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Colonel Panic · 2025-10-03 20:50:43

Thanks, I've downloaded this now. I agree that the Lilidog project deserves to survive and, if you're in touch with Sleek, please thank him for keeping the project alive..

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hhh · 2025-10-04 03:44:05

Colonel Panic wrote:

if you're in touch with Sleek, please thank him for keeping the project alive..

He's alive, kicking, and posting recently here.

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 47#p145647

sleekmason · 2025-10-04 12:05:42

Colonel Panic wrote:

Thanks, I've downloaded this now. I agree that the Lilidog project deserves to survive and, if you're in touch with Sleek, please thank him for keeping the project alive..

Thank you! :) Lilidog is still hosted on https://sourceforge.net/projects/lilidog/ and development will continue moving forward. Super excited to seeing what can be done further with Trixie!

Sector11 · 2025-10-04 18:57:40

sleekmason wrote:

Thank you! Lilidog is still hosted on https://sourceforge.net/projects/lilidog/ and development will continue moving forward. Super excited to seeing what can be done further with Trixie!

I must get my butt in gear and get my new BareDog (SoxDox) up and running.

I get nervous and procrastinate at these times.

dmontaine · 2025-10-05 00:19:33

In a perfect world I would hope the developers of BunsenLabs would adopt Lilidog and provide some of the things it is missing: A website presence, a repository and a forum subgroup. Apparently Sleek Mason just didn't feel able to manage the whole distro public presence thing, but still enjoys working with the software. The combination of his creativity with the skills of some of the BunsenLabs folks could create a really spectacular distro still based on Openbox, X11 (preferably xLibre) and tint2.

DeepDayze · 2025-10-08 03:25:45

sleekmason wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
Thanks, I've downloaded this now. I agree that the Lilidog project deserves to survive and, if you're in touch with Sleek, please thank him for keeping the project alive..
Thank you! Lilidog is still hosted on https://sourceforge.net/projects/lilidog/ and development will continue moving forward. Super excited to seeing what can be done further with Trixie!

He's alive!

Hope you are well, Sleek. Your little distro's still got a spot in my heart as well as on a spare disk

Perhaps will try out Lilidog updated to Trixie as well.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-10-11 06:10:56

nobody0 wrote:

^ The community (user) editions are encouraged and placed in the opening page of the distro, rather than seeing as competitors.
Even Ubuntu forums seems to encourage that, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2287591 That's how I found Bento, a woman made Openbox distro. http://phillw.net/isos/bento-ubuntu-remix/

Melodie (nice to see women doing this) has recently released an updated version of Bento, based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and I've just installed it. It looks good, has an extensive range of software and works very well; I particularly liked the fact that each of the four desktops are named after a different planet. The only thing it doesn't have is an e-mail client.

There are also versions of Bento based on AntiX and MX;

https://downloads.linuxvillage.org/?C=M;O=D

[Edit: Bento MX is fine too.]

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Colonel Panic · 2025-10-29 19:53:45

I've just installed the latest beta of MX-KDE (September 25th), and it seems to be working a lot better on my old Dell computer than the previous version of MX KDE did. Still quite heavy on RAM though (40% of 8 GB showing in Conky with just KDE and four tabs open in Firefox).

Here are the release notes;

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-infinity … -purposes/

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Colonel Panic · 2025-11-18 22:49:04

Gentoo have just released another, up to date live disk with KDE as it desktop environment, and I'm posting from it now. It's working flawlessly as far as I can see; its only problem is there is (deliberately) no way to install it to a hard drive or USB drive. It is a test disk only (although it contains some useful system utilities too).

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unklar · 2025-12-16 11:23:25

Inspired by these pages (cosmic and rust)
https://linuxnews.de/pop_os-24-04-lts-e … c-epoch-1/
https://system76.com/pop/download/
I performed the installation on a TP500 with 4 GB/3.75 GiB RAM. I was interested in Tilling.

Product: ThinkPad T500 2056-4QG [change]
Operating system: All [change]
Original description: T9400(2.53GHz), 2GB RAM, 160GB 5400rpm HD, 15.4in 1680x1050(WSXGA+)LCD, 256MB ATI Radeon HD3650, CDRW/DVDRW, Intel 802.11agn wireless, Bluetooth, Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Fingerprint reader, 6c Li-Ion, WinVista Business 32

Calamares is used as the installer. The installation was very slow. I was all the more surprised that working with PoP for surfing with FF-esr and e-mail is appealing.

