Distro-hoppers anonymous

clusterF · 2019-08-14 14:51:23

^ yeah that is a strange mix of software going on for an operating system.

Ive recently tried Guix, the GNU Linux distro. The download and installation via an iso in qemu took over 2 hours for some reason, works fine for the moment though. Need more time to play around with it, especially the package manager. Earlier versions lacked a decent terminal installer i believe?, they seemed to have ironed out the bugs in the curses installer i used. Oh yeah, i chose the Xfce desktop and man that brought in over 600 MB of dependencies with no way that i knew of at the time of installing to stop, so i can only gather that the meta package is a requirement for xfce to work, lots of bloat i will never use. They use a similar function to debian tasksel to choose xfce or mate or gnome, so i guess you just have to learn how to do a frugal install if that is possible.

https://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?d … ion=guixsd

https://guix.gnu.org/

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ohnonot · 2019-08-14 18:01:27

glittersloth wrote:

Scouring Distrowatch today, just catching up with stuff. Found this in one of their Distrwatch Weekly roundups.
BlueLight Linux wrote:
BlueLight, formerly called OS.js Linux, is a lightweight web-based Linux distro powered by OS.js. It uses the power of Electron to run a cloud based operating system, OS.js, to provide the user with a more web-based experience.
What?!! Am I the only one here that thinks this is an amalgamation of everything that's wrong in the world? This is why there'll never be a year of the Linux desktop. Because we've got people distributing this kind of dipshittery that tries to replace the wheel with an egg shell!

But there's still hope
Distrowatch Reviewer wrote:
At the time of writing there is no documentation on installing the distribution and the link to the project's wiki is broken. The project's blog is also off-line at the time of writing, making me wonder if the project may be abandoned.
Good!! Hopefully the neanderthings that thought up this asinineism have dropped off the face of the planet.

Oh my, the whole review reads like a joke.
Actually, the whole roundup.
I guess we need more stories like this to show the complainers how well off they actually are with something like debian (or bunsenlabs of course)

cog · 2019-08-26 07:51:36

Author of i3s distro experiment. Kind of interesting.

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/201 … ng-distri/

clusterF · 2019-08-26 13:35:17

cog wrote:

Author of i3s distro experiment. Kind of interesting.
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/201 … ng-distri/

The fastest package manager i have come across since using linux has to be xbps from void linux. I havent read all the blog article but he should get in touch with the void devs maybe?

hhh · 2019-08-26 23:31:07

BL-Lithium with a custom tint2 and conky, but the wall and gtk/openbox/notification themes are all included in the repo now. Also, lxterminal is our new default terminal but I'm using mate-terminal. We're getting close to releasing a test ISO to the forum, and I'm going to post a Helium>Lithium upgrade tutorial ASAP (but I'm working seven days this week, so there's that). Anyway, it's great. jgmenu FTw and you should see the new bl-exit...

hhh · 2019-08-26 23:47:18

The new bl-exit...

Bridouz · 2019-08-27 07:05:39

hhh wrote:

I'm going to post a Helium>Lithium upgrade tutorial ASAP

If you want some help with the tutorial I would be pleased to help.

unklar · 2019-08-27 08:08:28

hhh wrote:

Anyway, it's great. jgmenu FTw and you should see the new bl-exit...

WOW, It's killing me! Excellent, I want to have...
(do that with the Iso with "patience and spit"

clusterF · 2019-09-07 12:10:48

I gave bedrock linux a try today on a vanilla install of xfce buster as a base. Its quite a strange animal, being able to cross breed different flavors of linux like void or arch or ubuntu altogether through what they call stratum. Interesting stuff, i can see a cool use for it like say your base system is debian stable but taking advantage of packages from arch or void to setup the system for X and the like.

https://bedrocklinux.org/

Döbbie03 · 2019-09-07 18:13:41

clusterF wrote:

I gave bedrock linux a try today on a vanilla install of xfce buster as a base. Its quite a strange animal, being able to cross breed different flavors of linux like void or arch or ubuntu altogether through what they call stratum. Interesting stuff, i can see a cool use for it like say your base system is debian stable but taking advantage of packages from arch or void to setup the system for X and the like.
https://bedrocklinux.org/

I used Bedrock on one of my ArchLabs installs. Cool idea.

mariannemarlow · 2019-09-07 19:23:41

May I ask your thoughts on Debian 10?

beaker · 2019-09-07 21:32:56

^Debian 10 is stable. If that's what you are after it will be perfect for you. What are the specs of the laptop you want to put this on and would you be happy with stable (older) software? BTW The upcoming release of BunsenLabs will be very nice and worth waiting for and I should add Dobbie's Archlabs is a nice option also.

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clusterF · 2019-09-08 13:42:20

Dobbie03 wrote:

clusterF wrote:
I gave bedrock linux a try today on a vanilla install of xfce buster as a base. Its quite a strange animal, being able to cross breed different flavors of linux like void or arch or ubuntu altogether through what they call stratum. Interesting stuff, i can see a cool use for it like say your base system is debian stable but taking advantage of packages from arch or void to setup the system for X and the like.
https://bedrocklinux.org/

I used Bedrock on one of my ArchLabs installs. Cool idea.

It is a cool idea although im having issues dual booting it on bare metal. Probably my fault for not installing grub on the linux install as base for bedrock but the packeages for grub are there, meaning grub is installed but not to sda. When i go over to the main distro that handles multiboots it just does not pick up the bedrock partition when i update-grub or os-prober. Ive also tried chrooting to it but /bin/bash is nowhere to be found, very weird setup and when they say it gets hijacked, it certainly does. I will have to set it up in a virtual machine and see how i go with just one whole hard disk install.

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glittersloth · 2019-09-08 13:57:04

clusterF wrote:

It is a cool idea although im having issues dual booting it on bare metal.

Brave man. I wouldn't dare do Bedrock hijack on bare metal (unless I had a spare rig). I still remember my first attempt in a VMWare guest session - ended like this - though that was a few versions ago. Will play around with it again once I get my hands on a new laptop, probably via a libvirt front-end like virt-manager or gnome-boxes.

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deleted0 · 2019-09-08 18:03:09

Window Maker
This is old (Jessie) but stiil fun to see, trip down memory lane.
Pale Moon
Thunderbird
Telegram

I loved Next, NextStep, AfterStep, and LiteStep (shell for windoze) and the whole family.

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deleted0 · 2019-09-08 18:07:08

^ Opps, sorry about the size of image.

Fixed.

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hhh · 2019-09-09 01:00:27

Holy cow, check out MX Linux's ranking at DistroWatch (right-column), it's number one and up 4700 or something!

@stevep, nice work!

deleted0 · 2019-09-09 01:08:34

Installed it today, kinda nice. Snappy on this Celeron processor/4 gig memory, for a medium weight distro.

-edit- the MX 19beta 2.1 version

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cog · 2019-09-09 07:07:40

https://getkiss.org/

I wouldn’t use it but an interesting original distro.

deleted0 · 2019-09-17 00:46:34

NixOS

I don't care much for KDE Plasma, but I had a lot of fun playing with it. Selecting another desktop environment/display manager is as easy as editing a single file called configuration.nix. One can build exactly the system they want with this file. One of the things I like most was the option to install to ram. Made for a very responsive system.

Distrowatch gave it a rather favorable review. EDIT: The DW review is for version 17.x; latest version is 19.03

Really different and unique system worth your time if you like distro-hopping.

8bit

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