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#2641 2025-04-24 20:23:33

Martin
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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic wrote:

I've finally found a distro that used Regolith by default - Alien OS Regolith version, which is based on MX.

It's certainly different but it's an over 4 GB download.

It offers Floorp as a standard for web browsing, which is certainly unusual, in addition to Tor; and has Only Office for its office suite and Evolution for e-mail etc. I found t a bit of a hassle to get everything working in English though (it's a German distro and my first attempt at choosing a keyboard map ended up as Swedish).

Definitely one for those who want to take a chance on something a bit different.

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What's wrong with Swedish keyboard?
:-)

/Martin


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#2642 2025-04-24 21:34:25

Colonel Panic
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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Martin wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:

I've finally found a distro that used Regolith by default - Alien OS Regolith version, which is based on MX.

It's certainly different but it's an over 4 GB download.

It offers Floorp as a standard for web browsing, which is certainly unusual, in addition to Tor; and has Only Office for its office suite and Evolution for e-mail etc. I found t a bit of a hassle to get everything working in English though (it's a German distro and my first attempt at choosing a keyboard map ended up as Swedish).

Definitely one for those who want to take a chance on something a bit different.

.

What's wrong with Swedish keyboard?
:-)

/Martin

Hi Martin,

Quite a lot if you're not expecting it when you're typing a password in "blind" (i.e. all the characters covered by asterisks)!

It keeps on failing to log you in, and telling you "Wrong username or password", but you don't know why.

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#2643 2025-04-25 06:06:52

Martin
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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic wrote:
Martin wrote:

What's wrong with Swedish keyboard?
:-)

/Martin

Hi Martin,

Quite a lot if you're not expecting it when you're typing a password in "blind" (i.e. all the characters covered by asterisks)!

It keeps on failing to log you in, and telling you "Wrong username or password", but you don't know why.

OK, some time ago I found out, the hard way, that a popular Linux installer do not understand 'Swedish' characters when setting up disk encryption. No error message or so while setting things up. I just couldn't boot as my password was rejected. It took some trial and error to understand what was going on.

/Martin


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#2644 2025-04-29 11:50:31

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Bad things for Fedora...
Fedora 42 System Audit 2025


Complete the pattern, solve the puzzle, turn the key.

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#2645 2025-04-29 13:00:20

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Trying out the Crowz distro I had downloaded some time back. 

"CROWZ is a lightweight, Devuan-based Linux distribution. The project offers three graphical window managers: Openbox, Fluxbox, and JWM. CROWZ can be run from live media or installed to a hard drive using the Calamares system installer."

I installed the Openbox edition to my testing laptop to play around with for the fun of it.  Not to bad so far but I have a lot more playing to do with it.
My next "victim" on the fun agenda will be 4MLinux 48.0 for the heck of it.

crowz-Screenshot-2025-04-29-07-31-31.png


I use Arch BTW!  If it is not rolling, it is stagnant!
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#2646 2025-04-29 19:52:35

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

That "audit" is as lazy as the reviewer's eye big_smile

Enabling the Speculative Store Bypass mitigation by default would cause a significant performance hit and wouldn't actually improve the security of the official desktop because all supplied applications either use seccomp or call prctl directly. Hardly a "critical" security issue...

For balance here are the official positions of SUSE & Red Hat:

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019189

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/speculat … w-it-works

Red Hat wrote:

Mitigating Speculative Store Buffer Bypass attacks is a complex topic. We could simply globally disable every speculative performance feature. But that would rapidly remove many decades worth of performance gains across the industry. And doing so wouldn’t necessarily make us any safer in the process because in most cases store buffer speculation is safe. This is because applications that rely upon process-level separations aren’t impacted by this vulnerability. Thus, a “big hammer” approach of disabling store buffer speculation would unfairly penalize all applications to protect just a few that could be exploited through a carefully crafted attack.

And the systemd section is just pointless — all genuine UNIX® systems have their core utilities developed and maintained by the same team, as do the BSDs, so I fail to understand why this upsets Linux fans so much hmm

EDIT: Disclaimer:

~$ cat /proc/1/comm
dinit
~$

smile

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#2647 2025-04-29 20:45:00

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

That "audit" is as lazy as the reviewer's eye big_smile

He must be doing https://telepromptermirror.com/telepromptersoftware.htm

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#2648 2025-04-29 22:58:10

Colonel Panic
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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

shortarcflyer wrote:

Trying out the Crowz distro I had downloaded some time back. 

"CROWZ is a lightweight, Devuan-based Linux distribution. The project offers three graphical window managers: Openbox, Fluxbox, and JWM. CROWZ can be run from live media or installed to a hard drive using the Calamares system installer."

I installed the Openbox edition to my testing laptop to play around with for the fun of it.  Not to bad so far but I have a lot more playing to do with it.
My next "victim" on the fun agenda will be 4MLinux 48.0 for the heck of it.

https://i.postimg.cc/06mZZ3vt/crowz-Screenshot-2025-04-29-07-31-31.png

Thanks for the tip, I'm trying it now. It uses the WebGTK browser which is very lightweight but appears capable; I'm even listening to Sibelius on Youtube as I write this.

Update: Youtube playback seems to work for a few seconds then breaks down unfortunately. Playing mp3 files in Deadbeef works fine though.