Colonel Panic · 2025-12-25 23:12:09

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I've just installed Omega, a lightweight distro based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and using LXDE as its desktop manager. Apart from Chromium for web browsing, PcmanFM for file management and Mpv for multimedia it comes with very little software as standard, but it also doesn't have snap so you can install software on it the Debian way if you want to (as I have just done to be able to use Firefox).
Omega's probably not for everyone but might be of interest to someone who wants to build a Ubuntu-based distro more or less from scratch, a bit like WattOS (which is based on Debian) is now, especially if they want to keep it to lightweight applications like abiword or gnumeric. Nice wallpaper too.
https://ohjhas.github.io/omega-linux-en/index.html
Running ohjhas's github profile (which is in Spanish) through DeepL revealed this;
Hi I'm Ibsan Baza (known as ohjhas) I'm fond of Linux and other things, I'm the only developer of OmegaLinux and now I'm 17 years old.
https://github.com/ohjhas

A quick update here; Ibsan's just released the latest version of Omega (3.3), which is based on Lubuntu LTS 24.04.3. It's very similar to the earlier one I reviewed above except that it uses Firefox as its browser instead of Chromium. The download link is as in the post quoted;

https://github.com/ohjhas/omega-linux/r … alb67q.iso

As before, it is a good choice for someone looking for a lightweight distro that is based on Lubuntu LTS and who doesn't mind installing much of their own software.

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Pinhead · 2025-12-26 12:23:42

Bluefin - The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability

Colonel Panic · 2025-12-29 09:36:23

I've just installed the latest version of Mabox, which as most people here will know is a Polish distro based on Manjaro and which uses Openbox as its window manager.

It's obvious that a lot of thought has gone into Mabox, both in terms of design and practicality; I particularly liked the drop-down menu that is accessed from a middle mouse click on the desktop and enables a number of windowing tweaks to be accessed by a list of tick boxes. If I could change one thing, it would be the info display priorities; although it (Conky) looks very smart, the date (the 29th) is much more prominent than the time display, which is a smallish box on the extreme top right although I normally want to know the time much more often than I do the day's date.

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Colonel Panic · 2025-12-31 22:13:01

Reinstalled Spiral XFce (which is still based on Bookworm), and it is working well. This probably needs a new thread but I'm in no hurry to upgrade to Trixie at the moment.

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DeepDayze · 2026-01-01 01:49:31

Pinhead wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/V9eIf9Ct.jpg
Bluefin - The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability

This seems like a cool distro if you want to dive into immutable OSes.

Colonel Panic · 2026-01-01 18:24:22

Positively my last distrohop until - well it is still the holidays in Britain. I've just downloaded Nobara 43 and found it is too big to be burnt off to a DVD-R so I've had to install it from a USB pendrive.

Naturally, it comes with Steam for playing games but it is curiously lean in other ways - it doesn't have an e-mail client, for example, so you have to install your own. It uses Brave as its browser, but even with just four tabs open the system monitor shows 2.7 GB of Ram being used, so it's not a distro for low-specced computers.

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darknetmatrix · 2026-01-01 19:00:16

I've been using siduction, which is Debian Sid-based, for 19 days now, and everything is running smoothly without any problems. A big advantage is that with every dist-upgrade, a working version of the previous one is saved so that you can always revert to a working version.
As of today, my other desktop is running openSuse tumbleweed again with similar snapshots of your system.

Colonel Panic · 2026-01-15 14:28:51

TROMjaro's developers have just released a new edition of their distro. It looks like an interesting project; a Manjaro spinoff with an XFce desktop customised to look like Unity (only, in the developers' minds, improving on it).

https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12702

[Edit; other layouts are available but Unity is the default. The developers' comments are interesting but do contain some non family friendly language;

https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2 … efault/274

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greenjeans · 2026-01-16 18:23:47

Colonel Panic wrote:

TROMjaro's developers have just released a new edition of their distro. It looks like an interesting project; a Manjaro spinoff with an XFce desktop customised to look like Unity (only, in the developers' minds, improving on it).
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12702
[Edit; other layouts are available but Unity is the default. The developers' comments are interesting but do contain some non family friendly language;
https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2 … efault/274

Wow there's another super-cool detail in there, they are using MorsMortium's gtk-nocsd package and shipping it on their isos! We really need a .deb package of that program, it works on GTK3/4, libadwaita, and libhandy apps.
https://codeberg.org/MorsMortium/gtk-nocsd

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Colonel Panic · 2026-01-19 15:13:45

greenjeans wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
TROMjaro's developers have just released a new edition of their distro. It looks like an interesting project; a Manjaro spinoff with an XFce desktop customised to look like Unity (only, in the developers' minds, improving on it).
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12702
[Edit; other layouts are available but Unity is the default. The developers' comments are interesting but do contain some non family friendly language;
https://forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-2 … efault/274
Wow there's another super-cool detail in there, they are using MorsMortium's gtk-nocsd package and shipping it on their isos! We really need a .deb package of that program, it works on GTK3/4, libadwaita, and libhandy apps.
https://codeberg.org/MorsMortium/gtk-nocsd

Yes, it looks good although I'm a bit limited for free space on my hard drive at the moment and am reasonably happy with stock Manjaro XFCE, so don;t have any immediate plants to install it. Manjaro's a bit limited compared to some other distros but what it does do, it does very well.

I've also had a look at the latest version of Open SUSE Leap (16.0) but found the installation procedure a bit disconcerting; I couldn't find some of my usual Leap installation options and so decided not to go ahead with it, for the time being at least.

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