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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Another installation that worked; Gecko XFce 15.4 (Leap version). Gecko is a spin of OpenSUSE with added multimedia codecs etc. to make it more usable "out of the box" than OpenSUSE itself;

http://geckolinux.github.io/#download

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Lubuntu _with_ the Liquorix kernel. -Hinto

That looks interesting!

Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I've just completed the first update of the New Year; Siduction Wintersky, a 612 MB download after 2 weeks. It's working well though and I've just installed the MATE desktop after updating (I downloaded the XFCE version originally).

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I have been using Lilidog as my main distro on my laptops as of late.  Openbox WM and I am really satisfied with it!
https://lilidog.org/

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

My favorite Linux Distributions For 2022
Bunsen Labs is second.

https://www.dbts-analytics.com/favdstr22.html

TC

Tried Linux Lite on a virtual machine today: Nice and helpful. I was a little surprised by the RAM footprint -- almost one GB right after boot up. Also, the internet is an awful experience with Chrome and no add blocking. No other objections though.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I have been using Lilidog as my main distro on my laptops as of late.  Openbox WM and I am really satisfied with it!
https://lilidog.org/

https://i.imgur.com/VRtbY9pm.png

Lilidog is a favourite.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Question:

I have used Virtualbox for years for checking out Linux and BSD distros. Sometime in December I came across someone who claimed moving over to QEMU is the thing to do and Virtualbox virtual machines could be converted with ease. Are there any benefits from doing this apart from QEMU being FOSS?

Checking out distros is pretty much all about running Live ISOs but I have a 'permanent' Linux installation in a VM and a WXP installation for legacy reasons.

/Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

QEMU speaks directly to the KVM kernel module, so your VMs should run smoother and use up less resources.

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Been using Manjaro for about 6 months or longer and really like it. I like the rolling release, but I miss the stability of a Debian distro. Not that Manjaro is unstable, but I'm always scared time I update if today is the day it goes # and !.

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the day it goes # and !.

Nice,

el_koraco

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Manjaro... I like the rolling release.

Rebooting every couple of weeks like some peasant? No thank you.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Been using Manjaro for about 6 months or longer and really like it. I like the rolling release, but I miss the stability of a Debian distro. Not that Manjaro is unstable, but I'm always scared time I update if today is the day it goes # and !.

That's because Manjaro is based on Arch like Ubuntu is based on Debian.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Question:

I have used Virtualbox for years for checking out Linux and BSD distros. Sometime in December I came across someone who claimed moving over to QEMU is the thing to do and Virtualbox virtual machines could be converted with ease. Are there any benefits from doing this apart from QEMU being FOSS?

Checking out distros is pretty much all about running Live ISOs but I have a 'permanent' Linux installation in a VM and a WXP installation for legacy reasons.

/Martin

Just try and see. I use qemu with virt-manager (in Debian repo) as a gui for years. Never looked back to Virtualbox since.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Question:

I have used Virtualbox for years for checking out Linux and BSD distros. Sometime in December I came across someone who claimed moving over to QEMU is the thing to do and Virtualbox virtual machines could be converted with ease. Are there any benefits from doing this apart from QEMU being FOSS?

Checking out distros is pretty much all about running Live ISOs but I have a 'permanent' Linux installation in a VM and a WXP installation for legacy reasons.

/Martin

Just try and see. I use qemu with virt-manager (in Debian repo) as a gui for years. Never looked back to Virtualbox since.

Seems virtualbox has had some weird bugs lately where VM's lose connection  to the host and thus can't access my test webserver that's in a VM. Might try virt-manager sometime.

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Question:

I have used Virtualbox for years for checking out Linux and BSD distros. Sometime in December I came across someone who claimed moving over to QEMU is the thing to do and Virtualbox virtual machines could be converted with ease. Are there any benefits from doing this apart from QEMU being FOSS?

Checking out distros is pretty much all about running Live ISOs but I have a 'permanent' Linux installation in a VM and a WXP installation for legacy reasons.

/Martin

Just try and see. I use qemu with virt-manager (in Debian repo) as a gui for years. Never looked back to Virtualbox since.

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Martin

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Question:

I have used Virtualbox for years for checking out Linux and BSD distros. Sometime in December I came across someone who claimed moving over to QEMU is the thing to do and Virtualbox virtual machines could be converted with ease. Are there any benefits from doing this apart from QEMU being FOSS?

Checking out distros is pretty much all about running Live ISOs but I have a 'permanent' Linux installation in a VM and a WXP installation for legacy reasons.

/Martin

Just try and see. I use qemu with virt-manager (in Debian repo) as a gui for years. Never looked back to Virtualbox since.

+1

OK, I add that to my computer TODO list, below updating my OS installs.

Right now all things computer are on the back burner though as other projects have priority.

/Martin

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Colonel Panic

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Been using Manjaro for about 6 months or longer and really like it. I like the rolling release, but I miss the stability of a Debian distro. Not that Manjaro is unstable, but I'm always scared time I update if today is the day it goes # and !.

That's because Manjaro is based on Arch like Ubuntu is based on Debian.

Yes. I can't get Manjaro to install on my system (although weirdly, Mabox, which is based on Manjaro, will install on it).

In other news; Exton has just released his latest version of ExGENT (a live distro based on Gentoo). I've tried it as a live disk and it seems OK except that I can't find any way to adjust the display resolution (there's no xrandr utility). Also, for a 3.5 GB download it's odd that there's no office suite included as standard.

https://www.exton.se/exgent-gentoo-64bi … -in-3-min/

I've since tried to install it but no luck. I may try again when I get some more space on my hard drive.

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@Colonel Panic - with this failed install ( https://forum.archlabslinux.com/t/probl … nu/6993/23 ) were you trying to install into a VM or straight to the hard drive?

And ArchLabs has a new release  - https://forum.archlabslinux.com/t/archl … lease/7082

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And PackRat has 7,294 USB sticks with every distro (version) he as ever tried.

Hence the name.

You must unlearn what you have learned.
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Me: "Yes, sir."
Boss: "Good, forget everything they taught you.  Now we teach you how things are done in the real world."
Me: "Yes, sir."

That's when my forgetter started getting better.

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

@Colonel Panic - with this failed install ( https://forum.archlabslinux.com/t/probl … nu/6993/23 ) were you trying to install into a VM or straight to the hard drive?

And ArchLabs has a new release  - https://forum.archlabslinux.com/t/archl … lease/7082

Straight to the hard drive. Thanks for the notification re Arch Labs btw but at the moment I'm trying to see if I can get my ExGENT (based on Gentoo) install right; the old version was one of the most trouble-free distros I ever used, and ExGENT doesn't have SystemD on it which is an attraction. Unfortunately the highest display resolution I can get with it is 1024x768.

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