MoccacinnoOS Installation

MoccaccinoOS is a Gentoo based desktop distribution with minimal utilities.

I tried EXT4 installation and currently trying to install with bcachefs (Copy on Write ) file system.

I am trying Gnome Dedktop which is about, 2.1GB Iso. My Guess is it going to fail again. Formatting the file system takes ages. I won't recommend it to a newbie in Linux.

Partitioning took 12 minutes.

283487 files in total for installation.

Took 10 minutes for Installation and as expected GRUB boot loader failed.

I think like btrfs file system it has redundancy file system for backup which I HATE.

WiFi configuration was smooth.

Old Tribes of Ceylon and the RAVANA Clan

Old Tribes of Ceylon and the RAVANA Clan 

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 a relatively 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

These 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 powerful 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 and many other kings during the time of Buddha leading these tribes. Ceylon was much bigger and part of it went under water with enormous wealth.

1. Maiyanganaya Yaksha Naga Conflict

2. Conflict with Royal Chair in Kelaniya

3. Saman (was an uncle of Buddha), the Adam's Peak

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 also 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. 

මට පෙනෙන දේශපාලන කෘමන්ත්‍රනය

ප්‍රේමදාස ජනාදීපති මරා දැමු ලෙසටම කෘමන්ත්‍රනයකින් අනුරව මරා හෝ පලවා හැර  රජ වෙන්න රනිල් නොහොත් සුත්තර පුන්චා දැන් ලැහැස්ති වෙනවා.

රනිල් බල ප්‍රේතයෙක්‌. 

රටේම අවාසනාව.

සැලැස්ම කර ඇත්තේ ඉන්දියාට නඩ පටවන දුස්ශිල  හාම්මුදුරු ගොල්ලක්.

මිහින්තලය අමෙරිකන් මිලිටරි ගුවන්යානා මද්‍යස්ථානයක්‌ සඳහා විකිනීමට නියමිතය.

රට කෑලි තුනට කැඩිමේ නියමුවා වෙන්න හදන්නේ.

අම්මගේ මුත්තාගේ දේපොල අර මිලින්ද මොරගොඩ වික්කා වගේ.

දෙන්න, ජාඩියට මුඩිය වගේමයි.

අමෙරිකාවෙන් ලොකු මුදලක් ලැබෙනවා.

ඒ මුදලින් අන්තිම කාලයේ සැගවී සිටීමට අමෙරිකාවෙන් "Rhode Island' වගේ දුපතක්‌ ඔහුට ලැබන්න තියනවද?

අනේ අපොයි, අපේ ලංකාවට.

1959යෙ, සෝමාරාම සහ බුද්ධරක්‌කිත කතාව නැවත රංග දැක්‌වීමක්.

ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච්ට ලංකාවේ ඉදන් කියන්න බැරිදේ පිටරට සිටන් හරි කිව යුතුයි.

Please mark my word before it really happens.

Simple Way to Choose a Linux Distribution

Perhaps this is my last post on Linux.

I would not write any on 2026, instead, I would choose 5 with different attributes that would coexist in my NUC.

I am still stuck at 4.

They are

1. Debian 

2. BlueStar Linux

3. Reborn OS

4. MX Linux 

CachyOS is the most elegant but it only coexists with Debian.

I have no Windows but to fool Windows snoopy guys I have GRUB entry without actually having Windows installed.

Do not listen to YouTube guys.

They are paid by Microsoft Guys.

Choosing a Distribution

1. For Games

Steam OS

2. Ordinary day to day use

Do a Internet Survey of 20 Linux Distributions

Short List 5

Download the Live  DVDs and Test them

install ONLY two and try them.

Do not try all 5 like me YOU bound to fail.

3. Special Use Case Scenario and Higj end Graphic Cards owners.

I cannot advice.

I am not a gamer.

I play only kids games now.

If you own an average Graphic Card there is no worry at all. Almost all Linux Distributions now configure the graphic card efficiently and do not tinker afterwards

4. Do not buy an expensive Mini Desktop computer if your workload is heavy. Instead buy a Mini Desktop depending on your budget. The advantage is one can uograde except RAM. RAM is the most important and they are in short supply due to panic buying.

5. Do not buy a second hand refurbished PC if your understanding on hardware is only average.

Give your specication to the vendors and request him that you would like to see the assembly in person.

Thereby, You learn a bit of hardwsre assembly.

I did with my first computer in early 1980s and my son got to know the tit bits

6. I am ambivalent with Laptops since I carry a few a USB sticks with Puppy Linux for work including persistece volume.

Biggest problem is the bulk.

The next problem is the battery.

The third is the graphics.

Basically, laptop is the pain in the arxxx.

Once I bought two Mini PCs I stopped using the Laptop. It is now used to store all the Linux Images. I stick a USB and copy an Image. Besides, it has all the older images. 

I left all my archived images in CEYLON and Ceylon is totally devasted. 

I have no intention of visiting to see the devastation.

I send money though, to CEYLON coffers and if I find NPP/JVP misappropriate them, I am going to withhold even that contribution.

Beautiful Mind

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Beautiful Mind

Let me list, a few of our emotions and then see how we can avoid feeling bad or confused.

This is based on a power point presentation to undergraduates in their Preliminary Course in English. 

 

Seeing students of different faith I avoided the Buddhist Terminology but in fact expanded on the four Wrong Directions which young one’s, including individuals of different religious faiths, political ideology, racial orientation and above all some teachers (ill conceived) with hidden agenda.

1. Fear

2. Anger

3. Hate

4. Aggression

5. Resentment

6. Envy

7. Rejection

8. Guilt

9. Pride

10. Boredom

11. Loneliness

12. Jealousy (Green eyed Monster)

13 Paranoia

 

Why not

1. Hope

2. Happiness

3. Love and

4. Self Control

5. Tolerance

These were the same emotions which went through young minds of our generation 60 years ago.

Most of them ended up with “Reactive Depression” not “Endogenous Depression” but there was no counseling of any kind at disposal.

I think in this modern age of Digital Obsession, there is more expressed “Emotional Intolerance”.
 

In fact, digital media like Facebook, to some extent YouTube thrive on this malady.
I think politicians from China to Russia to Middle East (Israel and Palestine included) to (importantly) USA base their strategies on hate anger and resentment.
Emotions like relationships have various shades and connections.
 

We can shape our emotions, the way we want them to be (for good as well as bad intentions).

How can we progress?

