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Distrohopping again soon I think; the Frugalware forum response is very slow and I was unable to find out how to get the spellchecker in LibreOffice to work. Maybe OpenSUSE next time.
In the meantime I can recommend a Greek distro called Slackel for those who want a KDE-based Slack-derived distro. It looks nice, seems pretty stable, and has KOffice instead of the near ubiquitous LibreOffice for office duties.
CP .
In the meantime I can recommend a Greek distro called Slackel for those who want a KDE-based Slack-derived distro. It looks nice, seems pretty stable, and has KOffice instead of the near ubiquitous LibreOffice for office duties.
CP .
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
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I installed the 64 bit version of Bodhi-2.1.0 on a 7 year old hp
AMD64 3300+ desktop pc.
You can install software with the Bodhi Linux Appcenter or Synaptic
Package manager, or apt get.
I've installed a bunch,firefox,vlc,xbmc,gogglesmm,thunor,mtpaint,mc,xfe,and
more.
It's working nice so far.
AMD64 3300+ desktop pc.
You can install software with the Bodhi Linux Appcenter or Synaptic
Package manager, or apt get.
I've installed a bunch,firefox,vlc,xbmc,gogglesmm,thunor,mtpaint,mc,xfe,and
more.
It's working nice so far.
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An oldie but a goodie......... Slax 6.12.
FWIW, development has restarted on Slax 7.......
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=81991
FWIW, development has restarted on Slax 7.......
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=81991
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- Colonel Panic
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Interesting, because I thought Porteus was the evolutionary successor to Slax? So there are at least two forks of Slax now in development?James C wrote:An oldie but a goodie......... Slax 6.12.
FWIW, development has restarted on Slax 7.......
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ntID=81991
I've just installed the Legacy version of Solus 1.2, which is meant for older computers. I think it's a very good distro even if the default interface is a bit dark and drab. It's easy to install Xfce, though (you have to apt-get xfce4) and that works very well in Solus as well as as in other Debian-based distros I've tried.
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Not really. Since Tomas is the original developer of Slax it's just a continuation of the original Slax ...... another case of real life causing a break in development. During the time Tomas took a break from development the Porteus developers forked.Colonel Panic wrote: Interesting, because I thought Porteus was the evolutionary successor to Slax? So there are at least two forks of Slax now in development?
So, the original Slax is back while Porteus is a fork.
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Oh I see James, thanks for correcting my misunderstanding. I'm downloading Slax now, it looks worth a try.James C wrote:Not really. Since Tomas is the original developer of Slax it's just a continuation of the original Slax ...... another case of real life causing a break in development. During the time Tomas took a break from development the Porteus developers forked.Colonel Panic wrote: Interesting, because I thought Porteus was the evolutionary successor to Slax? So there are at least two forks of Slax now in development?
So, the original Slax is back while Porteus is a fork.
Best,
CP .
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I've just downloaded Slax 6.12 and am posting from it now. It's amazing what the devs have managed to pack into 200 MB - it'd no doubt be sacrilege here to say it's a rival for Puppy Slacko, but I feel I should say that I'm playing a music video in Firefox now without having to download Flash first and I wish that could be taken for granted with Puppy too.
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It's not bad for something that was released in 2009........ Still holds up well though. The new Slax 7 should be interesting ..... still in pre-alpha though.Colonel Panic wrote:I've just downloaded Slax 6.12 and am posting from it now. It's amazing what the devs have managed to pack into 200 MB - it';d no doubt be sacrilege here to say it;s a rival for Puppy Slacko, but I shoukld say that I'm playing a music video in Firefox now without having to download Flash first and I wish that could be taken for granted with Puppy too.
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Yeah, I've just noticed the Firefox version - 3.5.1, and it still works fine with Flash. KDE 3.5.10 is still a goodie too.James C wrote:It's not bad for something that was released in 2009........ Still holds up well though.
Agreed.James C wrote:The new Slax 7 should be interesting ..... still in pre-alpha though.
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Dpup exprimo will soon be trashed !
Dpup exprimo : load dependancies again and again.
Is it a Puppy ?
If i want debian, i use Debian,
No plus-value.
Is it a Puppy ?
If i want debian, i use Debian,
No plus-value.
Slax and Porteus are not the same ?
Slax and Porteus are not the same ?
I like Porteus. I have it on a USB Stick. Very pretty, Well. Nothing to say.
Perfect connexions, sound is perfect.
But... But....
But i am used to puppies.
I like Porteus. I have it on a USB Stick. Very pretty, Well. Nothing to say.
Perfect connexions, sound is perfect.
But... But....
But i am used to puppies.
Re: Dpup exprimo will soon be trashed !
Except for the speed and size, yes?Pelo wrote:Dpup exprimo : load dependancies again and again.
Is it a Puppy ?
If i want debian, i use Debian,
No plus-value.
Slackware 14 running Pmusic ????
(tip : ssh )
Also did a NFS install to my eeepc 701sd, no KDE. xfce is enough for that (and this, celeron 2.6)
(tip : ssh )
Also did a NFS install to my eeepc 701sd, no KDE. xfce is enough for that (and this, celeron 2.6)
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I would advise against trying to install Slackware to a usb stick. The only thing to install to a usb stick is the usbboot.img which only contains the installer and some basic tools to get you installed from another location such as folder on your hard drive or a local network location. I had to use that to install to my eee pc and I'll have to again as I'm setting up a server with no DVD drive. I am going to lock that baby down tight!bark_bark_bark wrote:I am still having trouble installing Slackware 14. Since I will end up getting a 16GB USB flash Drive, I think I'll put it on there and use that with my old dell (my old dell got it's hard drive removed).
If you want to persist I highly recommend reading all of the documentation contained on the DVD.
Just for interests sake, I had peppermint on the eee before I decided to put 14 on it. I could not think of a worse OS for a eee! Windows were off screen everywhere. Ships with google browser which is supposed to be netbook friendly. Not this one.
Horses for courses I guess.
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Input/output errors are either one of two things, a bad burn or your CD reader is struggling, likely due to age. Maybe try a slower burn speed.bark_bark_bark wrote:Well I have the CD version and not the DVD version. Do any the 4 main CDs have enough documentation? I know how to install it but I keep on getting "input/output" errors when the pkgs are being installed.
I haven't done a CD install in years, but I think all the docs are on the first CD. I don't know how much system you'll get with only 1 CD, you are likely not to get X, in which case, once installed you would need to run slackpkg (after manually choosing a mirror) and install packages. If you know how to setup an NFS server on another linux machine then it should install. You can also install it from a windows share, but you need password-less access, and the ability to mount the CD in windows. Of course a Linux samba share works similarly.
Here a fellow has installed to a USB stick, but he wants to make it portable, something lilo isn't really suited to. Grub4dos works fine with Slackware.
Don't be afraid to ask questions on LQ. It's a pretty friendly place there as long as you follow the etiquette.
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