Parrot Linux 7 has done Good Job

Yes, Parrot Linux has done a good job.

It is KDE Desktop.

I have added Gnome, IceWM ans Phosh on top and used GDM.

Thank YOU.and Merry Christmas.

Gnoppix 26 is Smooth and Ekegand KDE Desktop

Thank YOU guys in Singapore for delivering a new ISO, just in time for Christmas.

I have been Testing all avaible including Elemetary OS which is the worst of all.

WiFi OK.

Colour Scheme is soothing.

Selecting and Formatting partition set up is good

Installation is brisk.

May finish in about 20 minutes.

Yes only 20 minutes.

22 minutes is my base line.

My GRUB is intact.

Thank you for the Synaptic Package Manager and akso listening to my constructive comments.

Plymouth is easy on the eyes.

I am wondering whether I could use a USER Account instead if Root account.

I would test AI fearures later.

Thank YOU, again.

Happy Christmas to all.

දුව්රුම් බෝධිය සහ දුස්සීල පුජකයන්

සමහරුන්ට හාමුදුරුවන් කියන එක සුදුසු නැත. කතෝලිකයන්ට කියන පුජක නාමය වඩා සුදුසුය. මිනිසුන් ලවා වන්දවා ගැනීම හෝ ගැති භාවය ඇති කිරීම මම පොඩි කාලයේ සිට ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කෙලෙමි.

මේ සංසිදියන් ටික ලියා තැබිය යුතුය.

මගෙ, මවගේ පාර්ශවයේ ඥති සහෝදරයෙක් මේ පන්සලේ ලොකු හාමුදුරුවන් බවට පත් විය.

ඒ නිසාම මට දවල් ධානය ඇතුළු පන්සලට අවශ්‍ය දේ ගෙනයමට සිදු විය.

භාජන ආපසු ලැබෙනතෙක් මට ටික වෙලාවක් නතර වෙන්න සිදු විය.

විද්‍යාවට බර මනසක් තිබු මම සතර දිබ්බාගයම පරික්ෂා කෙලෙමි. මා දුටු දේ සියල්ල මෙහි සටහන් කල යුතු නැත. 

ඒ දේවල් මම මගේ මවට නොකීයෙමි. 

මේ උර චක්කරේන් ගැලවීම මගෙ උපාය විය. මාමා නිසා මට ඇතුළු වීමට තහනම් ප්‍රදේශ අඩු විය. සොයා ගැනිම් ද වැඩිවිය.

මේ ඥනය සහ මගේ අත්දැකීම් ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චිට මහතාට ලැබේවා යන්න මගෙ ප්‍රර්ථනාවය.

මාව මහන කර ගැනීම මාමගේ උපාය විය.

මම එයට තරයේ විරුද්ද විමි. පන්සලේ ඇතුලේ සිද්දීන් කිහිපයක් ඔහුට කියා, මේ වගේ තැනක මහන වීම මගෙ ජිවිතය විනාශ කර ගැනීමක්‌ වැන්න යයි කියා සිටියෙමි.

ඔහු දුර්වල නායකයෙකි යයි නොකියා, මෙතනින් ඉවත්ව යන එක ඔබගේ කිර්ති නාමය පවත්වා ගැනීමට සුදුසු බව පැවැසිමි. ඉංගිරිසි දැනීම වැඩි දියුණු කර ගන්න යයි මට අවවාද කලා. ඒ අවවාදය ඔබටත් අදාළය, නමුත් මට කාලය තිබෙනවා. මම විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයට ඇතුල් වෙන්න උත්සාහ කරන බවත් පැවැසිමි.

I would switch to Emglish now.

I used to land a thundering knock on the skulls of monks who escort young boys after school. 

This treatment even Christian Priests received from me at Ampitiya College. 

Before, I was thrown out I quitted. I had a big Reason. Mixing the school with Ampitiya Convent was a big issue for me. Incidents there I have already mentioned elsewhere. 

I was a violent guy from childhood. No guy could touch me and I would assault with a "mole gaha".

Ampitiya was known for violence, mainly political and based on caste system. However, I had a good ally who was a National Boxer. Give him 2Rupees for a beer, he settles the issue with a single jab. Sanath Gunathika was knocked out in the campus by him. He was from Matale Science College but entered Universiry from Dharmaraja college to Engineering Faculty which a big feat thise days. 

He was 5 years older and was a bit of a drunkard but never allowed me more than one beer. He requests me to leave the table after one big glass. I took his gesture seriously all my life. 

I was a beer guy but occasionally VSOA and never the cheap arrak. I graduated to Gin and Tonic for a Billiard game to sooth the nerves, we used to say then. I was a reasonably good in billiards but average in snooker. I would not accept a job unless the place / hospital has Billiard Table.