In a way according to Professor De Bono;

It is to have beautiful Mind or get rid of the wrong Directions and Intentions.

I did a survey on technical terms in psychology and found psychological terms easily outnumbered the technical terms in physics, mathematics and philosophy all put together.

The corollary of this is that Religious, Political and Racial Doctrines can thrive on these minor and major psychological maladies.

It is interesting that Buddha had crystallized the themes into four categories. 

During the talk on “Making a Choice in Life”;

Ajahn Brahm taught the four considerations when face with making a decision.

Not for selfish reason

Not with ill-will

Not out of stupidity

With no Fear.

This is the Buddha’s teaching on four “Agati”, namely,

Chanda-gati, Dosa-gati, Moha-gati, Bhaya-gati, or the four kinds of corruption.

Chanda-gati, corruption induced by desire, is deviation from the right path in pursuit of bribes or for the sake of those one loves.

Dosa-gati is taking the wrong path to spite those against whom one bears ill will, and

Moha-gati is aberration due to ignorance.
 

Bhaya-gati
But perhaps the worst of the four is bhaya-gati, for not only does bhaya, fear, stifle and slowly destroy all sense of right and wrong, it so often lies at the root of the other three kinds of corruption.

Agati: the 4 'wrong Paths' are: the path of desire, the path of hate, the path of confusion, the path of fear bhaya. One who is freed from these evil impulses is no longer liable to take any wrong path.

Satara Agati -Four unprofitable directions

The term 'Agati' in Pali mean wrong course or going bad way.

There are four bad ways,

a) Chandā agati - the going a bad way through ill will

b) Dosā agati -the going a bad way through hate

c) Bhayā agati - the going a bad way through fear

d) Mohā agati - the going a bad way through ignorance or delusion

Pali

 

Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya

This piece is dedication to Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya who introduced me to "Language Games" long after I matured into C and dropped it at C++ PLUS.

Even, in Computer CODE, if one adds more and more Commands Modules, one is left with an endless loop with no Work Output. 

Google's Visual Code suffer the same fate. 

PYTHON or the Anaconda which I was never interested in has long twists of CODE is only GOOD for automation since, if one loop fails another loop tightly binds the PREY for later consummation loop or rather maintaining the automatic loop.

I am not sure how AI would solve this problem of many computers languages.

Would it build another language of it own?

Pali

Pali as a language has failed to Express Dhamma in a pristine form. 

This is what as an astute philosopher Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya tried to do without opening a can of worms in his time, among the so called Buddhist monks who are entangled in a mess of Pali words.

My conviction of Pali is bit beyond the attempt of the professor. 

I want it to get rid of the jargon.

This is the very reason I did not want to be named a professor in my retirement (partly technical and partly I did not want to be tagged to University of Peradeniya, in my retirement to avoid visiting their Conventions by invitation. 

Now our ulma mater is devastated, one is not sure, when the next convention is going to be held).

With a post of professor one is bound by conventions if not convictions.

I want to be free of conventions. 

Free of convictions I can now state or lash out;

1. Pali is not the language of Buddha.

 

2. Pali is an adopted or "cooked up" language by Indians to distort Dhamma or the very Teachings of Buddha.

3. I was made to believe that to understand Dhamma one has to know Pali. 

I tried.

I collected (they are collecting dust in CEYLON ), all the dictionaries and glossaries, thinking Dhamma is an academic exercise.

I am proven WRONG.

4. If I did not meet Professior A. D. P. Kalansuriya, I would have been trapped or entangled.

5. The word entanglement is colossal.

It even embraces the meaning of python in computer coding. 

6. Dhamma is for unentanglement.

7. Pali is for entanglement and the moment I realized this, I dropped Pali knowing Buddha  only spoke in simppe language.

8. If Buddha was not born in CEYLON, he certainly embraced the original Sinhala language which Jayarathne Pathiraarchchi tries to bring out in style.

9. Buddhagosha and Mahanama were vested by Indian kings to destroy Sinhala language. 

By doing so destroy Dhamma.

10. Why did they translate Dhamma into Pali?

11. Why did they burn the original Sinhala Texts?

12. What happened at Abayagiri?

13. Pali is a creation by Indian Pandits to distort Dhamma.

Dhamma does not give "two hoots" to God or Maha Brahma.

14. Idea was to propagate gods of many kinds with that  also the castes of many kinds.

15. If Pali is not a creation, why there is no place on this Planet people speaking Pali?

16. Sinhala, letters originated first.

They are still present in CEYLON as Stone Edits or SelLipi.

17. Anura and Niragamikayan are trying to perpetuate this Indian mythology on present "Helayans" who are only a few that are left in this country.

18. We have to destroy this Indian propaganda.

Ranil Wickrasinghe and Milinda Moragoda have taken this contract.

19. Our history has to be rewritten.

Now is the time.

Help Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

When good things come out or try to resurface Marayan wakes up.

Marayans = Indians 

That is the simple equation.

20. Current natural catastrophe washed away all the hopes of Indians, Nigantayans and Niragamikayans.

21. Thanks to European guys who recorded our Stone Edits.

22. Down with Paranavithana C. B. E who was an agent of the Church of England who distorted our history.

23. Down with Raj Soma Deva who is an agent of L. T. T. E.

Triad of Anura, Soma Deva and Rump L. T. T. E. are the bane of this country, called Ceylon.

Unholy Trinity.

All originated from Vidyodaya University background to ascend to some  questionable CREDIBILITY.

It seems as all the Archaeologists are Bone Liars except only a few.

Wake up.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is shaking up the foundation of credibility.

Lies cannot last long or have long legs.

They get invariably exposed.

Small steps are necessary.

Now is the time.

My Political Stance in the Global Village

I am going to be less active in the Global Village, in the coming year, 2026.

My positioning is based on the Teaching of Buddha. 

In other words, I am TRUE to Dhamma and would not waver to protect Dhamma from attack from within or outside.. 

 

In that sense, if Buddha was born in CEYLON (that is in fact the scientific truth) and British and Indian have together cooked up a story for political reasons, I am ready to SHAME, them at any forum.

My anti Indian stance is based on that.

I have nothing against an average Indian.

If CEYLONESE Tamils for sectarian reasons tore the line with Indians to propagate that myth, I am going to be at loggerhead with them.

 

I do not care they the guy is politician, a monk a priest or any pseudo-social activist.

 

They have to provide me with facts not antics.

My support for Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is based on discover the TRUTH.

 

He is the only guy who had the courage to stand up to the monks with vested interests.

He deserves accolades.

