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FWIW - a quick report on my Xubuntu 14.04 LTS install, as referenced above... I managed to sneak in some WiFi time and used the opportunity to run the system's Software Updater - it installed about 250 Mb of updates (a handful of smaller files, as well as some larger kernel updates, Mesa libs, and Firefox 30).
Runs noticably better! Post-boot CPU use dropped from 5-7% to a steady 2-3%, fan is quieter and the system feels a bit more responsive overall - excellent, whatever whoever did. Software Center is still broken, though.
I'm liking it a lot, so far...
Bob
Runs noticably better! Post-boot CPU use dropped from 5-7% to a steady 2-3%, fan is quieter and the system feels a bit more responsive overall - excellent, whatever whoever did. Software Center is still broken, though.
I'm liking it a lot, so far...
Bob
Following the lead of Billtoo..... Mint 17 on my old dual-core Linux box.
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james@james-GeForce7050M-M ~ $ uname -a
Linux james-GeForce7050M-M 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3790128 1156568 2633560 11744 53756 488280
-/+ buffers/cache: 614532 3175596
Swap: 6246396 0 6246396
james@james-GeForce7050M-M ~ $
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I had a good play with the lighter-weight Mint 17 "Mate" (final) edition last night (liveDVD), and I'd say they hit one out of the park this time around. Fast, full-featured, so easy to tweak/set up, and simply gorgeous! It'll be making it's permanent way onto my old 1.6 Ghz Core Duo laptop's hard drive, very soon.James C wrote:Following the lead of Billtoo..... Mint 17 on my old dual-core Linux box.
I think nooby would have liked it!
Bob
A few days into a full install of Mint 17 Mate on this old 1.6 Ghz Core Duo, 1Gb RAM laptop - simply outstanding performance, look, feel, stability, features and repo app choices. Pretty much flawless, top to bottom. Can't imagine a user-friendly Linux desktop getting much better than this... but this being just the initial release of a 3-5yr. LTS version? Fantastic!! Stellar work by the devs on this one!
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Just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on the laptop I use as a building server for packages and cross-compilation. I find Ubuntu's LTS releases pretty good for development, partially because Ubuntu is the "standard" R&D distro these days, in my professional circle. It has Debian's huge repositories, a longer life cycle, and the "most popular distro" sticker. For me, things like Buildroot and musl-cross tend to work better on 12.04 and 14.04, compared to the aging CentOS 6.x and the slightly older Debian 7.
Pretty much everything is silky smooth and overall, it feels fast, but there are so many silly UI bugs! The mouse cursor changes whenever it enters a window, somehow high contrast mode enabled itself while the accessibility settings says it's turned off, the login screen background disappeared and the default wallpaper was solid blue immediately after the installation.
Also, it's amazing how every tiny package pulls in so many dependencies. I hate that "let's enable ALL features, in case someone ever needs them" attitude.
Arghhhh ... this reminds me again how much I dislike big, over-complicated software.
Pretty much everything is silky smooth and overall, it feels fast, but there are so many silly UI bugs! The mouse cursor changes whenever it enters a window, somehow high contrast mode enabled itself while the accessibility settings says it's turned off, the login screen background disappeared and the default wallpaper was solid blue immediately after the installation.
Also, it's amazing how every tiny package pulls in so many dependencies. I hate that "let's enable ALL features, in case someone ever needs them" attitude.
Arghhhh ... this reminds me again how much I dislike big, over-complicated software.
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Kali Linux on Android Tablet
First step completed running a linux on my 10.1 inch android tablet .
Fatdog-Arm should come next...
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Fatdog-Arm should come next...
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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I've just installed Salix 14.1 Mate, and it looks good (as Salix always does) but I was unable to set up a broadband connection on it. The utility (wicd?) kept telling me that there was no wireless connection, which I already know, and wouldn't search for a wired one.
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.
This new Linux derivative holds promise for potential Home Clouds and "Just Connect Another PC" clustering technology.
Available?
Available?
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Fresh install of Mageia 4.1.
https://www.mageia.org/en/
https://www.mageia.org/en/
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[james@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.12.21-desktop586-2.mga4 #1 SMP Thu Jun 5 21:33:45 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
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Booted up an old P3 running Debian Squeeze. Still getting updates and Youtube still works with Iceweasel 3.5.16.
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Linux debian 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 16:33:32 UTC 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 513552 437924 75628 0 13188 199776
-/+ buffers/cache: 224960 288592
Swap: 1126392 0 1126392
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Zorin 8.1..... fresh install.
http://zorin-os.com/index.html
http://zorin-os.com/index.html
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james@james-GeForce7050M-M:~$ uname -a
Linux james-GeForce7050M-M 3.11.0-17-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 3 21:53:31 UTC 2014 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
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SolydX on an old Intel box..... Debian w/XFCE.
http://solydxk.com/
Pretty smooth on a semi-old box.
http://solydxk.com/
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Linux solydx 3.13-1-486 #1 Debian 3.13.5-1 (2014-03-04) i686 GNU/Linux
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2065220 1970380 94840 51296 80072 1496300
-/+ buffers/cache: 394008 1671212
Swap: 2150396 120 2150276
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Still running AntiX too .....
http://antix.freeforums.org/
http://antix.freeforums.org/
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Linux antix1 3.14.1-antix.1-486-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 15 14:47:44 EEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
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Fresh install of Linux Mint Debian Edition (Mate)........ Mint based on Debian testing instead of Ubuntu. On the same box as SolydX.
http://www.linuxmint.com/
http://www.linuxmint.com/
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Linux lmde 3.11-2-486 #1 Debian 3.11.8-1 (2013-11-13) i686 GNU/Linux
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The latest test release of AntiX 14 was just released.
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
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$ uname -a
Linux antix1 3.15.2-antix.1-486 #2 Sat Jun 28 15:22:40 EEST 2014 i686 GNU/Linux
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