I could not meet him. He left Australia long before I was to come to Australia. I did not do my Ampitiya village trip as usual before leaving.

Two reasons.

No time.

My friend and my relative was in Troncomalee.

Physics was my interest and I was good at it but I choose the easy option Medicine. 

Eventually, my uncle e left the "Dirum Bodiya Temple". 

Little intermission here. 

Anura guy did not take an oath before a monk before inauguration. 

He would be treated worse than a British administrator of yore.

My monk relative after many sojourns ended up in Colombo, just at the right time when I reached Colombo, General Hospital, in preoaration to migrate to UK.

I used to visit him almost weekly due to his age and medical conditions. 

Mr. Gamage, the Chief Clerk of Colombo General Hospital was an energetic man. 

In addition, he was the Private Secretary to Senior Premadasa. I had a working relationship with him including getting the release letter to go abroad within 24 hours.

But my additional work was to help my uncle build his own Temple in Muttakkuliya where Muslims dominated.

His historical point was the last Tamil King of Kandy was taken through this Mattakkuliya route and the Muslims helped the British. 

Muslims are historically double dealers.

I cordinated the work at the Temple and the Senior Premadsa was of immense help. My uncle monk's fall from from Divrum Bodhiya to Mattakkuliya is relevant here. I would have ended up there had I joined the Sanga which I did not have the slightest idea as a young kid. 

My refusal to join Sanga was prudent in the long run. 

I am totally against minors becoming apprentice monks and I campaigned against it all my life. 

Recently, this Young monk trying to become like Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is a case in point.

It is an antithesis to me.

I would wind up with the last piece.

When we built our house on an Ant Hill in Panideniya with a large cobra visiting it regularly.

I am deadly scarred of Cobras. 

I am not like Anslem De Silva (Please do not mix up with Kandy Mesna Tea man whom I respect very much), who was a parasitolgy department technician and was not a graduate.

He was summarily dismissed on proper charges when I was a Seconded Officer in the University. 

When ever he sees me in Kandy, he runs away in a flash. 

His image build up is similar to Sepala Amarasinghe but more technical. Sepala is a rank political crook.

We took the challenge and build our house there without interrupting the cobra who visits to drink water during the dry season. I have crossed this cobra several times but was never aggressive to me. 

He comes from the Temple further away for water. Not to lay eggs. Would have been before we built our house. 

Moment we finished the house and I got a raketty second hand Peugeot Car with a rusty bottom. 

The monk in the Temple send me a messenger asking for Rs. 250/= and a car ride. I gave him the money and told him never come to see me lest he gets a thundering slap. 

I did not tell anybody of this incident.

It died a natural death but not really.

When our gradma died my father in law send a Message to the temple for "Mataka Wastu". 

The chief monk refused saying that our area did not cover his Temple jurisdiction.

Indirect way of saying NO.

We of course had given her a religious ceremony when she was alive. 

My conviction was that it should be given when one is alive and not dead. A dead body cannot acquire merit is my conviction. 

Nobody knew I was a doctor and I pretended not one.

By this time, by doing simple good things, I gained acceptability in the region and we gained access to a nearby Pirivena with a very Young monk through our domestic aid.

She is no more was the victim of DRUG Shortage. If I remained in Ceylon she would have lived to face the Anura CURSE of the recent catastrophe. She was lucky in a simple way.

Exit when the time is Right.

This apllies to Anura, too.

Time is right for his EXIT.

I was the first ro raise the alarm of DRUG Shortages here in this blog place long before Kalum Jayasumana.

Continuing on Sangha, my uncle passed away when I was in UK. 

I did not know.

My general advice is  call when one is alive. When dead one belongs to the funeral director.

Just before, I left with a stroke of luck I met most Reverend  Narada Thera whom I learned the basics of Dhamma. I did not meet the other monk Piyadhassi Thera who had a lot of leaflets in English on Dhamma.

Anada Maithriya thera was an erudite but I never met him but used to communicate with him through 3rd parties for information and advice.

I ended up with Bhikku Bodhi of B. P. S., Kandy but he went to America having written a little note "Buddhism at Crossroads" when Hela Urumaya guys and Champika Ranawaka guys started political overtures.

We are at this point but my current interest is correcting our history with the help of Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi.

I never met Nanathiloka and Gnanapoinika who were veteran Buddhist monks who were of Jewish origin. The B. P. S. land belonged to G. P. Dharmasena who was my childhood G. P. 

The building was built by a philanthropists by the name of A. S. Karunaratne and Richard Abeyasekara.

The chief adminstrative officer is Paltha Mendis an officer who retired from Bank of CEYLON.

