Parrot Os-6.0 version has problems.
Yes, Parrot OS has problesms with its Calarmara Installer.
I tried to install it more than three times in three of my external and experimental Hard Drives and I have failed.
In the race to beat the Kali OS, the Parrot OS in a rush has done lot of mistakes.
Please, Do not use its 6 Version.
I ham currently erasing 6.0 version in my 32GB USB and returning back to 5.2 version which is pretty good and stable.
NUC Basic has Limitation of Hardware Capacity
I tried a one Terabyte SATA disk with multiple Linux Distribution and it was a total failure.
It had 9GB RAM.
I think if YOU stick NVMe hard disk it will catch fire.
Reproduction
Is My Intel NUC Compatible With an NVMe Drive?
Unable to determine if the M.2 drive slot on my Intel NUC is compatible with NVMe drives, does my NUC support an M.2 SATA or NVME drive?
Resolution
Things to consider:
Not all M.2 drive slots support an NVMe connection as some will only support SATA.
This factor may limit your SSD's read/write speed because a M.2 drive slot that only supports SATA will not be able to make use of the full speed capability of a NVMe drive.
You can still put an M.2 NVMe SSD on an M.2 slot as it will fit, but if the M.2 slot is SATA only, your throughput speed will be limited.
A SATA III has a max throughput of 600MB/s while an NVMe Gen3 has a max of 3500MB/s. Due to the huge difference in speed, it is important to check the compatibility before buying or installing an NVMe SSD.
To check if your NUC model is compatible with an NVMe SSD, follow the steps below.
Go to our product website and find your NUC model.
On the product model page, scroll to Memory & Storage.
Note the supported storage types.
Screenshot
You can also find compatible products for the NUC model, or the Technical Product Specifications (TPS).
Additional information
NVMe - Non Volatile Memory express (the e is not capitalized)
SATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
SSD - Solid State Drive, a type of storage drive that uses flash memory.
What I have Learned From Linux is Patience
Yes, if You do not have patience and You are "Trigger Happy" you would never learn the Millions of TRICKS in Linux.
One of the basic things about Linux is Configuration of the System according to the hardware.
O.E.M guys had the habit of hiding their trade secrets or their defects under the cover of the Operating System.
Weaker Operation or buggy System is a blessing for them to hide.
1. One need to be calm when formatting 1TB hard disk using Gparted.
2. One need patience when Installing a system.
Linux does not move forward unless all the files are ready and equipment are configured.
This is true for Wireless configuration and Ethernet.
Ubuntu to SAVE Me Again
Yes, Ubuntu came to to help me again After Sparky Linux Destroyed my GRUB File.
I had two other distributions in the Hard Disk.
It is 500GB and I have two NTFS file systems to store Linux images for testing an installing.
I am deleting the two Sparky Linux images, not save space but in total annoyance.
I have two Ubuntu installations and this installation I am going to use for Gnome box and compare with Oracle Virtual Box.
I have already done it Oracle Virtual Machine is a Total Disaster.
With 2GB RAM I can run many test runs of the Linux distributions.
Linux is not resource hungry.
I am currently installing my favorite tools, including AbiWord, Kodi and few more.
I look for about five things in any Linux.
1. Number 1 is its GRUB boot loader compatibility with other distributions (EFI to be precise)
2. Number two is Abiword.
Word about LibreOffice (because of its multi-lingual capability it takes 1.2GB of space.
This is why Arch Linux and it derivatives which drop LibreOffice and let the User decide the components.
I am lazy I need all the packages in one sitting including Transmission for torrent download. I have fallen out of deluge which is a good utility, by the way.
3. Transmission torrent utility.
4. Firefox my favorite.
5. I use Falcon and Opera and Brave and even Tor Browser (occasionally to test Yahoo and Gmail)
6. GIMP
7. Blender
8. Scribus
9. Joplin
10. Paperworks
Why I have Stopped Using Sparky Linux
I have stopped using Sparky Linux for many reasons.
I do not want to waste my listing them except a few.
It thinks it is the only Linux distribution in this entire world.
It does not recognize or write images of other Linux distributions when Sparky is installed in your hard disk.
It's GRUB file is hopeless.
I despise any Linux distribution like commercial Linux distributions who does not like to live with or cohabit with other Linux distributions.
However, Sparky Linux supports Windows!
By the way, Vivaldi is a very good browser.
It lets you block ads!
I use Linux for my daily work.
It is a multitasking Operating system unlike Windows OP or Apple Mac.
I have several (usually one work space) work places in my desktop.
I am currently working on Ubuntu (my work horse is Debian Emmabantus) with two workplaces.
I am downloading Parrot OS through Transmission (my fvourite) and that I shifted it to second work place by holding on to the windows and dragging and dropping.
Parrot 6 Version is big and is 5.3GB and it has another 20 minute to finish downloading.Version 6 has problems and cannot be installed.
Coming back to browsers, Firefox let you have two or three instances running in the same work place but Opera gives you one instance, whereas Falcon gives me several instances of web visits.
Falcon comes from KDE / Plasma desktop platform. I have lost interest in KDE due to its consumption of large memory resource.
Opera is fast whereas Firefox might even though fast may have lot of connections in one instance.
I use several emails and one email for one browser seems to be the industry standard.
Yahoo does open one instance and cannot be open in two different browser, simply due to its robust security protocol.
After my scathing remarks, when I changed Hard Disk to bigger one, gmail did not let me sign in automatically (same NUC hardware but a larger hard disk) and asked for the passwords again for signing in.
However, both do not ask for my cellphone number which is in Ceylon.
These guys are snooping on you every second and are paranoid.
AI connectivity make it even more bizarre.
