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Posted: **Fri 17 Apr 2015, 13:20**

I installed Ubuntu-15.04 beta2 64bit to the hard drive of my macmini.
I used apt-get to install xfce4 so can log out and switch to a xcfce4
session.
I've been using both for a couple of days with no problems.

Posted: **Tue 21 Apr 2015, 17:59**

I've just downloaded the latest version of Calculate (14.16), which is based on Gentoo, and so far it's looking good; it uses Chromium for its main browser.

(EDIT: I've just discovered why Gentoo-based distros (including Calculate) aren't more popular; because everything is compiled from scratch, it takes ages to install a new piece of software. It took me the best part of an hour to install Firefox, and Thunderbird's taking even longer.

Posted: **Tue 21 Apr 2015, 19:34**

Out of curiosity I went to the 1st post on the 100+ page thread and checked out AV linux that lobster posted about. If I was a musician. I'd be running that distro more than likely.

At 3.5 gig. It has a lot on it. The 6 version is based on Debian Squeeze and from what I read. The distro maker needs a break from building a testing Debian based release.

The forum maint. answering questions, distro building, is straining the main.
I hate it when people only want support. But do not give back in help or money or time.
Like vampires.

Golden rule is golden rule, always. Anyways AV looks pretty nifty to me. Too bad all I play is harmonica. But not professionally.

http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html

So here is post #1 bump!

Posted: **Fri 24 Apr 2015, 01:07**

ConnochaetOS (a distro for old computers built entirely on free software) has resurrected, only this time based on Slackware rather than Arch as previously;

http://www.connochaetos.org/

I haven't tried it yet but to me it looks an interesting option for people with older computers (the minimum recommended spec being a Pentium 3 with 128 MB of RAM).

Posted: **Fri 24 Apr 2015, 20:06**

New version of LinuxBBQ here JWM version:
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2040

Posted: **Sat 25 Apr 2015, 05:19**

Lubuntu 15.04 final. Still fits on a cd.

http://lubuntu.net/

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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux lubuntu 3.19.0-15-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 16 23:32:01 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

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lubuntu@lubuntu:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2055156     882184    1172972      99824     116524     510188
-/+ buffers/cache:     255472    1799684
Swap:      3177972          0    3177972

Posted: **Sat 25 Apr 2015, 06:08**

darry1966 wrote:New version of LinuxBBQ here JWM version:
http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2040

Screenie.....Debian Sid,JWM and no systemd......

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user@grill:~$ uname -a
Linux grill 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) i686 GNU/Linux

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user@grill:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2064636     712912    1351724     356316      50720     549592
-/+ buffers/cache:     112600    1952036
Swap:            0          0          0

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user@grill:~$ cat /proc/1/comm 
init

Posted: **Sat 25 Apr 2015, 07:16**

Yep love it so far James been using Chicken Wings for a while and this new one is just as good if not better

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Posted: **Sat 25 Apr 2015, 21:29**

Installed Debian Wheezy 7.8 to a 10 year old imac powerpc G5 using the
net installer.

Computer
Processor PowerPC PPC970FX, altivec supported (1800.00MHz)
Memory 2005MB (374MB used)
Operating System Debian GNU/Linux 7.8
User Name bill (Bill)
Date/Time Sat 25 Apr 2015 05:07:39 PM EDT
Display
Resolution 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter USB-Audio - Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Pro
Version
Kernel Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 (ppc64)
Compiled #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14)
Distribution Debian GNU/Linux 7.8

It's working well.

Posted: **Sun 26 Apr 2015, 03:40**

Nowhere near as easy as the systemd fanbois will have you believe but Debian 8.0 Jessie XFCE with no systemd in sight.

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Computer
Processor   2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory   4148MB (312MB used)
Operating System   Debian GNU/Linux 8.0
User Name   james (james)
Date/Time   Sat Apr 25 22:26:21 2015
Display
Resolution   1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer   Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
X11 Vendor   The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter   HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
Audio Adapter   HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

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Operating System
Version
Kernel   Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (i686)
Compiled   #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13)
C Library   Unknown
Default C Compiler   GNU C Compiler version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
Distribution   Debian GNU/Linux 8.0
Current Session
Computer Name   nosystemd
User Name   james (james)
Home Directory   /home/james
Desktop Environment   XFCE 4

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james@nosystemd:~$ cat /proc/1/comm
init

james@nosystemd:~$ uname -a
Linux nosystemd 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-2 (2015-04-13) i686 GNU/Linux

Posted: **Sun 26 Apr 2015, 05:31**

AntiX 15 has moved to Beta 2.
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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james@antix1:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.0-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: JWM sn-579
           Distro: antiX-15-beta2-V_386-full Killah P 11 April 2015
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: N68-S UCC
           Bios: American Megatrends v: P1.70 date: 03/03/2011
CPU:       Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2712 MHz 1: 2712 MHz 2: 2712 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1440x900@59.89hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVA8 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA MCP61 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.0-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card: NVIDIA MCP61 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:25:22:61:55:fc
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1250.3GB (1.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ST3250318AS size: 250.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 49G used: 3.1G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda15
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.49GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
           ID-3: swap-2 size: 6.40GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 46.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 115 Uptime: 15 min Memory: 401.1/3542.3MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.16

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Posted: **Sun 26 Apr 2015, 05:47**

One final distro before it's sleepy time.....fsmithred of Refracta http://refracta.freeforums.org/ released an unofficial Devuan live disc.

