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rmcellig · #1181 Post by **rmcellig** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 19:48

Hi johnrpm,

I agree. I have been using Linux Lite as my current trilogy of distros. The other two are Crunchbang 11 and Puppy Linux. My wife now uses Linux Lite on the PC I made for her a few years ago. She loves it and so do I.

nooby · #1182 Post by **nooby** » Sun 11 Aug 2013, 23:03

Enrique Corbellini wrote:
nooby wrote:What about this one?

Robo Linux

http://www.robolinux.org/

I didn't use it with windows apps yet, but it didn't let me install on my machine unless paying few money.
Proving it for some minutes, it doesn't show the card of my phone when connecting it through cable, and doesn't transfer files from the desktop to the puppy disc partition.
On the other hand, it looks pretty well, and has a "what you see is what you get" look, but personally I prefer linux dedicated to free software, cause that's why we developed it.

I am sorry had I known them want us to pay then i would not have mention them.

The reason I got curious was that they kind of brag the delay is minimal
which it usally is not on wmare or similar solutions.

Colonel Panic · #1183 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Fri 16 Aug 2013, 18:49

I've just installed Enlightenment 17 in Slackware 14, and they go together very well although the Slack version of Enlightenment has darker themes as standard than Bodhi does for some reason.

Slackware itself is a lot easier to install and set up than it used to be, although you still have to do some things manually such as extract the flash plugin from its tar file and copy it to the mozilla plugins directory.

It's also one of the very few distros which comes with the Window Maker window manager as standard.

rmcellig · #1184 Post by **rmcellig** » Fri 16 Aug 2013, 19:16

I am going to install slacko 5.6 with the 3.10.5 kernel on my iMac and see how it goes.

Colonel Panic · #1185 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sat 17 Aug 2013, 18:15

Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.

It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.

My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.

rmcellig · #1186 Post by **rmcellig** » Sat 17 Aug 2013, 20:44

At the moment I have three distros that I use. Linux Lite 1.0.6, Crunchbang 11 and Puppy Linux (various flavors, or should I say pups or breeds

).

My main sticking point at the moment is getting GRUB to work after doing a frugal install of Slacko.

James C · #1187 Post by **James C** » Sat 17 Aug 2013, 23:26

Colonel Panic wrote:Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.

It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.

My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.

Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.

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live@solusos ~ 
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~ 
$

To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help.

Colonel Panic · #1188 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sun 18 Aug 2013, 08:30

James C wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:Solus was one of my favourite distros last year, so I was eager to see the latest alpha release (number 8 ) of Solus 2 was like. Sadly I have to declare myself disappointed with it at this stage.

It seems very unfinished. The devs are clearly going for a lightweight distro this time round, which is good, and with a new desktop unique to Solus, but the whole thing seemed unready for prime time. I couldn't find any way of installing new packages, there's no announcement of the new alpha release on the Solus website at the time of posting with any usage information, and no installer either.

My advice is to wait for the next one and stick with Puppy in the meantime - either Slacko or Carolina are good enough now to be your sole desktop (if you want them to). Or if you really like Solus, 1.3 (Eveline) is still very usable and can be updated from the Debian repos whenever this is needed.

Finally got around to trying the latest Solus alpha..... for what little is incuded (pretty stripped down} things seem to be working well.
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live@solusos ~ 
$ uname -r
3.10.6
live@solusos ~ 
$ 
To install packages (repository is fairly empty} I had to update the repo by running pisi -ur in the treminal .......to install Geany I ran pisi -it geany as root of course. Pisi is a very capable package manager , ported from Pardus , but it takes a minute to learn the correct commands. I recommend starting with pisi help.

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it another go.

Colonel Panic · #1189 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Tue 20 Aug 2013, 11:29

Another good one: ZevenOS 3.2 Neptune. A Debian stable-based distro with the KDE desktop as standard.