Yahoo of course tested me on a puzzle which I generally like since it boosts my sharpness and memory.
By the way, Ubuntu has Gnome Box in addition to Virtual Box where one can test the iso and run the browser. Generally speaking browsers get stuck in virtual machines.
I have tested all the Isos except Parrot OS (not complete in downloaded) on Ubuntu Gonome BOX and it a pleasing experience.
I do not have restart my NUC every time, I test a Linux Distribution.
One need to ask for Gnome Box not simple BOX as in a Debian Base to get it from application store of Flathub and FlatPak.
Still few more minutes to down load Parrot OS which is a very good penetration testing OS.
It is better than Kali.
Not that I do penetration testing, yet I keep copy in case someone ask for advice.
Oracle Virtual Machine is a pain in the Arxxxs!
I am not happy with any of the browsers except Falcon browser.
All of them have search engines which slows down the web service.
Additionally they are profit minded and not service minded or customer oriented.
So I use many browsers, if one get stuck due to heavy traffic I shift to another.
I need speed and I cannot wait for even a second more than necessary.
I am a multitasking man browser should not hinder my activities.
1. I use browser to search my emails (I have many).
2. I use Google to test and meaning of words.
3. I use the browser to visit my blog post to make another blog piece.
4. I have made this year a "Penguin Year" and anything new on Linux I would post it here.
5. Planning tow rite a book on Desktop types and their feature. I would not bother about Pantheism desktop of Elementary OS since it does not provide a FREE User Copy from their web site for me to test drive.
That is their problem and not mine.
What am doing here is FREE and perhaps constructive in intent.
They want money for Open Source Linux an irony by itself!
By the way, Vivaldi browser is 90% Open source and only 10% proprietary and there is no free copy in Debian Store.
Firefox
Opera
Dillo
Ducky Duck
Falkon
Well, Well, the Box Utility of Gnome is amzingly good.
I used Firefox and then google and my email and my blog piece and started editing the piece.
Not only its saves my time it also do not stress my hardware since it is using only 25% of my RAM.
Mind you I am using Xfce and not KDE like Microsoft Windows take lot of RAM at boot time.
I am going to download a Linux distribution through it.
First Time I used a Slakware Distribution Sackel and it boots well inside the BOX.
Gnome Box Utility
Gnome's BOX Utility is a Virtual machine where one can mount Live Linux System for testing.
One need not run them in FULL RAM as usual.
It reserved 2GB RAM out of 8GB RAM in my NUC.
It reserved 15GB Disk space for storing Live Images.
Overall a good utility for Linux Guru as well as a newbie.
Well today, I tested Russian ALT Linux in the box and this distribution is based on Light Weight Mate Desktop which I have little experience.
I love Gnome and Cinnamon Desktops by default.
I have done almost all the testing and I am going to sleep now.
USB Stick Capacity Statements and the actual Validity
I have been using a USB stick of supposed to be 32GB but when formatting with Gpart I found 0nly31GB.
I wondered whether I damaged it while re-partitioning to Install over 30 different Linux Images.
I could not find any data except realizing that the partition tool hide the damaged part and reformat the viable parts.
The cells in SATA disks are supposed to last long time but I do not believe the manufacturer's claims.
My comment about Mr. Putin and Russian politics has proven wrong.
There aren't any credible geo-politicians, left on this planet
We are going from crisis to crisis.
President Putin (P.P. product to be proud of)has delivered, that all Russians could be proud of
I watched “Sochi Olympics” with much more enthusiasm than watching Ceylonese playing cricket with Bangladesh and English getting a real drubbing in Test Cricket by Australians.
The C in cricket stands for Crime and Corruption and I have changed it to Wicket and W in Wicket stands for Wickedness they handed over to mighty South African who played and burnt himself out for England, Kevin Peterson (P stands for Pride here), the not so nice guy in the dressing room (because he speaks his heart out unlike, the English who are born with two tongues- one tries to speak the truth, the other is secretly deceptive).
Before taking about Mr. Putin let me dispense the English and Australians.
Like the way they dealt with Kevin, English use the Terrorist Rump (the backside of English politics) -who did sweet nothing to Ceylonese Image-to their advantage and dump them (like Kevin) off when the going was BAD.
So before they went to Sochi, they were looking for holes (only found ARSxxxxx) in Russian Terrorist Rump and found nothing to find and ended up looking for toilet bowls and were balled out in Medal Table.
The BBC (they have an obsessive group of so called almost Nutty (sometimes Nutzie) group of journalists who are always unhappy even given the best of comforts) never portrayed the true “Russian Spirit”.
Unlike the British, the ordinary Russians are very sweet guys and girls.
They can bring the best out, given even with the worst of comforts.
They looked after their stray dogs too.
They proved their mettle without any doubt in Sochi.
The Australians who are also petting terrorist rump (what is left of it) fared worse than English.
What has happened to their “Macho Image” in Cricket and Rugger?
They can say it is a desert and Wild Continent and can wash their hands off.
But I am amazed.
To the Americans, my hat's off to the Olympians who adopted, so many puppies.
He is a guy who everyone should admire.
What has happened to “Puppy Sense” of British and Australians?
They must be thinking of quarantining the hypothetical Russian terrorist genes in their “Puppy Blood” before adopting them but they could adopt any terrorist with two legs, left our shores without any hesitation.
That is their wisdom in politics, of course.
Coming to Canada winning the Olympic Hockey (my favorite game being a hockey player of yesteryear (not ICE hockey) is creditable but their political brain is frozen when it comes to terrorists.
It is the breeding ground for the “Next Generation” of terrorists including money laundering and “Yuppie Type” guys and girls involved in “Cyber Cafe Crimes” (money is raised with illegal drugs coming from Mexico through Americas).
