Saturday, March 8, 2025

How We Built on Shoulders of Giants -John Haddock

This am accountant given by John Haddock probably in 2018.
MIT
GE
Berkeley came in lately but was involved in BSD. Denis went on sabbatical to Berkeley with his magnetic tape and there Unix becamebBSD and at AT &T it became System Unix 3,4 and 5.
Bell lab was interested in transistors, fiberoptics and laser and not on applications.
Computers were not useful to Telephone Companies was the understanding.
It started in Bell's Lab in New Jersey.
The idea was to develop a Portable Operating System that ran on many platforms by Brian Thompson and Dennis Richie.
They used a cast off PDP7 computer for their work. There was no assembly language. They used machine language which was written on a paper tape on anothe computer and ported it to the PHP7.
Uptil then operating system were fixed to the hardware  or the applications they ran.
In around 1983, Digital Equipment Company, IBM and HP saw Unix has commercial space outside academic environment. However, they had to pay a hefty fee for the Source Code to AT & T and the serial number of the computer using the Source Code had to be given to them.
Later on Sun Microsystems requested them to lower the fee by offering them the Binary Code and a request to wave off the serial number of the computer.
BSD had TCP / IP. There was lintgarion by AT &T on a BSDI company over copyright issue.
1984 Richard Stallman came in and objected to Source Cod copyright and wanted the software to be Free.

Make the kernel small so the coding is free of errors.
Applications to be on User Space and any crashes when running does not affect the kernel.

List of Guys I admire

 

List of Guys I admire
 
Yes it is the most boring of all subjects.

With the bare minimum IQ, one can master the bare bones of practice of medicine.

I had a fairly reasonable IQ (not 140) and my plan was to enter the University.with the least effort.

So instead of choosing Physics or Politics, I went for Medicine.

After 30 years of Medicine I stopped practising Medicine and stopped registering with the Ceylon Medical Council.

I am now just a lay person and a Free Inquirer.

I continued to hold a post of teaching pathology for my survival.

It is simple after the fact protocol and no stress at all.

The best stress-less job is Radiography.

After all you are looking at a negative film and never a positive.

Doctors specially psychiatrists commit suicide most often.

Next pediatricians.

Radiologist and pathologist never commit suicide (if they pass through the training).

Unless one has a potential Buddha Character one should never take up psychiatry as a profession.

This post is about 10 or more guys and one girI I mostly admire, in not any order of merits.

1. Buddha comes first to me since he was the only human in history who taught mind as the base of everything.

2. Professor De Bono comes second he talks about logic in style.

His book on Beautiful Mind and Thinking to Think without dogma are classics.

3. Bertram Russell who was hiding in Russia away from the persecution by the Church is another huge personality.

His books on Power and Why I not a Christian are not available or banned in UK and USA.

That is how democracy works in the birth place of democracy.

4. I am still looking for Karl Marx's De Capital book one.

It is out of print.

5. Darwin is my "carte borne" or born again of Evolution.

6. Gregor Mendel was born observer and was a priest.

7. Linus Torvalds, the Linux creator.

8. Che Guerra

9. Carlous Linneus

10.
Louise Pasteur

11. Robert Cooke

12. Alexander Flemming

13. Professor Senaka Bibile of Ceylon

14. Arthur C Clerke

15. Edwin Hubble, Einstein, Steven Hawking

16. Nelson Mandela

17. Mageline Maguire who proposed an alternative view of early evolution.

She was sidelined by her male colleague and only in one pathology book her name was quoted in my time.

She proposed mitochondria came from earlier line of protozoa.

I had similar view as a Medical Student and never voiced my view in public.

Mitochondrial DNA mutate only once in 5 million years.

Mitochondria are the Energy Pool, if that breaks down the protoplasm cannot survive.

Now with Coronavirus we are talking about cell surface artificial "endomeres" carrying mRNA.

Gain in Function is another kettle of fish.

Baden Powell of UK, the racist guy and the German Sigmund Freud, the sexist guy are not in my list.
 
 
I should add these names to the List
Richard Stalman is there.

It looks like I have not made an entry on Ubuntu Linux and John Maddock.

He is not the coauthor of Joy of Linux but Director of Linux international.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie of course wrote the Unix Architecture.

Micheal Hall and Brian Profftt wrote "Joy of Linux" in the tradition of "Joy of Sex". 

That catch phrase made me to purchase the book in a local bookshop.

Sure, I did read it and went into purchase Linux Bible.

Charts the history of the Linux community and discusses Linux philosophies while demonstrating Linux basics, exploring hidden creative tools, and answering the question "Why Linux?"

John Maddock, Joy of Linux and Ubuntu

It looks like I have not made an entry on Ubuntu Linux and John Maddock.

He is not the coauthor of Joy of Linux but Director of Linux international.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie of course wrote the Unix Architecture.

Micheal Hall and Brian Profftt wrote "Joy of Linux" in the tradition of "Joy of Sex". 

That catch phrase made me to purchase the book in a local bookshop.

Sure, I did read it and went into purchase Linux Bible.

Charts the history of the Linux community and discusses Linux philosophies while demonstrating Linux basics, exploring hidden creative tools, and answering the question "Why Linux?"

Alfred Cyclone and My Previous Encounters

I have slept through two major catastrophes and the third one is building up.
I would  probably sleep that natural disaster,too.
This is just to say I can sleep well.

Thecfirst was in 1988 in UK.

I was about to return to Ceylon and the family was packed home in advance. 
I had to continue another month or so of my official duties in UK.
If I remember right house was, No.1, Sanctuary Close, Dartford.
I had done my night duty and returned home in the early hours for my usual after work nap, around 9.00AM.
At about 1.30PM I heard the rattle on our backdoor which was interrupting my sleep.
I put the table top freezer, fridge and the  tumbler against the door and went to sleep.
At about 7 to 8PM the biggest thunderstorm of the recent history in UK hit the coast ripping trees, power lines and roofs and what not.
I slept throgh the entire episode and casually gave a call at 1.30PM, why there is no power.
The lady in the telephone exchange said you are hell of a guy and YOU slept through the biggeste cyclone. 
Open your door and see for yourself, that the front parapat wall made of bricks  is ripped off.
The next door neighbor's roof is blown off.
We did not call you since you were up all night, yesterday night.
Have you got any gas?
I said, Yes.
Then boil some water and make a cup of tea.
We got your telephone line working and would get your electricity line up soon.
I politely ask if they need any help.
She laughing said; only if you can climb electric poles and trees.
I said no way but I am available for an emergency.

Within half an hour I got my electricity.

