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DeepDayze

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

^ 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

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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Colonel Panic

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Re: Distro-hoppers anonymous

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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