Those behind the Iron Curtain dealt a body blow to “Fanatic Muslim Terrorists” with and Iron Fist which Mrs Thatcher now in her grave could be proud of.
Not only that they topped the Medal Table too.
In the mean time all in the European Commission were busy splitting the Ukraine into Anarchy.
That is how the Europeans outside, the Greater Russia expanding their neo-colonialism.
I think Mr. Putin should put an end to this SAGA in Ukraine with real politics, now that the Sochi Olympics is over.
Rocky Linux is a PAIN to Install with 10.8GB in the USB Stick.
It is a Redhat derivative and installation was a PAIN.
It takes over the hard disk.
It took half an hour for me to figure out the partition table in my NUC hard disk.
It was a Genome base.
Had about 10 applications.
Figuring out how to configure the WiFi connection was difficult. With my base knowledge I found it.
But having given the password I could not get to the Internet.
It is a poor attempt of Redhat guys to snoop in Gnome but a big failure.
It uses FLATPak and as usual Abiword my favourite was not there.
I erased it with 10 minutes and reinstalling Ubuntu (I used Ubuntu partitions for Rocky Linux).
I had given up Redhat for 30 years and it was a blessing.
By the way, I downloaded Gnoppix and it could not configure the Wireless network but overall improvements are impressive, except WiFi.
Simple Health Tips for Healthy Living
Ten in Number
A Foods
1. Tea as a beverage
2. Tumeric in (as curry ingredient) food
3. Pumpkin as a food accomplishment
4. Garlic as soul creator
5. Soursop as an invigorator
All the above have antioxidants and many other helpful ingredients, antioxidants including powerful anticancer agents.
This I have selected out of 30 useful fruits and vegetables.
There are lot in my book to mix and match.
B. Avoid at all costs
1. Alcohol
2. Smoking
3. Avoid Rice and refined Wheat Flour bread and cookies
Better still avoid sex and sexual conflicts (read the comments on meditation below)
C. Medicines
1. Low dose aspirin
2. Anti-hypertensive treatment
Note;
I have have excluded meditation by default for two reasons.
One can increase the endogenous encephalin by taking dark chocolates which has over 300 micro-ingredients that elevate one's mood at any time.
To derive complete benefit by meditation one has to avoid sexual and other physical stimulation completely before meditation to induce successful endogenous encephalin pathway.
The new vogue name neuro-plasticity has no meaning, since nobody knows how these pathways work during wakeful hours and sleep, let alone during meditation.
That is also after many hours of struggle to get into the mood of meditation.
Becoming an ascetic, in this fast moving world is completely impossible.
Piece of chocolate is an easy substitute.
Metta Meditation, in my belief, is the easiest form of meditation which derives (read Karaniya Metta Sutta) benefits within 6 weeks.
One can try to become a vegetarian on that account alone and that has dual benefit (animal on one side and the doer of Metta mediation, on the other side).
One need not have a religion to practice all of the above 10 productive actions.
Now that I am finishing my book on Vegetarian Paradox this is a tiny reflection of my life, part of this piece is included in the final chapter.
To gather rest you have to read the book.
Vegetarian Paradox
I wanted to write piece on antioxidants since I almost completed the survey on current Linux distributions and this site is dedicated to Linux.
Unfortunately visitor index to Linux has fallen down.
My only interest is to bring the Linux Desktop users up to 10%.
That is 1 out of 10 has some exposure to Linux.
When I started nearly 23 years ago the number of desktop users in Ceylon was 32 or 34.
It has not gone up significantly and with the economic downturn in Ceylon this is the ideal time to invest on Linux, at least to cut down on expenses.
I will leave it that and I will not invest further interest until 2025 when the next Debian Edition is due.
Linux especially Debian very is very stable currently and is on FREEZE MODE until 2025.
Going back to antioxidants, I ended up writing a book of 200 pages with a Title "Vegetarian Paradox".
In one chapter I had 30 (I stopped at 30) fruits and vegetable we have in Ceylon that have medicinal values far beyond a Western medical tablet.
The problem is these fruits and vegetables are seasonal and there is no proper management system to help the growers. Often there is no coordination and vegetables are thrown to animals to eat due to low prices and production in excess of the demand.
Additionally some fruits like mangoes are grown as export industry and killing many other varieties of lovely but small local varieties.
I am in Australia they have very good program to grow tropical fruits including mangoes and bananas.
Instead of exporting them we have to make the local people eat them to sustain the industry.
In my list of 30 Apples and Kiwi fruits are not included and I have not tasted a single apple or pear or kiwi.
I am happy with mangoes, bananas and avocados.
The fruit that I really promote is Pumpkins which has real medicinal value.
One pumpkin a day is better than few apples and Kiwi fruits.
By the way, Kiwi fruit is a Chines fruit brought in during "Gold Rush' which has limited nutritional value.
Parrot OS - 6.0 is NOT Superb
I just downloaded Parrot OS-6 and installed it on a USB stick.
Mind you I had Parrot OS 5.1 on this USB stick but the difference is it that I can mount it but installation of additional applications is impossible in a Live Session on the Stick and you are stuck with the facilities available in the stick.
I downloaded AbiWord and installed it in a flash.
This is the first time I have done it.
Thanks to guys and girls of developing Parrot OS.
This assertion is incorrect.
It can be used in a Live session but cannot save a word file.
I rebooted with the same USB and Abiword was not there even though it has taken total 32GB of space in my USB.
My logic is if they have taken 32GB of my USB for a 5GB Iso, what happens to the 27GB of Real State of working space.
At least they should taken the Real State for the Distribution and leave the rest to be formatted as NTFS or Ext4 partition.