These guys who did emergency and restorative work were the best in the world.

Next episode was in 1994 July, six years later in New Zealand. 
Similarly, I have packed our family home and sleeping on a Saturday afternoon.
I was thrown out of the bed and I guessed I had a dream and kicked a guy in my sleep and I had falien off the bed. 
But when I looked at the Buddha Image in front of me on the roof, it was tilted and swinging lightly. 
Then when looked at the pantry, I saw most of the cupboards open and some dangling.
It dawn on me that a major earthquake has hit South Island.
Yes, it was and it was 7.2 Richter Scale and I slept throught it. 
But the aftershocks lasted 6 weeks.
I was terrified everytime an aftershock hit the floor.
I did not sleep well for over 6 weeks with even a slightest of tremor.
I woke up.

Soon after, I left New Zealand, never to return.

It looks like disasters seem to follow me.

Regarding, floods it was frequent in Peradeniya, those days.
Thankfully we lived on a little hill and water never reached our level.

However, the road get flooded with even a minor rain. If one is caught, one has to take off the shoes put them on the shoulder and bent the  trouser up to the knee level and wade through the raging water. 
One day, when I came down to pick my daughter after school, we were caught in a torrent more than usual. 
With clever manoering we managed to reach for the crossroad. 
I was glad I there when she really needed me. 

No schooling on heavy rain was a golden rule afterwards.
Years later much bigger girl was drowned in a canal in the city of Kandy.

When the Project Maskeliya came into operation part of water from the Maskeliya Oya was diverted to Mahaveli River upstream so our flood plane recedded accordingly. 
I was very much active discussing the flood problem with Mahaveli Engineers.
All of them (hired hands) were not provided with regular places in the Estate Engineering Corporation, after Mahaveli Project was completed.

They left Ceylon.
We lost them with their talents.
I never saw them, again.

This is a summary for those reading this piece from Ceylon.

It looks like the Albert cyclone soft landed with category 1 but the torrential rain will go on for a week or more.
Hope floods would not do more damage than the winds with waves over 10 feet hitting the coast and hindering the flow of water of the rivers to the sea.

But falling trees are doing enough damage to the power lines causing interruption to electricity in many regions.

Sunshine Coast is relatively safe but Goldcoast is inundated with rain.
Brisbane that was expected to be hit worst was spared by some grace of Weather Gods.
All shops are closed and we are home bound.
I did keep up till 1AM as  usual but dropped to sleep eventually.
No dreams.

Complete rest for my NUC and cellphone doing the updates.

Little Napoleon is in a Dreamy State

It looks like Little Nepolean has forgotten the defeat and retreat of over 600,000 soldiers. 
His proposed 5,000 would be cannon fodder and there is no chance for retreat with drones following them behind their footsteps.
I wonder how British boots on the ground would fare?
The fate of battleships is no different. 
It looks like already two British ships transporting weapons to Ukraine were sunk near Odessa.

I guess there is no place for foot soldiers in modern day ariel combat.

Oreshnic is Russia's answer.

However, Presdent Trump's Golden Globe is yet to come into service.


Friday, March 7, 2025

Gonzalo Lira

It is nearly two years that Gonzalo Liro, a freelance journalist who was let to die in prison under SBU.
He was an American who was not investigated by Biden administration.
Why?

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Double Dealing India

Indian expatriates are generally called by Africans locals as Black Jews appropriately. 

This piece is about their duplicity with Palestinians cause.

While they are sympathizing with Palestinian plight they import all their advanced military equipment from Israel. They will never speak a word against Israel. 
In fact, Israel has made them to keep their mouth shut.

This is true about Ceylon, too.
While appeasing the government in power the RAW has its own covert operations in the North of Ceylon.

India should never get a seat in the Security Council due to these duplicitous actions.

Pretty obvious.

This brings me to BRICS.

Russia, Iran and China are better off without India as an alliance. 

I am not referring to economies but military alliance against American hegemony in Ukraine for example. 

I do not think EU or NATO has any relevance today. 
Ruled based order is just a mockery.
They are only Talking Shows.
Rules without concrete action are superfluous, by their own nature.

Ceylon is a good example. 
We have almost all the International Laws inacted by our legislation but there is no mechanism to empower them at face level.

Coming back to EU, they cannot raise an army to fight Russia without American backing.

When President Trump retires from the political forefront in another 4 years, who will come after him is a big mystery.

It is time for him to make history not in War but in American Technology.

Think of the time from RadiShack to Texas Instruments to Sun Microsystems.

A golden time in American history of computer games until Atari, Haulu and Sun computers of Taiwan started dominating the game world. 

Sun of course was a American company to begin with.

I had an Atari in 1992.

Chips and AI will dominate the current period of Trump's Presidency not War of Zelensky, Macron and Stamer and it is good for the entire world.

Now that American Intel is shrinking I want an under 200 dollar gaming Mini PC, coming from America.

Not from Taiwan or Brtian or France.

Four years without any war anyware in this world would make Computer industry blossom.

The benefit of Chips and AI on Any War Machine is tremendous as a form of defense if not for offense.

Russia seem to have made giant strides in both air and water drones albeit with Chinese help.

Meanwhile, China should explode the market with game boxes varying from Steam Box substitutes to new designs at cheaper prices so that the kids of this generation could play War Games (unlike Zelensky) on television to tone down their inbuilt tensions instead of using live ammunition on the battlefield.

Let these big guys go to the battlefield Macron, Boris Johnson and Keith Starmer, (if these guys are as brave as their rhetoric mean), instead of the young guys and girls who have many more pospherous  years to live on this planet.

Man Older Than America is Paid a Pension

Yes, it is TRUE a man older than America itself was paid a Pension according to President Donald Trump's speech to the Congress.

Elon Musk and DOGE is discovering these irregularities.

It was a carefully constructed speech and his goal is to bring America back on roll without Any War Anywhere on this Globe funded by America.

It is truely a grandfatherly speech.

However, it has a Right Wing stint and Racial Bias. It was all expected, no surprise at all, the Right Wing elected him.
This is a global phenomenon and he was addressing the Right Wing factions of Europe, indirectly.

Democratic Wing failed to arrest the trend due to their own fault and their own massive corruption exposed partly by Elon Musk.

One can say, America is the most correct country in this World at this moment.

Whether President Donald Trump can make a Course Correction, time will tell us.
I hope he will succeed, he hasn't got another term to worry about.
When corruption is in built to a system it is very difficult to uproot, whether it is China, Russia, Brazil or United States.

Whoever who wrote this speech had a global vision but It was boring and I did not listen to the end.

