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DeepDayze · 2020-06-12 01:09:09

Devuan looks interesting maybe the BL netinstall magic script may work (albeit with possibly some tweaks) with a Devuan based distro. Must not hurt to try BL on a Devuan base and I might try it in a VM.

Last edited by DeepDayze (2020-06-12 01:09:47)

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-02 22:58:42

Zenwalk 15.0

http://www.zenwalk.org/

Based on Slackware Current July 2020, w/ Xfce 14.4

One app for each task. Just too many tasks covered, for my taste. Dozens and dozens of apps. Would like to see a minimal version. Was snappy and responsive on my older Core 2 Quad Core w/ 8GiB. Installer was not really for beginners, but not hard either; a text-mode dialog-based installer.

Wallpaper changed from stock to this one, which was provided. Also turned off desktop icon layer for access to right click apps menu. Stock theme and icons. Three panels, system tray (upper right), Whisker Menu (upper left), and window buttons, (vertical on left side)

8bit

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-03 03:11:16)

unklar · 2020-07-03 08:06:31

@8bit

Excellent work!

Personally, I don't like a surplus of apps either.
Also XFCE has never really been my case. But this wallpaper is stunning. cool

Thanks for sharing.

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-03 12:45:05

^ Thanks for the kind words.

8bit

Edit: Link to wallpaper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hk3Hkd … sp=sharing

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-03 17:26:25)

hhh · 2020-07-03 22:08:31

^@al, access denied, even if I login to my Google account.

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-03 22:19:30

^ hhh, try it now, please.

8bit

hhh · 2020-07-03 23:21:22

eight.bit.al wrote:

^ hhh, try it now, please.
8bit

That works, and it's lovely (as the title suggests). Downloaded, I might theme this one. You should post it to 'Artwork and Screenshots>Wallpapers'

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-09 04:02:18

neptune

Modified from stock. Replaced the plasma panel with tint2.

8bit

ohnonot · 2020-07-09 07:31:03

^ I don't understand. I see no indication that NeptuneOS uses the awesome window manager. You don't seem to be using it either. Why the choice of wallpaper, and how come it has the Neptune logo on it?

unklar · 2020-07-09 08:21:31

siduction with Plasma 5.19.3 (because Debian is still at 5.17)

Direct-Link

I have the ISO from here (there is no more recent one).

After checking the md5, I installed to disk. Please note that the calamares installer is broken on the ISO. You have to use the cli-installer.

It took me two tries. big_smile The first one went wrong, because I did not update the new system at first. I immediately set up the new repo's of Nobert Preining and then did the update (437 packages were updated and 20 removed).

After the second installation I updated the system first. I updated 771 packages, reinstalled 21 and removed 3 packages.
Then I set up the repo's from Norbert Preining and updated the system again. 155 packages were updated and nothing was removed.

There are a lot of apps and tons of settings. After rebooting the system has a RAM consumption (according to Conky) of 570MB.
And ps_mem.py

