AVL MX Linux Installing

It uses less than 500MB of my 8GB RAM.

I often wonder why guys and girls are worried about new Linux Versions, when the one perform much better than the new one.

OBS, Kdenlive, Blender and a host of Audio Players in one place.

What more one needs.

It has the best GRUB Boot Loader.

Thank YOU AVL MX Linux Distribution.

It took 16.5 GB of my 20GB partition.

No Libre Office, thank YOU.

It had Synaptic Package Manager

I am installing Stacer and Gnome 43.

Gnome took about 450MB.

At last I got a Linux Distribution which uses Enlightenment Desktop which is not Elive.

Open AI gave wrong information. Yes, AI guide is often erroneous.

I fetched it while editing my book on "Linux Essentials". After bit of searching, I foind the image.

I am fed up with the Elive Linux guys and girls and I want a distribution with Enlightenment Desktop as thr default.

AVL MX Linux but woth Bookworm kernel fits the bill.

MX Linux with Trixie kernel, I tried and it failed with the SystemD init and boot.

These guys are fiddling with INIT scripts and AVL MX Linix has all the INITs except SystemD.

On van choose the INIT one wishes to use.

It took hell of a lot of fidfling to get the Installer script running.

On root with root password it mounts the old Enlightenment Desktop but no Installer.

I went back to Live Session with demo password.

Top left hand corner Install Avl is there but it won't mount.

Hit the Entet key of the keyboard hard and it started to check the image in preparation for Install.

I have used MX Limux in the past and how it works but did not panic.

I gave 10GB /partition

SWAP 

And the EFI 

It said partition was small but it can tske 5.3GB image.

It failed due to lack of space.

I'll add some space and try it again.

I am Installing it again and my Keyboard is WiFi I have to Hit Hard on the Keyboard both for Live Installer and WiFi password.

I am going to enjoy Bkender 4 instead of Blender 4.5.

Blender 5 is in development stage.

Give 20GB for install if one is using one Partition.

I say, go hang with MX Linux which is SLOW to come up with UPDATES.

AVL Linux had all the Audio and Video utilities but it did not have EFI Boot Loader but AVL MX has EFI.

I hope them come out with Debian 13 Trixe Kernel distribution by December for us to use in 2026.

AV Linux

 AV Linux is a versatile, Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of audio and video production software. Additionally, it also includes a custom kernel with IRQ threading enabled for low-latency audio performance. AV Linux can be run directly from a live DVD or a live USB storage device, though it can also be installed on a hard disk and used as a general-purpose operating system for everyday tasks. 

Computer System in a Nutshell

Computer System in a Nutshell

Google which has only minimal of Linux Code and simple Graphic Front End and a powerful Search Engine with the Chrome Browser now dominates the world.

The three components of Google are

1. Kernel borrowed from Linux.

2. Graphical Front End.

3. Browser based powerful Search Engine.

Unlike Firefox, it does not have to waste time in development of the browser but only has to worry about the advertisement component tagged with the browser as Java Components embedded within. 

Winners with minimal contribution to the Linux Code at large.        

The core team of Google saw the potential and I do not envy them.

 

Of course, Goggle has jumped into hardware in the name of Android and the variety of cellphones.

 

Now take Apple in general.

It has Unix

It has Hardware.

It has Safari Browser.

It has applications bound to it's operating  system. 

All are closed source and one has to pay a fortune to acquire all of them. 

User becomes a prisoner even though, he  or she pays a fortune to become a prisoner. 

Any attempt to change the Code of Apple is considered to be Jail Breaking.

Microsoft Windows come to capitalize on this framework and I would not make any comments about Microsoft’s strategy except to say, if not for Linux mankind would have only two operating system to contend with.

Then comes the visionary figure but I call him a philosopher for good reason. 

He would be long remembered but the other guy who was known to have associated with Epstein would be remembered with pain and disgust. 

Richard Stallman saw what was coming and decided to put breaks in the name of Free Software in 1980s.

But he did not have a kernel to port it.

In comes Linus Torvalds with a microcode but open source in 1992.

 

Put them together a new Open World of Software was born.

පරිපාලනයට ඉන්දියානුවන් අතගැසීම

ලංකාව දැන් ඉන්දියාවේ ප්‍රාන්තයක් නිසා මට මේ ප්‍රශ්නය අසන්න පුලුවන්ද යන්න ප්‍රශ්නයකි.

විරුද්ධ පක්ෂයේ නායකයා බජට් එකට      (අය වැය, හරි පාරවර්තනයක්, නෙවෙයි) පැය 48 කලින් ඉන්දියාවට යෑම මට ප්‍රශ්නයකි.

මේක ඉන්දියාව විසින් පළමුව හින්දියෙන් ලියා, දේවනුව ඉංගිරිසියට හරවා, තුන්වෙනිව සිංහලට හරවපු නිසා, ප්‍රශ්න ගොඩක් ඇති වෙනවා.

අපට නෙවෙයි ඉන්දියාවට.

ඒ නිසා අසන ප්‍රශ්න ටික විරුද්ද පක්ෂයේ නායකට ලියල දෙන්න තමයි, එන්න කීවේ.

ඉතින් එයාට දැන් වයස නිසා ප්‍රශ්න ටික පටලවා ගන්න නිසා එයාට ඉන්දියාවේ නිගන්ට බුදුනුත් වැදලා එන්න පුළුවන්, නේද?

බජට් එක ඉන්දියානු මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලයේ තියෙන්නේ තිබුනේ.

අනේ අපට, බුදුසරණයි.

සිංහල යතුරු පුවරුව

සිංහල යතුරු පුවරුව දිගු ගමනක් ඇවිල්ලා. මීට වසර දහයකට පෙර මම ප්‍රංශ බාසාව ඉගෙන ගන්න උත්සාහ කරන කොට ප්‍රංශ භාෂාවෙන් ලියන්න යතුරු පුවරුව පාවිච්චි කලා.

ඒ සමගම සිංහල යතුරු පුවරුවත් පාවිච්ච් කලා.

ඇලපිලි පාපිලි සහ කොම්බුව දාන්න ලොකු වදයක් වුනා.

අත හැරලා දැම්මා.

මගේ ඉංගිරිසි බ්ලොග් පොස්ට් සිංහලට හරවන්න උත්සාහ කලේ.