My only interst was Chip and Computer industry. I am not much interested in AI but it will be the mankind's future.

America who owned the RadioShack to Texas Instruments to Sun Microsystems has to wrestle back dominance they lost to Taiwanese companies with cheap reproductions or duplicates.

In this process Intel lost its rightful place.

NVIDIA of course different kettle of fish with cryptocurrency and 4K games  are their domains.

I think under his leadership and correct tariffs procedures, correct balance of Chip Industry and with innovation, new ideas to benefit mankind would emerge

Chinese domination is not welcome and Russia is underpar in chip technology but catching up by looking at its drone warfare.

Intel should be revived by ASUS.

Golden Globe as in Iron Globe in Israel is a project under him. 

That means the world is no safer today than yesterday.

Military Industrial Complex gets its money in a Circuitous Way. That means Jews will dominate the world indirectly if not directly. 

Must state something nasty that happened to Ceylon during our Internal Conflict. Mossad was helping L.T.T.E and Ceylon Commandos (when our crafty Old Fox was President elected), in the same building in two rooms, at the same time.

That is how diplomacy works in Israel ways. Get money from both sides.

India's RAW was helping L.T.T.E. under Indira Ghandhi to undermine J.R.J. 
She had an antiamerican stance.

Both Indians and Israelists are vicious in world politics.

I hope President Trump is mindful of both sides (India and Israel). 

Driving a wedge between Iran and America is their ploy. 
India is looking for spoils if something like that to happen under President Trump's second term.

That is what happened to Ceylon.
We are in dire straight.

Smaller nations are just pawns in this global game.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Defense, Security of the Country and Public Security

Dismantling Security without proper (take Israel as an example) analysis is STUPID to say the least which was infested with Three Armed Struggles in the past.

I do not think Ranil who is a guy who wants to restrict service sector to the lowest and promote private sector would like to have a small army protecting him when things go bad (it certainly will go bad to N.J.V.P/J.V.P Combo).

I will make a few  predictions before the main poece.

This has to done now not TWO Years Later (T.Y.L.).

1. Current Government will be the worst and the most unpopular, in our living memory.

Country would be divied into many small and big pieces.
A piece of cake for Americans.
It is supposed that an American Official woman has "Ceylon" tattooed on her thigh.
That is how they belittle smaller nations in the past.

2. Our Security Apparatus would be dismantled for good.
Cannot secure even the Court of Residence when sessions were running.

On that background he is reducing the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Police Force. 

My belief is except perhaps Army our services are under funded including Police for civilian actuvities. Grama Niladharis fill in the gaps for Police.

Look at Israel Air Force and Navy, for comparison, a country which is smaller and is not surrounded by sea.

That is why I am saying these guys are totally ametuerist in display of their brains.

Secret (local mafioso) army is emboldened by this proclamation.

3. Education system and Free Education is at peril. 
Private Universities and Private Schools would blossom.

4. Regarding Buddhism and our culture I have already evaluated, here.

My gut feeling is these guys are terrorist by nature and they have not lost that attitude to life. What cannot be persuaded could be brought by force or coersion.

In the past, I said over many times our citizens are stupid. They have price it by giving 2/3rd majority.
In Ceylon they (I do not mean J.V.P.) have killed guys for a loaf of bread.
That happened near my house where I went to buy bread.
The guys son who is a Muslim guy is a Three Wheeler driver, now.
We are a volatile nation and that was why I was against "Dalada Exposition".
Tiny incident might explode.

Ranil is behind and plotting till his death.

If they created a private army (disrupting the main security apparatus) I won't be surprised.

India and RAW would be the beneficiary and would not stop clapping hands, as in a cricket match.

Game Over for Ceylon.

I think people are reaping the benefit of "Electing a Set of Parliamentarians" with minimum of experience.
The security of the country is at peril.
Removing any sense of Culture in Ceylon is not their purgatory.
These guys are culture vultures in 1971 and 1987.
Their way is killing the opposition ideas with the opposition members.
I do not think this happened in either Russia or China.

1971 was supposed to be helped by North Korea.
1987 was supported by RAW of India.

Both were destructive to public utilities including Electric Transformers. I was involved in getting 3 new transformers to Electricity Substation (Two were blasted before and I said I would not go for the fourth) near Peradeniya Station.

It was a collosal destructive force.

For this substation mentioned (was moved to a place near Eriyagama with adequate security), with the help of my Engineer friends I got them replaced while JVP was making meyhem thoughtout the country. Mind you Peradeniya Station was the link to the Upcountry. There is a big Petroleum Filling station there and for some reason the bomb plastic if the substation would have created a hovoc. If I remember right, Undergraduate University (I opposed and was against University by laws and no Dhana in any case) monk resided there on the top of the hill bifering the railway station.

What I knew was they all were all J.V.P. sympathizers.
I was working in the University then.

I of course posted all these incidents in this blog post and removed them 48 hours before the election.

My prediction was 45% for JVP and I explicitly said do not vote for second choice. J.V.P. got 44%. 
I haven't got wrong in my political for over 45 years. As a doctor I could sense political climate well in advance and no formal surveys.

I opposed JVP in 1971 as a medical student. Some medical guys helped.

Summary
1. Disrupting Education in number one.
Current Pubudu Jagoda and union lead by saffron clothed guys is another.

2. Destabilize the established security system just like LTTE. My belief is L.T.T.E. got the inspiration and the idea to divide the country from J.V.P. 

There was a guy near our house who was a J.V.P. guy who went to Jaffna to coordinate activities with L.T.T.E. He never returned and who killed is open to discussion. 
Either L.T.T.E. or Army.

The point, I am driving at is they had a close relationship with L.T.T.E and writing a piece of land to L.T.T.E. outright (not the lands of private citizens) is a piece of cake for them.

3. Disrupting the current Security Apparatus and establishing their own army.
They have the armed cadre even though old. They know with time to come they become extremely unpopular.

YouTube guys are trying hard to keep their popularity high.
They want to remain in power indefinitely.

Absolutely "No Belief" in democracy.

In the parliamentary election they won by preventing opposing party guys voting by subtle intimidation.
That was there way in the University Elections.

4. Ultimately these ametuerist D.J.V.P/J.V.P guys and girls would make our August Assembly big SORE SPOT of the country. 
It will be no different than the provincial "Lida Langa Kathawa" or the Gossips at the "Public Bathing Spot".

Naming individual characters would give them more and undue publicity.

Their job is to get on with the job and get us out of poverty and avoid repeating the already wasted rhetoric. 
That is the very reason the guys who abuse our system for a single family are bold enough to crack jokes on them including Wira Wansa.

