Monday, September 8, 2025
Buddha Grama Ratta is Dambulla
AerynOS- Overview
fsck
(file system consistency check) is a command-line utility in Linux used
to check and repair file system inconsistencies on a partition. Despite being heavily engineering led, we are not averse to design. We aim to provide the best in class user experience atop a solid, innovative foundation, whilst ensuring we have the scope and scalability to meet the needs of the future.
In essence, we’re producing a distribution based on sound technical principles, in order to deliver a “daily driver” that truly looks after itself, getting out of the way when you need it to, and providing the tools you need when you need them.
If anything, AerynOS is “operating-system-as-infrastructure”, providing a solid foundation for your daily computing needs. We’re not just a distribution, we’re a platform for the future.
Caution
Remember, AerynOS is still in development. Despite our goals, we must be clear that we’ve deemed ourselves to be alpha quality software.
F-Droid and Mobiles
Sunday, October 4, 2015
F-Droid and Mobiles
It seems to look like I have missed the bus as regard to the world.
There is a reason for it.
Coming from Linux base, I even did not like Android since it was proprietary.
Like Microsoft it flooded the market leaving behind alternative Linux Os far behind.
Ubuntu failed in its crowd finding of the Mobile Phone but it has put out Ubuntu Touch which the next best alternative OS.
I was hopeful or expecting on FirefoxOS and its phone but it is going through the teething phase.
It is a Replicant of Gnome base that is making giant strides.
What is interesting in Replicant it is able crack a proprietary phone and install it instead.
It took a long time for the CyanogenMod come to roost.
Replicant is CyanogenMod minus proprietary components.
There is Sailfish but none of them could match the Android.
Using a Rootkit to crack a proprietary phone may be costly and one loses the warranty.
Until then we have F-Droid, F stand for freedom dishing out over 1500 open source packages that work on Androids.
As at present, the mobile is a mini computer.
One should have the freedom to use the way one uses a computer.
I consider the mobile phone as a cloud client, almost all the Androids can be hacked and vulnerable.
So vulnerability can be eliminated by using the cloud.
Mind you cloud also can be attacked.
To use the mobile as a cloud client we need a light weight browser.
I am glad to say there is one open source browser called Lightening which is faster than any currently available browsers.
I am bit rusty on all these issues but Linux Magazine is doing a great job by having very illuminating articles.
I hope they would do a magazine dedicated to Mobiles by December.
That is the time everybody thinks of a new mobile or or a spare one or a Tablet.
If you do so please make sure or demand them to provide you security packages / virus guards.
I am writing a book (not related to mobiles and Linux) and I won't be doing any in depth study, till I finish it.
MEPIS Linux My Humble Beginning in Linux and NOW it is MX Linux
MEPIS Linux is my humble beginning in Linux and NOW, it is MX Linux
MEPHIS Linux was a Debian based desktop Linux distribution designed for both personal and business purposes.
It included cutting-edge features such as a live, installation and recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, and a personal firewall.
Though MEPIS Linux was eventually discontinued, its community continued on and merged technology from MEPIS with the very lightweight, Debian-based AntiX distribution.
The result is a project called MX Linux.
MX Linux is based on Debian's Stable branch and features components developed by the MEPIS and AntiX communities.
The distribution features the Xfce desktop with a vertical panel layout (instead of the more common horizontal panel).
The distribution also features KDE Plasma and
a Fluxbox edition.
MX Linux is considered a mid-weight distribution that offers many modern applications (which are periodically updated through backports) combined with a stable base.
The
distribution strives to offer good performance with convenient
features.
MX Linux is particularly well known for its collection
of graphical administration utilities called MX-Tools.
These tools provide easy access to managing user accounts, working with software packages and installing codecs.
Pros: Out-of-the-box support for graphics drivers, browser plugins and media codecs; stable core with updated desktop applications
Cons: Installer and some configuration tools look different and can take time to get used to.
It is intuitive.
Software package management: Advanced Package Tool (APT)
Available editions:
Xfce,
KDE Plasma unlike other KDE distributions it is sleek and cute.
Fluxbox running on 32-bit or 64-bit x86 hardware
Suggested alternatives:
AntiX has gone defunct but would revive an old computer in an instance.
Uses the old ROX File system and has many (?3 or 4) Window Mangers.
I loved it during Legacy days. Failed to configure WiFi.
It is only 1.9GB and I have a copy in my archive.
TeenPUP based Legacy OS o 3.2GB which is packed applications also failed to configure WiFi.
Yes, I have a copy, if I ever I go home to Ceylon, I would take them with me to boot my old Tower PC still functioning.
Mandriva Update
September 1, 2011
Mandriva Update
Mandriva is a good idea very badly implemented.
The good idea is resurrecting once one of my favorite (I could not wait for the next release) Mandrake distribution gone bankrupt.
Thank for the injection of some 3 millions.
Next is, is the 3 million well spent?
I do not think, so.
It is going to become a regimented Russian Enterprise (unfortunately we Sri-Lankans including new entrants to the university are getting regimented) without creative inputs.
The idea of using KDE only is horrible to say the least.
Why?
It is Incorporated with Unity Type additions and take up all the GB of my RAM and cannot even get LibreOffice (another good idea) on, in a live session.
I have only 1GB on my workhorse machine.
Even PCLinuxFullMonty which is a Gorilla of a distribution tha consume the amount of RAM on a Live Session.
With that scenario putting installation separate was a very good idea otherwise a few of the RAM cards of poor uses will be consumed or fully burned.
It might become another Linux distribution Like ALT, almost Russian based and no use for the third world countries like ours.
I could not even fire up, Firefox and gave up and would not make any further comments.
This is not going to be one my favorites for sometimes and a considerable time in the future.
Thanks guys and girts making it little over 1.5 GB otherwise I would have had a heart attack waiting its full download in this Banana Republic.
I will be promoting Unity Linux (not Ubuntu’s Desktop) from now onward, since it’s refined concept of bare bone Linux (Openbox) from which ore useful and custom distributions can be built on.
I am currently downloading Unity’s derivative of musicians edition of HUMANity.
I will be with you soon with comment on that and not anymore of Mandriva for sometime.