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Döbbie03 · 2024-08-27 05:35:27

#! blew me away when I saw it for the first time. That dark Openbox theme with the wallpaper. Iconic.

johnraff · 2024-08-27 06:57:22

^For sure! It was sort of as if the terminal had come to life or something.

Döbbie03 · 2024-08-27 07:03:06

Very much so, and that right click desktop menu of Openbox just did it for me.

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-27 18:40:30

I saw a good write-up of Oreon on the Register today and thought I'd give it a try. It's a distro based on Alma and Gnome but with some tweaks to make it more desktop friendly.

Oreon is quite a pretty-looking distro with a nice lime green theme and seems to work well as a live disk. The only downside I've seen so far is that apart from Wine, you don't get a lot of application software supplied as standard for a 2.5 GB download; there isn't even an office suite supplied with it.

I considered installing it but I couldn't find an option to use Blivet (which for me is a must when I'm installing rpm-based distros) so I decided not to take it any further.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet-gui

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-27 19:18:50

Colonel Panic wrote:

I saw a good write-up of Oreon on the Register today and thought I'd give it a try. It's a distro based on Alma and Gnome but with some tweaks to make it more desktop friendly.
Oreon is quite a pretty-looking distro with a nice lime green theme and seems to work well as a live disk. The only downside I've seen so far is that apart from Wine, you don't get a lot of application software supplied as standard for a 2.5 GB download; there isn't even an office suite supplied with it.
I considered installing it but I couldn't find an option to use Blivet (which for me is a must when I'm installing rpm-based distros) so I decided not to take it any further.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet-gui

Could you install Blivet from within the live-session then use that tool?

Colonel Panic · 2024-08-27 20:16:41

Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;

https://pypi.org/project/blivet

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-31 09:47:49

A further note on Oreon; it's got the best out-of-the-box implementation of Wine that I've ever seen. Windows applications once installed open with a simple click on the menu entry, just as they would in Windows itself, and when I use Vim for Windows all the characters are there in the text with no glitches or omissions.

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DeepDayze · 2024-08-31 15:33:49

Colonel Panic wrote:

Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;
https://pypi.org/project/blivet

That might be a good workaround for blivet in the Oreon live session if the deps are easily installable. Wonder why blivet wasn't in the live ISO?

I remember some of the older BL releases didn't have GParted so installed it in live session and it worked there to set up my partitions on a brand new disk then go install when all looks good.

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Colonel Panic · 2024-08-31 18:37:42

DeepDayze wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Good suggestion, thanks! Possibly yes, but it comes with a few dependencies;
https://pypi.org/project/blivet
That might be a good workaround for blivet in the Oreon live session if the deps are easily installable. Wonder why blivet wasn't in the live ISO?
I remember some of the older BL releases didn't have GParted so installed it in live session and it worked there to set up my partitions on a brand new disk then go install when all looks good.

Thanks for replying. I managed to install Blivet in the live session but it made no difference in the end because it didn't show up in the installation menu. I took a chance and installed Oreon to hard drive without it (which worked out well).

You make a good point about Gparted in Bunsen. GParted might be different because it is actual software (or rather a front end to actual software) rather than a bunch of Python scripts as Blivet is, but otherwise I don't know the reason why it didn't work out with Blivet.

hhh · 2024-09-02 23:46:05

chromeOS Flex. scrot and pros/cons here...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 08#p137808

Döbbie03 · 2024-09-04 07:17:33

I see ArchBang have called it a day.

https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/

End of an era.

shortarcflyer · 2024-09-04 11:57:20

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Well, that sucks! :- (

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ratcheer · 2024-09-04 12:36:24

Yeah. I did ArchBang for a year or more, and it is what led me to "vanilla" Arch Linux, which I have now used for many years (at least ten).

Sector11 · 2024-09-04 14:11:59

It will live on in the hearts of many for a long time to come.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-04 15:20:33

Sorry to see this. ArchBang was one of the first distros I used and (before I broke it with an ill-advised system upgrade), it ran perfectly well even in 512 MB of RAM with fvwm-crystal as the window manager.

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altman · 2024-09-04 16:39:21

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Who;y shit , I wasn t expecting that one !

As stated, an other end to an era. But guess that he was a one man show, so it had to be expected as well sadly.

altman · 2024-09-04 16:40:22

Sector11 wrote:

It will live on in the hearts of many for a long time to come.

Pretty much so.

DeepDayze · 2024-09-04 18:31:49

Döbbie03 wrote:

I see ArchBang have called it a day.
https://archbang.org/2024/09/03/autumn- … to-an-era/
End of an era.

Wow damn...shame another light Arch distro gone. Have to hand it to him...he's as old as i am and there does come a time when to finally walk into the sunset after many years of maintaining this distro. RIP ArchBang.

Colonel Panic · 2024-09-06 10:18:52

I seem to be one of the few people here who's never really got on board with Arch. It's just too difficult to update without breaking something, and the user's forum is also notoriously unfriendly and intolerant of fools - or those its regulars consider to be fools.

When I was posting on the ArchBang forum, we were all told not to post any questions about ArchBang on the main Arch forum because its users wouldn't appreciate it. IMO, it's that kind of pettiness that puts newbies off trying a Linux distro.

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Sector11 · 2024-09-06 12:42:54

Colonel Panic wrote:

I seem to be one of the few people here who's never really got on board with Arch. {snip}

· I'm the same and for pretty well the same reason. I am happy to know that not all arch users are like those you talk about on the ARCH forum. Döbbie03, our newest moderator, is an ARCH user as well as a few other well known forum members. And they are friendly and very helpful.
· TeoBigusGeekus an avid ARCH user, took his weather script from Ubuntu forums, where they started out, to the Arch forums because of some problems he was having on the Ubu Forum.
· It didn't talk long that they deleted his thread and informed him that it was because it was attracting too many non-ARCH users to the forum.
· I talked with Corenominal about getting his weather scripts over on the #! forums and that's how we ended up having Teo's scripts here.

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