For any books or leaflets call him directly.

He would respond almost immediately. 

If not available he wil get it from elsewhere or print on demand.

I could not get a single copy of Dhammapada in Sinhala or English when I last visited.

That is the interest of Dhamma in CEYLON. Natural catastrophe was impending on this account alone.

Practice what one preaches even at this late stage.

Bhikku Bhodhi leaving Ceylon was a harbinger and he orobably sensed it.

He is an erudite and with no nonsense man. He translated or edited the last Abhidhamma, English copy.

Unfortunately, I left the copy in CEYLON.

l was to return in 3 months to collect them having surveyed the current space here.

Instead, I got the Linux Bible and I am winding up Linux, too.

මුන් ඔක්කොම නිධන් හොරු

රටේ පාලකයන් වෙලා සිටි සියල්ලම වාගේ සහ පුරා විද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව තුල රාජකාරිකල හැමදෙනෙක් මේ වන තුරු කර ඇත්තේ රාජකාරිය නොසලකා හැර ලංකවේ ඉතිහාසය විකුර්ති කිරීමය.

බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයන්ට අවශ්‍ය විදිහට ඒ විකුර්තිය කරන්න පරණවිතාන නැමත්තෙක් ගාල්ලේන්ම සොයා ගැනීම අරුමයක්.

මීට අමතරව නිදන් හැරීම රාජකම් කරන (දැන් ජනාධිපතිකම ) කාලේ කිරීමට පුරුදුවීම, අපේම අවාසනාවක්.

ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චි නොසින්නට මේ සහාසික කාර්යය තව දුරටත් කෙරෙන්නට ඉඩ තිබුණි.

මුන්ට සහ ගැහැවට කමක් නැත.

සුවභාවික ව්‍යසනයකින්, මුළු ජාතියටම ඒ පාපයට කර ගස්සන්න උන එක, අමුතුම තාලයේ පටිසන්දි විපාකායකි.

පෘතුවිතලය නොවිසන දේවල් නොහොත් පාපකර්ම පාලකයන්ට කල හැක.

අනේ අපොයි.

 

Trying to Install Elementary OS is a PAIN

To begin with it changed my BIOS setting not to boot from a USB.

I am trying Elementary OS after my interaction with in 32 bit days.

Even, then I was throughly disappointed.

I usully try a live boot.

This is a running commentary.

1. English US as default.

2. Custom Install

3. Selecte EFI

4. Clicked modify

Gnome Gparted mounted 

5. I cannot get Gparted in front of the long panel called Select Partitions.

6. I quit Gparted 

7. Cannot go back.

8. Cannot Select a partition.

Only EFI was identified.

9. After long pause it went back to English again.

10.Custom Install again.

I cannot select a partition.

Right and Left mouse clicks Frozen.

No respose.

11. Back again to modify.

Everything Frozen

12. Restart

13. No reboot of the USB

Give up.

If anyone using Elementary OS one is one his or her own peril.

File Managers in Linux

File Managers in Linux

There are lot of file Managers is Linux.

Latest I found was 4Pane File Manager.

It is actually is Dual Pane 2Pane File manger. (2x2 = 4).

It is good for redo/undo and archiving files.

It shows the entire tree including hidden files. 

 

In the good old days, I used to look at hidden files and I have forgotten how I did it.

Historically file Managers are 2Paned.

1. Mid Night Commander was one I used, first.

Now they are Desktop Based but can be used in desktops not even intended for.

2. Gnome Files is the good old Nautilus.

3. Thunar is for XFCE4

4. Krusader probably of KDE

5. Dolphin is now the standard for KDE.

6. Nemo is intuitive with web based applications, Cloud Friendly.

 

It probably comes from Cinnamon or Mint.

7. PCMan but do not confuse with PacMan

 

It comes from Taiwan with LXDE (light weight desktop)

It looks like it originated from Arch and later ported to Gnome.

It was based on GTK3 and later transformer into QT toolkit.

8. Rox filer is the file manager for AntiX.

 

 

9. Caja is the file manger for MATE.

 

 

10. There is no file mange for Budgie but Nautilus can be used as substitute. 

However, I used Krusader of KDE for Budgie.

 11. Tea is another old time file manager which has lost the default set up but can be evoked into cut and paste activity of a file.

12. PCmanFM is LXQt desktops file manager.

 

Desktop is called FM.

 

AntiX was one of my Linux flame in good old days. 

I haven't used it for a long time after moving to Debian Gnome. 

 

Mind you now the famous MX Linux is based on it.

My recent encounter came as a result of my recent CRAZE for old Puppy Linux derivatives. 

 

I have collected about 30 already.