ඒ කාලේ දැන්වගේ AI තිබ්බේ නෑ.

Simple Update

In the rush to post my Linux UPDATE, I missed a few key points.

1. One does not need to install Linux.

One can test it on a Live Session.

Several USB sticks minimum 4GB but ideally 8GB.

Standard Linux image fits in 4GB.

Linux Mint is 3GB.

BlueStar about 5GB and it has all the applications.

Ubuntu 7GB for its bloated vandalized Gnome with no Applications. I do not recommend UBUNTU.

Go  for Linux Mint which was a Ubuntu derivative and now has fallen back to Debian.

2. One does not need INTERNET Connection when testing.

3. However, in my case WiFi is the first thing I text. One can cold boot and connect to the Internet on the first boot.

Good old days, especially in Ceylon, most Linux distributions except UBUNTU failed to configure WiFi. 

No problem with Ethernet. 

Linux thrives on  Ethernet.

4. Hardware 

Linux now work on any hardware.

5. What you have.

Hardware Specifications.

50GB is more than enough.

6. Minimum Installation.

10GB

XFCE of Debian is less than 5GB.

Rest is for addition applications.

With another 2GB one can add all the applications one needs. 3GB left for /home parition and work.

I have 10GB partition to test this minimum requirement.

Ideally SWAP partition on top.

Twice the size of RAM.

8GB if RAM is 4.

I never give above 16GB.

One should use the DVD 1 of Debian.

It has 8 or 9 Desktops.

One can install one or all.

XFCE is the Smallest and is less than 5GB.

7. For Modest Operations

120GB

EFI 1.2GB FAT 32 partition

/ 20GB for root

/boot  500 to 700MB

/home  70GB

/var   7GB

/tem  3GB

8. 100GB for NTFS partition for storage.

7. 4GB RAM and 8GB ideal.

More if you are a gamer.

I do not talk about gaming.

Linux is for serious work.

With maximum capacity of my work I only used 2GB of RAM out of 8GB.

9. Distributions

Puppy Linux gone to hibernation

AntiX for old computers but workd well with new computers.

AntiX

MX Linux an AntiX derivative 

Endeavor Linux

Debian

Manjaro 

BlueStar Linux

CachyOS

Reborn OS

KIRO Linux

ArtiX

Ubuntu Big NO

Linux Mint

Linux Mint Debian Edition

VOID Linux

SuSe Tumbleweed for games

Fedira Bazzite for Games

Guruda Linux for games ( I have nevet tested it)

ZORIN  Big NO

PoP OS  NO Ubuntu derivative with Ubuntu problems

Tuxedo OS NO Ubuntu derivative with Ubuntu Pain

10. Please AVOID dual boot with Windows

There is a lot to choose and I have 5 distributions in a 320GB Toshiba Hard Disk. Toshiba is pretty good.

Hard disk type also matters. 

I have never used SONY.

Void Linux Install -Failed

I tried all the methods but failed to install Void Linux.

There are only two images Niri and Xfce.

I tried Xfce.

With su and void password no install command.

I gave up.

There normal amd musl Images 

No graphic install.

Text Based Installer is excellent with lot of instruction through the install.

This ideal for Developers.

I am not.

Number of applications are limited.

Thank YOU-BlueStar Linux

I always say, BlueStar Linux KDE desktop is the most Beautiful Desktop of all.

May be three to four years ago, I found its image and installed it, without knowing how ARCH Linux works.

I am a Gnome guy and I used to hate KDE.

BlueStar Linux changed my views about KDE. Not only that I really got hooked to ARCH. I tested every ARCH Distribution and when I found CachyOS on top of distrowatch list. I have a copy of CachyOS and learning curve was steep.

Coming back to BlueStsr Linux, I got a real liking for Octapi Installer.

Guy who had used only Synaptic Package Manager all my life and this was a new experience.

I installed Gnome on top of KDE using BlueStar Linux. It was difficult but I had used Netrunner Linux (gone dormant still in Bookworm kernel )Linux which was beautiful KDE Desktop with Synaptic Package Manager.

Best of both worlds.

I hope if develooer guys of Netrunner reads this, buck up and get updated to Trixie Kernel.

However, I could not get Gnome on top of Netrunner KDE.

Come BlueStar Linux, Gnome on top of BlueStar Star KDE is as elegant but with bit of hicough with Cairo Desktop.

I really like the Cairo Desktop of Emmabantus that come from France.

Version 6 is still in development stage with lot of applications.

But BlueStar Linux much more versatile.

Now for a guy or girl using BlueStar Linux I have a few guidelines.

1. Download the latest iso and write it on a USB.

2. Boot up but do not configure the WiFi or do not plug in the Ethernet.

3. Install the basic install utility.

4. Now configure the Internet.

Without Internet no more applications.

5. Using Octapi UPDATE the system.

ARCH is Rolling distribution.

6. I generally reboot to free the cache.

7. One need not install anything else.

Everything is there.

In my case I install AbiWord.

Both AbiWord and LibreOffice are the lastest. Unlike good old days I can open a abi file in LibreOffice.

AbiWord of course would open any word file by default.

8. If you are confident now try installing Gnome. 

No spoon feedings

Trial and Error leaning is mandatory.

You can install Cutefush and Cosmic.

Pantheon did not work

I actually HATE Elementary OS.

Only tried once very very long time ago.

9. Mistake I did.

I gave standard 20GB for the root partition.

With full KDE install only 2GB left.

Added 5GB reducing/home and /var partitions.

Basic install takes only 15GB.

I had 10GB left for GNOME and its repotoire of applications.

It took over 1200GB.

I needed GNOME Boxes.

It is as big as Blender.

I install Blender first.

10. By the way all these are available in Debian Gnome.

That is my workhorse.

BlueStar is the testing distribution which edges CachyOS by a little margin.

I said good bye to Manjaro

Why? 

It is too easy to install. 

I need make mistakes.

Manjaro has the best GRUB, even better than GNOME GRUB.

If you are knew to ARCH, start with Manjaro. It is also a very beautiful distribution.

It has Gnome, KDE, XFCE and community spin Isos.

VOID Linux is Superb

After a few months of lapse, I installed Void Linux using the Terminal.

I used XFCE image to boot

Step 1

Red all the manual instruction of Void Linux

Password for root is voidlinux

It takes the entire disk.

Partition has to be done manally.

Minimum of 3 partitions.