This is why I love Linux MultiSystem USB where one can test several distributions (Ubuntu based only) but no saving of DATA.
Most of the distributions do not support MultiSystem Utility.
Wireless Connection was instant.
I could log in with my Google Blog Spot and post this.
I am going to try whether I can log in with my yahoo mail.
Yes Yahoo Mail does not let me log in.
I can understand their concern.
I have already logged in with Yahoo Mail using Debian Linux from this NUC.
I have three distributions installed in the same NUC and I can use only one distributions to log in with yahoo.
But if I have 10 cellphones, I can log in with all ten of them.
Logic is probably security.
But if the password is correct and there is confirming cellphone number that can be geo-located this should not be a problem.
I have to use Parrot OS and gmail for my activity when I travel abroad.
LibreElect Linux is pretty Dangerous
LibreElect is a very small Linux distribution of about 550MB.
It has only KODI Media player.
It has to be extracted and then image has to be created.
After it is mounted on a USB, it mounts or boots without giving any warning and install in your.
It gives a warning but like me if one accidentally press the button yes your Hard Disk will be erased and you will have only KODI to play music or video.
Idea is good but at boot time more options are necessary.
Gods, Devas and Deities
This is a reproduction.
I was more than surprised, today.
They say prayers are very well heard but never acted upon by the deities.
The simple fact is, those deities are impotent never omnipotent as it is believed.
Come to plant life, they are multi-potent, only if you care them with respect and living space.
Long before (I must say I did not have the premonition or the prediction power) the inclement weather, I looked at the sky (cloud watching was a pastime of mine) and saw the clouds turning in opposite direction (this is what our yesteryear farmers did) and did a quick overall of my rooftop garden expecting a rainy spell.
Five plants (mostly not local) succumbed during the dry spell.
One coffee plant, one cocoa plant (again foreign species thanks to British), two Karapincha (Thailand) with full of aroma and one white sandalwood plant perished.
I always buy two specimens expecting this scenario.
If both specimens die, I won't buy them again.
One other reason is that the plant vendors in Ceylon in public auction only sell the dormant or diseased plants (heavily spayed with chemicals, to last the sale period).
Beware!
These plants are for the shade of my water plants.
Even finch would build nests, if I do not (masterly inactivity on my part, let the weather takes it toll) visit them and let them go to wilderness.
My bio-indicator of the dry spell is the pipal or the Bo trees picked up from crow droppings.
They start dropping their leaves, and the roots go in search for scarce water.
Apart from my cascading arrangement of water plants other arrangement of the small piloted plot is, on one end there is simulated wet zone and on the other end there is dry zone.
The pipal plants occupy the dry zone.
In the beginning without any agricultural or academic training (I am a simple biologist) I started it as a simple roof top laboratory.
I drop a stem of pineapple or a pipal tree (selected and picked up by me in any gutter in the Kandy city) in between pots of water plants.
To see how they stand the awful weather without watering but sparingly water them, if I feel they are in their "end of the tether".
From plant experimenter to a plant lover I have graduated in 15 years.
I must say, I have no financial interests and abhor selling plants.
The simple love for caring for them.
Now the caring for them comes not from me.
The tiny honey wild bee (not the BIG BEE) is the number one.
The dragon flies invest their genetic pool amongst the water plants.
The butterflies are plenty.
Except for ladybirds (haven't seen them for four decades).
I have a water plant which very rarely display (may be three years ago) its beautiful flower.
I found it a rightful place and today it had a single flower.
That excitement was pitched up by a single red dragon fly on the dried up sandalwood tree (which was transferred to the wet zone recently and is beginning to sprout young shoots).
I decided to take some pictures.
There were three water lilies with flowers.
Mind you, I never wished for any of these to happen.
The plants sensed and coordinated their activities to interact with simple wild beings which we call insects and spray Baygon on them.
Now that I am in Australia this roof top garden is completely destroyed.
Who needs gods or deities to entertain?
Mind you I hate people who pluck flowers and lay on altars (for not seen or NOT to be seen gods) as offers for gods.
The gods have contributed nothing to their well being!
Interestingly there is a cake shop called "Divine" in the Kandy City.
I have decided never to go there!
Russian Linux Distributions, Astra Linux, Rosa Fresh and Rantu
Since the West is deliberately misguiding and discriminating Russia I have decided to take a diplomatic stand and promote Russian Linux distributions.
Astra Linux developed by the Russian Army is a pretty good distribution.
I had this distribution in my very old laptop and by trying to update I it erased the entire Hard disk of 120GB.
I cannot boot it from a USB (Microsoft Guys have a CODE installed in the hardware which I did not know).
However, it can be booted by a CD/DVD and I did not bring the DVD of Astra Linux.
I used BSD and erased Microsoft Code.
I am going back to Ceylon and remedy this situation soon.
Both Rantu and Rosa Fresh have a very few peers in torrent.
I never try Point to point downloads, now.
Unlike Astra Linux ALT Linux was a large civilian project.
It has a server edition and thankfully new image is available to test.
Russian Linux distributions are stable and generally two years behind the upmarket distributions which Linux is.
They support a distribution for 4 years and like me their cycles are of 5 years duration.
I have five year political cycles (this time I am silent, because I am pretty sure of the outcome, total instability) and ruthless on the current CORRUPT Regime unlike an average Ceylonese who become vociferous after the election result is declared.
One can never find a guy or girl who voted for the opposition.
That is the malady of Ceylon for 70 years.
This time I am not there to vote but send one of my agents to see my election rights are NOT Violated in my absence.
No update for ROSA from 2020.
ROSA Fresh take one hour to download and ALT takes at least 4 hours.
