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Nili · 2022-05-11 13:38:55

Fedora 36. This is the 3rd upgraded version from 34>35>36. A fine OS to me.

DeepDayze · 2022-05-11 15:22:47

Pop!-OS seems promising too especially the latest version coming based on Ubuntu 22.04.

hhh · 2022-05-11 18:19:39

Nili wrote:

Fedora 36. This is the 3rd upgraded version from 34>35>36. A fine OS to me.

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

Nili · 2022-05-12 06:51:25

hhh wrote:

Screenshot or it didn't happen.

It happened, It happened thankfully well upgrading from 35 to v36. Thanks

Bearded_Blunder · 2022-05-12 11:18:48

Colonel Panic wrote:

Fair enough, although there is an Arch variant that defaults to OpenRC too.

Indeed there is, allegedly, but if you try to set Artix up using LUKS/LVM or even plain LUKS Calamares simply crashes at the partitioning stage. If you use the non-gui install you're back with the same pain as Gentoo, but with poorer and less detailed instructions.

I can't actually comment if Artix is any good or not, since I can't get it to install in a secure fashion, not that I'm prepared to try very hard either. I've literally never had a successful install of any distro that uses that abortion as its installer, Why people rave about it defeats me, it'll be as dark a day if Debian switch as it was when they switched to systemd.

I'm done with attempts to troubleshoot Calamares, maybe I'll try again when that mess actually works instead of randomly closing / crashing when you click next.. which if I recall it also does at later stages if you pick a partition layout that doesn't crash it.

So back to fighting Gentoo it is.. chroot back in for the Nth time & try to figure out what step I missed getting it to unlock the encryption & mount the logical volumes at boot. I'll figure it out eventually, I've only got 5 browser tabs open yet, I generally seem to need to have at least 8 & sometimes a dozen for installing Gentoo.

jeffreyC · 2022-05-12 22:44:34

MX Linux wrote their own installer to avoid using Calamares, when you stop and think about how small the MX team is that tells you something.

DeepDayze · 2022-05-13 00:44:45

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MX Linux wrote their own installer to avoid using Calamares, when you stop and think about how small the MX team is that tells you something.

I have MX-21 on a spare drive and the install was painless and error free. Definitely much better than Calamares. When I tried a distro that used Calamares I pre-partition the drive beforehand so as not to use the partitioner in the installer. Just picked the mount points basically that was it.

Colonel Panic · 2022-05-17 15:53:42

Just installed the latest version of Salix (15.0 alpha 2), and although it's early days yet everything seems to be working well though sound needed a bit of fiddling with from the "Settings" panel before it could be gotten to work (currently listening to Roxy Music's "Sea Breezes", which sounds great).

It works on a similar concept to Zenwalk; one application per task, so Firefox for web browsing, LibreOffice for the office suite, Ristretto to view images etc.

Must admit I'm not enamoured with the new XFce theme (Adwaita) though I daresay you could add new ones. Also, is Claws Mail really a better option than Thunderbird?

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PackRat · 2022-05-17 17:01:14

Colonel Panic wrote:

Just installed the latest version of Salix (15.0 alpha 2), and although it's early days yet everything seems to be working

Good to see SalixOS is still going. Is alpha-2 released as a live image?

Bearded_Blunder · 2022-05-17 20:03:58

ColonelPanic wrote:

Just installed the latest version of Salix (15.0 alpha 2), ...

I'm still pegging away at Gentoo..

Jobs: 61 of 64 complete, 1 running Load avg: 10.7 10.9 9.7

It's looking like it's making the old Core2 work it's two cores pretty hard..

beardy@GD8000-Gentoo ~$ genlop -c

 Currently merging 62 out of 64

 * dev-qt/qtwebengine-5.25.3_p20220406

     current merge time: 1 day, 5 hours, 27 minutes and 35 seconds.
     ETA: unknown.

That's just the (still incomplete) time for that ONE depend for Calibre.

Calibre is taking longer than LibreOffice or Firefox did, & neither of those was exactly fast...

I must be insane putting Gentoo on old hardware with only 4 GB of RAM and a spinning drive.

