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Colonel Panic · 2024-09-22 19:38:44

Currently upgrading my Debian Stable partition to Testing. It was surprisingly easy to set in motion; although it takes quite a long time to download and install all the new packages, I can do other things whilst it's going on (I'm posting this from Seamonkey).

I'll see how it works out. I've been pretty happy with Stable on the whole so the clincher will be whether or not I get the same level of stability as I've had before with somewhat more up to date software than Stable has. If I don't, I've still got the old installation disk so nothing will be lost.

Here are the instructions I used;

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-switch-from … o-testing/

[Update: I'm posting from Testing right now and I can't say I see a lot of difference between it and Debian Stable; even Firefox is still at version 115. Maybe the best solution is to stick with Stable and have backported applications for when you want or really need something up to date, such as Firefox 130.]

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DeepDayze · 2024-09-23 02:19:12

unklar wrote:

Build Debian ISO's yourself
https://linuxnews.de/debian-live-iso-selbst-bauen/
https://fai-project.org/FAIme/

source wrote:
Simple configuration
First you choose between basic and advanced configuration. In the first case, you can first define user. Password, localization and desktop can be defined. FAI.me builds images for both stable and testing. The desktop environment can also be specified. Care should be taken when selecting additional packages to be installed. If a package is specified that is not available in the selected suite, the installation will fail after a few minutes. An immediate check at the start of the build would be desirable here.
The option to include backports only works with Stable, but is also offered when selecting Testing. However, the build process does not fail because of this. Furthermore, developer tools, a web server, Open-SSH and non-free Linux firmware can be included by ticking the box. The firmware tick is particularly important when using the latest hardware.
I have just created a trixie/Lxde live iso, downloaded it and put it on the stick with dd.
First experience:
-works perfectly on the computer on which the ISO is created (this was a laptop)
the resolution is not correct on the desktop
But, you don't have to put it on a USB stick first, you can also install it on the first partition if you wish.

This would be useful for building a custom graphical rescue CD no doubt as you can include some good rescue tools in the image and a browser and IRC client of choice (useful for getting help!).

Thanks for sharing this

altman · 2024-09-23 12:50:06

Have Cachy OS on my desktop & still BL on my craptop.

darknetmatrix · 2024-09-25 07:44:18

@altman been doing cachyos for a long time? How do you like the arch base, currently I run fedora on desktop 1, opensuse tumbleweed on desktop 2 and debian stable on my laptop and I must say all three run well although my preference is opensuse which in my opinion deserves a little more love from the community.

altman · 2024-09-25 10:18:03

darknetmatrix wrote:

@altman been doing cachyos for a long time? How do you like the arch base, currently I run fedora on desktop 1, opensuse tumbleweed on desktop 2 and debian stable on my laptop and I must say all three run well although my preference is opensuse which in my opinion deserves a little more love from the community.

I really like it,I had to have an Arch-Derived distro as AL s out, so I choose that one @darknetmatrix.I ve been using it for 2-3 mints I would think of.I also use ArchCraft here & there, lightweith enough, looks like a wrapper to arch basically on my side.

As I have an NVidia GPU on this desktop, CachyOS it works out of the box without doing anything at install ( which is a real + ), but not perfect as some kernel & nvidia updates can end up into plymouth at boot !

I have the XFCE version installed.I don t really like its OpenBox version oddly enough & I don t want to mess tweaking it weirdly enough.

Their kernel versions are pretty impressive I must say if you re into that kind of thing.

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PackRat · 2024-09-25 21:41:36

altman wrote:

Have Cachy OS on my desktop & still BL on my craptop.

Which CachyOS desktop environment/window manager did you go with?

altman · 2024-09-25 21:54:23

PackRat wrote:

altman wrote:
Have Cachy OS on my desktop & still BL on my craptop.
Which CachyOS desktop environment/window manager did you go with?

Oh, XFCE @PackRat, back to an old love of mine ! lol

From my Siduction/Aptosid days.

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PackRat · 2024-09-26 20:10:20

altman wrote:

PackRat wrote:
altman wrote:
Have Cachy OS on my desktop & still BL on my craptop.
Which CachyOS desktop environment/window manager did you go with?
Oh, XFCE @PackRat, back to an old love of mine ! lol
From my Siduction/Aptosid days.

Aptosid - now there's a blast from the past.

Just installed CachyOS KDE on the testing laptop. Running pretty smooth.

altman · 2024-09-26 21:58:04

PackRat wrote:

altman wrote:
PackRat wrote:
Which CachyOS desktop environment/window manager did you go with?
Oh, XFCE @PackRat, back to an old love of mine ! lol
From my Siduction/Aptosid days.
Aptosid - now there's a blast from the past.
Just installed CachyOS KDE on the testing laptop. Running pretty smooth.

Lol @PackRat, yes sir concerning Aptosid.

One of the things thing that I like is their choice of kernel

One can also use Tuned ( not in CachyOS) as you can also use it on a lappy, as one can adapt it on powersave pr something alike.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tuned

https://computingforgeeks.com/optimize- … tuned-adm/

Edit;On Arch I would think it neees an hekper since in the AUR, s I use PikAUR on my end.

If interested;

https://github.com/actionless/pikaur

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altman · 2024-09-28 12:47:26

Well , I would think that I m back to my distro-hopping craze from years ago ! lol

I m back on MX-Linux FluxBox which has NVidia support out-of-the-box which is very convenient to me.

Looks pretty fast I must say, installed XanMod kernel, surprise-surprise !

Add/Removed apps as usual, loads of them as it seems to help with different peeps I would guess.

hhh · 2024-09-28 16:30:24

Cosmic DE Alpha 2...

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 19#p138519

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-03 14:31:00

New versions of Manjaro have just come out. I've downloaded and just installed the XFce version and so far it's working well; I had a few problems with my internet connection with the one I downloaded at the beginning of the year (sometimes there simply wasn't any connection, or it would start and later stop).

Edit; more problems I'm afraid, you have to be ultra-careful when using the boot-up menu or it will freeze and you have to switch the computer off and start again. I ended up installing an old version of AntiX into a different partition (goodbye Crunchbang++) to have a working boot menu again.

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altman · 2024-10-06 17:30:46

Well , bet my distro-hopping craze s back ! lol

Back to ArchCraft after a little stint on CachyOS.

Sector11 · 2024-10-06 21:05:06

Linux people go distro hopping.
Windows people go window shopping.

OK OK I'm leaving.

hhh · 2024-10-07 01:11:29

BSD users go window...

Sector11 · 2024-10-07 03:22:59

hhh wrote:

BSD users go window...

hhh · 2024-10-07 03:45:20

Yeah, I didn't know how to finish it. I guess BSD users go back to California? BSD users go Windows/iOS/Playstation?

Sector11 · 2024-10-07 14:41:22

I was thinking:
BSD people are Bogus System Direction

Martin · 2024-10-07 16:06:54

Hmm, I would like to try some BSD out some day.

/Martin

Colonel Panic · 2024-10-07 20:08:10

Me too. I've seen people like Anthony Campbell (the author who writes on medical and religious subjects) say that he uses OpenBSD exclusively now after a time with Linux.

Unfortunately the BSDs aren't easy to try out; I had a go with GhostBSD a while back and it ended in farce. There are very few live BSD disks to try, and if you want to install FreeBSD you have to reserve a whole hard drive for it.

I remember there was a distro a while back that tried to use FreeBSD as a base, but eventually gave up saying they found too many problems with it and they now base their work on Void instead.

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