# ./ps_mem.py
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program

 96.0 KiB + 120.0 KiB = 216.0 KiB       start_kdeinit
116.0 KiB + 192.0 KiB = 308.0 KiB       sleep
220.0 KiB + 266.0 KiB = 486.0 KiB       gpm
312.0 KiB + 446.0 KiB = 758.0 KiB       cron
352.0 KiB + 490.0 KiB = 842.0 KiB       rtkit-daemon
392.0 KiB + 566.0 KiB = 958.0 KiB       irqbalance
324.0 KiB +   1.0 MiB =   1.3 MiB       shellserver.sh
716.0 KiB + 756.0 KiB =   1.4 MiB       ssh-agent
696.0 KiB + 856.0 KiB =   1.5 MiB       rpcbind
664.0 KiB +   1.0 MiB =   1.7 MiB       dconf-service
676.0 KiB +   1.1 MiB =   1.8 MiB       agent
504.0 KiB +   1.6 MiB =   2.1 MiB       avahi-daemon (2)
684.0 KiB +   1.5 MiB =   2.2 MiB       su
884.0 KiB +   1.4 MiB =   2.3 MiB       at-spi-bus-launcher
  1.1 MiB +   2.0 MiB =   3.0 MiB       startplasma-x11
  1.2 MiB +   2.5 MiB =   3.7 MiB       gsettings-helper
  1.7 MiB +   2.2 MiB =   3.9 MiB       accounts-daemon
  1.4 MiB +   2.6 MiB =   4.0 MiB       systemd-timesyncd
  1.3 MiB +   2.8 MiB =   4.1 MiB       systemd-logind
  2.2 MiB +   2.4 MiB =   4.6 MiB       smartd
  1.9 MiB +   3.1 MiB =   4.9 MiB       sddm
  2.0 MiB +   3.0 MiB =   5.0 MiB       upowerd
  1.6 MiB +   3.5 MiB =   5.0 MiB       sddm-helper
  1.9 MiB +   3.2 MiB =   5.2 MiB       cupsd
  2.7 MiB +   3.0 MiB =   5.7 MiB       wpa_supplicant
  2.1 MiB +   3.8 MiB =   5.9 MiB       cups-browsed
  3.2 MiB +   3.2 MiB =   6.4 MiB       haveged
  3.0 MiB +   3.6 MiB =   6.5 MiB       polkitd
  2.6 MiB +   4.3 MiB =   7.0 MiB       xembedsniproxy
  2.7 MiB +   4.4 MiB =   7.1 MiB       kscreen_backend_launcher
  2.9 MiB +   4.7 MiB =   7.6 MiB       gmenudbusmenuproxy
  3.0 MiB +   5.0 MiB =   8.0 MiB       bash (2)
  3.4 MiB +   4.7 MiB =   8.1 MiB       dbus-daemon (3)
  4.2 MiB +   4.6 MiB =   8.8 MiB       systemd-udevd
  4.6 MiB +   5.5 MiB =  10.1 MiB       ModemManager
  5.5 MiB +   5.6 MiB =  11.1 MiB       preload
  5.3 MiB +   6.5 MiB =  11.8 MiB       udisksd
  4.7 MiB +   8.1 MiB =  12.8 MiB       kactivitymanagerd
  5.9 MiB +   7.1 MiB =  12.9 MiB       colord
  4.9 MiB +   8.7 MiB =  13.7 MiB       klauncher
  5.0 MiB +   8.9 MiB =  13.9 MiB       kaccess
  5.4 MiB +   9.7 MiB =  15.1 MiB       polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
  1.5 MiB +  13.8 MiB =  15.4 MiB       kdeinit5 (4)
  5.7 MiB +   9.8 MiB =  15.4 MiB       kwalletd5
  5.7 MiB +  10.6 MiB =  16.4 MiB       ksmserver
  6.3 MiB +  10.1 MiB =  16.5 MiB       kglobalaccel5
  6.1 MiB +  11.0 MiB =  17.0 MiB       org_kde_powerdevil
  7.6 MiB +   9.7 MiB =  17.3 MiB       NetworkManager
  6.2 MiB +  12.0 MiB =  18.2 MiB       DiscoverNotifier
  4.5 MiB +  14.7 MiB =  19.2 MiB       systemd (3)
  8.7 MiB +  11.0 MiB =  19.7 MiB       conky
  9.9 MiB +  11.2 MiB =  21.1 MiB       systemd-journald
 15.8 MiB +  18.4 MiB =  34.2 MiB       pulseaudio
 12.7 MiB +  23.1 MiB =  35.7 MiB       kded5
 15.7 MiB +  21.8 MiB =  37.5 MiB       korgac
 18.8 MiB +  21.1 MiB =  39.9 MiB       packagekitd
 25.3 MiB +  47.5 MiB =  72.9 MiB       konsole
 32.9 MiB +  48.7 MiB =  81.6 MiB       Xorg
 54.1 MiB +  63.8 MiB = 117.9 MiB       keepassxc
 60.6 MiB +  85.8 MiB = 146.4 MiB       kwin_x11
 85.2 MiB + 128.6 MiB = 213.8 MiB       latte-dock
 89.9 MiB + 135.1 MiB = 225.1 MiB       plasmashell
---------------------------------
                          1.4 GiB
=================================

A few pictures.
A nice gimmick is the dock LATTE, which Norbert included in the repo based on the hints on his website. It works similar to Plank and is easy to configure everywhere.