List of Ametuerist Activities 
1. Cannot prepare a gazette notification.

2. Held a Cabinet Meeting (two guys) without having the parliament in sessions.
Did not call on sessions which was outright violation of the constitution.

3. Signed many treaties with India.
They were never made public and they were not presented to their own party members or the parliament.

Those should be regarded as private treaties and the said individual is solely responsible for those actions, if called against the judiciary in future for verifications.

4. Cannot prepare proper parliamentary bill.

5. Speaker issue
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??? Which we do not know or in public domain.

Who drafted the budget (May be Central Banker with Ranil's help).

I said this guy is having Pani (honey) or traste of power while actually seeing 3 deaths in front of him.

The three deaths are;
a) Ranil with his IMF draft.
b) Promises dished out which cannot be fulfilled
c) Absolute Majority and they could not fail the cadre by design.

This is an adaptation of a Dhammpada Verse.
Loba Greed
Dosa Hate
Moha Delusion 

The guy who is facing these challenge is our President.
I would be proven correct before my demise.

I said this is the worse time to Govern and waiting in the opposition is the best. 
This part is difficulty to predict since like Sirimavo and N.M.  who extended the parliament and made a mockery of the British Democratic System, these guys with 2/3rd majority would fiddle with the constitution without a referendum being placed against the public.

Any absurd thing like Aragalaya can happen in Ceylon without a proper system change which people wished at the beginning.

Kumar David who was in Los Angeles would have done a better piece.
He is no more.

I always wonder why Buddhist Monks want to go to Parliament before Nirvana.

Perhaps, that is the only place which has all the luxeries better than in a temple and one need to have to work for the entire duration and one gets a pension, too.


Microsoft and Google both Branded Antitrust in America

It is not me Judges in America who say both Microsoft and Google violates Antitrust Law in America.
It is Google Chrome and Search Engine that is braided as such. YouTube is part of it.
I disbanded Microsoft long time ago and tied up with Linux. That was easy. Linux has over 60,000 software packages.
I am yet to find a replacement for YouTube. I have no problem with Google Search Engine and it's Surface cellphone. Microsoft tried to enter Google's domain of cellphones and failed.
I found one but it has many components but did not try it.
It is called POE Product.
I am not against YouTube at all but I am against some of the Ceylonese Sinhala (making it a political platform) YouTube guys who are abusing YouTube Space.


Poe Product

 I thought of promting this applicastion as an alternative to YouTube.

I am not against YouYube, since I have learned lot of Technical Stuff from it regarding even Linux. 

I am against the YouTube content creators in Ceylon, especailly in local language where politics and subtle charaqcter assssination is of daily occurrence. I just delete them without reading them.

I wish them success but bit ambivalnt about AI technique.

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Monday, March 3, 2025

Puppy is Small BUT it can do big Things like MX Linux

Puppy is Small BUT it can do big Things like MX Linux

I am not referring to FatPup which I do not like since it does not support Abiword.

This piece was edited using Legacy Pup on a USB stick. It took half an hour to download.

I am referring to Legacy Pup which is Debian based and is 3.2GB. 

It is based on AntiX and I think it has more punch than Mx Linux.

Yes all Puppy derivatives were known to be under 700GB to fill a CD.

Its basic current problem is not supporting U.E.F.I. and WiFi.

So far I have got two who is supporting these developments.

One is Ubuntu and the other is Debian and Gnome.

Most of these derivatives support legacy BIOS and good for Old computers in the attic.

It is a matter of using WiFi scanning Utility to the system so that the user can select his or her own WiFi Server and key in the password.

Long time ago when they were introducing WiFi in Ceylon it was a big hastle. I had to go to Singapore to buy a good router. Two years later they both us our home router. We had to wait for the government to order it from Taiwan, I believe.

Unlike now I used to blast the Telecom guys. I was busy lookong after sick patients.

I would not NO to any reasonable request from Telecoms. I gather in the YouTube they are charging customer without permission for a non existent service.

I was using Ubuntu and Emmabantus to get my WiFi automatically configured in the late 1980s. 

Later I got hooked to Debian.

Sorry for the diversion.

I am going to test all the Puppy derivatives which has U.E.F.I. support and could be booted from a USB and not a CD. I am going to include a chapter on Puppy Linux in my book. In the current chapter I am working on, I have highlighted the lack of 64 bit versions and the very good Puppy derivatives which had gone dormant.

The chapter name would be small is beautiful.

I have already found three other Puppy Derivatives that could be configured by using the Internet protocol.

They are Bionic Pup

Xenial Pup

Puppex-Focal Pup

I have decided to finish my book on "Linux Essentials" mounted on a Puppy Linux. The book is over 400 pages. 

I started it  using, my Debian Gnome on Abiword and I would finish it on Abiword on a Puppy Linux.

This is the fist time I am publishing a BIG Book using Puppy Linux.

Till I finish publishing the book, I will keep it as a Top Secret.

By the all my books at Amazon were published using Abiword.

I have a book how to publish a book using only FREE and Linux utilities. 

If you are Linux Newbie, purchase it an read from cover to cover.

There is no spoon feeding

It might take little time to learn but the effort will save YOU lot of money for your own entertainment.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Legacy PUP

Legacy PUP

Legacy Pup is the biggest Puppy Linux image.

It is 3.2GB and it took about half an hour to download.

It is IceWarm one of my favorite Window Mangers  desktop.

It has OnlyOffice.

It is based on AntiX and may be having more utilities than MX Linux.

Pegasus OS

Pegasus OS

Web site: pegasusos.networkcore.eti.br
Origin: Brazil
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Xfce
Architecture: x86
Based on: Ubuntu
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 18.02 | February 18, 2018

Pegasus OS – a GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and Debian. The Pegasus OS highlight the easy and stable operation.

The current version name is Helix Nebula – every point version honors a celestial object, which does not necessarily need to be associated with the Pegasus constellation, which is already honored by the name of the distribution.

The focus is on ease of use and the possibility of being an environment for developing software and learning various tools.
It already has a video editor, IDE for software development, image editors, productivity suite, and others.

The project emerged as a personal initiative to improve learning about Linux, as well as the availability of tools used in the educational field. It is a hobby associated with professional and personal use.

It was decided to use the XFCE environment for its lightness, without losing its beauty, but it also has LXDE for faster access.

The project developer is Arnaldo Vasconcellos.

CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021

Boris Johnson who is talking Big about Ukraine Covered Up Deaths of the Elderly in United kingdom. He can lie for any money he gets illegally.

Zelensky is the other International Crook. 