 

Others who say yes to any imported opinion, I call them and I consider Ceylonese ponnayas or souls without a backbone.

My global promotion on Linux would tail off and my drive to make its PC penetration of 10% has born fruit.

My future interest will be on Linux Distributions and up till now I have found 5 to support. Strangely, 3 of them are ARCH based which was a very late adoption by me.

 

I promote English as a link language of Ceylon and in a way I am grateful to the British. However, the cultural or heritage destruction they attempted in their colonial administration, I do not agree.

The destruction to our hill country by Tea plantation, importation of foreign labour and killing of our Elephants I deplore. Their plundering and destruction of Buddhist sites were colossal and Ceylonese deserve some form of reparation and compensation.

That should not be in the form of aids to a particular racial entity or religious sector.. Their attempt to divide and rule which itself is a deplorable political act and Norway and Canada (proxies of British hegemony) are currently doing that now.

පන්සල් වලට අරක්ගත් ශ්‍රමණනයන් සිංහල ඉතිහාසය විකුර්ති කිරීම, කැතයි වැඩේ

මේ සිද්දින්, හේතුව පැහැදිලි කළ යුතුය.

මම අවුරුදු 25කට, පෙර සිට ලංකාවේ වෛද්‍ය සභාවේ සහතිකය ප්‍රතික්‌ෂෙප කෙලෙමි. එයට හේතුව, රජයෙ සහ පෞගලික වෛවරුන් කරන සත්‍ය වසන් කිරීම් සහ සහාසික වැඩ එලිදරව් කිරීමටය. මගෙ පවුලෙ අයගෙ යහපත සලකා එය අතහැර දමා, පොඩි කාලයෙ, මගෙ ඥති ස්වාමින් වහන්සේ කෙනෙකුටවූ, පොරොන්දුවක්‌ අනුව බුදුදහම පිලිබඳ සත්‍ය ගවේශනයක යෙදුනෙමි.

සොයා ගත් දේවල් එලි කිරීම වෛද්‍ය වරයෙකුගේ ආචාර්ය දර්ම සලකා නොකෙළෙමි.

නමුත්, ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච්ගේ, ඉතිහාසය පිළිබද බුද්දිමය ගෑවේශනය දැක ඔහුට පරිවාර සහය සදහා මගේ ඉංග්‍රීසි පොත්වල සදහන් නොකළ දේ ගුගල් බ්ලොග් සටහනේ තබන්න ඉටා ගතිමි.

සංඝයා පිලිබඳ පැහදීමක් මට නැත.

හේතුන්

1. සතර කේන්දරය පාලු වූ මව සහ පිය සෙනෙහස නොලැබු දරුවන් මහන කියිම 

2. එම දරුවන් ලිංගික පහස සදහා යොදා ගැනීම

මෙය පල්ලියෙද උපාය මාර්ගය ය. අම්පිටිය පාසලට ගිය නිසා ඒ ගැන හොදට අද්ද්‍යානය කෙලමි.

3. පොඩිත්තන් වහල්ලු සේ සැලකීම

4. බුද්දියෙන් තොර අය සාසනයට ඇතුළු වීමට ඉඩ සැලසුම් කලේ ඉංගිරිසි පාලකයන්ය. 

සාසනය කාදනයවීම ඔන්ගෙ පරිපාලනයට අවශ්‍ය විය.

5. කතෝලික ආගම ස්ථාපිත කිරීම අරමුණ විය. 

එය 5%න් නතර විය. 

එම 5% රජයේ තනතුරුට ආදේශ කරන ලදි.

මෙත්තානන්ද ශ්‍රීමතුන් මතක් කරන්න.

6. Olcott සහ Blavasky ඇතුළු ඉන්දියාවේ "පරම දර්ම සභාව", මේ උප්පර වට්ටියේ කුටප්‍රාත්තියයි

7. ඉන්දියානු කුමන්ත්‍රණය දියත් කිරීම.

අනගාරික ධර්මපාල නැමැති 

කතෝලිකයෙක් බුදුන් උපන් රටට නොහොත් නිඝන්ටයන් සිටි රටට යැවීම

නේපාලයේ බුදන් උපන්බව රෝපණය කිරීම.

8. සංඝ බේදයට උඩගෙඩි තැබීම

9. ධර්මය විකුර්ති කිරීමට පාලි නැමැති විකුර්ති භාෂාවක් ඉන්දියාවේ නිෂ්පාදනය කිරීම

10. බුද්ධගෝෂ සහ මහානාම ලංකාවේ පැල පදියන් කිරීම.

සිංහල බෞද්ධ ග්‍රන්ථ පුළුස්සා දැමීම.

පාලි පච වැට්ටෝරුදින් කිරීම.

සංගයා සුන්වීම.

පසුකාලිනව කම්බෝජයෙන් සහ බුරුමයෙන් උපසම්පදා වැඩම වීම.

දෙමළන් කල විනාස හංගන්නේ ඇයි.

දෙමළුන්ට බයද නැත්තන් දෙමළුන් බොරුවට කහින්න සල්ලි දෙනවද?

අවුරුදු 800 ත් 1200ත් අතර වූ සොලී නොහොත් දමිළ ආක්‍රණ වලදී කළ විනාස ගැන කතා නොකරන්නේ ඇයි.

සිංහල වංසය වෙනුවට මහාවන්සය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම

11. වාසනාවකට මෙන් ඥනතිලෝක සහ ඥනපොයිනික හිමියන් යුද සමයේ ජර්මානු යුදෙව් සංහාරයෙන් මිදී ලංකාවට පැමිණිම. 

බෝදි අත් පොත් ප්‍රකාශනය වීම

බුදු දහම නැවතත් ස්ථාපිතවීම

12. බෞද්ධ ග්‍රන්ථ ප්‍රකාශන අංශය බිහිවීම

Buddhist Publication Society, was establihed in Kandy.

13. දැන් වෙන්නේ මෙයයි.

බුදුසසුන විනාස කිරීමේ ඉන්දියානු ව්‍යාප්‍රතිය, අනුර නැමැති නරුමයා බාර ගැනීම.

14. වාසනාවකට මෙන් යුරොපිය ගත් කරුවන් සෙල්ලිපි ටිකක් හෝ සටහන් කිරීම. පුරාවිද්‍යා අංශය යුරොපිය මතය පමණක් හරි ලෙස සැලකීම.

ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච් හෙළි කරන කරුණු නිසා චක්‍ර වර්ති කියන අයගේ රෙදි ගැලවිලා යාම.

