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nobody0 · 2015-12-18 15:25:11

g33zr wrote:

^The TOR browser comes with Tails.

That's true, but if you download the Tor browser, you'd have it in a folder in your home, whatever your distro. You simply run it as an app not connected to your system.

g33zr · 2015-12-18 15:55:00

I downloaded and installed TOR some time ago when #! was my main distro. To be honest, I didn't care for it, but I can live with it while playing with Tails. 8)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-20 19:12:40

Pacman's new hooks are looking *really* interesting and useful:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206427

The only drawback I'm finding with OpenBSD is the antediluvian package management so I may be installing a new Arch system soon to get a taste of the state-of-the-art 8)

Irulan · 2015-12-21 01:38:35

Speaking of which, I just tried Manjaro in a VM.
-H

Snap · 2015-12-21 06:18:29

The only drawback I'm finding with OpenBSD is the antediluvian package management

That's been my experience too after a few days on it. It's really good excepting that.

Snap · 2015-12-21 06:29:06

Speaking of which, I just tried Manjaro in a VM.

No manjaro VMs around here in a long while. Wanting to give Manjaro OpenRC a go too.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-21 10:59:36

Snap wrote:

The only drawback I'm finding with OpenBSD is the antediluvian package management
That's been my experience too after a few days on it. It's really good excepting that.

Ah yes, I forgot about your dependency issues.

You can build from ports instead and modify the makefiles to control the dependencies more tightly.

See this post on the @misc mailing list:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145035223421471&w=2

The thing about the BSDs is that the third-party applications (ie, anything not in the base system) are very much a secondary concern and one of the (many) advantages of OpenBSD is that the X server is part of the base system and so is developed in concert with everything else.

Snap · 2015-12-22 11:53:45

Thanks for the info, HoaS.

advantages of OpenBSD is that the X server is part of the base system and so is developed in concert with everything else.

That's a truly great one. The few WMs i've tried run noticeably smoother that in Debian. The way they deal with the Xserver makes a significant difference.

John · 2015-12-23 10:36:09

I tried voidlinux really stable distro just had nvidia problems but its my old
for testing installing systems on

Snap · 2015-12-24 09:18:49

Void rocks, but better get a good set of config and dot files on hand. You'll need to config almost everything starting from bash. The defaults are pretty lame.

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John · 2015-12-24 16:00:48

Snap wrote:

Void rocks, but better get a good set of config and dot files on hand. You'll need to config almost everything starting from bash. The defaults are pretty lame.

do you have some nice dotfiles to go with void if so could you share many thanks

john

mrneilypops · 2015-12-24 19:08:20

PuppyBang 6.0.3 Openbox!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayl-pK3 … KHxn8fJr8L

This distro is so fast installed on my flash drive running in RAM with persistent storage on a spare SSD.
I would definitely recommend giving this puppy a spin

Format flash drive FAT32

Download and run unetbootin
http://unetbootin.github.io/

Download PuppyBang image
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1EEyj … sp=sharing

Select image in unetbootin and copy image

Boot from USB flash drive into PuppyBang

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Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-24 19:37:05

MX15 is out!

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#News

This is a very polished release, highly recommended.

dhalgren · 2015-12-24 23:23:22

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

MX15 is out!
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#News
This is a very polished release, highly recommended.

Now that looks good. Downloading 32-bit to try on my old laptop. Thanks for the link.

Snap · 2015-12-25 07:01:38

do you have some nice dotfiles to go with void if so could you share many thanks

Not yet. Wish I had them. I mostly used Debian for last three years, so many system configs I'm used to don't work for Void. It's closer to Arch. When I run Void I have to spend a lot of time in the Arch (and Void) wiki and surfing the Arch forums for info and tweaks. Still a work in progress (and going very slow with it. For me it's being very time consiming. Way more than Installing and configuring Arch). Otherwise the system itself is stunning. I hope some day I'll have a nice set of Void's config & dot files to share on github or anywhere else.

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nobody0 · 2015-12-25 07:58:09

^ What would you say, if you can get a squashed Arch Openbox system for you to install manually? Manually means unsquashing, copy and paste and do few configs in chroot, such as adding user, localtime, host, hostname etc?

John · 2015-12-25 21:19:37

Snap wrote:

do you have some nice dotfiles to go with void if so could you share many thanks
Not yet. Wish I had them. I mostly used Debian for last three years, so many system configs I'm used to don't work for Void. It's closer to Arch. When I run Void I have to spend a lot of time in the Arch (and Void) wiki and surfing the Arch forums for info and tweaks. Still a work in progress (and going very slow with it. For me it's being very time consiming. Way more than Installing and configuring Arch). Otherwise the system itself is stunning. I hope some day I'll have a nice set of Void's config & dot files to share on github or anywhere else.

I'am back on debian i broke the void just love how debian just works the way i want it now to tweak it and do things under the hood but stupid me i lost all my fav sites with all nice stuff to do to debian

Snap · 2015-12-26 07:21:23

I didn't broke it but got stuck with some configs. I wasn't able to make them work yet. Still learning the Void way. Void is not for noobs. You really need to know the guts we usually take for granted in Debian and other systems. Think of it as a mid point between Arch and Gentoo with loads of flavors of (Open)BSD.

i lost all my fav sites with all nice stuff to do to debian

Debian is way easier and there's plenty of info in the webz, or just here. Just ask. We'll be happy to help.

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nobody0 · 2015-12-26 07:35:53

Manjaro Deepin edition, a user created distro. These user created distros are not only allowed in the forum, but are welcomed. Interesting forum post on it, https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?top … #msg244501 also it is announced in the main page of Manjaro website https://manjaro.github.io/
Downloaded it yesterday night.
Maybe such community created distros should be invited here too.

Snap · 2015-12-26 08:26:09

Yes, oberon seems to be a busy and generous guy. He's after the i3 and fluxbox editions too.

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