I use EXT4.

/boot/efi FAT patition

/      root of  10GB 

swap of 4GB

No capital letters

No spaces void-install

Run as a root user

Passwords voidlinux

Could not configure WiFi.

අනාගතය අනාගැනීම

බලයේ සිටින රජය අනාගතය අනාගනිමින් සිටී.

1. බෞද්ධ සබ්යත්වයට කෙනෙහිලි කම් කිරීම 

2. ල්ට්ට්යේ අතකොළුවක් වීම 

3. බෞද්ධ ආගම වෙනුවට ආගම විතරක් ආදේශ කිරීම

4. සහෝදරත්වය වෙනුවට කුලල් කෑම වැපිරිම 

ලට්ට්ය හැමදාම කෙළේ එයයි

ඉන්දියාව උඩින් සහ යටින් උදව් කලා, බෙදීම වැපිරීමට

5. ඇගට නොදැනෙන ලෙස මුදල් වංචාවන් කිරීම 

ළුණු ගණුදෙනුව එකක් පමණය.

6. රාජ්‍ය පාලනයේ ලොකු කාලයක් නොසිටීම 

7. විවේචනයන් උසුලා ගැනීමට බැරි වීම, සහ උද්දච්චකම නිසා පක්ෂය ඇතුලේ ඇති වැරදි වසා ගැනීම 

Revisiting Violence in Ceylon

Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Reproduction

Revisiting Violence in Ceylon

This from verses 137 to 140 of Dhammapada.

This is in response to Rajapaksa Mob Violence.

 

Jathika Jana Balavagaya is revisiting the same mob violence using Police force, in a subtle way.

One who uses violence against those who are unarmed and offends those who are inoffensive will soon come upon one of the ten states.

S/he will incur,
1. Acute pain.
2. Disaster.
3. Bodily injury.
4. Grievous sickness.
5.  Loss of mind.
6. Oppression by the king/government.
7. Heavy accusation.
8. Loss of relatives.
9. Destruction  of wealth.
10. Ravaging fire will burn his house.

Unfortunately these things are happening right now in Ceylon.

AntiX - Trixie Edition - Failed in my System

AntiX - Trixie Edition 

New edition is available.

It failed to install GRUB in my system

It does not have SystemD INIT System.

It looks sleek.

I hope they add all the INIT systems.

I am Installing Elive

Installation was a big failure.

It is the Linux System, I recommend to a newbie. Its installation is SLOW but lot of pauses  and detailed insyructions including making partitions.

It recommends old E16 Desktop for installation but can change it to E27 later.

It configures WiFi effortlessly.

It vam be installed in a single partition which is a plus point.

It has Gparted.

I gave 10GB but it recommends 20GB which is the standard for Linux.

I hope it recognize my GRUB.

It has taken 7GB and I have 3GB left.

Thank YOU, it gave all these information while installing.

It took about 750MB from my 8GB RAM while runming live and installing.

Very important point I forgot.

It got the numbers of my Partition Table wrong.

It read 14 as 10.

It does not mount the EFI partition and I could not select a boot partition to Boot.

I checked the remaining space using Gparted and has only 275MB left.

LibreOffice is 25.2.

One has to sit with it and follow imstructions.

Select and Deselect packages not used which an excellent option.

I used only Inkscape.

Have several browser options including Opera and Palemoon.

Use the Terminal at the End for purging.

I believe Internet is essential.

Glad that I Revited Elive.

It has done a lot to impress even an old Linux User.

Thank YOU again.

I am a pensioner and I wish I could have contributed a few quids.

I do not have an Internet connection.

I used for few weeks and it very costly in Australia.

I love looking at the Terminal which is lacking in Debian except when installing new applications.

It is frozen and I am going for a cuppa.

It got my Partition Table wrong.

That is why it did not boot.

It did not vonfigure the GRUB but did not ruin it.

It would not boot but I know how to fix.

Reinstall Manjaro.

That's it.

No, it ruined my spare Debian Instance.

I have to install Debian swiching 14 for 10 I lost. This is the advantage of having partitioned installation.

I jave to remeber number 10 and 14 only.

Both have 10GB capacity.

Elive only has 495MB for any additional applications and Blender is out on first count.

I still recommend Elive Linux for a newbie.

One learns a lot by making unintended mistakes in Linux.

This piece with some editions is going to be in my book of "Linux Essentials".

It will come out only in January.

I am already on holiday mood.

සුදු ළුණු මිරිකන ආණ්ඩුව - සයිමොන් නවගත්තේගමගේ, මතක සටහන්

මම විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය ඉන්න කාලේ සිට, ඒ දවස්වල ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ දැන් නම වෙනස් කලත් කොටියාගේ පුල්ලි වෙනස් නොවන, ජාතික ජන බලවේගය, නිර්දය ලෙස විවේචනය කරන්නේ, කැලුම් ජයසුමන මෙන් ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය අගය කරන නිසයි. 

මට සයිමන් (සයිමා)  නවගත්තේගම, මතක් උනා. ඔහු නුවර දුෂ්කර ගමක සිට නගරයට පැමිණ, පැවැති දේශපාලන වතාවරණය නිර්දය ලෙස විවේචනය කල පුද්ගලයෙක්.

එවන්නන් දැන් යුටුබ් අවකාශය තුල දකින්න ලැබෙන්නේ නෑ.

විවේක කාලය විශ්රාමයෙන්, විදෙස් රටක ගත කරන නිසා, හුදීජනයාගේ, සයිමන් ගෙන්, ඉගෙනගත් වහරක්, පහන් සුවය සදහා යොදා ගනිමි. 

ලංකවේ සිටියානම්, මගේ කටට මුකවාඩම්, වැටීම අනිවාර්යයි.

බී ළුණු වගේ, ජාතික ජන බලවේගය, අනා ගන්න බව මට ඒ දවස්වල සිට වැටහුනා. 

නමුත්, මෙච්චර කලින් එය සිදුකර ගනියි කියලා සිතුනේ නෑ.

දැන් පත්තරවල කතුවැකි ලියන අය බිරන් තට්ටු වෙලා, උඩ බලාගෙන ඉන්නවා ඇති.

ඒ අඩුපාඩුව, පොඩියක් හරි පිරවීම මගෙ යුතුකම. 

ඉස්සර ඒක කලේ ඉංගිරිසියෙන්.