 

What annoyed me the most was the "Legacy Linux "distribution (please do not use it) developed by a guy who used TeenPup in the past and ported a AntiX distribution on top of Puppy making it huge (3.2GB).

It destroyed my GRUB Boot Loader.

 

In fact, it erased it's FAT boot portion with EXT4.

 

It cannot even maintain a persistent volume.

I should own the blame, I tried to install it to one of my spare partition.

It took 3 days for me to recover my NUC.

I did not lose a single data file. 

I am not a one who backup files in the cloud. 

I use another Gnome instance as a backup in the NUC computer system.

If my SATA in NUC goes bust I need to find another SATA, hard to come by, and I left two 1 terabyte SATA in Ceylon with all  my OLD DATA over 25 years and my gut feeling is rust is eating into the metal parts. 

They are gathering dust and I am not going to buy a new hard disk.

 

My son in law gave me two huge 8 terabyte hard disks removed probably from a server..

 

I need to find two external cases to mount them.

 

 

Sparky Linux

For completeness sake,  I should write few lines on Sparky Linux. I haven't tried it after 32 bit era.

I do not like it for many reasons.

Number one because it comes from Poland. Like Indians I began to dislike Polish in UK. 

They are very slimy not like British or English. Of course, now I do not like British and Ukrainians. British mainly due to current PM. British Labour guys I new were very smart. I do not like Khan in London, too.

Coming to sparky Linux.

They are slow to change.

Both Media and Gameover were big failures.

They do not support GNOME and I hate XFCE.

I downloaded its 2025 Iso and tested it on Box Utility. Nothing exciting to report.

MAUI - New Finding

This is a minimal desktop that simulate the cellphone

Like Citefish it is a Cute Utility.

I really likes this browser which can be used instead of the regular browser.

In my case Firefox.

I had been using several browsers as long as I can remember

Dillo

Falkon

Epiphany

Kumamder KDE utility.

Konqueror

Anglefish a new finding.

Only Reborn OS and BlueStar Linux can coexist with Debian GNOME

Yes, only Reborn OS integrates wrll with Gnome of Debian

CachyOS OS just like Omarche hard disk dedicated disks. There is no parallel booting. I am not sure whether they allow Microsoft Windows. I do not use Microsoft over, 2 decades.

History of Linux

 History of Linux 

1991:
The Linux kernel is publicly announced on 25 August by the 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds.

1992:
The Linux kernel is relicensed under the GNU GPL. The first Linux distributions are created.
   
1993:
Over 100 developers work on the Linux kernel. With their assistance the kernel is adapted to the GNU environment, which creates a large spectrum of application types for Linux. The oldest currently (as of 2015) existing Linux distribution,

Slackware, is released for the first time. Later in the same year, the Debian project is established. Today it is the largest community distribution.
   
1994:
Torvalds judges all components of the kernel to be fully matured: he releases version 1.0 of Linux. The XFree86 project contributes a graphical user interface (GUI).
Commercial Linux distribution makers Red Hat and SUSE publish version 1.0 of their Linux distributions.
   
1995:
Linux is ported to the DEC Alpha and to the Sun SPARC. Over the following years it is ported to an ever greater number of platforms.
   
1996:
Version 2.0 of the Linux kernel is released. The kernel can now serve several processors at the same time using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and thereby becomes a serious alternative for many companies.
   
1998:
Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape Communicator web browser suite.
Netscape's actions and crediting of the essay brings Linux's open source development model to the attention of the popular technical press.

In addition a group of programmers begins developing the graphical user interface KDE.
   
1999:
A group of developers begin work on the graphical environment GNOME, destined to become a free replacement for KDE, which at the time, depends on the, then proprietary, Qt toolkit.
During the year IBM announces an extensive project for the support of Linux.
   
2000:
Dell announces that it is now the No. 2 provider of Linux-based systems worldwide and the first major manufacturer to offer Linux across its full product line.

2002:
The media reports that "Microsoft killed Dell Linux"
   
2004:
The XFree86 team splits up and joins with the existing X standards body to form the X.Org Foundation, which results in a substantially faster development of the X server for Linux.
   
2005:
The project openSUSE begins a free distribution from Novell's community.
Also the project OpenOffice.org introduces version 2.0 that then started supporting OASIS OpenDocument standards.
   
2006:
Oracle releases its own distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Novell and Microsoft announce cooperation for a better interoperability and mutual patent protection.
   
2007:
Dell starts distributing laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed on them.
   
2009:
RedHat's market capitalization equals Sun's, interpreted as a symbolic moment for the "Linux-based economy".
   
2011:
Version 3.0 of the Linux kernel is released.
   
2012:
The aggregate Linux server market revenue exceeds that of the rest of the Unix market.
   