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#2649 2025-05-03 16:18:13

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Have now also jumped on the distrohoppers wagon and traded my very stable bunsenlabs for openmandriva, something completely new to me, is the first introduction to this distro from France which is derived from the defunct Mandriva. There are the ‘rock’ and ‘rome’ versions, where rome is the rolling release I currently have running.


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#2650 2025-05-04 07:58:30

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@darknetmatrix

The first distro I used was Mandrake, which in turn became Mandriva. It was a pretty cool distro, though I replaced it with SuSe eventually.

I might have a look at openmandriva and give it a whirl, just to see how it stacks up. Relive some of my middle age!

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#2651 2025-05-05 16:16:58

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

I've gone back to 32-bit after experiencing a few problems with my machine recently, especially with booting it up and my internet connection dropping off.

So far the 32-bit versions of MX Fluxbox and Slackel Openbox have turned out absolutely fine, and Damn Small (which is based on 32-bit antiX) is pretty usable too. It's getting harder to find 32-bit versions of distros though, so I don't know for how much longer this is going to remain a viable solution.

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#2652 2025-05-07 08:10:55

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

A quick update; I've since installed Exton's version of Damn Small (DSL-E) which of course is also 32-bit and it seems to be working well. I've installed a 32-bit variant of Thunderbird called Icedove which I saw on the antiX forum, and Pale Moon which is also available in a 32-bit version.

So far so good; I can do in 32-bit most of what I could do in 64-but Debian. The only downside is that you're limited to just over 3 GB of RAM.

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#2653 2025-05-10 08:17:55

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

TileOS, a nice Debian based Wayland distro, quite stable. Built upon Bookworm with some packages backported from Trixie. This is the Sway version, there is another one for River and an experimental one for Qtile. Tested Sway and River.

2025-05-10-T09-58-46-404482523-02-00.png

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#2654 2025-05-11 15:07:40

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^ I'd love to see scrots posted in the Monthly Screenshot Thread and crosslinked from here. smile That's a very cool screenshot.

Also, @jesito, thanks for being a forum member for almost 10 years! Don't feel you need to wait over a year between posts. big_smile


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#2655 2025-05-11 22:10:57

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hhh wrote:

^ Also, @jesito, thanks for being a forum member for almost 10 years! Don't feel you need to wait over a year between posts. big_smile

My fault. I was a heavy Bunsenlabs user ten years ago, later on I did a lot of distro hopping. Not posting a lot here, but checking from time to time. The past two years I was very involved in Lilidog. After its closure I felt I should get back to Bunsen, so here I am, hopefully posting more often. Looking forward to Carbon and Wayland. And posting about different distros, I  carry the distrohopper virus in my blood...

Greetings to the many Lilidog colleagues I see here!.

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#2656 2025-05-12 01:15:27

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Installed LinuxHub Prime onto my testing laptop with the openbox window manager.  A very interesting Arch based distro with many different DEs and window managers that can be installed to suit your needs or wants.  It also alows one to build their own custom .iso if they choose to do so.  Info on it can be found here:
https://linuxhub.link/

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#2657 2025-05-12 23:15:24

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

jesito wrote:
hhh wrote:

^ Also, @jesito, thanks for being a forum member for almost 10 years! Don't feel you need to wait over a year between posts. big_smile

My fault. I was a heavy Bunsenlabs user ten years ago, later on I did a lot of distro hopping. Not posting a lot here, but checking from time to time. The past two years I was very involved in Lilidog. After its closure I felt I should get back to Bunsen, so here I am, hopefully posting more often. Looking forward to Carbon and Wayland. And posting about different distros, I  carry the distrohopper virus in my blood...

Greetings to the many Lilidog colleagues I see here!.

Hi there,

I'm posting this from Lilidog now! You should be proud (and Sleekmason too of course), it was a very fine effort.

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#2658 2025-05-13 02:30:12

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic wrote:
jesito wrote:
hhh wrote:

^ Also, @jesito, thanks for being a forum member for almost 10 years! Don't feel you need to wait over a year between posts. big_smile

My fault. I was a heavy Bunsenlabs user ten years ago, later on I did a lot of distro hopping. Not posting a lot here, but checking from time to time. The past two years I was very involved in Lilidog. After its closure I felt I should get back to Bunsen, so here I am, hopefully posting more often. Looking forward to Carbon and Wayland. And posting about different distros, I  carry the distrohopper virus in my blood...

Greetings to the many Lilidog colleagues I see here!.

Hi there,

I'm posting this from Lilidog now! You should be proud (and Sleekmason too of course), it was a very fine effort.

Lilidog was a nice little distro and shame Sleek couldn't keep it going and here's hope he can regain his health.

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#2659 2025-05-13 21:41:18

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

Colonel Panic wrote:

I'm posting this from Lilidog now! You should be proud (and Sleekmason too of course), it was a very fine effort.


Sleekmason and Packrat are the ones that desserve the merit. I was just a moderator on the forum. It was a great learning experience for me, I miss it. Hope that Sleekmason can recover quickly.
I still keep a copy of Lilidog on my main laptop, migrated it to Trixie. Currently on awesome but looking forward to Wayland and Sway. And of course, back to Bunsen that is an old friend.


3D or not 3D, that is not anymore the question.

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#2660 2025-05-13 22:20:33

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jesito wrote:

Sleekmason and Packrat are the ones that desserve the merit.

Sleekmason did the heavy lifting. Lilidog was pretty much a one-man operation.


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