Colonel Panic · 2022-05-17 20:41:37

PackRat wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Just installed the latest version of Salix (15.0 alpha 2), and although it's early days yet everything seems to be working
Good to see SalixOS is still going. Is alpha-2 released as a live image?

Not at this stage, no; it's install only at the moment. Also, LILO is the only choice of boot manager offered right now and Grub isn't an option.

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Colonel Panic · 2022-05-25 02:18:55

I've just installed Ultramarine 36, a distro which is based on Fedora and which describes itself as a successor to Korora (which was also based on Fedora, and which I used to like).

It uses Budgie as its window manager, looks good and works well enough but it doesn't come with a particularly wide range of software for a 1.9 GB download (there's no E-mail program included, for example).

DeepDayze · 2022-05-28 15:49:23

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've just installed Ultramarine 36, a distro which is based on Fedora and which describes itself as a successor to Korora (which was also based on Fedora, and which I used to like).
It uses Budgie as its window manager, looks good and works well enough but it doesn't come with a particularly wide range of software for a 1.9 GB download (there's no E-mail program included, for example).

I am sure that this distro is compatible with Fedora's repos so you should be able to easily install any programs you desire after installation.

Man I remember Kororaa...got to play with it but now the ISO image I had of it is lost to time as the hard drive I saved the ISO to is long gone to the graveyard

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PackRat · 2022-05-28 23:55:58

SalixOS 15 beta

Colonel Panic · 2022-05-30 18:04:18

DeepDayze wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
I've just installed Ultramarine 36, a distro which is based on Fedora and which describes itself as a successor to Korora (which was also based on Fedora, and which I used to like).
It uses Budgie as its window manager, looks good and works well enough but it doesn't come with a particularly wide range of software for a 1.9 GB download (there's no E-mail program included, for example).
I am sure that this distro is compatible with Fedora's repos so you should be able to easily install any programs you desire after installation.
Man I remember Kororaa...got to play with it but now the ISO image I had of it is lost to time as the hard drive I saved the ISO to is long gone to the graveyard

Thanks for the info. I've got most of what I want already installed (in Ultramarine) so it's not really a problem, but I might add some Fedora repos later and see what else is available.

I don't think I have any Kororaa ISOs left either. I burnt the last one I had to a DVD and must have gotten rid of it during one of my clear outs of Linux DVDs.

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Martin · 2022-06-10 19:26:41

Nili wrote:

hhh wrote:
Screenshot or it didn't happen.
It happened, It happened thankfully well upgrading from 35 to v36. Thanks

I decided to give Fedora a spin on a virtual machine earlier in the week. I had no luck. The live session boots but all I get in the end is an empty and dead desktop. I get a blue-grey background and the top bar with clock, shut down button etc but nothing works.

Any ideas on what might be the issue?
I am using Virtualbox. I have used VB for trying out both Linux distros and BSDs and have never seen this before.

/Martin

Colonel Panic · 2022-06-10 22:37:12

Just updated Siduction, a 1,036 MB total download. I've installed i3 on it, with which it works very well.

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unklar · 2022-06-11 07:39:34

Colonel Panic wrote:

Just updated Siduction, a 1,036 MB total download. I've installed i3 on it, with which it works very well.

Madness!

Colonel Panic · 2022-06-11 12:32:37

unklar wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Just updated Siduction, a 1,036 MB total download. I've installed i3 on it, with which it works very well.
Madness!

Won't be the first time that's been said about me. What do you think is mad, updating Siduction or using i3 on it?

unklar · 2022-06-11 12:50:13

Colonel Panic wrote:

unklar wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:
Just updated Siduction, a 1,036 MB total download. I've installed i3 on it, with which it works very well.
Madness!
Won't be the first time that's been said about me. What do you think is mad, updating Siduction or using i3 on it?

Well, I think I've said this before: my updates are done after 3-4 weeks at the latest (due to vacations) and there the download is at most ~ 7-800 MB. Otherwise weekly. Because of the risk of breakage.

So. siduction you lucky guy. ]:D

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