ඉංගිරිසියෙන් කියන්නේ කලිසමේ චු යෑම.

15. සිංහල ඉගෙන ගැනීමට මා මැලිවූයෙ, අනවශ්‍ය පාලි ඉන්දියානු ව්‍යාකරන ආදේශ කොට සරල හෙළ බස විනාස කිරීමය.

16. ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චට ජයවේවා.

ඔහු ප්‍රකාශ කළ හෙළ හෝඩිය ලක්වාසි ජනතාව ප්‍රගුණ කරත්වා.

Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya

This piece is dedication to Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya who introduced me to "Language Games" long after I matured into C and dropped it at C++ PLUS.

Even, in Computer CODE, if one adds more and more Commands Modules, one is left with an endless loop with no Work Output. 

Google's Visual Code suffer the same fate. 

PYTHON or the Anaconda which I was never interested in has long twists of CODE is only GOOD for automation since, if one loop fails another loop tightly binds the PREY for later consummation loop or rather maintaining the automatic loop.

I am not sure how AI would solve this problem of many computers languages.

Would it build another language of it own?

Pali

Pali as a language has failed to Express Dhamma in a pristine form. 

This is what as an astute philosopher Professor A. D. P. Kalansuriya tried to do without opening a can of worms in his time, among the so called Buddhist monks who are entangled in a mess of Pali words.

My conviction of Pali is bit beyond the attempt of the professor. 

I want it to get rid of the jargon.

This is the very reason I did not want to be named a professor in my retirement (partly technical and partly I did not want to be tagged to University of Peradeniya, in my retirement to avoid visiting their Conventions by invitation. 

Now our ulma mater is devastated, one is not sure, when the next convention is going to be held).

With a post of professor one is bound by conventions if not convictions.

I want to be free of conventions. 

Free of convictions I can now state or lash out;

1. Pali is not the language of Buddha.

 

2. Pali is an adopted or "cooked up" language by Indians to distort Dhamma or the very Teachings of Buddha.

3. I was made to believe that to understand Dhamma one has to know Pali. 

I tried.

I collected (they are collecting dust in CEYLON ), all the dictionaries and glossaries, thinking Dhamma is an academic exercise.

I am proven WRONG.

4. If I did not meet Professior A. D. P. Kalansuriya, I would have been trapped or entangled.

5. The word entanglement is colossal.

It even embraces the meaning of python in computer coding. 

6. Dhamma is for unentanglement.

7. Pali is for entanglement and the moment I realized this, I dropped Pali knowing Buddha  only spoke in simppe language.

8. If Buddha was not born in CEYLON, he certainly embraced the original Sinhala language which Jayarathne Pathiraarchchi tries to bring out in style.

9. Buddhagosha and Mahanama were vested by Indian kings to destroy Sinhala language. 

By doing so destroy Dhamma.

10. Why did they translate Dhamma into Pali?

11. Why did they burn the original Sinhala Texts?

12. What happened at Abayagiri?

13. Pali is a creation by Indian Pandits to distort Dhamma.

Dhamma does not give "two hoots" to God or Maha Brahma.

14. Idea was to propagate gods of many kinds with that  also the castes of many kinds.

15. If Pali is not a creation, why there is no place on this Planet people speaking Pali?

16. Sinhala, letters originated first.

They are still present in CEYLON as Stone Edits or SelLipi.

17. Anura and Niragamikayan are trying to perpetuate this Indian mythology on present "Helayans" who are only a few that are left in this country.

18. We have to destroy this Indian propaganda.

Ranil Wickrasinghe and Milinda Moragoda have taken this contract.

19. Our history has to be rewritten.

Now is the time.

Help Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

When good things come out or try to resurface Marayan wakes up.

Marayans = Indians 

That is the simple equation.

20. Current natural catastrophe washed away all the hopes of Indians, Nigantayans and Niragamikayans.

21. Thanks to European guys who recorded our Stone Edits.

22. Down with Paranavithana C. B. E who was an agent of the Church of England who distorted our history.

23. Down with Raj Soma Deva who is an agent of L. T. T. E.

Triad of Anura, Soma Deva and Rump L. T. T. E. are the bane of this country, called Ceylon.

Unholy Trinity.

All originated from Vidyodaya University background to ascend to some  questionable CREDIBILITY.

It seems as all the Archaeologists are Bone Liars except only a few.

Wake up.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is shaking up the foundation of credibility.

Lies cannot last long or have long legs.

They get invariably exposed.

Small steps are necessary.

Now is the time.

සෝම තෙරුන් වහන්සේ මරුවේ ඇයි?

සෝම තෙරුන් වහන්සේ මැරුවේ, මම විජය පරම් පරාවේ නොවේ යයි කියලා ප්‍රසිද්දියේ කියපු නිසයි.

මහාවංසය පට්ට පල් බොරුවක් යයි කියපු නිසායි

ලංකාවේ ඇත්ත කතා කිරීම තහනම්.

මේවාට ඉන්දියානු මුදල් වලින් යැපෙන හාමුදුරුවන් මෙන්ම යූටියුබ් කාරයන්ද සම්බන්දයි.

දමිළ ඩයස්පොරාව මේවට ගින්දර දානවා.

How does one have a good password?

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
 

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neuron networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I DO NOT use a VISA card now.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
 

For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
 

Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Step 5
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.

The best place to HIDE  is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.
 

Resetting the password
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
 

Straight away say NO.
 

The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
 

That includes me too.
 

I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded, I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.

Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.

Pearl Linux

Here, I have reproduced a read me file of Pearl Linux since I could not find the user name and password.

It is an Ubuntu Derivative which has a macOS appearance and is 1.5GB.

At the login screen please type "custom" as the user name hit enter then for password leave that field blank and hit enter.

Found a small issue with the fonts not looking correct and I thought I deleted the Iso but I guess not.
All you have to do, if you already downloaded Pearl is go into system settings and change the font from Veranda 9 to Ubuntu 10 and this is important,

I think Ubuntu One and few others give concern for a good password management. 

Naming others would be improper since they are not Open Source based. What goes behind them and whether they share them with the NSA or a corrupt regimes is open for debate.

I have personnel reason to believe they do and my own experience with institutions specially corrupt or vested interests, is on the affirmative.

They are hell bent to breach any privacy one may have.
The reason being that they do not want to be exposed of their sordid acts.

 
They are paranoid and it is a disease.