දැන් සුද්ද සිංහලෙන්.

හැමදාම අනිත් අය නිර්දය ලෙස විවේචනය කල අයට, තමන්ව විවේචනය කරන විට ඉවසන්න බෑ.

අටලෝ දහම, විස්වාස නොකරන නරුමයන්ගේ හැටි, කලින් සිටම අවබෝද කර ගත යුතුයි.

සිනහ වෙන්න බැරි, උපහාසය උපහාරයක්‌ ලෙස බලන්න බැරි, තමන්ගේ ඇසේ තියන රොඩු නොපෙනෙන අයගේ, දේශපාලන ඉදිරි ගමන අවදානම්ය.

No Telemetry in Linux-Another Reason to use Linux

Unlike, Google, Microsoft and Apple Mac, there is no AI in Linux snooping or tracking your activities.

It can be used in any computer old or knew.

It is free.

It has many distributions.

I am currently promoting Elive Linux even though my base is Debian.

Above all Linux resoectd your privacy.

Elive Installer

I installed AbiWord in Live Mode but it does not remain persistent after reboot

Version 50 has more visual effects than the old 46 version I have in a USB.

I am inclined to erase both of them and keep the iso image in my NTFS Storage.

 

I prefer writing Cachy OS and Endeavor OS instead.

 

Compared to Elive ARCH has done tremendous service to Linux User base.

Come to think of Visual Effects are very irritating to me and I suffer from Colour Blindness.

I am going to install EasyOS seven in a 8GB USB. 

As far as I know it is the only Linux Distribution that take full control of the 4 or  8GB in the USB.

 

More than two hours of my time wasted but I am going to have special piece in my book.

It is going to fail since two kernels cannot sit in the EFI partition.

At least it gives ample warnings.

User configuration is not before installation but after installation.

One cannot go for cuppa.

It is stuck with stable Bookworm.

It gives a reasonable opportunity to remove applications I do not need.

It is installing Gnome not XFCE.

GRUB is automatic, might even fail.

It has several browsers including Palemoon and Opera.

Google Zoom failed.

It is installing i386 packages which I do not need.

Internet connect is mandatory.

 

Elive 3.8.50 PRO 64 bit 6.11..10 overlay.

Last iso I had in 2024 was 

 

Elive 3.8.46 2024-12-21 Thunar

 

I managed to get the Elive Stable 64 bit version and currently installing on a single partition. This is just to include some information in my book.

I think it is going to hang up due to lack of space.

I am going to terminate it.

I am only going to use USB version.

No comment on GRUB and it is short of 3-4GB.

It has an elegant and beautiful desktop as Beautiful as BlueStar Linux but the desktop is XFCE.

It is full of but bit lengthy instructions and it says it needs 20GB space and I gave 16 and it says 3GB is left remaining.

I need to see how it configure GRUB before accepting it.

Worse scenario I would go back to Debian Gnome.

It identified all Debian instances but could not identify the BlueStar Linux and one partition was missing in it's identification and it was partition 15 where BlueStar /root was installed.

 

It's kernel must be the older one not the latest. Installation is painfully SLOW.

It says it can make a persistent volume but it failed last time.

Final Linux UPDATE

Yes, this is the final Linux UPDATE.

1. My Recommendation for an old computer is AVL MX Linux which has almost everything of Audio and Video utilities including blender 4.

It is Bookworm version and has the best GRUB Boot Loader for multibooting.

2. For a beautiful KDE desktop BlueStar Linux.

3. Hassel Free Installer with ton of applications, there is nothing to beat Gnome of Debian.

4. For a lazy guy with easy installation, nothing to beat Manjaro.

5. For Guy or Girl with strict Installer protocol is Cachy Linux.

The learning curve may be steep but worth the trouble.

I have settled down with Manjaro and CachyOS. I am now, really ARCH confident except on the Terminal. I have said Good Bye, to the most powerful and veritable Terminal. 

It is also same for Tiling Window Managers. I have tested all the other Window Mangers.

I can do all these on Debian GNOME and I begin to hate KDE but keep track of all Linux Distributions.

Simple reason I hate KDE is it is bulky, resource intensive and slow to Boot.

1. Let me dispense with Devuan Excalibur.

It is identical with Debian except not having SystemD INIT.

INIT is the first Start Up process and SystemD does a good job of it with parallel and on demand services.

Why mess with it.

It may be for guys running Servers but not for simple desktop users.

When in the good old days, in the universities where one server managers mamy terminals INIT had six run levels and I mastered it using SuSe Linux which had the best configuration file.

YaST.

Yet another Setup Tool.

The name configuration file probably came later.

SuSe has dropped it.

I'll come to SuSe and Fedora later.

2. Void Linux is a complete failure without a Installble Image.

It fits in with the low resource use with a XFCE desktop I hate. 

Why not add an installble script on top.

3. CachyOS is a class act with a sstrict protocol. It took some time to master it.

It does not coexist with other distributions but I have found a way.

4. Manjaro is the best but I have had few problems with /var partition getting filled up. I sorted it out today.

That is after a long night sleeep.

5. Endeavor OS is good but too, minimal for me.

6. BlueStar Linux Desktop has done an update and I cannot get to Octspi.

I gave up. It had the most beautiful KDE Desktop. They have said Good Bye to that approach.

7. AntiX is pretty good but it is still in Bookworm kernel. Developed conflict with my GRUB.

They should come up with the Trixe Kernel.

8. KIRO Linux is pretty good.

I did not like it's alliance with Variety Wall Paper.

9. ARCH derivatives without a Desktop I dif not test.

10. UBUNTU 

No thank YOU.

11. SuSe 

Leap and Tumble break my heart.

I do not like the dedicated software center away from global Linux Repository

Tumbleweed is good for games

12. Fedora 

No thank You.

It is trying too, many things while not good at one thing perfect.

However, Bazzite is good for games.

13. I won't go above number 13.

I am not superstitious but going beyond this point make me a better Linux Advocate.

By the way, I have tested all the desktops and many Window Mangers.

I stick with GNOM, IceWM and JWM. 

Joe's Window Manager based on X11 Window System from which all the Window Systems came to being.

I do not like Wayland, compositers and compiz.

Final note about NTFS.

Linux, rather Gparted support many file formats.

I use Ext4 and begin to hate Btrfs.

I do not do TimeShifts.