2013:
Google's Linux-based Android claims 75% of the smartphone market share, in terms of the number of phones shipped.
   
2014:
Ubuntu claims 22,000,000 users.
   
2015:
Version 4.0 of the Linux kernel is released.

Simply Mepis to AntiX

 Simply Mepis to AntiX

Simply Mepis is one of the distributions I have installed in my laptop and desktop on a regular and permanent basis.
The other is Berry Linux. 

I must confess that I use them for demonstration of cute little distributions and not for daily work.
 

Edited today 15-08-2010
 

I think I have touched upon some intuition.
What is written below was before the download of Mepis DVD.
 

Thanks to Guys and Girls in Mepis for sweeper (which I call a Mind Sweeper).

Making me happy Mepis has introduced a package named Sweeper to clean up the system. It is a welcome I had being waiting for a long time. 

I had been doing this manually until now even with PCLinux.
 

This utility should be developed into Mind Sweeper for others to follow.

I use PCLinux (now 2010-01) on daily basis and it does not give any problem because it has the nice habit of deleting unnecessary files in tmp on a regular basis (at boot up) and there is no clutter or clogging due to large log files (large log files that are essential for a server and should not be used obsessively in a desktop).

I of course, on a regular basis look at the available memory after three or four downloads and having archived the images delete big files keeping the distribution robust and up to date.

Whereas my wife and daughter who also use two different (both PCLinux-2009) desktops on a regular basis come to me saying that Linux sucks memory, since they download many photos and the like files.

Luckily, I have not given them the administrative rights and when things are bad in five minutes I clean up the unnecessary files and get the box running like new.

The cardinal mistakes everybody makes is that, not running the box over 24 hours at least occasionally and to let the Cron jobs run, that do the clean up jobs in servers and desktops.

This is something that Linux desktop developers should look at and develop cron jobs, akin to frequent savings in office utilities.

I think a utility of this nature is essential for laptops.

What they should do is to send a message at random fashion while the desktop is being used and asking the user whether it is safe to activate the cron jobs (name it the clean up jobs) without compromising the downloading and downloaded files still in the tmp.

Sorry for the diversion but I feel this piece of advice is vital for the newbies.

Coming back to Mepis it is one of the best distributions in a single CD and has everything one needs and sometimes things that are missing in PCLinux.

That is why I use them for some special occasions.

Mepis has a new DVDs in bit 32 and 64 versions, I am currently downloading them and I would write a few lines about them soon (having tested them).

Mepis is something one ought to have to get the fresh Debian like feel similar to Morphis.

Posted by Asoka at 6:57 PM 

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 with features and 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 back ports) 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  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.

 

Gnome Desktop

1999 Gnome 
A group of developers begin work on the graphical environment GNOME, destined to become a free replacement for KDE, which at the time, depends on the, then proprietary, Qt toolkit.
During the year IBM announces an extensive project for the support of Linux.

Gnome Desktop

This is an approximation.

I have not done any examination of Gnome all my life.

When one is using a desktop ones base one cannot asses it. 

That is the reality.

But I can test KDE on top of it easily which I have done adequately. 

I have said good about KDE of BlueStar Linux only and resdt my opinion is biased and basically reserved.

Coming to Gnome Image it is little less than 6GB and over 5.5GB.

This is on top of the kernel and drivers and I do not know how much is taken for the kernel.

If I say kernel takes about 50% of the bulk, it is around 2.5GB to 3GB.

This is only a rough estimate and please do not quote it in any forum.

Nobody, knows. 

What we know is Gnome Live DVD can be accommodated in a 4GB USB. 

But the Live DVD does not have the Installer which it used to do in the distant past. 

My first attempt at installing Debian during 32 bits time took at least 6 or 7 CDs, that amounts to roughly 4GB.

AI says 3 t0 4GB for Debian. 

 Gnome of REBORN OS takes 8.5GB nearly 3GB in excess CODE.

Saturday, July 10, 2010 

Just to Illustrate again that I have been using Debian for a long time.

 

Debian-Live
Debian has entered on the Live CD Flora in style.
It has core, light weight and four (4) light middle weight versions that include, KDE. Genome. Xfce and LXDE.
I like the LXDE but all are equally good and outstanding.
Being the God Father of Linux its repositories are full of utilities that nobody else can boast.
There are over 31 (I have 12 in my safe) CDs in its repertoire of repositories.
Thanks for following PCLinux's foot path to freedom.

Instead of packing all X windows in one distribution robust individual X window systems is the way forward.
 

Do not forget its nFLUX light weight distribution.
Many thanks for your effort, you can be on par with UBUNTU your God Son soon.