It is some time before me reporting.
ALT of course which I tested two years ago has a sleek Mate desktop. Its image is 7.3GB and it might take another 4 hours to download.
I believe it is not live but padded with all Russian Software.
ROSA Flesh is pretty good KDE desktop.
It has all the things available in a KDE desktop.
Calculate Linux
I did not say anything about Calculate Linux which comes from Arch Gentoo base.
I am writing it image on a USB Stick.
It is only 3GB Iso.
It has a lighter 1.8GB server version,too.
It is almost finished.
It is a sleek Mate desktop.
In can be run in a live session.
One need to have partitioned defined before installation.
Gparted is there for partitioning.
No update from 2022.
It took nearly 4 hours to download 7.3GB with only one peer.
I hope at least a few more Russians guys use it instead of Astra Linux which is almost official Linux distribution.
Afterall, it is a Russian product.
It is only in Russian with some Dulingo application helping English translation.
The alphabet is completely different and my NUC does not have audio port. I have to use my cellphone to learn Russian along with this distribution running live.
Manddrake Linux was my Heart Throb.
Mandriva was first made public by a French software company MandrakeSoft. Its first release was based on Red Hat Linux 5.1 and was released in July 1998. Mandriva Linux was originated by Gaël Duval, and intended to focus on ease of use for new users.
Mageia-9-Live-Plama
I just downloaded Mageia and writing it to test as a Live session.
I will be back soon with a report.
1. It's Desktop I tested was KDE PLsama.
Sleek No clutter.
2. Gparte works fine.
3. Wireless configuration and connectivity is good.
4. Software center is its own and dicey.
5. Installation scheme its own old and regimented scheme.
6. It has VLC and Pusle Audio.
7. I could not test for my favourite AbiWord.
8. Even though it is 3.8GB Iso, it expands beyound 4GB and one need a 8 GB USB Stick.
Overall it is a good distribution and it has other desktops, too.
My only hope is community fork of Open Mandriva Lx follw suit and produce Live DVDs.
That is the only way to enter the market.
Guys and girls should have the freedom to test the distribution before installing.
By the way, long time ago Magiea used to take over the hard disk and install its in one go.
That is why I did not test it for a long time.
OpenMadriva
OpenMadriva does not have a Live DVD to test.
I hope they follow Magiea Trend and produce a Live CD/DVD.
History
The first release of Mandrake was based on Red Hat Linux (version 5.1) and K Desktop Environment 1 in July 1998.
After that, it moved away from the Red Hat standard and Red Hat inspiration and influence on its own design and implementation, and became a completely separate distribution.
Mandriva included a number of original tools that make system configuration less difficult.
Mandriva Linux was the brainchild of Gaël Duval, who wanted to focus on ease of use for new users.
This goal was met as Mandrake Linux gained a reputation as "one of the easiest to install and user-friendly Linux distributions". At this time Internet Explorer held a dominant share of the web browser market, and Microsoft a near monopoly in operating systems.
Mandrake Linux earned praise as a Linux distribution that users could use all the time, without dual booting into Windows for compatibility with web sites or software unavailable under Linux.
CNET called the user experience of Mandrake Linux 8.0 the most polished available at that time.
Duval became the co-founder of Mandrakesoft, but was laid off from the company in 2006 along with many other employees.
Name changes
Installation screen of Linux-Mandrake 8.0
From its inception until the release of version 8.0, Mandrake named its flagship distribution Linux-Mandrake.
From version 8.1 to 9.2 the distribution name was reversed and called Mandrake Linux.
In February 2004, MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate.
Hearst contended that MandrakeSoft infringed upon King Features' trademarked character Mandrake the Magician.
As a precaution, MandrakeSoft renamed its products by removing the space between the brand name and the product name and changing the first letter of the product name to lower case, thus creating one word.
Starting from version 10.0, Mandrake Linux became known as mandrakelinux, and its logo changed accordingly.
Similarly, MandrakeMove (a Live CD version) became Mandrakemove.
In April 2005, Mandrakesoft announced the corporate acquisition of Conectiva, a Brazilian-based company that produced a Linux distribution for Portuguese-speaking (Brazil) and Spanish-speaking Latin America.
As a result of this acquisition and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, Mandrakesoft announced that the company was changing its name to Mandriva, and that their Linux distribution Mandrake Linux would henceforward be known as Mandriva Linux.
ALT Linux
Russian ALT Linux is Mandrake based.
Its current Iso 10.1 is 7.3GB.
I am in the process of downloading it.
Knoppix-9.1 of 2021
I ran Knoppix on MultiSystem USB stick.
It needs a Persistent Volume.
Abiword is not there but LibreOffice is there.
I cannot install new application on a MultiSystem USB but if my memory is right in good old days (it is only two years back) on a USB dedicated for Knoppix, I could do that.
I have been using Knoppix from 3.1 or may be 3.9.
I have several USB sticks with OLD Knoppix versions.
It is gone dormant for two years and I hope they come out of slumber and support SNAP and FlatPak.
I am publishing this from a Live Post.
Strangely enough, after my scathing remarks, Google had let me sign on with Gmail on a Live Session.
If they did not I would have logged in with Yahoo Mail.
By the way, Knoppix let me log in with Yahoo Mail without key or without cellphone verification.
Thank YOU, Yahoo.
Thank YOU Knoppix.
By the way, Knoppix got me to sign in with a Root Password.
Many of the other Linux Distribution do not allow this password facility.
That is why Universities FEAR students using their own UNregistered USB sticks.
I used this policy and through SAMBA students had to use a USER Name and a Password.
I used Putty to monitor students misusing University facilities, other than for academic activities and sports.