I think it's 64-bit only though so not suitable for older computers.

toowoombalinux · #1190 Post by **toowoombalinux** » Tue 20 Aug 2013, 22:24

Just installed SolusOS 1.3 (not the developing 2 series) - seems a nice desktop and hopefully can get it as productive as my Ubuntu desktop ....then i can ditch Ubuntu.

btw. I'm also a fanatic Puppian - Lupu + Puppy 3.01 (with glibc + gtk2+ upgrade)

Cheers
Martin

James C · #1191 Post by **James C** » Fri 23 Aug 2013, 05:45

Latest Archbang....
http://archbang.org/

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                                OS: ArchBang i686
               /\               Hostname: archbang
              .;#.              Kernel: 3.10.6-2-ARCH
             /####\             Uptime: 9
            ;##   #;            Window Manager: openbox
           +###  .##            Packages: 445
          +####  ;###           RAM: 104 / 1005 MB
         ######  #####;         CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
        #######  ######         Shell: bash
       ######## ########        Root: 1.2G / 2.6G (ext4)
     .########;;########;       
    .########;   ;#######       
    #########.   .########;     
   ######'           '######    
  ;####                 ####;   
  ##'                     '##   
 #'                         '#  

[live@archbang ~]$

Billtoo · #1192 Post by **Billtoo** » Wed 04 Sep 2013, 14:08

I installed Slackware 14.0 64 bit version to an Acer desktop.

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory 8160MB (974MB used)
Operating System Slackware 14.0
Date/Time Wed 04 Sep 2013 01:35:04 AM EDT
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce 8600 GT/PCIe/SSE2
Version 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
Direct Rendering Yes

It took a few minutes to update everything with slackpkg but it's
working well.
EDIT:I did another install to an Acer desktop pc.

Colonel Panic · #1193 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sun 08 Sep 2013, 12:56

Just installed ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 (64-bit), mainly to have a functioning GRUB after installing VLocity 64-bit and losing the boot manager. It's early days yet but so far it looks like an attractive RPM-based distro.

linuxbear · #1194 Post by **linuxbear** » Mon 09 Sep 2013, 02:57

...... Well, it's not actually a new distro, but look at the USB computer Puppy is running on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qhqMlWGdM

James C · #1195 Post by **James C** » Mon 09 Sep 2013, 05:11

Trying out the latest Semplice 5.Debian Sid naturally.....

http://semplice-linux.org/

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luckyuser@SempliceLive:~$ uname -r
3.10-2-686-pae

bark_bark_bark · #1196 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Mon 09 Sep 2013, 20:52

I have been running antiX 13.1 core-libre on my Abit BH6 computer.

I am not using a mouse, just a keyboard. No internet (there is no device to connect to the internet anyway). Running as normal user.
128MB of ram only!!

sda, 8.7GB ibm drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sda1, 8.1GB EXT2
sda2, 372MB Swap (v1)

sdb, 160GB WD Caviar Blue drive (only 8.4GB recognized)
sdb1, 8.4GB unformatted partition (id/type marked as '83/Linux')

James C · #1197 Post by **James C** » Thu 12 Sep 2013, 03:39

Trying out Rosa Marathon ......forked from Mandriva. 5 yr LTS release.

http://www.rosalab.com/products/desktop

nubc · #1198 Post by **nubc** » Fri 13 Sep 2013, 02:21

Anybody try out LXLE 12.04.3 (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension)? It's kinda big at 1252 MB, but it runs nice. Recently reviewed by Jesse Smith on DistroWatch.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 09#feature

about LXLE
http://lxle.net/about/

Ted Dog · #1199 Post by **Ted Dog** » Fri 13 Sep 2013, 03:55

linuxbear wrote:...... Well, it's not actually a new distro, but look at the USB computer Puppy is running on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qhqMlWGdM

Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison

linuxbear · #1200 Post by **linuxbear** » Fri 13 Sep 2013, 18:41

Ted Dog wrote:
linuxbear wrote:...... Well, it's not actually a new distro, but look at the USB computer Puppy is running on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qhqMlWGdM
Newer FatDogAlpha would run on this as well and is improved since last years puppy verison

I have been watching these thumbdrive devices for a while and now that many of them have 2G of RAM, I might buy one.

... Here's a good source of info http://www.liliputing.com

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