Your grandsons will boast about the grandfather for many centuries to come.

 

A Short Note on Sepala

This piece is really on Sepala 

As a doctor, I do not believe in any guy or girl in YouTube without their birth place or birth certificate. I know presently, a lot of Tamil guys and girls who have forged their (some even becoming Buddhist monks) birth certificates.

By the way, my Linux and Internet activity is long before Google was in existence. I have always associated with Google through Androids from Version 4 and 5 (Kit Kat and Jelly Beans) on cellphones and cheap Chinese Tablets. 

This is ling before YouTube.

1. To begin with no birth date (age does not matter to me), in public display.

2. He is a self mad man on YouTube.

I even shun Facebook and gave up Twitter when it changed to X in July 2023. I made a little note with all my twitter collection most of which were based on Dhamma. It is in Ceylon in one of my SSD Hard Disks.

All my life I have made one (1) YouTube presentation and that is also on Linux. 

3. He was J.V.P. guy in 1989.

4.  I noted him only once when he made an adverse comment on Dalada Maligawa. I was born an bread near Maligawa and I could not take it but did not react. 

He is not a Buddhist and I would not associate with him.

What we call "Mithya Dusti in Dhamma" terms.  

If I take a Dhammpada verse, for example associating with someone like him leads to decline in Mental Health. 

My devotion to Buddhism is total in spite some monks making deliberate falsification of Dhamma tenants. 

Now I know he did it to get publicity.

Insurance Guys say even adverse publicity is good. 

He used that ploy. 

He was an ardent supporter of JVP.

He did not have an ounce of brain to understand that JVP and NPP use them and dump them. That is my experience in Peradeniya University and I never trusted a JVP guy or Girl, all my life.

 

5. He is very timid guy who cannot take a bit of ragging as a fresher.

That is his reasoning about not trying hard on academic activities but he is well read but his English may be not at Royal level. I

t is an example that Royal College is failing on all languages that include Sinhala and Tamil.

I had an elaborate program to prevent ragging in the Faculty, I worked but failed. They find alternative places we dare not reach and Thuggery is part of their Political Strategy.

 

Previous article is mostly on NPP/JVP and not On Sepala

A Short Note to Sepala

At least he has disowned his commitment to NPP/JVP which should be appreciated.

I disowned JVP long before they came into power. 

I also knew they were very good at lying. 

The electorate was taken to a ride.

Ceylon has become a Niragamika State or stateless, culture-less, history-less, custom-less, backbone-less (become rear state of India) and brainless guys in power.

It is a one party governance dominated by a party leader with bizarre policies. It is going ahead to become a country like China (in another 25 years). 

They want to be in power for 25 years.

We must put an end to this bizarre hegemony now and we should not wait for 5 years. 

We won't have anything left but fully fragmented country as wished by India and Tamil Diaspora.

Only thing they have promoted is alcohol industry.  

We know some of the leaders in JVP/NPP are punched drunk when they address the public. 

I think they want the electorate to be pinch drunk for 5 years. .

Who would like to live in a state like that?

At lease there are some elements mounting a protest and Sajith has become an impotent opposition leader.

We need to find a vibrant opposition leader.

Wimal Weera Wansa is the only guy with a vision and stamina to stand against these guys. I wish him well but he should be mindful and careful that these guys in NPP might try to assassinate him and try to put the blame on a rouge element from LTTE rump carders who are active under this Government.

People like me who has done the onus to the country when in service do not want to be active in politics, in twilight years. 

So leaving the country was the only option available.

I left this country to UK in 1979, moment the six year compulsory service was over. 

My children's grouse was why did I come back home while having a substantial job with permanent VISA qualification for UK.

I have addressed this issue here in two pieces (UK and New Zealand) and there is no need for me to expand. 

The bottom line is they all ill treat "Overseas Medical Guys". 

One can never be expected to work in a good university.

So I came back, and I worked for my ulma-mater with academic and research contributions.

There is is nothing left do.

I am not willing to contribute to a One Party State who are hell bent on destroying Buddhist background culture at the behest of Tamil Diaspora. 

It is very obvious NPP got money from Tamil Diaspora.

They are all out to destroy CEYLON and divide the country into pieces based on ethnic and secular religious entity.

The real danger was that the voter did not see it coming. 

In other words "Voter were Hoodwinked".  

It is time to educate them and make them proactive. Waiting for five years is too, long.

If the CIA could mobilize and could overthrow Gotabaya Rajapaksa with the help of JVP carders it is time for the reversal of that sordid project.

Ranil Wickrasinghe is also "නිදන් හොරෙක් "

Not only Maninhda Rajapaksa, Ranil Wickrasinghe is "නිදන් හොරෙක්".

