Friday, August 29, 2025

Political Suicide of Ceylon

This piece is in evolution.
Sri-Lankan electorate is basically STUPID but the problem is the citizen does not want to accept he or she is STUPID.
That supidy is giving NPP/JVP combo, two third majority, who neither have the political agenda nor maturity to bring back our economy to a sustainable footing.

I am almost a apolitical guy now but was a political animal of yesteryear.

1. I was involved in ousting Sirimavo.

2. But when I realized bringing in JRJ was a big mistake I got activated again and involved in bringing in changes to the constitution. 

3. We did not get anything out of Chandrika after much expectations.
She lacked direction and totally absend minded.

4. I believed that Mahinda Rajapaksa would retire as political hero after his success over LTTE but his regime became a typical nepotismic administration. 

All these guys went bonkers only in their second term.

5. We got him out but I had no regard for Ranil and Maithrie Combo. 
They showed their political dichotomy and incompetence. 
They were only interested in exercing their political power.

6. Out of these guys worse is RW.
He was a dictator as much as JRJ but he covered up his dictatorial character with some artificial political charisma.

Most of his legislatures were to control free media and free speech.
His public but not secretive  alliance with Anura was to hoodwink him in mid term and come to power as a saviour.

7. But the biggest problem is when these powers are given to amateurs with one party mentality they go violently bonkers.

That is what has happened and the stupid electorate does not understand.

They want stay in power for 25 years even without doing sweet nothing to the majority of the voters. 
Their priority is their party and their single party politics.

No room for alternative opinions or democratic values.

Only Kalum Jayasumana and Sepala Amarasinghe have understood our political predicament.

We are heading for a political catastrophe due to STUPIDITY of our average citizen believing JVP/NPP Combo.

We are heading for an unexpected dictatorship.
They will reinact what JRJ and RW did when they were in power.
What UNP did now NPP/JVP is repeating.

Only Wimal Weera Wansa can take a toll on these issues.

Any waiting is a political suicide.
They should be ousted within two years just like what they did to Gotabaya.

They say history repeats.

OpeSuse-15.6 Leap and Tumbleweed

OpenSuses 15.6 Leap

Yes, I did install OpenSuse 15.6 Leap on my NUC.

I used Gnome Desktop.

It was bit of long process.

Only Reason, I did was it allowed me to select Gnome at install time. 

Last time Tumbleweed took over the hard disk. This time I used Ext4 instead of Btrfs using expert option.

Used Plasma 6 option and to see the games available.

Gnome took almost 5GB but Plasma only 4.5GB which was bit of surprise.

This time I was careful in my installation.Installation is on administrator level and one should make sure to click the administrator level option. If you did not select this option you may not be able to install it. It is at root level which is not a good option.

Immediately after installation, I selected a User level which was bonobo an African monkey.

It did not destroy my GRUB boot loader.

I could not install Synaptic Package manager which was not to my liking and I have to Go To Suse repository and the packages are in rpm which I hate.

I would try SOFTWARE and install AbiWord to begin. 

A report will follow after a cup of tea and opening a file in AbiWord. 

AbiWord was a rpm package and I managed to install it with my previous experience with Suse.

Audacious was installed using binaries.

Stacer is not available.

Rest of the packages I am going to install using Suse Package installer which include Audacity, Kdenlive and VLC.

Scribus, Inkscape and Blender all installed.

No Gdebi and no other browsers like Opera or Vivaldi but I got Epiphany and Falkon and no Dillo.

Using Gnome got Gparted, too. 

No little games. 

With all that I have used less than 10GB of DATA and I have 12GB left out 22GB for other installations.

Blender and Xournal (Texlive) took a lot space.

Summary

It took a long time to update 573 packages but after that everything went smoothly.

It is only in install version and not a live session which wastes, lot of my time.

Installing a distribution in Box utility is a pain. 

This is true for Fedora with the exception of the image is very small and hardly any applications in the system. However Fedora has many versions and selecting one is a pain.

It is the last version before the new immutable version of Suse.

It is one year old and it was released in June 2024.

It is in Qt5 version and new Qt which is Qt6. 

It is running 573 new updates on packages.

This for me to write a few line in my book "Linux Essentials" coming soon in Amazon books.

I cannot install an old kernel of Debian to coexist with Trixie and this (Suse) is the nearest I could keep to the old times.

It cannot write a Linux image to a USB.

 Overall the experience was not bad but brought the nostalgia of using Linux 20 years ago when they were not proprietary.

Whatever the distribution Linux never failed me.

I am not a fan of immutable software and that is why I gave up Gnoppix. 

AI installer drives me NUTS even though I use AI for looking for the correct definition when writing on a new topic which is better than Wikipedia.


Ragata-OS of Suse

Ragata-OS of Suse
Ragata messed up with my GRUB file.
It is designed for single use.
It had Only Office and with /root partition full I could not get audacity installed but I got Stacer installed.
It has GIMP and VLC.
In any case, I have decided to use the DVD1 of Debian 13 to install it over the testing image to get a clean install.
I already done it with my regular distribution with / home partition intact.
There are thousands of new applications and I am going to install most of them for testing.
I got one regular KDE of Ragata and modified KDE of Netrunner.
YES, I am fair to both 50% Gnome and 50% KDE (which I hate) due to its inordinate bulkiness.
However, I prefer Netrunner with Synaptic Package Manager.

 

Yes, I decided to Install Ragata OS on top of my MX Linux and it wanted 1 GB of EFI boot partition.

Well I had only 532MB.
 
I used to boot Puppy Linux and Knoppix on a 2GB hard drive and this simply megalomania coming probably from Donald Trump.
 
This was not a big deal, I deleted /boot and /root partitions and added 1.2GB for EFI.
I had 22GB for the root which is good enough and made my /boot partition 600MB.
Kept my /home partition intact with all data, files and iso images.
This is in preparation for installing Ragata which is again a Linux distribution which specializes on Games.
 
I hate to go back to Red Hat.
Thank YOU Ragata developers for reminding me of the latest EFI needs.
IGB minimum.
 
By the way, I begin to hate XFCE desktop.
I did not use it but selected Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE and MATE.

Linux Games I Love to Play

 

Linux Games I Love to Play

Linux Gamers Live, the Arch derivative is top of my list and Linux Ultimate Edition is close second and Knoppix 2008 December edition comes third and I could not find a new version of games in spite of Knoppix 6.7 was out and looks fantastic.

Knoppix cannot be installed on hard drive.
Why I choose Linux Gamers Live was simply because its front-end just looks like Apple front-end and ready for games with icons instead of names.
It also can be installed into hard disk now.


Now instead of trying to outscore these three edition which I have done a lot for Linus games, I will list my favorites below.

Even PCLinuxFuillMonty though, they have place for Linux guys and girls.
I

ndirectly FullMonty comes fourth.

1. Number one is Super Tux 2 and I enjoyed playing hours and hours.
2. Close second is Pingus and its environmental theme is commendable.
3. Number three is Extreme Tux Racer which is sweet and relaxing
4. Number 4 is SuperTuxCart (this is for the racing addict)
5. Number 5 is Tuxcart (This is for the training on racing)
6. Number 6 is Frozen Bubble
7. Number 7 is any of the 100 of tiny games
If any of the Linux distributions fail to introduce any of the top 5 of mine selection I thought of giving them minus marks in my rating in future.
 

Mind you with Wine and getedit one can play Windows , DOS and Atari games of the yesteryear.