Hi Baldronicus, I've had a similar problem trying to run Softmaker Office in Debian 10 (and some derivatives, such as SolydX) where the application will simply freeze for no apparent reason when I try to do something such as save a file and there's nothing for it but to reboot. Running the same prog...

Here's a web page that you might find useful;

http://sedition.com/perl/rgb.html

Another good one, PCLinuxOS 2020.02, with the Trinity desktop environment (based on an older version of KDE) and featuring the Brave web browser (based on Chromium); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) Sorry that the image quality isn't great but I struggled to get the image size under...

You're welcome Bill. Here's the link in case you or anyone else is interested; http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware/slackware64-current-iso/ I think the approach you've taken is more economical than mine in terms of the number of Slackware isos you have to download and burn off, even if as you...

Hi Bill, I like Eric Hameleers's ' Alienware' Slackware spins. They're very similar to the official release but more up to date with the software. Here's a snapshot of my installation of Eric's Christmas release, with Mate installed as the desktop manager; Mate works well with my installation of Sla...

I had some problems with Exton's version of Bionic, but the straight version's been a lot better - found the right driver for my onboard video and set the correct resolution (1680x1050) first time. Just one problem - the icon theme changer in JWM Desk Manager froze while I was trying to set a new th...

Mike; I was using Xenial 7.5 XL for most of yesterday and if I had to I reckon I could easily stick to that one and use nothing else. It's got everything I really need.

Another good one, Mint Debian 4.0, codenamed Debbie. It's only a beta so far but I can't find anything wrong with it except (usual gripe) the default theme and wallpaper are too dark for my liking, and it tried to mount both my pendrives onto the same folder (which meant only one of them was), thoug...

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News A very interesting article from the New Yorker that seems germane to this thread. Much too long to be summarized here. moderation isnt a fun job, thats for sure. I know. I used to run my old school's alumni forum whilst the guy who set it up was recovering ...

I will just add that the setting-up of a 'Hosts' file has, of necessity, to be a very personal selection of what to block. As Mike points out above, what you may consider to be relatively 'harmless', someone else may consider to be the very worst kind of malware. However, that 45 MB hosts file cert...

One of the things that everyone seems to be overlooking is the raspberry pi. Reducing ewaste can be solved, in some ways, by reducing demand for these large monolithic computers. Schools already have raspberry pi. All we need to do is focus on making the pi work faster and better. Teachers will sha...

Not exactly new, but I'd like to give a reminder that it's worth checking on EBay if you're looking for hardware. After my old monitor started failing I was lucky enough to get a 22" EIZO Flexscan (model number S2202W) this week, used but in good condition and for less than I would have had to ...

On the other hand, trying to install a new package in Sabayon (also based on Gentoo) involved having to negotiate a seemingly endless procession of software licences (or maybe I was unlucky in my choice of package). Sabayon's very well designed visually though so I don't want to give up on it until ...

I recently installed ExGent, a Swedish distro based on Gentoo (and from the same developer, Exton, who is behind PuppEX), and I'm learning a bit about Gentoo as a result. It doesn't have as big a repository as Debian has (I couldn't find a way to install Osmo, for example), and compiling a package s...

I can't use YouTube. I probably couldn't use Facebook, or Instagram, but I'm not using those supermassive black holes anyway. Good post. Of those, the one I'd miss most if I didn't have Javascript would be Youtube and there are ways round that (downloading a video file using youtube-dl, for example...

If we're talking about machines in the 2gb to 4gb rage then we don't need to use text browsers, although that's worth looking into. If resource heavy sites like Facebook don't work well on their computer then the will use other sites instead and competition is good. There could even be a search eng...

"And do you remember that case of one forum member (ecomoney?) who ran some kind of Internet cafe or similar provision via old hardware and Puppy Linux?" Yes I remember Rob (as he was called) and met him once; he came to our local community centre in July 2009 to show us how he managed to ...

The Debian team have just released a new version of Stretch (9.12), which I've now installed. It seems very solid and, bearing in mind my recent computing hassles, there are no beeps from the motherboard when it's running, which is very welcome. [18th February; spoke too soon. There are now. Damn it...

Hi again nitie; good to see Bionic Puppy's working on it anyway. Just a thought; have you considered running Devuan on it (which doesn't have systemd)? I've got a different problem in that I'm getting beeps from my motherboard for no apparent reason (but not in AntiX, Slackware or in PsychOS, which ...

I'm currently using the latest snapshot, of the 15th January 2020, of MX-19 (patito feo), which is working well. I'm kicking myself though because the first thing I see when I load Firefox is the MX homepage which mentions the forthcoming release of MX Fluxbox, which I would have preferred to have ...