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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by vic » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:53 am

Biebian were just 136 MB. MB stands for machinebacon I suppose...but Rebecca Black were 1.1 GB! So naaah too bloated. I'll go for Bieber! :D
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Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:04 pm

slacky wrote:http://biebian.sourceforge.net/

I'll just leave this here ;)
Would be interesting to know if/that the "artwork" (the wallpaper) is up to GPL/CC standards.
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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:11 pm

I feel like I already run Suicide Linux.

You know how sometimes if you mistype a filename in Bash, it corrects your spelling and runs the command anyway? Such as when changing directory, or opening a file.

I have invented Suicide Linux. Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:18 pm

^ madness!

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:24 pm

^^ I'd be fucked, in like maybe a minute or two...
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:52 pm

^ Who wouldn't be. :)

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Unread post by GekkoP » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:48 am

^ God bless Zsh autocorrect!

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Unread post by vic » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:10 pm

I would last 4 seconds. I always type "suod" :(
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Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Oct 26, 2015 4:40 pm

add this to your ~/.bash_aliases

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alias suod='sudo'
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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by vic » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:49 pm

:)) You see! I am such an airhead that I did not think of that myself! Anyway, the best hting would probably get to work on jy typing sloppy skillls. :D
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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:53 am

^ Be a real airhead and run everything in a 'su' shell :D

But yes, 'sudo'-ing around should require a bit of concentration. Best is to mute the phones, lock the doors, do some yoga exercises and "ommmm", and then delve into the secrets of rm -rf :D
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Unread post by simgin » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:10 am

^ Your in a good mood lately, Julius :)
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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:34 am

^ Got a lot of "sardinia" recently :D
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Unread post by simgin » Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:48 pm

^ lol, good on ya mate, knew something was "up" ;)
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Unread post by pidsley » Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:32 pm

fransinistra mentioned this one a while ago. NuTyX:

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It's an odd mix of LFS, some binary packages, and CRUX pkgmk/pkgadd tools. And it's French.

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Unread post by simgin » Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:40 pm

^ I have had a look at it, seems very niche, and definately not one of the easiest distros around. How do you find it Pidsley?
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Unread post by pidsley » Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:08 pm

Well, I have not used it for long, so I can't really say too much about it. It was easy to install, and easy to get xorg working. It installs a very small minimal system. It's a good way to learn more about Linux, because everything is just slightly different from other distros. The binary repos are a little thin, but that's not surprising. I like the CRUX package tools.

Overall I think if I am going to build several things with package tools, I'd just as soon build the whole system and use CRUX. But then I have used CRUX for a while and everything is more familiar in that system.

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Unread post by simgin » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:26 pm

^ So it is in a way too close to CRUX so there is no real reason to leave it I guess. I agree with you that it is a good place to learn about Linux.

One thing for sure, is that Thierry Nuttens (tnut) likes his flying Unicorns :)

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Unread post by franksinistra » Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:19 am

^ basically it's like crux on steroids, not so surprising as it was originally a crux based distro. The maintainers moved to LFS/BLFS while keeping the package manager (which is like sort of a set of wrappers around crux package managers) and some part of the filesystem layout to at least be familiar to Crux users. The best thing is, unlike crux they retained the 32 bit version of the distro too.

Unfortunately, the distro maintainers do not speak english very well.....
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Re: Distros of interest

Unread post by siklopz » Mon Nov 09, 2015 6:12 pm

i saw Void Linux mentioned earlier. it's my favorite "unknown" distro. built from the ground up, light, near bleeding edge, no systemd, BSD-like source ports. the package manager is incredible...my only issue is the mediocre documentation.

http://www.voidlinux.eu/

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/void/voidtips.htm

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