My NUC with 320GB with 5 districbutions I have another distribution to fall back to. I have never lost a WORKING file after starting, Linux 25 years ago. Of course, I have hundred of copies to fall back to mainly my books in edit mode.

I used to have a big /home partition mainly to store Linux images going up to 20 to 25 of the latest. 

This was a bit of a paranoia.

I solved this by reserving 100GB out of 320 to two NTFS patitions. Only for saving. I do not have Microsoft files at all to read and write. 

It is used to store all Linux Images including 25 Puppy Linux Images and my book files. Puppy Linux except Easy OS and SLACK has gone into hibernation after 32 bit to 64 bit transition. 

I have Easy Linux in a USB stick which I carry when I travel. Other USB sticks are used for install.

Two Debian Trixe DVD-1, just in case which never failed me.

I just keep a BlueStar Linux and Reborn Linux in  USB sticks since it not installed.

Sorry, I forget to include REBORN OS in thr list of 12. I could not put it at numb👍13.

REBIRTH is life long interest of me as a Buddhist. 

Finally Thank YOU to AI information.

However, it could not figure out YaST tool of SuSe.

Elive Linux and the Enlightenment Desktop

Elive Linux and the Enlightenment Desktop

Enlightenment desktop is one of the most beautiful desktops, I have used in the past.

In fact I did forget the name Elive Linux.

They sent me two images both 32 bit and 64 bits within 10 minutes.

Thank YOU.

I think it is worth paying a contribution and getting their latest image. I haven't got a space to install but I will try it on the single partition.

Devuvan Excalibur_6

Devuan Excalibur_6 

To begin with the name itself puts me off. 

It is identical to Trixie without SystemD.

Installer is text based and very painful.

I ran it on Gnome Box Utility and took about one hour.

I was doing other things.

I do not recommend it to a newbie.

Reason is I have to write very short account about ion my book. Without going through the pain I cannot describe it.

Only advantage was with I could pick up names of a few utilities which I am forgetting in my twilight years.

Yes, I went through this pain of using text based installer, but then again, I was learning every bit of Linux. 

In my NUC I have Manajro, Cachy Linux and three Debin Trixie instances. 

One for my regular work, one for testing various desktops and applications and the third one is to test the lightest distribution, which is AntiX but Bookworm image, which confliCtS with my GRUB.

It froze at INIT Level. 

 

                

බුදු දහම Olcott කරණය කිරීම

1873 පානදුරාවාදය 

1875 Olcott කරනය

 

බුද්ධ උප්පත්තිය ඉන්දියාවට පැටවීම

කතෝලික සම්භවයක්‌ ඇති අනගාරික ධර්මපාලයෙක් බිහි කිරීම

බුදුදහම ක්‍රිස්තියානි කරණය කිරීම

අවුරුදු 150ට පසුව, නිරාගමික පක්ෂය බලයට පැමිණිම

අනුර දිසානායක හාමුදුරුවන්ට බණ දේශනා කිරීම.

මෙය අහම්බයක් නොව අමෙරිකානු ව්‍යාප්‍රතියකි.

මීලඟ පියවර බුද්ධ සාසනයට ඇති ව්‍යවස්ථාපිත තැන දමිළයන්ට ඕනෑ විදියට කෙලලා දැමීමය

සුදානම්ව සිටින්න.

මීට පස්සේ බුදු දහම අදහන්න වෙන්නේ

සේපාල අමරසිංහ

සුදත් තිලකසිරි

කාඩිනල් ගෙන්,

දමිළයන් සහ

මුසලමානුවන් ගෙන් අසා වදාරා පමණි.

අහෝ ලංකා මැණියනි!

 

Distorter of Archaeology in Ceylon

 Distorter of Archaeology in Ceylon 

 

 

The fact of the matter is the facts distorted by British were serially brought forward to present day over the 150 years by these guys without visiting the sites and revisiting our history.

King Charles who is currently plotting against the sitting Prime Minister does not have the backbone to revisit and accept the liability of the Surveyor guys who distorted them.

 

In addition, all the Ola Leaves on which our history is written is locked up in London Museum. 

Our current President (who could not muster 50% - Illegal President) who cannot confront King Charles and ask for Royal Redress.

Jarathna Pathiraarachchi has released ton of information to the  YouTube in addition to 56 books published in Sinhala.

1. Number one is Catholic Paranavithana.

 

Stone Edit 486 was distorted.

2. Nandasena Mudiyanse

3. Chandima Abanvala

4. Ellavala Medananda

5. Latest would be Raj Soma Deva who would continue the tradition of deception.

ARCH GRUB boot problems

ARCH is a pretty good distribution on its own but except for Mamjaro, two ARCH Kernels cannot sit in the same GRUB file.

Other ARCH was Cachy OS.

For a change I tried REBORN.

It has a beautiful Plymouth but did not boot Manjaro. Did not boot even Debian Gnome.

I went into overdrive and decided to install BlueStar Linux.

It is the most beautiful KDE Desktop I have used with ton of applications.

I had fallen out of it due to one minor problem. 

Cannot use the WiFi.

To be precise the password Registration failing.

That is no automatic update after first install and no Dedktop Selection.

With some trial and error procedure, I managed to configure the WiFi before clicking the install button.

It is currently updating at 94% level.

I hope it gets back my GRUB configuration file. This time I did not touch the mouse but watched the written updates on the console screen.

Patience is essential when installing.

I think it has updated the 22 files.

1574.54MB Download.

3944.15MB when installed.

Takes 94% for the KDE Desktop and I cannot find Octapi. Takes all my resources and I cannot install AbiWord.

Boot Menu is in dark mode and I cannot read it. Besides, I need GNOME, my work desktop.

I am going to Reinstall Catchy OS on top of it. It failed for GNOME.

Problem was /root patition only 16GB.

Repartitioned it reducing the /home partition and incressing up to 21GB

22GB is the minimum, I give Debian, since I add several desktops later.

It worked. 

5GB for /home partition, since I do not download any iso imsge bigger than 4GB for testing.

Gnome take about 10GB.

Smallest Iso of 5.5GB is AntiX.

By the way, Cachy OS is very strict.

One Desktop.

If you select a Window Manager one may have to TOIL under Teminal to get a working desktop.

It is somewhat liberal on Browesers.

I stand to correction now. 

I found Octapi and I have many Desktops now including Cosmic. Pantheon does not work.