I think students were interested in downloading pirated old films.
Long before I was interested in Copyright Law, I myself did download films like French Connection and God Father.
It was a trade in India and Ceylon to download films and sell them with an attractive cover for Rs.100/=.
I burned all of those CD/DVDs a decade or so ago.
Interestingly all the Microsoft and Windows copies were pirated.
During the time I used Microsoft I had twp paid copies.
Now that I use LibreOffice and Linux, I do not have to pay Windows a fee every year.
This is a reproduction of a piece I wrote in www.writeclique.com web site of the formerly the British Council Library (no more) established to promote upward mobility in English literary.
Me with no style, believed in FREE SPEECH and dished out many pieces.
For no reason British Council discontinued it ad hoc.
Fortunately, I made photocopies of all of them. I am reproducing some of them in my retirement. I could not do that in my busy life in the University.
My other obsession is Linux up to this day.
American Style C.E.O.S
This is dedicated to Phillip Saddler who stamped his authority in the corporate world in a more humorous way.
I do not think in 2004 he saw or envisioned the comedy of errors created by the C.E.O.s would become a reality in 2008.
Be that it may be, now that it is a reality, he should get the credit for forecasting the Wall Street debacle.
There are several stages of emerging C.E.O.
I find it real in Ceylon, looking at the bookies or the bookies operating in Ceylon for that matter many many years / many decades ahead of America in this activity, emerging form of obscurity to national prominence, in less than a decade of free market economy.
Talking about emergence of relatively small number of about 20 business tycoons in Ceylon is redundant (there are many more dubious ways including cricket much more than found in America to become rich). and this is for a young MBA who is aspiring to join the CIMA and looking for a career in MBA and wants to become successful CEO.
In passing, I should however state, that there are many lessons the Americans should learn from us, including NGOs, how one could rise up the ladder quickly without bureaucratic hindrances, the Americans have in their system only merely supporting our Terrorist Outfit with international support.
That is not the intention but this is the American way of success.
There are only 8 stages.
it goes like this.
1. Bluffer
2. Sucker
3. Bloomer
4. Image or Body Builder
5. Flogger
6. Crusader
7. Panoramer
8. And finally, the Economic Nirvana
I will expand on each stage later.
Almost ten years has passed after posting this piece.
Everything in Apple has gone up in price.
My bone of contention here is, I have been using these utilities well over 23 years without knowing that Mac OS had been using Linux all alone.
But during the last ten years, the chip production has increased exponentially which even Moor's Law won't FIT In and buying an expensive product is counterproductive outside America.
Linux is open source and all the utilities are freely available.
What Apple Mac has done is using FREE SOFTWARE freely and has become fabulously rich and they do not pass down the that richness to the customers.
However, I have been using Android from Kit Cat and my latest android is 13the version both in Samsung Tablet and Vodafone.
I am a NOKIA Addict and I have over 10 Nokia cell phones.
My first cell phone is still working and the company that produced it has gone bust.
Its name sounds like Green-Tel and I had a tablet, too from the same company.
My third cellphone produced by Singapore was dished out (as many of my old cellphones) and its liquid crystal face started freezing but calling from it was OK.
By the way, there are over 100 phone companies globally and each company has at least 25 different models to sell.
The up market is nearly 15 billion (twice the world population) and only a very few companies have come on TOP.
Samsung has over 1650 Models to cell.
Posted on October 21, 2011
1. It is a Unix derivative i.e. BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) which form the basis for both Mac OS X and the iOS that powers the iPhone.
2. It was hooked to a O.E.M platform (Power PC) till recently.
3. BSD is what Darwin is based on.
4. Darwin is Apple’s Open Source Unix operating system foundation.
Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.
The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.
5 It uses Open Source OpenGL – Standard 3D graphics library
6. jEdit 4.3
7. Perl 5.10 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
8. Python 2.6.1 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
9. Python 3.3 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
10. Ruby 1.8.7 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
Items 6 to 10 are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of Linux.
11. Audacity is a Linux derivative
12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative
13. VLC Media Player is a Linux derivative
14. Geogebra is a Linux derivative
15.TeX
No operating system is Pure and I have not used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.
Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.
Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.
1. It is a Unix derivative i.e. BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) which form the basis for both
Mac OS X and the iOS that powers the iPhone.
2. It was hooked to a O.E.M platform (Power PC) till recently.
3. BSD is what Darwin is based on.
4. Darwin is Apple’s Open Source Unix operating system foundation.
Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.
The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.
5 It uses Open Source OpenGL – Standard 3D graphics library
6. jEdit 4.3
7. Perl 5.10 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
8. Python 2.6.1 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
9. Python 3.3 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
10. Ruby 1.8.7 Accessible through Terminal under Utilities
Items 6 to 10 are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of Linux.
11. Audacity is a Linux derivative
12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative
13. VLC Media Player is a Linux derivative
14. Geogebra is a Linux derivative
15.TeX
No operating system is Pure and I have used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.
Carlo M. Capolla proposed this theory in 1976.
Fulbright Scholar in 1953.
He was a professor of economic history at University of Berkeley in 1957.
Born in 1922
He died in 2000 at the age of 78.
Books
Guns, Sails and Empires.
Decline of Empires.
Money, Prices and Civilization
Between Two Cultures.
1. Always and invariably we underestimate the stupid people in circulation.
2. The probability of stupidity is independent of other characteristic like gender, race, nationality, colour, age, education level and social standing.
There are lot of stupid monks and priests in Ceylon.
They have become TV actors.
The worse case scenario is Zelensky who has contributed to the death of over 300,000 well trained, well educated and nice Ukrainians.
It is too, late to oust him now.
He thinks he is smart and saviour of global democracy.