Only other Crook, I can remember was the Labour Union Leader. 

He is alive in his eighties, so I should not mention his name here. He transferred Labour Union Money to a foreign country, may be Brazil, before Margaret Thatcher could lay her hands.

Arthur Scargill is his name.

 Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. 

He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.

Joining the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's Conservative government.

Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike. 

It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated

Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill is now deputy leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), having founded the party in 1996 and served as its leader from the party's foundation until 2024

I stop registering for Labour Party in 1980s.

CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021

As an academic I keep a record of scientific material.
 
That is my habit and I do not believe in digital material.
 
This has helped me in writing books.
Two books I have delayed writing are one on Mosquitoes and the other on Viruses.
 
There is no hurry.
 
I have five more years to go.
 
This is how I recorded the Covid Fiasco in point form.

1. Wuhan province in China in September 2019
Endemic becoming Epidemic.
Chinese denial of Bat to Human Transfer in the Wet Market.
 
2. Nearly 10,000 infected in China.
How many died is a Chinese Mystery.
Satellite Images confirming large number of deaths.
 
3. Chinese built a massive building covering the cemetery.
 
4. The guys involved in the burial were burned to death under another building that collapsed while building it.
The front line workers were decimated.
 
5. Delay in reporting until 31st of December 2019 (the mandatory deadline of WHO).
 
6. Brief announcement of that epidemic in January 2020.
This is when Americans and WHO go into long holiday. The delay was to wait until everybody is on holiday.
 
7. WHO delaying it reporting till March, 2020 as an International epidemic.

The ploy was for the Chinese to give 6 months of "Covering Time" to hide the factual data.
 
8. The WHO abrogated their bounden duty.
 
9. Between March, 2020 to June 2020 CDC had used Genetic Engineering to break down or Synthesize a New Viral Product.
 
10. International collaboration and over 200 countries participated.
Countries were short listed from 220 to 40 to 20.
 
11. Multiple Vaccines were artificially generated by Recombinant technology and Micro-array Assembly. 
Testing time for new vaaccine is normally 20 years.. 

THEY VIOLATED THIS PRINCIPLE.
 
12. Astra-Zenika only producing an interim report.
 
13. Emergency Use Authorization Protocol which was not globally accepted.
 
14. Competition among companies especially in United Kingdom.
 
15.  Russian producing Sputnic.
 
16. China producing Covax.
 
17. Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson joining the band wagon.
 
 Moderna is the one which almost killed me.
 
18. Vaccine was used for front line political candidates.
 
19. Prioritization of Vaccine Schedule
Vaccine was given to MPs in Ceylon!
 
20. The militarization of the Vaccination Program..
Military backed off and started diverting attention to Environmental Issues related to burial and cremation protocols.

Lot of people were dying including young guys (after vaccination).
 
I was a victim of global muscle damage after the first dose.
 
21. We over ran the China's total of reported 10,000.
 
22. In Ceylon deaths were not correctly reported and the Medical guy who assembled these data was shunted to another  department.
 
23. Finally cremation strategy was instituted.
 
24. Human Rights Case / Recent Violation of Human Rights cases started surfacing
 
25. Government debts and spiraling cost of living and food prices.
 
Added today.

26. Mass protests throughout the country.
 
Update On Corona Virus-Edited-2020

Updated Global Assessment of Corona Virus Pandemic

Chicken, Broiler Chicken in particular.

Chicken Flu

These three words and phrases are synonymous with Corona Virus for nearly 3 decades.

Currently it is pig or piscine flu.

Historically Piscine or Pig flu is relevant and that is why Muslims and Jews in Israel do not consume pork (pigs) but they eat all other varieties of meat available on this planet earth.

In Ceylon they even eat elephant meat.

Broiler Chicken Food Chain in my opinion, is central to the spread of the current epidemic and I have inadvertently missed that point.

Pigs and Chickens are part of the super spreader chain by way of Food Chain Transmission (F.C.T).

Only way to avoid transmission is to rear your own chicken or pigs in small scale and not on commercial scale.

WHO will never venture into these domains.

There are a few more points of interest.

CDC head is a cunning "Smooth Operator" and his only desire is to hang on to his post for life and that itself is a disaster ominous.

I call him the "Pass the Buck Man”, not the Olympic Batten Style,  and all the American Institutions are well greased and ingrained in this philosophy of passing the buck up or down (Donald Trump Impeachment headed by Nancy Pelosy is a classic example and she is very good exponent of this ploy).

Ultimately it gets to the Commander In Chief.

To the not so amiable Joe Biden.

He should get rid of of these smooth operators from the main stream, starting with CDC Head, if we are to turn the corner, in this pandemic, spreading relentlessly.

America unlike China has enough resources to bounce back in economy.

Rest of the world may sink including UK but not America by any stretch of imagination.

America's biggest problem is it’s open borders policy from Mexico to Latin America to India and China.

Biden is embroiled in this open borders strategy, not by his design but by Democratic party's long term desire to keep it's vote bank appeased and I agree with Trump's "America First Principle" for a particular period of time in American history, at least temporarily, to get rid of the budget deficit and keep  the economy under proper monitory control.

Corona Virus Pandemic should be turned into a stimulus, if they can close the borders on health grounds for at least three years to begin with. I think President Biden under pressure from the left is bending his back on first principles.

Do not listen to the vote bank but listen to the opponents. 
 
Every wrong move is a step towards Republican Victory.

Lot of guys and girls will give dead ropes including CDC Head, but I am sure President Biden will overcome those distractions and should not look for the next election for policy changes necessary, in this moment of time.

If he ignores the election (let the Republicans worry about it), I believe he can come back for a second term victorious with much more sustainable American Economy.

I think the Democratic opposition to President Putin will backfire, since President Putin is targeting the American consumer psychology long before the election and the price at the pump station will be very decisive
 
His attack, on oil, gas and the capitalist economy in general will bite hard on American consumers both Democratic and Republican.

The longer the war in Ukraine drags it is bad for the American consumer but a good time for the American War Machinery. 
 
President of Ukraine with open hand (begging hand) dragged Ukraine into American Orbit with no sign of a compromise once one is dug in to a protracted war. 

That is the plan of President Putin and he has many tricks under his sleeve.

President Biden’s foul mouth uttering or saying words like butcher and regime change have galvanized Russian opinion and that is all what President Putin wanted from America for his political success in the next round of election.

Besides, I believe war was a tactic to divert his failure of Control of Corona Virus in Russia. 

The death in the front line is better than dying of Corona Virus doing nothing at home drinking Vodka for boredom.

