of the mini.iso...

http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/

It took twice as long as BL just to install the base system, and another hour and then some to download and install Unity over the web via tasksel>Ubuntu Desktop.

The result looked and behaved fine...

Then I checked the RAM usage...

I beg your pardon, half my RAM at idle? Stock Debian KDE uses 2/3rds of that, stock GNOME 1/3rd, MATE/XFCE/BL less than that. 32 bit BL boots to 120 MB or so, roughly 1/10th the RAM.

Unless I can trim this down, I vote thumbs down! BTW, purple and orange are awful together!

hhh · 2016-07-15 02:18:55

Agreed to all you said. gnome-shell installed on BL uses less than 200MB RAM at idle (more for 64 bit, of course)...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 121#p32121

hhh · 2016-08-01 22:00:24

Stickying.

hhh · 2016-08-01 22:01:19

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?pid=33956

Irulan · 2016-08-02 01:08:56

^ You'll want to add say, qtcurve an use qtconfig to make, say clementine (gtk app) look right.
-H

PackRat · 2016-08-30 01:03:52

Salix Xfce 14.2 released -

their flagship spin of Slackware, the xfce live, mate, openbox, and fluxbox editions will follow at their own pace.

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dolly · 2016-10-24 07:10:57

SalentOS is now based on Debian stable and comes with OpenBox as default choice.

http://www.salentos.it/

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-10-24 07:25:09

dolly wrote:

http://www.salentos.it/

Fascinating, they have a very similar desktop but a very different approach.

They seem to be keen to provide nice GUI tools for easy configuration of the desktop whereas we would prefer to encourage the user to edit the text-based configuration files directly, the UNIX way.

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose

For me, I seem to have switched to OpenBSD -- that DirtyCOW nonsense was the last straw

I now only use GNU/Linux for games...

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g33zr · 2016-10-29 12:22:12

I've done a 360-degree hop...back to Mint. I used Manjaro (Xfce and Cinnamon) for almost two years, but the a recent system update crashed the system on my old iMac when I was in the middle of a project. I really like Manjaro and love the Arch base and rolling release, but realize I don't want to spend more time than necessary fixing things when they break. Meanwhile, I bought a System76 desktop PC, which came with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS pre-installed, which my wife liked, but I can't warm up to the Unity DE. I was tempted to go with OpenSUSE or Debian, which I've also used in the past, but decided that presently Mint works best for my needs.

g33zr · 2016-11-07 01:43:26

Checking out KDE distros KaOS, Kubuntu, and OpenSUSE in VB. All are more responsive that expected.

vrkalak · 2016-11-07 07:37:40

I am "checking out" 2 distros with Openbox. (at the moment)

Salent-OS ... based on Debian instead of 'buntu with Openbox.

ICEBOX OS .. based on Ubuntu and Openbox.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-11-14 22:57:20

Oh ****, 9front have a new release:

LOOKS GREAT IN MOTHRA

Apparently, it works on X201 ThinkPads...

]:D

http://fqa.9front.org/

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martix · 2016-11-15 01:00:03

hhh wrote:

Ubuntu Unity via their 64 bit mini.iso
Unless I can trim this down, I vote thumbs down! BTW, purple and orange are awful together!

Every time I look at Unity, I just get a bad feeling... And what makes matters even worse is that for non-linux folks Ubuntu IS linux and if they give it a try, obviously they use out-of-the-box Ubuntu with godawful Unity. Fortunately I went with Debian and XFCE first and it was solid and robust like a tank, I just loved it.

ratcheer · 2016-11-15 12:52:22

I recently installed Gentoo, just to play around with it. It really takes you into the nuts and bolts.

Tim

shadowplay · 2016-11-15 20:47:43

ratcheer wrote:

I recently installed Gentoo, just to play around with it. It really takes you into the nuts and bolts.

I've been toying with that idea since the weekend, after a failed attempt to get FreeBSD fully functional on my laptop.

I installed FreeBSD 11, and used the ports system (source code download and "make install"). Took about 2 hours to get xorg compiled and installed, and another hour to get LLVM sorted. Then I had to install openbox plus usual supporting components like tint2, keepassx (plus the Qt dependencies!). Probably 5 hours in total :-)

Got it to boot into openbox (using the slim logon manager), but suspend/resume didn't work (suspend did, resume didn't - no way to get it up again without doing a power down and up again).

What i was surprised about was how easy it was to get encrypted ZFS running (using Geli). It works straight out of the box.

The previous weekend, I tried TrueOS, but couldn't get the installer to complete (just hung half way through - looked like an issue around the wifi init - weird, given that FreeBSD wifi worked flawlessly).

I was planning to try get a minimalist FreeBSD-based "BL look-a-like", but eventually gave up and put BL back on my laptop.

Which brings me to Gentoo.

I like the idea of defining what goes into the distro (maybe Arch is better suited!) and the process of compiling for your own h/w has some appeal.

Brings me back to the good ol' days of SuSE 6.x and compiling my own kernel just for the fun :-)

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