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root@devuan:~# uname -a
Linux devuan 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) i686 GNU/Linux

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root@devuan:~# cat /proc/1/comm 
init

Seems to be working well.

Posted: **Wed 29 Apr 2015, 06:56**

Discovered this has Systemd though so won't be everyone's cup of tea. Awesome is the Window Manager.

http://awbian.com/what-is-awbian/

Posted: **Wed 29 Apr 2015, 15:36**

darry1966 wrote:Discovered this has Systemd though so won't be everyone's cup of tea. Awesome is the Window Manager.

http://awbian.com/what-is-awbian/

Yikes!

Posted: **Wed 29 Apr 2015, 19:06**

During winter 2013, I downloaded a (now dead) distro called Pear OS. Last week, my Windows 7 restore process got interrupted by a power failure, which resulted in a whole Windows directory getting wiped. It just happened to be the directory where most of my important files resided, including all of my ISO's.

Why am I mentioning this dead distro? Well, apparently it got discontinued due to an anonymous "big name" (strongly alluded to be Apple) of buying it out, as apparently it had some innovations / technology not seen in any other Linux distro. Though for the most part, it was intended to be a Mac OS clone in terms of look and feel and user friendliness.

I never got round to trying it out. And I'm having no luck in recovering my lost files. I'm probably one of very few people who had an ISO of the last surviving release.

Posted: **Wed 29 Apr 2015, 19:38**

David Andrew wrote:During winter 2013, I downloaded a (now dead) distro called Pear OS. Last week, my Windows 7 restore process got interrupted by a power failure, which resulted in a whole Windows directory getting wiped. It just happened to be the directory where most of my important files resided, including all of my ISO's.

Why am I mentioning this dead distro? Well, apparently it got discontinued due to an anonymous "big name" (strongly alluded to be Apple) of buying it out, as apparently it had some innovations / technology not seen in any other Linux distro. Though for the most part, it was intended to be a Mac OS clone in terms of look and feel and user friendliness.

I never got round to trying it out. And I'm having no luck in recovering my lost files. I'm probably one of very few people who had an ISO of the last surviving release.

Pear is still available from Softpedia if you still want to check it out.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/O ... l#download

Posted: **Fri 01 May 2015, 06:49**

Another systemd free Debian Jessie version.

TRIOS Mia OpenRC/ZFS RC1

https://foss.rs/threads/trios-mia-openrc-zfs-rc1.3057/

Features:
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Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64
Init system: sysvinit+OpenRC
Filesystems: ext4 + native ZFS support
Systemd: removed
Multiarch: yes

Full Xfce4 desktop environment, with numerous enhancements for rich user experience.

64 bit only and XFCE again. Been working pretty well.

just downloaded 400+ mb of updates and nothing crashed and burned.

Posted: **Fri 01 May 2015, 07:27**

I've just installed the latest version of Zenwalk (7.4), and it's working well.

Posted: **Fri 01 May 2015, 21:49**

James C wrote:
David Andrew wrote:During winter 2013, I downloaded a (now dead) distro called Pear OS. Last week, my Windows 7 restore process got interrupted by a power failure, which resulted in a whole Windows directory getting wiped. It just happened to be the directory where most of my important files resided, including all of my ISO's.

Why am I mentioning this dead distro? Well, apparently it got discontinued due to an anonymous "big name" (strongly alluded to be Apple) of buying it out, as apparently it had some innovations / technology not seen in any other Linux distro. Though for the most part, it was intended to be a Mac OS clone in terms of look and feel and user friendliness.

I never got round to trying it out. And I'm having no luck in recovering my lost files. I'm probably one of very few people who had an ISO of the last surviving release.
Pear is still available from Softpedia if you still want to check it out.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/O ... l#download

That's weird. All traces of it seemed to pulled a couple of months ago, because I searched high and low for it. Thanks for the pointer, will definitely check it out.

Posted: **Tue 05 May 2015, 07:27**

I'm posting from the latest version of Korora (21, with MATE desktop), which is based on Fedora. I'm running out of space on my hard drive to install anything, so this is the live version, and (I wish I could find more imaginative ways of describing a distro) I can recommend it. It looks conservative and tasteful and works well.

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