Fact that this blog post exists is due to the interference with my blog post elsewhere and a site that lacked good security protocol.

They were dysfunctional over more than a year and I do not use the site anymore.
My writings were very docile innocent and not politically involved.
 

They were bit humorous and the basic ingredients were satire.

I must say this was run by British Council Library in Kandy which is now defunct.

Unfortunately for me, out of the top ten, my writings (I was involved in initial setup) filled the top eight and the administrator got paranoid and blocked my name.

I still continued to write (very little traffic) in spite of noticing the administrators handiwork, since my idea was not to reach the top ten.

They used my birthday as a discriminator.

Who says there is no discrimination in web hosting and social media.
But my writings were there for anybody to read in spite of blocking the rating.
I have collated them and recently deleted 75% of the original writings from that site.
 

Some of them are now in digital output for posterity, in a book form.

This preamble is necessary since when one opens one’s heart and not the mind in the web, one has to be prepared for insults and discrimination.

Sadly now governments and secret agencies are doing things that one would not suspect 30 years ago.

Technocrats and not the real hard working guys who fill these posts and operating from air conditioned cubicles and are scared to be on the beat and foot.
 
Invariably paranoia develops.

So I think it is necessary to have a bit of paranoia when one enters the web with email to begin with.

How does one have a good password?
 
How one can remember a password with 14 to 16 characters (what banks employ now for an account, with the help of computers)?

To begin with one has to train the brain to remember.
 

I have a suggestion elsewhere (under web etiquette) that  I do not want to repeat here.

Beginning,

Step 1
One has to remember in blocks of three or four.
To train your mind try to remember your VISA card number.
Front four are almost specific and easy.
The last four should be your next attempt.
Do this every time when you go to the bank or to the till.
Do not worry if you forget.
When you can remember the first and the last lot of four numbers, try the other two lot not in specific way.
Suddenly part of the brain not utilized before get a rush of blood and new neuron networks.
Person with any age with firm resolve can do that.
This subconscious repetitive acts can be easily extended to one's password.

I DO NOT use a VISA card now.

I used to remember all the telephone numbers of my friends by heart in good old days and friends are the ones, one frequently ring and (telephone charges were relatively expensive, then) the brain stores them for good.
 
I stop doing that when cell phones came into existence.
 
One has to have one’s own trick for remembering blocks of three or four.

Try to associate them with pictures, names, pets etc.
 
Your pet fish or dog or cat would have a secret code attached.
Every time you feed them repeat the code (in mind) mentally in no time it get fixed as a long term permanent memory.

Step 2
Come with a phrase to include all the 10 to 16 characters in one’s password.
This is the hard part but it can be done.

Step 3
Use elements that one never forgets (unless one has Dementia).
Birthday is an easy one to remember.
 
Use only two numbers from it, not all.

Step 4
Unfortunately this cannot be used if one is English but I will give some hint for them too.
For Sinhala U Mata Banna, or Muta Mata Gahanna Hithenawa or Even Puke Ariya are good enough relatively used rephrases one can remember in trans-literate content, which the English Search engine might have trouble in figuring out.
From that phrase  one can choose four characters (even more if the phrase is carefully constructed) easily.
For English user, one good example is to go to alchemy and remember few Elements from the Tables.
Elements like Argon, Neon, Nitrogen,Bromine could be used at lib.
Or even one can use pentagon, hexagon, octagon or any other scientific or mathematical elements.
 
Again one only remembers four characters.

Step 5
If one has ever used a password before which one has remembered with repeated usage, use the same in the middle or rearrange it and put it in the middle.
 
Which will easily give you at least six characters.

You already got 12 characters now.
 
Step 5
Use two capital letters easy to access from the keyboard as the leader or the end of the password or leader and end, depending one is right or left handed.

Step 6
If the web site requires you to use an alphanumeric pick an alpha numeral to satisfy them.
You got 16 in all and 14 probably is adequate.

Step 7
Do not tell your method to anybody.
Do not share your password even with your spouse.
One day you me be divorced!
That is real and if you have time read my book on “Myths, Miracles and Marriage”.
Usually perfectly normal people become paranoid after getting married.
That is my medical experience.
It is often the people who are near and dear (sometimes, so called friends) who steal your password, not a rouge who breaks in for quick takeaway and getaway.

Keep the record of the method in a secret hiding place that you only have access.
In case one day you forget.

The best place to HIDE  is your brain.
Not even a brain surgeon would not have any access.
 

Resetting the password
When you change the password, drop two and take two from your birthday.
Pick four alternative block of four from your catch phrase.
Jumble your original password or add a new one.
Follow the rest as required and one may be able to go on till eighty to ninety since you practiced your own method and is almost specific to YOUR BRAIN which a hacker may not be able to penetrate or crack.

Unless you are one of twins there are no two people alike.
Even in them their are subtle differences not due to genetics but the brain behaves differently, even in twins.

Foot Note
But beware your doctor with a short memory or who is cash strapped who might steal your birth day or the catch phrase that you utter to him every time you visit.
Remember doctors forget their passwords more often than their patients.
They will never tell you.
That is why they record every word you utter and then get the vital diagnosis
wrong.
In this computer age doctors have become robots (unlike good old days) and not real humans.
If they ask you do you forget your passwords
Straight away say NO.
The stupid guy will ask you to state the password and put it in his computer memory which is not protected from hackers.

Even the nurse can steal it, if she/he is inclined.

I trust my doctor does not apply to passwords when you do visit him/her, next time, round.
 

That includes me too.
 

I might do that, catch your password, certainly not to steal but because my brain is getting absent minded, I might put that in my computer, easily accessed even by a little kid.

 
Do not worry, I do not practice now by choice not by design anyway.
You are safe with me, my dear.

Pearl Linux- UPDATE

Correction 

My memory is fading.

Full scan on this blog site from March, 27 2010, does not have an entry on Pearl Linux due to tow reasons.

Google search engine is not exclusive and lower hits get discarded and never surface again 

Google AI is does more damage and Money Driven algorithm is not scientific. I have blocked Google Payments and I have not received a single cent from Google and that has not improved my search for Pearl Linux in my living  memory. It is most likely a 32 bit Linux CD, I used long time ago and forgot except for the fact when Pearl Linux- Live CD was booted it needed a pass word and without the password the CD is useless. I have thrown away all the 32 bit Linux CDs with the 15 or so IBM Computer network, I had in our tiny but seven story house, and the Recovery Is Impossible (of the set of CDs with different versions). Even, if I find it it won't be able mount it without a CD/DVD driver but old lap top boot from a DVD drive. I kept one external DVD drive just in case in Ceylon for safety, thinking that I would pay a visit within 3 years. With the recent catastrophe, that is most unlikely and there nobody to support me and probably they need support from me. I have not given a single Telephone call and my commutations are nil with those who do not have an email. My contemporaries only use Voice Calls and with severe disruptions in to the Telecom System, I go by YouTube to have any sense to see what is happening in Ceylon.