But the bigger danger is the fall of Russia politically is ultimate big gain for China. 

The Americans won’t be able to negotiate with China, let alone Russia who is an ally of China.

If America lets China to sneak in, it is going to be a Global Disaster unlike the Muslim and Afghan crisis filtering into India and its neighbors. 

China covertly supported Afghans to undermine America.

That ploy should be stymied now not later.

There are two other equally devastating results of the Corona Virus Pandemic.

1. Food Crisis.

2. Nutritional Crisis

3. The above two determine the total Death Rate.

4. Without High Protein Diet one cannot respond to the Vaccine or the Wild Infection.

5. That this Vaccine will solve the current problem is a fantasy created by Drug Companies.

An average American living on food stamp is a total disaster. 
Food stamp is for sustenance and not for total immune response or recovery. 
A total stimulus including Good Diet is mandatory.

We went through this in 1970s and currently we are on the verge of total disaster.

An average child is surviving on manioc.

Powered Milk is out of stock and we cannot produce enough fresh milk.
The fresh milk is expensive and the supply depends on good weather.

A sustained period of dry or drought will kill our cows or reduce productivity below 10% and it is not a viable industry, at a time when economic and food crisis are looming.

We are looking down the barrel and current government is taking advice from a
Gnana Manio (Mother with Vision), a Bogus Woman with image bloated sky high.

There are lot of Bogus Manios in this country.

Pani (honey), Nool (silk or thread), Death Traps (unless one pays the sooth healer a bloated sum) and Pooja Vattis (trays for offering flowers are bribes to the Gods) are the modus operandi operational at every doorstep in Ceylon.

I am doctor in full retirement who did almost kicked the bucket due to proactive Moderna Vaccine Jab (MVJ).

I am probably recovering from the Jab Related Myocarditis (J.R.M) and my life was touch and go for several months.

I do not fear to kick the bucket by the Wild Virus (but I hate to give the infection to a third party, not even to a cat or a dog) but I do fear death by the faulty Moderna Jab.

I was probably given a vaccine containing, 6-six times the required adjuvant  and with very little Corona Virus antigen in it.

My mental make is sharp at present and this is to  preempt any catastrophe to my higher centers in the coming months.

Google under no condition should  remove this piece or suppress it.

Visitors to this blog are less than 70 a day or 1500   a month, so it does not cause any alarm to the health agencies world wide.

My assessment are based on at least 40 years of continuous work except for six months, which I took a break to spend time with the family without any medical ha hoo. 

The six months break was children's request first and my volition on the second count.

I was never involved in politics except for a brief period to oust a corrupt regime, long time ago.

I resigned from G.M.O.A, since they failed to protect my rights in spite of my written request very early in my career. 
An appointment I deserved was given to a stooge. 
But I won my rights on my own legal representation.

After that, I resigned from government service never to join it again and I have a W.A.O.P number but I have not received any entitlements.

I am a Ceylonese and I have No DUAL Citizenship.

I have traveled from Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere alone, just within 24 hours on my own money to see the Sea Lions. 

In other Words, I have seen the World, on my own account.

For the last 20 years I did not register Under the S.L.M.C.

My degree is M.B.B.S (Ceylon).

I have postgraduate qualifications.

My writing here is as a lay person and should not be interpreted as a medical jargon or any valid  information for research work.

It is certainly not gossip or spinning yarns.

All my observation are from September 2019 onward.

Purely academic to begin with but little bit vocal. 
 
I think this may be my last, Corona Virus, blog piece, unless lot of sub-comments follow this piece at least to defend my stance politely.

Culprits of the Pandemic are only 3 or 4.

1. Mainland China and Wet Farms.

2. Singapore Airlines.
My gut feeling was Singapore Airlines was the Super Spreader.

3. WHO

4. Cover up agents paid by interested parties including Drug Companies.

5. Austria's sky resort dilemma added as a little spice.

But the main cause is under par airline safety protocols.

A) Theory of Lab escaped Virus of high probability.

B) Piscine Borne infection.

C) Delay in investigations for the cover up to take effect.

I have some outrageous suggestion like the mRNA is so tiny, a mosquito can harbour, it and carry it for months apart from infecting pigs.

It is an enterovirus by design that changed it's transmission mode to respiratory mode purely, by accident.

It is only 20 to 30 nanometers and probably cannot be killed by the current detergents.

It keeps on living or replicating given the suitable environment, using its ingenious methodology.

Let me take a different point of view.

This virus had traveled from North Pole to South Pole in less than a year.

No country in the world is free of its contamination, if not death  and that contamination will continue for another 20 years unless we Stop the Food Chain Transfer (F.C.T) and the free virus mobility on meat products.

It is my belief, that the  Control or Mitigation of the Food Chain Transfer will never happen.

It is very difficult to arrest since entry point to the food chain is numerous and uncontrollable. 
 
People will starve to death if we interfere with the food transfer chain
 
One ship trapped in Sues Canal recently is a case in point.

Economic consequences will outlast the 20 years (plausible prediction) of spread of the disease.

If this is a natural virus (most unlikely and a successful virus never wipes out its subjects) it's determination is to control the world population for the benefit or health of the planet.

In the event, if it is an alien design (for a very long period they would have been  masquerading as humans on this planet of ours, i.e; the inhabiting and invading alien beings) for them to get established (in that scenario it is a virus adopted by the aliens for their propagation and they are manipulating it's spread so that the immune aliens have an advantage in survival on this planet) surreptitiously, on this planet.

You can bear with me, I am not sparing any random thoughts.

1. Number one this virus had traveled with man and it's food chain.

That is why it spans the globe.

2. Singapore Airline was the pandemic breaker.

It is the only country with the lowest number of deaths and confirmed cases.

Why?

I do not believe their records and knowing it as the super spreader, at the beginning stage of the pandemic, it cooking up its numbers to avoid future litigation by foreign civil agents, if not WHO.

This scenario can go bizarre, if the vaccination program causes more vulnerabilities including myocarditis.

Just like China, Singapore is not a fully fledged democracy but it's richness gives it a bit of a cushion and an international clout.

Mode of transfer are Ships and Mighty Long Haul Vehicles with wet foods produced in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taipei.

My theory of mass movement of food products in the food chain helps to spread the disease holds true here
.

Traveling  and Shipments were banned for North Koreans and it has probably the lowest cases per capita, probably, lower than Singapore.

All of them are of Chinese descent and wet market entrepreneurs.

Can you see that the jigsaw puzzle is fitting in nicely.

The final piece is WHO who were bribed to delay reporting the pandemic till December 31, 2019 (WHO deadline for that year).