Direct-link Direct-link Direct-link Direct-link Direct-link

Last edited by unklar (2020-07-10 11:29:37)

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-09 09:35:03

ohnonot wrote:

^ I don't understand. I see no indication that NeptuneOS uses the awesome window manager. You don't seem to be using it either. Why the choice of wallpaper, and how come it has the Neptune logo on it?

This is the live image from https://neptuneos.com/en/start-page.html.
https://neptuneos.com/en/changelog.html

That's the included wallpaper I liked best.

8bit

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-09 09:55:21)

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-09 14:57:17

unklar wrote:

siduction with Plasma 5.19.3 (because Debian is still at 5.17)
I have the ISO from here (there is no more recent one).

patience or experimental?

TIA
8bit

edit: please share the incantation you used to get cli-installer to run. Thx

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-09 17:04:26)

unklar · 2020-07-09 20:04:34

^^I used "patience".

big_smile Try

sudo cli-installer

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-09 20:21:44

^ Thx, I did that. got an "input-output error" Thought it might need some additional perimeters.
Maybe I'll go back and try again.

Thanks,
8bit

edit: worked this time. seen stranger things happen...

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-09 20:33:52)

unklar · 2020-07-09 20:28:38

and without "sudo" ?

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-09 20:35:37

without sudo it couldn't 'find' cli-installer

just under 4 min to install, fast

8bit

edit: 1010 packages can be upgraded.

edit: also, thanks for blazing the trail.

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-09 20:44:52)

unklar · 2020-07-09 20:46:44

has just been tested again:

if you have logged on to the Live-Iso as user "siducer" and the password "live", then the text installer appears after entering the command the cli-installer

sudo cli-installer

OK, you found it... big_smile

Good luck.

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-13 04:02:24

MX Linux Plasma Beta1

Changed the theme, icons, wallpaper, right-click menu, etc...

8bit

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-13 12:39:03)

hhh · 2020-07-13 10:28:49

^ That's forum-member stevep's project. Damn that's good. That's Plasma running as light as BL lithium runs.

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-14 22:54:46

OpenStage Linux

https://www.openstagelinux.org/

Completely stock:

8bit

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-14 23:00:03)

DeepDayze · 2020-07-14 23:03:13

eight.bit.al wrote:

OpenStage Linux
https://www.openstagelinux.org/
Completely stock:

8bit

That looks cool...and I see it's Arch based.

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-15 19:05:14

Void - Xfce

https://voidlinux.org/

Installer was not really for beginners, but not hard either; a text-mode dialog-based installer.
First boot after installing showed error: FXCE PolicyKit Agent. And every boot thereafter.
Prt Scr key created an error: xfce4-screenshooter not found. Installed it.
Enabled the right-click menu, (openbox was one of my first DE/WM) Got rid of the MAC-like panel at the bottom.
Connection Established popup repeated every second non-stop. Firefox could surf the web but not sync.
I usually stay with a distro for a few days, but I'm giving up on this one. Too many errors.
And on a personal note, I don't like the package manager. YMMV.

8bit

Last edited by eight.bit.al (2020-07-16 02:34:38)

eight.bit.al · 2020-07-16 00:02:18

^ Thanks, I read that on the Void website. Sad, a unique distro.
Ikey's making a comeback! So much chatter on #serpentos...

8bit

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DeepDayze · 2020-07-16 03:46:21

I see you are quite the distro hopper 8bit smile

Sector11 · 2020-07-16 03:55:52

My name is Sector11 and I am a recovered Distro-Hopper

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