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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by slartie » Tue May 03, 2016 9:00 am

To be fair, that's how a lot of well known distros got started.

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Austrumi 3.4.1 based on Slackware.
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Unread post by Theo » Sat May 07, 2016 5:50 pm

^ A nice one. It's slackware-based and FvwM, so I believe there are far worser choices than that :) I love a minimal destop but it makes me smile that some guys can do amazing things with 'just' a Window Manager.

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Unread post by darry1966 » Sun May 08, 2016 6:57 am

Yeah it is pretty nice. Seems to use more ram intensive than it use to be on my Dell D620. Good thing is that there are different themes some use more ram than others.

It's iso size has increased to about 300meg but hey you get libreoffice with it so can't complain.:)
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Unread post by darry1966 » Sat May 28, 2016 11:48 pm

Anticapitalista and gang have done another nice Antix release runs sweet on a Dell D620 on a pendrive.

Thanks Anti version 16b4.
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Unread post by noo_b_nomnoms » Sun May 29, 2016 12:26 am

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun May 29, 2016 12:56 pm

Budgie, for me at least, looks like an attempt to bring Mate or Xfce to do things on top of Gnome 3. Sorry Ikey.

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Unread post by machinebacon » Sun May 29, 2016 1:41 pm

^ yeah, agree. Well, he tries to cater a certain clientele (which I am happy not to see here).
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Unread post by noo_b_nomnoms » Sun Jun 05, 2016 12:06 am

^^ ^^^ You are correct! In fact the update pulled in a crapload of Mate, lols. I got bored quickly, and went back to the i3. Still running Space Oddity as my main, though :)
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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by darry1966 » Wed Jun 15, 2016 8:48 am

Been trying out Porteous. Made my own ISO with the online Wizard. USM working well in this version.
http://www.porteus.org/

Version RC3.2v2. Slack goodness.
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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Jun 15, 2016 9:38 am

^^ odd how they follow in ubuntu's footsteps and don't mention Linux much.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:06 pm

Without googling: is it possible to install Porteus? I remember it never had an 'official' method of doing so, except (probably) unsquashing and tinkering with GRUB.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jun 17, 2016 1:07 pm

rhowaldt wrote:"budgie"? what was her name again...
marianne COMF marlow (or something like that)?
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Unread post by darry1966 » Sat Jun 18, 2016 4:01 am

machinebacon wrote:Without googling: is it possible to install Porteus? I remember it never had an 'official' method of doing so, except (probably) unsquashing and tinkering with GRUB.
Hi Machinebacon,

Yes Porteous has an installer for usb and hd these days as opposed to its parent distro Slax.
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:57 pm

^^ hahahah yes! good times :D
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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by rust collector » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:06 pm

It does look like anticap is uploading antix 16 now...

Links here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/antix- ... /antiX-16/

Give it some time to finish uploading... (the 32 bit core seems to work)

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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by chorizo » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:16 am

I want to add one more to the list, Dragora http://dragora.org/repo.fsl/doc/trunk/www/overview.md
It's a GNU/Linux-Libre distribution started from scratch and focuses on one application per task.(KISS, YAGNI, DRY principles).
People say it's similar to Slackware and archlinux.

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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by darry1966 » Tue Jul 12, 2016 8:03 am

Been playing with Slackware Live lately.
http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/
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