Octapi is a very elegant.

Manjaro is easy going and I give it's /root partion and /var partition liberal space.

If one installs BlueStar Linux it is prudent not to go for a Desktop at install and there is leeway with Octapi without a Desktop

I always use Octapi Cleaner to free cashe.

History of Ceylon and Tribes

History of Ceylon does not end in 5000 years.

It probably extends up to 150,000 years.

A skeleton was found in our sea which was estimated to be 150,000 old.

Balangoda man was between 30 to 50,000 old. They were not cave men but an advanced civilization.

Ibbankatuwa remains or tombs dating back to 700BCE shows where ashes of the dead were placed in pots. Muslims have destroyed these sites to destroy our heritage.

At least we have had caves and records going up to 8000 years when Kakusanda Buddha was supposed to have resided in CE LON.

We may have had several Prehistoric Tribes.

Buddha was born in Ceylon.

We have had all the 5 prerequisites.

කාලය     Time

දේශය     Region

ද්වීපය     Island

කුලය      Noble Tribe

මව          Mother

There facts were destroyed by the British and Buddha's birth place was shifted to India.

But we have thousands of Stone Edits supporting Buddha was born in Ceylon which Paranavithana deliberately falsified to satisfy the Church and the British.

During the Gotama Buddha, there were at least 4 tribes.

1. Yaksha     Rugged and powerful

2. Naga        Tall with reptilian eyes

3. Raksha     Rugged and black

4. Deva or Manussa  only a limited clan

They were all humans with interbreeding but Yaksha were poweful and dominated. 

There were internecine conflicts.

Broad division was Sura and Asura.

Manussa or Amanussa.

Buddha clan interbred with Yaksha clans to bring harmony.

Buddha himself dealt with at least 4 conflicts.

There were 4 great kings during the time of Buddha leading these tribes.

1. Maiyanganaya Yaksha Naga Conflict

2. Conflict with Royal Chair in Kelaniya

3. Saman (was an uncle of Buddha)

4. Alawaka Yaka (Now Alawwa)

Kandy Perahara is less than 100 years old and is a Tamil Festival. They substituted their Devas into our culture.

Vishnu

Kataragama

Paththini  supposed to be the next Buddha (Metta)

Buddha was considered a god

Did not have a fourth but added Saman later.

Four powerful kings became gods with the destruction of our culture by the British. 

Paranavithana is the villain who kept British concocted history to this day.

History has to be rewritten with Stone Edits supporting, them.

We have over 20,000 Stone Edits.

Many of them have not yet being read or interpreted.

In my analysis 50% of our blood comes from Yaksha.

Over the last 1700 of Indian Invasion and Tamil or Pandyan kings our history was rewritten by the Indians.

This Vijaya story is a "cock and bull" story planted on our history by Indians and Indians still persevere to maintain that cooked up story.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi has enormous quantity of Stone Edits to dispute. He is slowly dishing them out. 

Hagoda Vipassi must be Psychotic

This is in defense of Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi.

 

As a doctor, I have a suspicion that Hagoda Vipassi, a Buddhist Monk who probably is psychotic, to file a case against Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi who is trying to discover true history of ours, which was distorted by Indian monks Buddhagosha and Mahanama.

 

Mevanapalane guy is also a psychotic guy. 

He had delivered a gunny load of poisoned rice to Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi to kill him by slow poisoning. 

He still suffers from the after effects of the poisoning. 

 

As a doctor I know this issue and I now know Buddhist monks use this method and well known guy is Kiribathgoda Gnanananda. 

 

Latest one is Mevanapalane.

 

Haguramketa Seelaratana is another guy who hates Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

 

These facts should be made public.

 

That is why I am making a Short Blog Piece. 

Thank YOU AntiX Linux

Thank YOU AntiX Linux

Considering AntiX, Void Linux is a big failure, it cannot be installed on a hard drive.

Please note that AntiX 23.2 is based on Debian 12.2 Kernel and do not expect Trixe functionality. I installed heavy weight champian Blender and to run it I installed Gnome. Blender does not run undet a Window Manager.

It did not upset my GRUB!

It took only 5.46GB and I have 4.31GB remaining on 9.77GB partition.

I installed Genome and it took 4GB and I am left with only 500MB to work. This just to illustrate even GNOME takes enormous amount of space just like KDE.

It is prudent to use XFCE, if one is hard pressed with hardware space.

By the way, AntiX uses Window Managers, many of them and I choose IceWM.

It has UPDATE Utility, which one should activate after install.

It has Bookworm (12) and Bulleye (11).

I was looking for the smallest distribution to install in my 9.77GB Ext4 partition and I could not find one except AntiX.

I had problem with  WiFi configuration in the past and that is sorted out now.

Besides, it is the only  distribution that supported Opera Browser and it has Vivaldi, Falkon and many more.

Once installed, I  look for two other applications, VLC and Audacity apart from AbiWord. 

I got everything.

MX Linux, I may not use MX Linux again. MX Linux, YOU miss the bus and the buzz.

THANK YOU, AntiX Linux, developers guys and girls.

It has ton of applications and I have no hesitation recommending it.

By the way, its methods are graphic intensive even fot a kid.

It can be carried as a persistent image in a USB stick.

Whatelse one needs?

ස්තුතියි.

රැවටීමද, සංග්‍රහ කිරීමද? - Trick and Treat

Trick and Treat phrase of Halloween should change to Trick and Cheat in CEYLON.

මගේ ඊලග කෙටි සටහන අස්ථාවරභාවය විය මුත්, "Uncertainty Principle" කියලා පොතක්ම ලියල තියන නිසා, ඒ අදහස අත හැරියා. 

බුදු දහමේ මූලධර්ම ඇතුලත් වුවත්, කියවන්නාට වෙහෙස නොදැනෙන ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නට උත්සාහ කලා.

මෙයට පසුව, නත්තල් නිවාඩුව එන නිසා, ආයෙ සටහන් නොලියන්න, තිරණය කලා.

කොහොමටත්, මගේ Linux ව්‍යාප්‍රතිය දින කිහිපයකට පෙර අවසන් කල නිසා දිග නින්දක්‌, සිහින නොමැතිව ගත කලා.

මාතෳකාවක් නැතිකොට, සිහිනයක්‌ පදනම් කොට පල් හෑල්ලක්‌ ලියන්න පුරුදු වෙලා හිටියේ.