I believe the access road to our house is damaged beyond repair.

 I do not want to know.

 Sorry for the diversion.

Yes, this is a Pearl Linux UPDATE.

I haven't used Pearl Linux since 32bit times.

My memory and relationship is related to its Password.

Either USER Password was blank or live or custom.

I cannot remember.

Then there was another distribution that had number extension 32 and 64 added to the Password.

Linux by default cannot boot without USER or ROOT password, even in live mode.

Now BlueStar Linux uses demo as a password.

 

My interaction with Pearl Linux is mixed with only nostalgia.

My comments are as; 

1. It still has "Inferiority Complex" and wants to assume Windows run computers. It added Window boot Plymouth to my GRUB. There is no Microsoft Windows in my system.

It could not read my GRUB and assumed and added a Windows appendage.

It really annoyed me.

2. It ruined my GRUB and there is no sympathy for such a distribution but the Christmas spirit prevailed.

3. One distribution short, 4 out of  5 boots. I even installed CachyOS to completely overall the GRUB.

CachyOS runs with Debian but not with REBORN OS and other ARCH based distributions. Is the most elegant ARCH based distribution and that is why it tops www.distrowatch.com, list.

1. Nothings good about Pearl Linux.

I have said Good Bye to Trixie even though Trixie is pretty STABLE. 

 

Pearl Linux is Trixie edition and I have at least one distribution with Trixie. I am not sure how long I am going to keep it or erase it with Gnoppix.

2. Pearl Linux hated SNAP and UBUNTU, so do I.

I have no association with UBUNTU now. 

3. Peal Linux has introduced a novel Desktop called Pearl Desktop Environment, PDE.

Mixture of Xfce and LXDE with a bit of Elementary look.

4. It has Synaptic Package Manager and I quickly got Gnome and Plasma Desktops instead of PDE.

5. It has Openbox Window Manager which I really like.

It ruined my GRUB

It took 48 hours to get all 5 including REBORN OS booting.

 

I have.

2 of Forky Debian 

1. BlueStar Linux

1 of Pearl Linux, for how long I cannot say but it should disappear in 2026.

1 of REBORN OS, I used to have two of REBORN OS to fill in the GAP.

 

I would have gone for Gnoppix but its version 26 has some problems.

සිරිසේන සහ එයාගේ පුතත් නිදන් හොරු

මින්නේරිය වැව අසල සහ දඹුල්ල අසල ගෝතම බුදුන් දවස සිට පැවතෙන සිද්ධස්තාන වලට අයත් අබාරණ සහ රත්තරන් සොරා ගෙන ඇත. 

ඒ පාපයන්ගේ ශාපයත් අද ලංකාවාසින්ට බුක්ති විදින්න සිදිවී ඇත.

මෙයින් ගොඩ ඒම පහසු කාර්යයක් නොවනු ඇත.

මෙම තොරතුරු එලියට එන්නේ ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්ච් මහතාට පින් සිදු වෙන්නටය.

නැති නම් අළු යට මෙන් සැගවී තිබෙනු ඇත. මුලු ලංකාවම බොරුවෙන් සහ රැවටිමෙන් පිරි ඇත.

හැම පාලකයෙක්ම මේ හෙළි කිරීම් වලට උත්තර බැඳීය යුතුයි. රනිලුත් පාර්ශව කරුවෙකි. 

Debain-6

Posted on March 13, 2011 by asokaplus

 

I do not procrastinate on the old distributions, I have used. 

I do forget when I started with Debian.

May, be I started in year 2000.

Having gone through my old blog pieces it is most likely from 

 

Debian 6 and now I am waiting for the 13th version.

 

LinuxExtras-Debain-6

In between World Cup Cricket, my work and students examinations, I found time to install Debian 6.0 KDE CD version, in one of my old IBM computer with 512MB RAM.
 

Unlike in the good old days new Linux distributions especially the KDE craves on RAM please do not ever think of trying it on less than 512 RAM and ideally 1 GB is necessary now.

 

I upgraded to 1GB.
 

This computer I fiddled with  to add some muscle (but could not find a SCSI hard disk) and it did not boot up (20 GB SCSI and 20 IDE).

 

I installed latest PCLinux KDE and it took ages to install.
 

The one thing that gives me headache in hard disk detection. 

 

One distribution does not recognize the nomenclature (a becomes b and b becomes a scenario) of the other distribution and only Debian figure out the architecture and the type of disks.

Sure enough, it did a good job of recognizing two other distributions and partition table was edited correctly since Debian was the one I used the last.

In www.distrowatch.com forum there was so much animosity towards this distribution which says following Free Software principles and for that principle I call it the God Father of Linux (I did not get involved in the flame war).

I now have a special liking for it since for the first time a Sinhala Linux version has come in to being (it can be installed in Sinhala Graphic format) and that is Debian 6.

I went through Sinhala graphic installer and it selected Sri-Lanka as the location, correctly. 

I stopped at that point and installed it in English (my Sinhala computer vocabulary is next to nothing, having brought up in Science and in English) and I could not get Sri-Lanka as a location.
 

Now Sri-Lanka is reserved for Sinhala only.

This I found strange since we have Tamils and Muslims in this country and many of them do not work in Sinhala.
 

In defense of the Tamils Linux can be installed in Tamil but then they cannot select Sri-Lanka as a the location.

I decided to use Singapore as the location since Singapore uses English as their language operation.
 

I think Debian should allow Tamils and English installers the ability to select the location as Colombo.

This can be corrected after installation but this I found annoying to say the least.

It installs the basic (kernel) system and then let you select the installation type that include laptop and desktop.

Unlike PCLinux installation is fast and user and root passwords are selected in the first time round.

I can understand why many were against its installation mode.
 

It’s partition tool is not in graphic mode and only in writing mode (old habits die hard).
 

All these irritations are not found in Modern Debian Linux.

 

The instructions are clearly written for any sane person to follow.
 

1.Create a partition.
 

2.Format a partition.
 