In fact, he has destroyed diplomacy, democracy and peaceful coexistence.
There are lot of stupid people in Davos and UNO.
3. Stupid person is a person who causes loses to another person or group of persons, often deriving no gain to himself and often causing harm to himself.
4. Non stupid people often underestimate the loses and damages caused by the stupid individuals.
Non stupid people often forget that are stupid individuals, all the time or all the places or under any circumstance and to deal with or associate with a stupid person is always a costly mistake.
5. Stupid are the worse type of people to be associated with.
They are worse than bandits.
1. Intelligent people
2. Bandits
3. Stupid
4. Helpless people
Gmac-10-OS
Gmac-10OS cannot be mounted on my NUC with integrated graphic card.
It's booting is with system V and Systemd, I believe.
It is Ubuntu based and I cannot comment anymore.
Who started Sinhala Linux and where it is now?
Posted on April 11, 2011
I can categorically say one thing for certain, it was our own Anuradha from Kandy who started Sinhala Linux, way back in late nineties and early this century but it went into hibernation after tsunami in 2004 but now it has emerged in 3 or 4 Linux versions I have tested.
They are as follows;
1. Fedora 13 2,
Debian 6.0.0 3,
Sabayon 5.5 4,
Hanthana Linux 5,
Fedora 15 Alpha.
My profuse apologies to FEDORA Team for jumping the gun and giving the credit to Debian as the first distribution supporting Sinhala Linux.
I was wrong and apologies are with this little update on Sinhala Linux.
I have dissociated with Fedora from Core 3 but did not use it for 10 versions (3 to 13) for many reasons but it is not the purpose of this writing.
First thing first, it was Fedora 3 that allowed the Sinhala font to be used, and I am proud to say I used it with Open Office, a decade ago when nobody was interested in Linux.
If I remember right I did my University Thesis on Open Office.
Then Mandrake (not Mandriva) allowed the Sinhala font installation but I was never drawn into the Sinhala capability of Linux until now.
The reason being Anuradha being drawn into Global Work by accident and he has no time for Linux Capability in Sinhala.
I have changed myself a lot and given up all and gone to PCLinux which is only in English and 32 bits version.
Reason being the introduction of Live CDs in which PCLinux was a pioneer from Big Daddy Stage.
It has FullMonty and this version of it is named (not by them, texstar tells me) as apartheid (it means what it says) which has brought bad taste to Linux community.
Only for white people.
Mr.Shuttleworth of Ubuntu must take action now to wean the bad eggs in the Linux community, even if they are not under his fold.
There is Linux dedicated to Bible and I see no problem with it but Obama in high office this propaganda (Using English Only for development) is something not for the current century.
What I am getting at is, all Linux Distributions including PCLinux should have multi-language capability and I give lot of credit and marks for that action.
It is now happening, French, German, Spanish and Russian are using Linux for productive work.
Linux is global and for everybody (unlike Microsoft or Apple Mac) and multi-language capability is a must.
Coming back to Fedora when I realized that it has Sinhala capability and it is changing fast I decided to download all 5 CDs of Fedora 13 and the DVD.
I downloaded all the versions of Fedora 14 and I was not impressed and did not check Sinhala capability since Fedora 15 was round the corner.
After nearly 3 days of downloading I managed to have a DVD in my hand and tried it and found the Sinhala capability (I now invariably check for that ability in any Linux Version) in installation.
So my ignorance was exposed and I have to correct that wrong impression, right away.
In defense of Fedora, I have all the versions of Redhat from 7 to 9 and Fedora Core from 1 to 3 and now Fedora 13 and above to 15.
Suffice is to say, the most number of books and CDs I have are from Redhat and Fedora even though I did not use Redhat or Fedora for my daily work, recently.
My entry into checking 100 Live CDs was a harbinger (this blog site is dedicated to Linux even though I have changed a lot) and the Rediscovery of Linux Potential and for two years I have been downloading and testing Linux and I am in the final (stage) lap of honours to all Linux Distributions and Communities, especially with multi-language capability.
Not only that I found a Fedora Bible (the book) with Fedora 6 version CD / DVD and bought it to add to my collection and for reference purpose and I am gong to support Fedora with all my heart from now onward, in spite of forgivable misgiving with Redhat Team, sometime ago.
My only concern is that Redhat is introducing so many changes in so little time, will it be possible to have a stable edition like Debian (with many derivatives) for me to use.
Currently I am using, Debian, Ubuntu and Emmabantus.
However, my recent promotion is Arch Linux and its various versions.
I might even consider dropping PCLinux, if they are resistant to other languages other than English.
In fact, I have not used PCLinux for ages but downloaded its 2023 version.
It is time for other distributions to take the lead from Debian and Fedora and take Linux to new heights with multi-language capability.
Sorry for me being political here.
I hate politics of all types whether, it is economic, power, race or language.
Update on Fedora 15 Alpha KDE I have now downloaded and tested the pre-release alpha version and it has no Sinhlaa capability in installation.
In addition it has some difficulty in detecting hardware.
It appears sleek and my genuine fears already compounded by its rapid change in many areas including file system and program selection make me feel hesitant to recommend for a newbie, especially in Ceylon.
Best bet is to use Fedora 13 and see how it works but download DVD version, (or 5 CD version) and not live CDs (see how it works for you).
This is the same reservation I have for Hanthana Linux which is based on Fedora 15.
I believe Hantana Linux has not made any progress and its Team Members have moved out for other activities other than Linux.
I have not been able to download it beyond 700 MiB due to poor download speed in Ceylon Telecom.
But I will keep trying.
Fedroa 13 took almost 3 days with one or two seeds.