ජාතික ජන බල වේගයට, චන්දය දුන්නා නම්, මෙතනින් එහාට කියවන්න පෙර, දිව යට "Aspirin" පෙත්තක් දමා ගන්න.

එක සුබයි. 

Blood Clot, නවත්තන්න හොදම ප්‍රතිකාරය, එයයි.

1. ජනතාව සිහින සාගරයක ගිලවා, ජයග්‍රණය කළ මොවුන්ට, දැන් කිසිම පොරොන්දුවක් ඉෂ්ට කරන්න බැරි බව පෙන්නුම් කරමින් ඉන්නවා

2. මහජනතාව මුලා කලා නේද?

Tricked?

3. ජනතාවට සංග්‍රහ කරන්නත් බෑ නේද?

4. බොරුවෙන්ම,

 "ඉදිරියට යන්" කියන,

 අපි පොඩි කාලේ,

 "March Past"  වල කියපු,

 උදෘතපාට වලට පණ පොවමු නේද

5. මහජනතාව ගොනාට ඇන්දීම හොද නැත. මෙතක්කල් අනිත් පක්ෂත් කලේ ඔය ටිකමයි.

මහජනතාව රැවටීමයි.

පක්ෂයේ පාට මාරු උනාට, කපුටාගේ තටු සුදූ වෙන්නේ නෑ.

අපි පොඩි කාලේ කල, පොලිස්කාරයෙකුට උන අකරතැබ්බයක්‌ මතක් උනා.

මිනිස්සු තොප්පි අදින කාලේ.

තොප්පියකින් යමක් වසා තිබුනා.

හොරෙක් පස්සේ පොලිස් කාරයෙක් පසුබඳ අවා.

තොප්පිය ළග, ළමයින් රැස්ව සිටිනවා දැක්ක පොලිස්කාරයා,

ඔය මොකක්ද කියලා ඇසුවා.

මයිනෙක්‌, මයිනෙක්‌ කීවා.

ඊට පස්සේ වෙච්ච දේ දන්නේ අර පොඩි ළමයි විතරයි.

අපේ පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, දැන් හත් පොලේ ගාගෙන.

ඊට වැඩිය හොද විස්තරයක්‌, පොලිසිය ගැන කියන්න නැති තරම්ය.

තමුන්ට අයිති රාජකාරිය, නොකර බොරු "YouTube" සංදර්ශන දම දමා හිටියොත් රාජකීය හොරු අනිත් පැත්තෙන් හිනා වෙන්න පටන් ගැනියි.

 

Britain in Turmoil

Yes, Britain in Turmoil.

It all started with a conspiracy and not a coup.

 

King Charles started it.

Nigel Farage came to his aid.

 

Plan was to oust P. M. Keir Starmer.

 

Judges were also in the plot.

 

Plan was to find an irregular business deal. They found a few but they were not strong enough.

Plan was to mount s smear campaign against the P. M., on campaign contributions. But in Western Democracy campaign donations are legal.

 

So the only option was an smear campaign and dirty tricks. 

 

Nigel Farage, King and the Judges aligned with the King set things in motion and letters of communication were exchanged quietly.

 

It worked and the P. M. lost his composure and in a single outburst made King Charles a villain.

Bottom line is, King Charles is the least popular of all, with many unfriendly gags floating around. He was jealous and despised the P. M.s absolute control of the Parliament.

 

To add to the problems Parliament stalled on key legislations, mostly on economic issues and also with the relationship with the EU. There is deep division between the EURO skeptics and the EURO sympathizers. Brexit in not finalized especially on trade issues. P. M.'s inclination towards E. U. was a sore point. 

That made his popularity to plummet.

He is for a modern democraticy and the Upper House with old peers doing sweet nothing at public cost is an anomaly where transparency is invisible.

His decision to dissolve the Parliament was a master stroke.

All MPs lose their seats except the Interim Government. 

He is still the P. M. and he still has power.

 

I hope George Galloway, if he decides to contest the gemeral election, gets back to Parliament winnings the seat he lost last time round.

Diversity is essential in a modern democraticy.

It is not too bad, the last election was held in 2025, July, two and half years ago. 

From 2015, no government lasted, normal 5 years. 

 

Politics in UK is fluid. 

 

Why I do not know.

My prediction.

Hung Parliament.

 

Keir Starmer ending as the next Opposition Leader.

 

Nigel Farage the caretsker P. M. without a commanding majority with minor parties propping him  up.

My Reasoning 

Large majority of Indians and Pakistsnis in inner cities.

They do not like Farage.

They are labour supporters.

The fate of U. K. is decided by immigrants (and not by real British descendants) that include European immigrants mostly of Polish, origin.

I am glad I decided to quit UK in 1988.

 

I did not anticipate England would go down this path.

I was and still a labour supporter but Keir Starmer broke the back of labour party with his ultramodern policies.

His firm stand against the Royal Family, living on public money did not go well, too.

 

His stand was correct but was ill timed.

I am not a fan of the Royal Family.

 

I despise the Royal Family for what they did to Princess Diana.

Halloween, Death and Rebirth

For Buddhist who believe in Rebirth, dearh is not an end but another beginning. 

So there is no celebration or thanks giving involved. 

Having started paediatrics in early 1970s and seen many deaths due to starvation and poverty, revisiting childhood mortality is relevant. 

History repeats, and another epodode under NPP is a real probability when the Health Minister who is only good at cricising others and never himself is running the health issues.

In my opinion, Minister of Health should not do politics but spend all his time resolving problems at hand. 

Getting involved in a media show would make him to loose his seat in the next election and he should not come back to the Parliament through a List MP post.

I have seen many bad health ministers in my time including one Rajapaksa who died in UK undergoing cardiac bypass. 

He was so hated that nobody would dare operate on him. 

My Rajapaksa hate probably started then. 

I could have gone to UK before him but we were bound by 6 year Compulsory Service. 

Ministry of Health was so bad, every doctor thought of leaving it with the first opportunity.

It is same after 70 years of Free Medical Care but nothing is free now except the bed, if one is available. 

Many still sleep on thr floor.

Coming to George Rajapaksa, he died in 1976 and I go by memory that he died in UK. I cannot confirm.

His Mulkirigala seat was kept without losing to his daughter Nirupama.

Even though, we hated him he was loved by his followers and he always had over 50% vote count.