3. Mount a partition with or without boot flag and the job is done.
The procedure has to be repeated for root, home, var and user partition.
There is nothing more to it.

Another point of importance is that it always assume that you are connected to the internet.

Missing packages can be installed with apt get and there are over 60, 000 to select.

Mind you if you do not understand partitioning it does it automatically for you.
 

Why bother?

Its GRUB automatically select what is to boot and the boot splash is very simple and not graphic intensive.
 

Because it does things in an organized and simple manner once configured it boots and runs program fast unlike other KDE counterparts, say SuSe.

It has no K3B (one of my favorite CD/ DVD writing tool), or OpenOffice (mind you there is a limit to what can be put in a CD with 700 MB).

All these are simple routines to me which I learned 12 years ago without any Guru but by trial and error.

If you want to learn nuts and bolts of Linux one has to use and learn Debian in its write mode.

Mind you best graphic partition tool is GParted and it is Debian based and it is very reliable and even better than that of Knoppix or Puppy.
 

Whatever criticism Debian will outlast all its other distributions since its resource base is over 60,000 and may grow up to 100,000.
 

That is why it had 40 odd CDs and now 8 to 10 DVDs.

One DVD will do the work (DVD-1) for you and they are available in 32 and 64 bits.
 

I am currently downloading the first DVD and it will take two solid Sri-Lankan days for the download and I will be back with you soon.

Pearl Linux Passwords

 Pearl Linux Passwords

Version 13 does not need a password

It has two desktops and one Window Manager "Openbox" which I love.  

1. User name "live" 

password pearl or empty

2. User name live

Password live

3. User name custom

Password empty (blank)

 

4. ARCH StarLinux 

User name demo

Password demo

 

Pearl Linux

You Have got a modern Linux distribution.

I am erasing Russian ROSA since it did not boot after 13 minutes, having installed Reborn after it, as one of my five distributions. 

That place is taken up by Pearl Linux, now.

Hope it has not ruined my GRUB. 

Everything OK and my GRUB is intact. 

Thank YOU. 

Pearl Linux says NO to SNAPS but Yes to Flatpaks.

It hates Ubuntu just like me.

As with most Debian based distributions the Debian package is the default way that most of the system installs software that you choose either through software managers, Synaptic Package Manager, Gdebi, command prompt or the new deb-get app from Martin Wimpress, the lead developer of Ubuntu MATE. 

For a while now the regular Firefox, is installed by default with Ubuntu using the snap installer and that version has been lacking even the basic ability to easily configure your default home. 

Although, it is doable on Ubuntu its a pain for even the advanced user to consistently be able to have the new tab contain your personalized links and the number of rows of thumb nailed links etc. 

With the switch to Firefox-esr we get the basics in working order Pearl Linux. 

Firefox and all of the updates on  Pearl uses a Debian package. 

Pearl has many ways of installing software including our Software Manager GUI which features many deb packages as well as a bunch of flatpaks. 

You can also use our other software installer called Pearl Software which is an easy go to for installing the tested and recommended software for each Pearl release starting with series 12.

Pearl Linux has chosen to disallow SNAP installs (THANK You) by default however if you choose to use snaps you can just remove the config file " /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref " then update the apt database by doing " sudo apt-get update".

Final note on the ways you may install software by default on Pearl is you may install App Images as well. Most App Images integrate into the menus automatically during the install process.
 

The premature switch from pulseaudio to pipewire

Starting with Pearl Linux 12, all releases have the ability to switch back to pulseaudio over the new default sound server which is now pipewire. 

We do not recommend you make the switch backwards unless you experience issues with the software you are using. If however you have any issues we make it easy to make that switch by simply installing
"pearl-pulseaudio-config". To do so use synaptic to install that package. You may also open a terminal and do " sudo apt-get install pearl-pulseaudio-config ". to convert back to pipewire do " sudo apt-get install pearl-pipewire-config ".  

These Debian packages are available on our repository.

For professional audio the clear choice is to use pulseaudio and jack over pipewire and wire plumber. There are plain and simply too many areas that pipewire is not mature enough for these professionals and that includes our studio, Star Studios.

Pearl Linux has felt the pain from what I feel was the premature switch to using pulseaudio to pipewire as the default sound server on most major Linux distributions. For most consumers you won't experience any issues at all and most likely when just using audio to play YouTube ad your media players you may have some minor improvements however for users that require a solid, low latency as well as users of the higher end sound cards and multiple sound cards using jack with pulseaudio is a much better choice due to how well pulseaudio with jack handles all possible configurations when routing applications and plugins as well as recognizing of the many sound devices themselves.

The Pearl Linux Release Notes

The Pearl Linux 12 series is now complete with our recent last 3 uploads. The first to upload was The Pearl Desktop version which is our own DE called the Pearl Desktop Environment, PDE for short. This is a lightweight DE that features multiple window managers including Compiz desktop effects. This desktop is a mix between xfce and lxde. The layout and feel is made to provide a OS X look and feel with layout switcher to switch between OS X and Windows layouts. The last two uploads are much like PearlMATE Studio version minus the extra audio recording software. All releases in the 12 series have our updated "Pearl Software" app which is an app that makes it an easy place to installed or remove most of the software that we feature in this version that runs the base from Ubuntu 24.04 LTR.

The latest release from Pearl Linux is our long waited for release built on the base from the Ubuntu 24.04 LTR.
The first desktop environment from this series is on our favorite the MATE Desktop Environment. It is entitled
Pearl MATE Studio 12. We are featuring two different iso's one of which is a lighter weight one that has a little less software installed to fall under the normal size limitation of 4G when creating backup or respin iso's. The second iso is a little larger and it contains extra software preinstalled including Harrison's MixBus, Carla extra VST and LV2 audio plugins and drum machine plus more. Installed on this iso, (the larger one over 4G's in size) has the correct debian package to allow for the oversize iso creation. The README file on Sourceforge were you download them from contains info on how to make the smaller iso also capable of creating those larger iso's. This involves using a different version of a program called mkisofs than the default Ubuntu based distros have which is inside the package "genisoimage".

The best feature on this new release is the Text to Speech system. We call it PiedPiper. Using the software Pied to download and manage voice models for Piper TTS. Piper TTS makes it possible for Linux to finally have a true natural sounding text to speech solution thats been missing on the absolutely besy platform for an OS which is Linux. And its FREE. On the full version, the larger iso, there is a text file on the desktop called PiedPiper.txt. We created another version of this text file here. On this one we kept the same content basically added a little more to it and if you compare the two of how it is layed out you can see how Piper is smoother, the pauses are more natural.