Debian multi arch is taking about 7 days with one seed.
It is painfully slow even with K-Torrent if seeds are not there.
In the mean time I have downloaded many others including CTKarchlive, Trisequel, Astrumi and Puppy and many other small utilities, including sound drivers for Microsoft.
I am also happy to report I managed to download Taylor Swift Swift Linux after about 40 (forty odd) attempts.
That was something based on Debian and AntiX (Mepis) and plays a Taylor Swifts song at boot time which was very pleasing.
It is meant for low RAM of 256 or so and old computers.
Download and try it please if your Internet is fast enough!
I started with 4MB Video RAM and my NUC with integrated graphic has 8GB RAM.
What a journey!
My NUC with 120GB SATA drive has three distributions.
I was downloading MAC version of Ubuntu Gmac or Gnome MAC.
It is finished and I am going to try it.
Currently Ubuntu has numerous versions.
I met an old friend known for his satire and humour (sometimes dry but worthwhile relating).
He asked me to describe in short, the digestive system (in Sinhala).
Before I could open up, he said one starts with the right hand and ends with the left hand (with no toilet paper USE in this country) for convenience.
Before he could finish, I asked him what about left-handed guys like Albert Einstein?
He said in Ceylon left handed people eat with their right hand.
That was a dicey answer which I could not believe but what he said next was very nice.
Look at these guys/girls shopping for new clothes as if they had been in nude for 364 days.
I said I prefer to be in nude at least at night to cool myself.
Then I pondered to Politics and raised my voice and said IF BBS was in power we would not be able to crack a joke.
He said no politics and I told him that it is the inborn deficiency of Ceylonese that allows politicians to go "scot free" of their petty deeds and shoddy acts.
Before we could expand on politics, he got out of the bus to see a friend for an early tot.
I told him to drink IF it is FREE (only).
Thankfully, when I reached home, a Danish friend had called in without prior notice.
We polished a tiny wine bottle in no time.
I did not see this guy again, he was bitten by the travel bug; his resolve was never to come home, like foreign secretaries of the old regime.
His reasoning for one visit during Sinhala/Tamil New Year costs him all his savings for a year and he could never recover his loans to his near and dear, given the year before.
We live on loans and pawn our children for over 100 years.
The Danish friend did not drop in for sometime (escape from bitter winter and his wife and his inconsistent study of ethnic conflict never ends).
For me I decided never enjoy a drink till all the taxes or levies on alcohol is removed by a decree with the blessing of the Triple Gem of Nibbana, one of my alcoholic friends describes them as The Void (Sunnata), The Signless (Animitta) and The desireless (Appanihina).
I told him alcohol and narcotics have the same effects on the brain.
After a deliberate pause, I told him one Hour of Meditation would not get all those three effects unless he/she tastes a piece of chocolate or takes an alcohol based and plant based drink of old tradition, Kombucha Beverage or Manchurian Mushroom Tea (Mana Tea) or Narcotics.
Saturday, October 7, 2017
By the way, Linux Phone Lineage OS is very expensive.
I saw lot of torrent images for various phones at Linux torrents.
I have over 10 Nokia phones all working fine nd never tried to ROM or FLASH them
By the way, my son in law bought me a Samsung Tablet and another Android phone (its sim is blocked by the manufacturer).
I do not understand how manufacturers and vendors steal money from gullible customers.
How to ROM or FLASH an Old Android Tab?
This is a mail I posted to a friend.
How to ROM or FLASH an Old Android Tab?
I did a survey on how to erase the current operating system and install a new version of android and was bewildered by its complexity.
They are bound by rigid protocols of Android and Google Giants.
Unlike computers, the hardware parts are brittle and finding a “patch” for a broken piece is not easy.
Besides, the terminology is funny, and only term I liked was BRICK for a stalled hardware.
Only open source ROM (Kernel should be the correct term) was CyanogenMod but developers had given up developing it and a firm has taken over it.
There is a Romanian guy who wants to make open source hardware!
But the problem is that there is no seamless integration since OEM guys are reluctant to give up their monopoly.
If one fiddles with the system it may end up as a Brick.
If you find any article that simplify this (Linux Magazine may not do it) minor process, please let me have it.
By the way, having gone for Zeroing I have stop reading big articles, especially political ones.
I have lot of time at hand after "Zeroing In" and sleep well after dropping Caffeine to almost Zero.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu’s Canonical and Firefox have stopped developing an Open Source Phone.
CyanogenMod is arguably one of the (if not the) most installed Android ROM in the world, and for good reason.
It offers a ton of great features, is available for more devices than most other ROMs of its type, and has the type of polish and support that makes it easy to fall in love with.
We have Kit Kat (version four in this country) in this country and the Android is on version seven or higher.
Even the Kindle Tab, a total failure, I believe.
Luckily, I bought a Lenova Tablet in Singapore and it is miles ahead of my Kit Kat Tablet which I want to erase and upgrade but the only problem is its RAM which is limited and it breaks up before a full film is viewed.
Lenova Tab froze and I could not replace it battery.
That is why I discourage people buying Tablest with a Frozen Battery (one cannot replace it and that is their business plan to lure the next generation of tablets.
I have of course migrated to bare bone NUC which is damn cheap!
I am glad that I got a good laptop for my son and if you have a laptop do not throw it away, in spite of its weight.
It is pleasing to see a film on a laptop.
One who buys an Apple iPOD is probably stupid or has lot of money to spare.
They have stopped making (with a DVD driver) them (laptops).
Apple is very expensive, I saw my daughter spending over 100 dollars for a Apple Screen saver with a insurance plan.
A good product should not go for issuance plan.
This why encourage people to use Linux and Linux protects old and new hardware.
