Thank YOU-Debian "forky" Testing

Kernel is 6.16.12.

Thank YOU-Debian Testing

It looks like this image is catering for Laptos with a upper "panel bar" which is good thing. 

It is only few days ago, I was looking for a Debian Testing Image for real testing on my NUC. I could get only Live Gnome. I am not into Live Media.

Debian 13 (Trixie) Testing DVD-1 did a yeoman service and I used from the time of testing.

I want to do the same with Debian "forky". 

I am on holiday mood and in no hurry.

Yes, the posted it on November, 10.

Thank You. 

I tried BiG Linux and DebianLastOS, both Debian derivatives but was not happy. 

ZORIN OS of course, I hate from its very beginning! 

I had a bit of a hiccough. 

Most of the USBs did not boot.

Well, I accidentally had clicked the Secure Boot option in the BIOS setting.

It was not booting from USB, first option.

It is OK, now. 

DVD-1  let one selects the Dedktop of ones liking.

It is slightly faster at booting but get stuck for a while looking at my Partition Table of 26 Partitions.

For a change I formatted the partition with JFS. No for Btrfs which cannot coexit with EXT4.

Installation is smooth.

I selected Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon and for a change MATE.

No for XFCE.

2771 files in total.

GDM3 for Display Manager.

It is bit faster, most likely the repository is not jammed with Requests.

Overall, I am happy and going to keep it as my Second Debian Option.

I did not time the Install Time.

It is not a habit of mine.

If the Internet is fast one should not worry.

The problem I found with Debian Trixie was if I select more than one dedktop (my favourite is GNOME ), the install time wad in appropriately long.

Not with "forky".

I may be wrong.

I am going to add IceWM Window Manager after Installation for "Light Work". 

IceWM is about 40MB and functional.

KDE is 1.2GB and slow to boot and respond.

I saw KDE image at the bottom of www.distrowatch.com. Image size is 6.4GB. I am going to try it live and I have spare USB sticks.

KDE takes the bulk of the installation and if one wants faster installation skip it and add Plasma Desktop after installation.

MATE is unique but it takes only a few minutes. Pluma is an old time Text Editor of MATE.

SytemD is the INIT.

I hope AntiX with it new vision while keepping its tradition on old INIT system allos SystemD option at installation for old guys like US.

I tried "alternative INIT" image.

It froze and could not update the system.

It went on an ever looping INIT Cycle.

JFS file system is running fine. EXT4 can coexist peacefully with other file systems.

One can install without a Desktop.

Took 9.3GB in /root.

lmms is missing

With VLC, Audacity, Abiword, Gparted, Kdenlive and USB utilities it took another 758MB and I have enough space for Blender.

With Blender added I have 9.2GB left in my /root partition.

I decided to add KODi and few more othher applications  added I still have 8GB left.

KDR Plasma Image

It is 6.4GB image.

It takes over one minute to Boot.

It is sleek and no netter than KDE Plasma of Debian.

Wifi connection is OK.

14 items to update.

It takes ages to UPDATE but did not finish it. 1.2GB in totao.

ACID Test is whether I can get AbiWord.

It has to of applications big and small.

It says installing but no 

AbiWord failed.

I am giving up.

This is with 8GB RAM.

It has something called Virtual Machine.

It has Open Sourced Media player called Haruna. Goes into panic mode when Restart button is pressed with flashing Abiword in installer mode.

Revisting KDE is fine but Reinventing the Wheel is farfetched.

SuSe- OLD Update

 Thursday, October 7, 2010
SuSe-Update
After over 7 days and nights of downloading, finally I manged to download 4GB of SuSe. Fist time it broke at 3.3 and the second time it was O.K.
It took three days of downloading.
The day time downloading is at snail pace and I am trying to beat the pulse impulse of the computer (mind you we are experts in feeling the pulse of even a dead man or an imprisoned man-but not the pulse of the people-even Obama is failing in that), I am trying various methods to keep servers in Sr-Lanka not to go to sleep at night.

In true fact, what I have done is buying a switch that stay alert and goes into sleep mode when power line or the server fails. The switch does a yeomen service of not closing the file but stay put having gone into sleep mode.

This has prevented interrupting my sleep.

When power fails I have to get up and switch off multitudes of gadgets which are in different rooms. My son also does a good job when power fails on a longer duration which is very common in Kandy and Gampola.

SuSe has KDE and Genome and LXDE and Xfce and few more X-windows.

That is a good thing.

I did not bother to go ahead and test it since I am much happy with Live KDE which I have in my system after my PCLinuxOS was infected with a script, a few months ago which prevented me getting even to authorized sites. 

I have downloaded Gnome and both 32 bits and 64 bits versions of SuSe all of which are doing great.

This is where SuSe a nose ahead of PCLinux-2010 which also has a problem with non-English speaking audience.

Suse is neck and a half ahead of PCLinux-2010.

In view of shorter time of downloading, I still prefer CDs.

I love my sleep and I can even sleep standing (traveling by Public and Private buses when the need is there and getting up in the night to swith off is not a welcome practice in any normal household).

If you need everything go ahead and download the DVD.

I am now downloading Mandriva and hopefully I'll be with you in five or six days.

XO-Pup-106
After an year old development thread XO-pup is available for download for One Lap Top Per Child (O.L.P.S) platform.

It in tar.gz format only a Linux box can expand and extract it to a fat partition or U.S.B.
 

Thanks Guys and Girls.

I will soon be downloading it.