Now as far as the Audio Production it's alot easier due to the fact we are using pipewire but with the correct jackd2 extra packages that make audio setup a breeze. Pipewire smoothly uses jackd2 when using your multitrack software such as Ardour or MixBus, Carla, or even Audacity if you choose while being able to use audio on Web Browser without reconfiguring anything ...truely plug and play audio.

Hope you enjoy this release of Pearl MATE Studio 12 :-)

The latest release from Pearl Linux OS is PearlDDE. Pearl DDE based on the deepin desktop environment (DDE) ,
and based on Ubuntu 22.04 / Pearl 11. The default look and feel for this release was left to the DDE defaults to
preserve the powerful and beautiful look of the desktop environment itself. The main difference, of course, is the
lack of a top panel as with every Pearl release to date has defaulted with a Mac OS X look and feel. Specifically
the Snow Leopard version of OS X. We of course added most of the Pearl tools including standard look and feel
standards of Pearl such as wobbly windows and the minimize window effects. The main bonus you have by choosing
Pearl to run this desktop environment is the Pearls Software Manager for adding much more software than the App
Store that DDE provides which is also included. Enjoy this release from Pearl Linux ... a bit of a twist from our norm.

Just Released PearlMATE Studio 13. This is the only Complete Audio Workhorse that runs on the latest Debian base.
To have the latest available software for any of the Pearl 13  series of releases simply open up Pearl Sources and
put a check beside Debian sid repository under Additional Software Sources then do a update and full-upgrade.

Pearl Linux OS has just released our first Semi Rolling Release. Runs on the soon to be released Debain 12 which is codenamed Bookworm. This currently is very stable and runs most Pearl packages without issues with exception of the Software Manager which we are still working on.  Installs everything you need to undergo most every computer need out of the box.

Pearl 13 codenamed "Preslee",  will feature at least 3 desktop environments of which MATE and XFCE have already been just released and our own DE, PDE, The Pearl Desktop Environment, will follow within a month of the first two DE's for the Pearl 13 series of releases.

PearlLinux for RPi with TwisterOS Is the only release in the Pearl 12 series which is based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). At Pearl Linux we also build for the armhf and arm64 platforms. Pearl creates releases for the Odroid C1+ Odroid C2 as well as the Raspberry PI 3 and the more recent Raspi4 64 bit ARM64 arch of the Raspberry PI 4. All Pearl releases using these  archs are all great inexpensive project boards.

New release Pearl 11 now out and available for download. Pearl 11 comes in two desktop environments one is MATE and the other is our customized DE called PDE The Pearl Desktop Environment.

Pearl hits 10... version 10 that is and it is based on Debian instead of our normal Ubuntu base. Just released the Xfce 32bit and Cinnamon 32bit Desktop Environments.The 64 bit Xfce should be out within a couple days. These will be the only DE's planned for the Pearl 10 series. Took a while on this lots of headaches and bit of leaning as well. Starting with version 11 in the near future we will continue back with Ubuntu base. And little down the line a Debian Bulleye backed release.

It's been a while since we have updated the website just no time in a day anymore.  Well it's been many years and I feel compiz has earned it's place at least for a while in the Linux community, when Pearl started their was alot of support for completely dropping Compiz. We are so glad to see other distros show some interest as well as much of the noobs to Linux base. Now then, that being said, we all like change right and as far as alternatives to my favorite, Compiz I really like the Cinnamon Desktop. A more Windows ...actually a much more Windows layout and feel.

I personally work with multimedia software such as the Mix Bus DAW (multitrack) on Pearl Studio. Using The Cinnamon desktop as oppose to MATE which our layout points that DE toward a Mac OS X feel The advantage .. no more dodging that bottom dock when MixBus uses every bit of that screen. My favorite developer Clement at Linux Mint is behind Cinnamon and it's very polished workings. I feel the Linux Mint version of Cinnamon is one of  the most solid OS to date... Thats my opinion and I am the Compiz freak.. Please enjoy the new Debian Buster (10) built upon system from Pearl Linux.


Pearl Linux OS has been available for free download since 12/2014 with our first release simply titled Pearl Linux. It was based on the 14.04 released version of Ubuntu. That release was using the XFCE desktop environment. 

Since then we now offer the 

MATE, 

GNOME, 

LXDE and soon to come our own 

DE PDE which is a DE that revolves around the Compiz Window Manager and uses elements from LXDE and XFCE4 desktops. 

Since the release of Pearl OS 3.0 we are now maintaining our own repository on site. 

The reason I felt Pearl was needed early on was the overall acceptance from the developer communities to allow pretty much Compiz to disappear.  

With the Linux platform you may if you choose, to maintain your own repository that can be added to whatever Linux base you choose to build on to maintain the elements you choose to keep active. 

Thankfully many others felt the same as I did and Compiz these days is widely accepted.


These days its not that easy  to find many distributions still using compiz for the desktop effects. Since the start of Pearl over a year ago every release at least has the option to use compiz. When using compiz it does require a bit more of the computer power to run smoothly however I, like many others really do like at least the option to play a little. 

For newbies to Linux there is a word of caution I'll through out there, if playing around beyond what we setup as default beware you may end up with a computer that simply wont respond at all. 

 

For this reason we have a file in your home directory called " Pearl-Compiz-Default-Settings". 

It's very easy to regain control if you went a bit too far while playing with the more wild effects offered through the compiz window manager.

For many years now I modeled Pearl as a mix between Linux Mint / Ubuntu for the system level workings. In short Ubuntu is used as the Linux Mint back-end as well but like the looks of Linux Mint...actually I love Linux Mint and their awesome developer. Now as for Ubuntu...their not ranked so high for no reason. Very stable is why they are a big part in Pearl's existence. Not to mention the security of the system itself is maintained by them as all derivatives from Ubuntu is. What was lacking was the look and feel of  Mac OS X as the main layout as Linux Mint is more like a Windows layout. Also I liked OS X in the Snow Leopard days so I keep that option inside Pearl on all releases to actually come pretty close to what Snow Leopard was back in the day. I'm not about the FLAT look which Linux has been on that kick for some time now can't wait till their is something to replace that one day. To me some themes are so flat all windows get lost inside each other... yuck. That being said, that's why everyone will soon migrate to Linux from both Mac and Windows and that is the users choice. You can make your own Linux with the tools we provide you on all of our releases. Currently we use wasta-remastersys to create our images.