My Conspiracy Theory is right at heart.


Aiding and abetting is visible and obvious.

It is possible to Genomically Tag it’s Origin but my mosquito and piscine theories make this more difficult.

Mosquito transfer is very unlikely apart from hospital (India and Africa are good candidates) spread related to housefly, a viable but a plausible passive transfer of the candidate virus.

The human race is responsible for this and 30% of the failure is of the administration and the other 70% is the incorrigible humans.

We are in a mess and we all have to get out of this mess. 
It is a global problem and not a national problem anymore.

Individual countries and companies stocking up the vaccine is not the way forward. 
It is somewhat, blind expectation that the 70% vaccination will get US out of this problem.

A fanciful imagination.

Lot more efforts and much more vigorous actions have to be in place. 
There are lose ends in this article and I won't try to hide or whitewash.

It is for the young guys to look at this problem globally from all angles. 
They should  resist the temptation to depend only on health infrastructure.

Spend the resources only on hospitals, vaccination centers and rely on pharmacies to support their efforts, may bounce back both on economy and well-being of mankind.

I have my deep sympathy to the first responders but I am bit skeptical of the efficacy of the vaccines. 
 
Too, true to be good and one vaccine almost killed me.

Yellow Dog Linux

This was the only Linux distribution Mac OS compatible I used only once in the past. 

Based on Red Hat seven I gave it up after one week. I am downloading to see it can run on BOX Utlity. 3.7GB.

Yellow Dog Linux

Web site: www.fixstars.com/en/technologies/linux/
Origin: USA
Category: Desktop, Server
Desktop environment: Enlightenment
Architecture: Power PC
Based on: Red Hat Centos
Wikipedia: Yellow Dog Linux
Media: Install Linux
The last version | Released: 7.0 | August 6, 2012

Yellow Dog Linux – an open source operating system based on Linux kernel and focused on GPU systems and computers using the Power Architecture. It was the first Linux distribution released in the spring of 1999 for the Apple Macintosh PowerPC-based computers. It is targeted to home, office, server, and cluster users.

Yellow Dog Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS and relies on the RPM Package Manager.
YUP (Yellow Dog Updater) has been specially created for Yellow Dog Linux, and was adapted for other RPM based distributions with the name YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified).

The first release of Yellow Dog Linux was published in 1999.
Started from version 5, Yellow Dog Linux uses Enlightenment as its default desktop, but others DE’s like KDE, Gnome or Xfce were available too.
The last version 7.0 was released in 2012.

The system includes user applications such as:
– Ekiga – a voice-over-IP and videoconferencing application
– GIMP – a raster graphics editor
– Gnash – a free Adobe Flash player
– gThumb – an image viewer
– Mozilla Firefox – a web browser
– Mozilla Thunderbird – an e-mail and news client
– OpenOffice.org – an office suite
– Pidgin – an instant messaging and IRC client
– Rhythmbox – a music player
– Noatun and Totem – media players

PuppyRus

PuppyRus

Web site: puppyrus.org
Origin: Russia
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: JWM
Architecture: x86
Based on: Puppy
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: 204-m | February 27, 2012

PuppyRus – a fast and lightweight operating system that runs on almost any, even outdated, computer. It is possible to work in full installation mode, as well as full-fledged work with CD-ROM (LiveCD) or USB-Flash. The PuppyRus Linux system can be installed as an additional one, without changing the main OS.

Features:
– Use your light and fast system under 200 MB on CD or USB-flash
– Install it as an additional (second) system
– Surf the Internet without viruses, with a complete set of programs at hand

There are relatively many different versions of Puppy distributions. There are assemblies of different groups and individual developers, assemblies in different languages, etc.

Parted Magic OS

 This Dustributions has become commercial.

By the way, I lost all my Puppy Images in my Download Folder after TrueOs erased evrything.

I am cuurently downloding up tp at least 25 imges.

Finding them is diffcult and in that effort I found this and decided to make piece for completeness sake. I have used it in the past not not any more.

Parted Magic OS

Last Updated on: 7th May 2023, 12:06 pm

Web site: partedmagic.com
Origin: USA
Category: Rescue
Desktop environment: Open Box (open box freezes on Gnome desktop of mine)
Architecture: x-86
Based on: Now commercial
Wikipedia: Parted Magic
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: active
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Parted Magic OS – a live, independent developed Linux distribution which contains disk partitioning and data recovery tools.

Parted Magic OS works as a live CD/USB only without a hard drive installation and can be booot through a network using PXE.
It features recovery tools such as: Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, GParted, Parted, Truecrypt, Clonezilla, G4L, SuperGrubDisk, etc., and supports many file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, reiser4, and xfs.

In August 2013 Parted Magic OS became a commercial distribution.
One of the latest free version 2013_06_14 is available to download and test.

If you need an up to date Parted Magic OS iso image, you have to purchase it from the project page.

Exit Stage and Bat Stage

Exit Stage and Bat Stage

This piece touches the tone of philosophy but has a little flavour of Buddhist outlook.

By the way, Buddhism is not a philosophy as propagated in the West but an advanced life style not seen in the Capitalistic World. 

My animal.analogy is the most appropriate to describe the current human tragedy exposed by a tiny but powerful m or t RNA virus.

First 35 years is the dog stage where one tries to achieve his or her goal but many fail  in this exercise and settle in the highest level of incompetency, where as described in Banking Principles (Peter Principle) one settles in his or her highest level of competency.
 

There is no upward climb but usually a downward slide.

The next level is the donkey stage and one only does the delegated work of his or her superior but boring nevertheless.
 

This lasts for 35 years.

The third stage is the Bird Stage (I entered this well before 70) where one reflects on self and on others and basically non judgemental.
 

An extremely difficult to achieve if one is married.

The birds are the best example where they are either in the free stage chirping on the tree tops or in escape mode from the seasonal rain, monsoon in particular.

Our Mynar is the classic example where he/she has a beautiful malady even on a rainy day.

A happy chirpy guy but equally dominating the atmosphere.

Very few humans can enter Bird Stage but they slip prematurely into the next stage which is the fox stage and remain their until one kicks the bucket.

This Bird Stage lasts for only 10 years and  one enters the vermin or fox stage, thereafter.

The worst of all and generally all World Top Politicians fall into this including President Biden.

My mother even went past this fox stage until 90s and luckily she passed away a decade before Coronavirus.

This I called the Bats Stage where one precariously hanging on to the failing heart or lung on a ventilator.

My advice for one is the kick the bucket well before entering this stage, since in Buddhist Samsara Cycle, the death is the beginning of another cycle but may not be human but lower down in the animal Kingdom.