Stealing ancient artifacts is the English translation. British were the first who did it first by creating an Archaelogy Department. Pananavitharana of course did untold distortion of our history.

With the help of the Archaeology department officials all the ancient artifacts were removed by Ranil Wickrasinghe. 

His plan is to sell Anuradhapura and around to Americans for mulitary airbases.

Air bases for Americans Military are planned in Anuradhapura, Mihintale, Yapahuwa, Higurakkgoda and Sigiriya.

Sigiriya was an Airbase for Space Travel for Aliens in the very distant past during RAVANAS. May be 20,000 years ago.

India is doing the contract on behalf of America. 

Anura Dissanayske has already signed these documents. Anura's administration is an extention of Ranil's by default.

He is waiting in the wing like a wizard.

There was a plot called ARAGALAYA.

The recent Curse that  that befall CEYLON was the diect redult of these sordid political acts.

Ranil Wickrasinghe cleared the ancient artifacts just like Mahinda Rajapkasa in preparation of the total sale of the  country.

Mahinda sold the south to Chinese.

Anura is selling the entire country.

Ordinary citizens will be American slaves in another 10 years.

Debt trap is created for this scenario.

When we cannot settle the loans they ask for land and sea assets.

That is the Reality.

This like the that Shakespeare story (I have not read any of Shakespeare stories) that Jew who asked his debt in flesh.

Was it Shylock who asked a pound of flesh for debt (but death in realiy).

Getting Ranil back to power is death to "Mother Lanka".

That is the Reality.

It is a local belief that " නිදන් හොරු " die a very painful death.

One need not CURSE them but the CURSE follows them.

I saw JRJ dying a painful death at Navaloka Hospital. It was just a coincidence and I signed his last blood report. I said this guy ought to be dead not alive with serum sodium this low. I used to mentally calculate the osmolality of every blood report to identity cases needing emergency support.

Yes, when I reach Ragama by train, white flags were coming up. 

I did not visit him. 

What the point of visiting a dead body?

One should visit one when one is alive and mentally alert not dead. I saw him once alive in General Hospital Laboratory probably to visit one of his political allies with Multiple Meyloma (I actually forgot the name but referred AI which is pretty good compared to Wikipedia ).

Sir John Kotalawala had similar illness and I was to do the bone marrow. I was scarred and coaxed a middle aged lady doctor to do it for me. I read it but we never told him the result. He died when I was in UK. 

No fanfare after his death and he probably guessed the enevitable end result.

By the way, that Buddhist monk Renukane Chandawimala was at Navaloka at about the same time and my boss (during my internship) was struggling for breath after a major stroke. This monk refused any blood tests and I believed his dead body was kept there for ages until his real bed was brought to Colombo.

His request no coffin but use his bed and mattress for cremation.

For some strange reason I happened to be at site to witness these incidents and I was helpless. 

Looking back, of my working life, after the fact postmortem is a less stressful adventure.

MANJARO Pre Version is Pretty Good

By the way, I got Pantheon Desktop for the first time.

Thank YOU, Pantheon developers.

By the way, Emmabantus Trixie version is a pain. It cannot configure the Password to use Synaptic Package Manger.

After, overnight sleep and few minutes of testing I decided to ERASE it and Install MANJARO. It took just under 10GB for /root partition.

Since there is no instant WiFi UPDATES as in REBORN OS installation took only 15 minutes.

I am updating with all drsktops and Window Managers including i3.

Only hicough was reading my long Partition Table which took about half am hour but I waited and waited patiently.

I am getting Scribus, Inksape and Blender.

Blender took about 1.2GB but I have over 15GB left in my /root partition.

Thank YOU developer guys and girls on Manjaro.

I installed Gnome and later got Plasma.

Pancytopeniya is Rare-Some Related to Poisoning-Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi

This is for Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi.

It looks like from his subtle gestures he is revealing the facts. 

If both hisband and wife were poisoned by the gunny bag of rice he received from a certain monk, this monk are worse than Devadatta.

He should not blame himself.

It is not a past Kamma but a deliberate act to stop him exposing Buddha was born in Ceylon. I am happy to digest these facts and we should protect those SelLipi for posterity. 

There is a long delay from the time of poisoning and the onset of the illness.

A forensic examination won't reveal tell, tell evidence and the monks who was involved probably knew this fact.

That is to exonerate him from the culpability.

His Will to act unlawfully or the "Chetaham Bikkhawe Kammam" applies to him, in this life and future life. We do not want to see this monk in any future lives.

I have seen a few cases of Pancytopeniya in CEYLON and in England and I could not find a cause for those cases.