I entered UK in 1979.

He died young under 50.

He would have been 99, if he lived without surgery.

Cardiaci Surgery was so fatal even in UK, those days until one of my Junior Mate from Peradeniya took over the mantle. He had over 100 cardiac sugeries without a fatal outcome.  

Then again one of my friends brother became an eminent cardic surgeon in another location. 

Coming to childhood death in 1970s, I did collect over 50 case reports within 6 months and wanted to write a report to inform the Ministry of Health. One was Communist party member's private secretary's son. 

Forget his name.

This in Ratnapura.

There were cases with CSF Sugar Zero.

That was the level of starvation. 

I did virological studies and took blood samples to MRI on my two weekly return home.

Thank you to Nanda Ellavala who provided us with rice and dhal which were in short supply. We saved him when he was shot by his own wife, reason which I do not know to this day. 

Not bothered to find.

They said it was viral encephalitis but I proved them wrong.

The bottom line is when I returned after my internship to collate and write a report all the BHT tickets were missing. 

So I blame it on George Rajapaksa. 

I made a resolve never to join the Health Ministry which I kept to my retirement but joined the University, instead.

In late 1979, in December I went to UK and got a job in pediatrics which I continued until I quit UK.

I did not confirm a single (under 6 months) death but they were saved with significant handicaps. There was no happy end. 

Those who died had significant inborn fatal conditions including leaukamias and sarcomas.

I had anothet belief that no leaukamia child should die without proper treatment. In one place where, I worked there were 11 kids in full remission. One was whom I diagnosed before leaving to UK who ended up as a doctor in America. 

He was a son of a consulant physician.

But I happily ended up as pathologist and everything including diagnosis was after the fact.

However, 40% no diagnosis was made and I made that category "Kamma Group" in my mind and they are born again, somewhere else.

Rebirth is a veritable concept and Halloween is not necessary in Ceylon.

I never discussed this topic in UK but let the priests deal with it and I pocket 10pounds by signing the death certificate for cremation.

Going Bananas

Banana a day keeps keep you healthy.

Pair it with yougert that add the correct amount of proteins makes you even healthy.

As kids we had the habit of peeling off the fiber part of the skin before eating the sweet fleshy stuff afterward. It has lot of nutruents and fiber. 

Beware.

Banana is treated with many chemicals along the way, and like the chicken that lives longer in the fridge can be contaminated. Washing gently witn water is the solution.

Lot do jot know from which it end to peel off. Top end is the right way.

Putting the banna may make the skin go brown but it does not spoil the inside.

Puttinh it in the fridge is a mistake.

Wrapp them individually and let them ripe one after the other. 

It is a Japanese method well tested.

One banna a day is enough.

It them in between meals.

Banana is natutally alkaline and reduce stomch acidity. 

Do not mix with acidic citrus fruits. 

I avoid or eat citrus fruits when overiped.

Acid in citrus eats into the enamal of the teeth with old age. 

Protect your teeth till old age is my advice.

Banana is an ideal trestment for constipation. One a day is enough

Do not eat too mamy.

They add natutal flavour to smoothies.

I have skipped many other facts.  

It has lot of different sugars and adding cane sugar is the biggrdt mistake. Thess different sugars are  released in a staggered manner and keep the blood sugar stable. 

One does not feel hungry and one may be able to skip a meal.

One busy working days in the university, I skipped the lunch and survived on milk and bananas. 

That I have become a "One Meal a day" man to this day.

Hunter gatherer survived on one meal. 

We can feed more hungry kids in the world.

Three meals a day is very unhealthy. Changing this habit has to be gradual.

The rich Ceylon, Tea kept me alert. 

Tea has lot of antioxidants.

Banana Bread at Mesna Tea (instead of cheese cakes) Center was later addition.

I miss Mesna Tea.

By the way, NPP/JVP have gone bananas and there are lot more slippery dealing behind the corridors of power which the citizenry is not aware of.

Truth about Chocolates and the Chemistry Experiment on Kids

There are a few very good chocolates brands still in existence.

We visited Chocolates Factory in Philip Islands in Australia that keeps the chocolate nostalgia of old time as real.

It is the Valentine gift.

Panny's Chocolate Factory is worth a visit of a lifetime.

There are so many American sounding words wrapped round in chocolates 

Ethical

Premium

Sustainable

Organic

Consumer focussed

Even Endangered Species are used in Labelling 

Kandos Chocolates in Kandy was a delicacy of the past.

So many brands makes one wonder why there so many.

This Information is Collected from a YouTube presentation.YouTube is not always bad.

Chocolates epitomizes the American capitalistic pushover that marketing hype is used to hoodwink the consumer.

Many brands changed hand and now Korean and Chinese brands are ruling the market in the game of cost cutting.

The kids are cheated by default with attractive wrapping. 

It is high time that cost of the Labelling is Reduced and the quality of chocolates is maintained.

African children are not treated as slaves in this game of chocolates and prime land is not sacrificed for cocoa growing.

Last thing I did before leaving Ceylon was to find some ripe Cocoa seeds and give to a guy to grow. I use cocoa plant to propagate orchids. It is a rainforest plant that needs lot of water for sustainance.

It is the Belgian Kings in Brussels who exploited the Africans and made chocolate empires. To this day, I refuse to taste Belgian chocolate brands.

Even Mr.Bean had made comments on chocolates.

In the 1980s I used to bring loads of Swiss Chocolates on my holidays.

Having come to Australia, I rarely taste chocolate.

Like I stopped drinking alcohol due to high rate of taxes, I avoid chocolates due to high content of sugar and hydrogenated vegetable oil.

I go for soya or TOFU instead which is healthierm

Sophisticated capitalist market hype

Chemistry Experment on Kids

Child labour in Africa 

Cadmium

Lead

Salmonella poisoning

Petroleum based preservatives

Artificial emulsifyers

Sugar

Milk

Inflated Labelling 

Hyperactivity related to coloring agents

Allergens 

Peanut butter

Soy milk

Palm oil

Cane Sugar

PGPR

Polyglycerin Polyricinoleate

Based on Castor Oil (තෙල් ඒඬරැ) which is used as a purgative 

Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Metal, plastic fragments and stones in your bar

It us called a bean to a bar and that transfomation makes, all the capitalistic tricks which China and Korea are practising today.

This is a funny world.