Lot of our politicians end up there whatever the beneficial Karma, they try to acquire, (wearing the mantle of the head of state or Prime Minister post), or try to achieve by going from one pipal tree to another.

Regards to the Buddhist monks of Ceylon, who literally over indulge in TV Banana Bana or sermons, most of them
become TV stars in their next life usually in Bollywood and not in Hollywood due to the lack of their competence to put Dhamma to the Western audience in crisp and clear in English.

One should not apply this to married life and one is either in dog stage or donkey stage eternally.

This piece will ideally should exit me from the Internet but I could not.

I am in Bird Stage anyway and watching Internet is boring now that Biden is up there,  boring to say the least to see him hugging a dog.

He should enter the donkey stage where he was for 45 years and was very comfortable.

Peter Principle

 Peter Principle

Peter principle is an instrument that is used in banking management to weed out incompetent individuals out of the main stream and isolate them in their own islands of safety without embarrassment to the individual or to the institute.

The underlying principle is that individuals go up the ladder of promotions to the level of their competence and once they reach the optimum level of performance there is no way of promoting them higher without substantial risk to the institute. Unfortunately they are not at the age of retirement and the management has to device ways and means of getting them out of the main stream.

In that scenario what the management does is to create a glamorous looking post and sidetracks the individual horizontally in the management structure. This side tracking exercise keep the management and the individual happy mutually and the customers do not see this as a fact, unless they are privy to the internal dynamics of the institute.

I believe this principle is applicable to our politicians. For an example when a politician is running out of his or her own steam they need some recuperation somewhere and in the parliament the post of speaker satisfy the Peter Principle scientifically.

Even though he is called the speaker he cannot speak on his own as long as he occupies this chair.

What a characteristic of democracy?

I thought democracy is to voice one’s opinion.

It is quite an aberration?

My concern is what we do with the aging population of politicians who do not want to retire from the limelight and the TV glamour?

In good old days we had the Senate for them to come and socialize with the rest of those who have reached the level of incompetence.

My belief is that our politicians reach their level of competence or incompetence in the kindergarten itself and some of them become very childish in their likes and dislikes.

Why this is so I do not know for certain but my concern is what shall we do with them?

We cant keep then in cold storage like Stalin and Lenin.

Shall we make them actors and actresses in the local Tele Dramas?

After all acting is a glamorous job and most of them were very good in acting in their real life they need not have any training.

That is only one option.

But I have another option.

Why can’t we make them peace monitors?

They had been talking about peace so much in their political life they must be having a real love for peace. I believe they would really enjoy the challenge of peace keeping and traveling all over the world at no expense to them.

The third option is to send them to space.

They can scan the entire world from outer space with an advantage none of us will have with a camera that enlarges an ant to size an elephant.

Looking for trouble spots.

Gentoo Linux

This is a distribution I never tired but I am downloading it today.
It is a Live Distribution. 
Yes, it boots up with a Live USB and it is KDE which I do not fancy.
One cannot download any new applications as is Netrunner which has Synaptic Package Manager for me to download Box Utility and AbiWord.
By the way it has Xournel.
 
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Linux Live USB running KDE
Developer    Gentoo Foundation
Written in    C, Perl, sh, and Python
OS family    Linux (Unix-like)
Working state    Current
Source model    Open source
Initial release    31 March 2002; 22 years ago
Repository    
gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git Edit this at Wikidata
Update method    Rolling release
Package manager    Portage
Platforms    IA-32, x86-64, PA-RISC (HPPA), PowerPC 32/64, SPARC 64-bit, DEC Alpha, ARM 32/64, MIPS, RISC-V 32/64, m68k, loong, s390, s390x
Kernel type    Monolithic (Linux kernel)
Userland    GNU, With support for non-GNU userlands
Default
user interface    CLI, with support for various window managers and desktop environments
License    Free software
Official website    www.gentoo.org

Gentoo Linux (pronounced /ˈdʒɛntuː/ JEN-too[3]) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer. Precompiled binaries are available for some packages.
Gentoo runs on a wide variety of processor architectures.

Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, and flexible. Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution because of its adaptability, in that the majority of its users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to the system and the applications they use.

Gentoo Linux is named after the Gentoo Penguin, the fastest swimming species of penguin
The name was chosen to reflect the potential speed improvements of machine-specific optimizing, which is a major feature of Gentoo.

Sabayon Linux

 Sabayon Linux
 I tried this distribution in the past but had a difficult time and gave up.

Sabayon Linux or Sabayon (formerly RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux), was an Italian Gentoo-based Linux distribution created by Fabio Erculiani and the Sabayon development team. 

Sabayon followed the "out of the box" philosophy, aiming to give the user a wide number of applications ready to use and a self-configured operating system.

Sabayon Linux featured a rolling release cycle, its own software repository and a package management system called Entropy. Sabayon was available in both x86 and AMD64 distributions and there was support for ARMv7 in development for the BeagleBone.

It was named after an Italian dessert, zabaione, which is made from eggs.

Sabayon's logo was an impression of a chicken foot.[5] In November 2020 it was announced that future Sabayon Linux versions would be based on Funtoo instead of Gentoo Linux.[6] Sabayon Linux was replaced by MocaccinoOS.

 

Web site: sabayon.org
Origin: Italy
Category: Desktop, Server
Desktop environment: GNOME, KDE, LXQt, MATE, Xfce, Fluxbox (Minimal)
Architecture: x86_64
Based on: Gentoo
Wikipedia: Sabayon Linux
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 19.03 | March 27, 2019
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Sabayon Linux (previously RR4 Linux and RR64 Linux) – a Linux distribution developed by Fabio Erculiani, based on and fully compatible with Gentoo Linux. It uses the Entropy package management system that was specially developed for this distribution and Portage.

Entropy installs prepackaged packages which shortens the installation process compared to Portage. You can use Entropy with console or graphic user interface Equo or Ringo.

Sabayon supports x86 and amd64 architectures and is a rolling release distro, which means that you don’t have to install it from scratch after a new version is released. There are ready to go Live CDs/DVDs with GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE environments, a minimalist version with Fluxbox, which lets you customize the system according to your needs; and a version of SpinBase without a graphical environment.

To install the system on a hard drive, Sabayon uses the Anakonda installer known from Red Hat and Fedora.

Starting with version 16.06, Sabayon is also available for ARM machines (RaspberryPi).

The last version of Sabayon Linux are available for x86_64 machines only.

In November 2020, Sabayon has been rebranded to MocaccionoOS and merged the project with Funtoo Linux.