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Another different install....... Watt OS r7.5.

http://www.planetwatt.com/

Small moan I'm afraid. Mint 15, basically a very good distro, has defaulted to the Ubuntu desktop (Unity?) on my machine, so I've got a long column of icons on my desktop but no menus - the very thing I chose Mint over Ubuntu to get away from.

James C I trust that you did a full install to get
Another different install....... Watt OS r7.5. working?

I've tested many many times to do frugal instal of the live iso
but failed. Guess it needs continue memory and mine fragmented.

If you did a frugal install on NTFS then please share the menu.lst
code?

Macpup 5.28v2 .. Lucid based .. kernel 2.6.33.2 .. Works on just about everything.
Puppy 5.28.6 .. Lucid based .. kernel 2.6.37.6
Dpup Wheeze 5.28 (Debian 7.2) -- My primary OS

Debain 7.2 -- Rock Soild, unlimited Repositories
Sparky Linux (Debian)

Manjaro (Arch) -- Really enjoy this distro
Linux Mint

nooby wrote:James C I trust that you did a full install to get
Another different install....... Watt OS r7.5. working?

Yes,regular full install on an ext4 partition. I'll leave the frugal installs on NTFS to you......

James C wrote:

nooby wrote:James C I trust that you did a full install to get
Another different install....... Watt OS r7.5. working?

Yes,regular full install on an ext4 partition. I'll leave the frugal installs on NTFS to you......

Haha that would be like set or putting the hungry Red Fox to guard the Hens.

I get back soon wanting to test something I downloaded but need some rest now I edit this entry and tell result of that test.

It is named AP-Linux-V2. What on earth is that? I have no clue
has any of you tested it?

Maybe to test this first? "Tiny" CorePlus-5.1.iso (71.0MB,
includes flwm, JWM, IceWM, Fluxbox, Hackedbox, Openbox).

Wow so many choices of X?

Tiny Core is beyond me to use due to my brain fail to cope
with too many details so I hope many of you get motivated
to check it out

The download from the DW link took way too long time for my taste.
distro.iblio seems very overloaded and not good at delivering isos.

Wish they had mirrors like the Netherland ones
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux ... us-5.1.iso

Nanolinux is a Beta quality based on Microcore
that is a basic version of Tinycore. Nano is 14 mb

and it use Dillo but I trust one can download FF from TinyCore

I have not tested it I am lazy this week most likely so maybe
somebody else feel for telling us their impression of Nano.

the name at least is very cute
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/

I have an antiX 13.1 installtion on a PII machine i have. Since it does support my USB wireless device it would work but I guess not. probably because the divice is usb2 and the MB has usb1.

bark_bark_bark wrote:I have an antiX 13.1 installtion on a PII machine i have. Since it does support my USB wireless device it would work but I guess not. probably because the divice is usb2 and the MB has usb1.

USB interface has backward compatibility. You can attach USB2 device to USB1 host.

PANZERKOPF wrote:USB interface has backward compatibility. You can attach USB2 device to USB1 host.

I know it does, but in my case it causes some problems.

In case anyone is interested. I am downloadng it from sourceforge for later.

This version is very small, (c 157MB), very basic and very ugly.


Includes:

* 3.12.1 kernel
* JWM
* xfe
* iceape suite.

That's about it!

It is installable to hard disk using the cli-installer. If you do install you MUST edit as root user this line in etc/inittab line before installation. Simply change demo to your new user name.

1respawn:/bin/login -f demo tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1

Repo is set to Debian Testing.
To reboot or halt, use sudo reboot or sudo halt.

Have fun!

Md5sum is at sourceforge.

The forum leaves my post blank on preview with a clickable link so

http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... 3.5/alpha/

Original thread

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4727




Happy Trails, Rok

rokytnji wrote:In case anyone is interested. I am downloadng it from sourceforge for later.

This version is very small, (c 157MB), very basic and very ugly.


Includes:

* 3.12.1 kernel
* JWM
* xfe
* iceape suite.

That's about it!

It is installable to hard disk using the cli-installer. If you do install you MUST edit as root user this line in etc/inittab line before installation. Simply change demo to your new user name.

1respawn:/bin/login -f demo tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1

Repo is set to Debian Testing.
To reboot or halt, use sudo reboot or sudo halt.

Have fun!

Md5sum is at sourceforge.

The forum leaves my post blank on preview with a clickable link so

http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... 3.5/alpha/

Original thread

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4727




Happy Trails, Rok

http://sourceforge.net/projects/antix-l ... 3.5/alpha/
and

http://antix.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4727


Downloading now to check it out.

Saintless here in our forum created something similar to that one
but using another browser and use apt-get to download the browser
you want.

I know too little though http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90586

nooby wrote:Saintless here in our forum created something similar to that one
but using another browser and use apt-get to download the browser
you want.

I know too little though http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90586

It's based on Debian Squeeze nooby. The one I posted is newer. I run Guydog which is
based on Squeeze and it can be a pain in the butt with the debian package sources list
it has for downloading packages. Kinda hit or miss for a lot of stuff.

Since I got the .devx for it finally. It does not hurt so bad anymore.

Oops that explained it then. To squeeze the Wheezy
seems to be hard and the one you mention succeeded?

Stella 6.5 (a CentOS respin) is out now and I've installed it this past week. It is working well as Stella always does - unflashy, plain-looking and almost boring, but thoroughly competent with no unpleasant surprises.

I see the Red Hat / CentOS family of distros as being like the Windows NT of Linux; somewhat retro and "behind the times" (Stella uses Firefox 17 ESR, for example), but they're stable and reliable and get the job done, and Stella is the most user-friendly Red Hat-based distro I've seen - even Flash works right out of the box.

The only downsides it has are that its repertoire of applications isn't as extensive as Debian's, and it probably runs more slowly on older machines than some other distros.

Installed Debian 7.2 using the a Debian live image with xfce and non-free hardware support. Maybe I'll build a little debian live modification using the saintless's method but with Wheezy instead of Squeeze.

bark_bark_bark that would be a cool thing
looking forward to that no hurry though because
computing should be fun so do what you feel for.

I installed pclinuxos64-kde-minime-2013.12.iso to a gateway desktop.

Summary
Computer
Processor 4x AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 810 Processor
Memory 8184MB (568MB used)
Operating System PCLinuxOS
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Mon 09 Dec 2013 09:22:05 AM EST
Display
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.3.0 NVIDIA 319.49
Direct Rendering Yes

It uses synaptic for installing packages, has the latest vlc available,
Chromium web browser too.
It installed the proprietary driver for the graphics card.

No problems so far.