"Visanwadi" or rank non Buddhists in "Council of Catholics" have introduced Catholic elements as Buddhist monks to destroy Buddhism.  As far as I know, Kiribathgoda Gnanananda is one of them. Their attempt is to create disunity among Sanga and destroy the ancient temples and the Buddhist Culture.

Some of these monks sell the Temple Land to Muslims and Tamils.

They are the ones who are erasing archeological sites. British elements and Catholic Elements have been vandalizing our artifacts from early 1880s at the behest of kings and queens of England.

 

Swedish and Canadian guys with the help of LTTE Rump are actively involved.

Bokken Kleppe in my opinion is a Tamil guy who has infiltrated the Sanha, just like Kiribathgoda Gnnananda.

Nimal Devasiri Ranjith, Raj Somadeva, Ranil Wickrasinghe and Milinda Moragoda are all involved in this plot. 

This is an intricate Web which is very difficult to decipher.

I do not know what is the role of Sepala Amarasinghe, Ravi Kumudesh and even Champika Ranawaka. I consider them non Buddhists who are trying to make hay while sun shines.

Jayaratne Pathiraarchchi is doing a credible job. He may not be with us for a long time. What he has exposed should be carried forward.

The mantle should be carried forward.

It is like taking the batton in a Relay.

Another guy and another guy and another guy should be trained with facts not heresay. 

I have decided to NOT to get involved in this SAGA.

Current NPP/JVP Combo along with Indian Niganntayan are actively involved.

I am keeping an eagle eye on Indians including Piyadsa Sirisena (Anagarika Dharmapla) who created Lumbini SAGA.

Colnel Olcoot and Helena Blavasky are also part of the plot. The British acts of vandalism of our Archieological site were white washed in the of Archaeology. Paranavithana deliberately distorted facts.

Lies perpetuated deliberately should be exposed as part of the ongoing vandalism.

Country without cerdible history is an anomal. It is not too late to rectify the anomalies with credible Stone Edits. It is the lack of willingness of the government and the Archaeological Departmemt that is at the center.

We cannot trust Indians.

Over 800 to 1200 Indians have been deliberately distorting facts of history of Ceylon.

We must discourage people going to India and they should be considered RAW recruits including Milinda Moragoda and Ranil Wickrasinghe. 

Namal Rajapaksa is also in the same boat or in this category and he should be restricted to 10% level in any future election. Nothing more.

He is paid by Indians.

We do not need another Rajapaksa.

Dirty Tricks of KDE Developers

I booted Chimera Linux KDE desktop on live USB.

Google wanted me to Log In but it failed.

Worst scenario was KDE guys wete asking for donations (money) and freezing the desktop. GOOGLE has good reason.

Chimera is not a Time Tested dustribution.

Only a old guy like me is interested in Chimera.

Chimera in Greek mythology is a fire breathing female with a Lion Head.

Chimera Linux is not as bad as KDE developers.

I was trying to get installation instruction for Chimera.

I am going back to Chimera GNOME USB to try again Network Install.

Everybody becoming GEEDY nowadays.

Good Bye to KDE.

Chimera Linux = Installation Failure

Failure most likely is due to Debian does not allow a Live USB to mount root permission or su or sudo.

It is blocked deliberately to prevent accidental ERASE of the hard disk.

But Free BSD did it.

I wanted Install BSD on a 32GB USB.

It assumed my hard disk as an external disk.

I am going to ERASE Netrunner and install Emmabantus 6. Netrunner is based on Debian 12. Emmabantus is based on Debian Trixie (Debian 13).

I downloded the latest Chimera Linux Gnome and tried to install it to a hard disk partition but failed.

Then I booted Base Iso and it says that the best option is Network Install.

I am going to do that with its Plasma Iso booted up.

Problem is it gives detsiled instruction for installation without telling me what is the command for Install.

I tried several of Linux commands but failed.

It is a BSD and Linux hybrid.

This trial is for my book.

I do not like network booting.

It says it is minimal and it is so minimal I cannot install it.

It comes from Spain according to www.distrowatch.com.

I think VOID Linux without a fedktop is a better option but I haven't tried it.

Chimera Linux

     OS Type: Linux
    Based on: Independent
    Origin: Spain
    Architecture: aarch64, loongarch64, ppc64, ppc64le, x86_64
    Desktop: GNOME, KDE Plasma
    Category: Desktop, Live Medium, Raspberry Pi, Server
    Status: Active
    Popularity: 112 (131 hits per day) 

Chimera Linux is an independent distribution which uses an unusual combination of technologies behind the scenes. Chimera Linux uses BSD userland command line tools, the Clang/LLVM compiler toolchain, Dinit for service management, and APK for package management. Chimera Linux strives to keep the design simple while still providing the experience and features most users want, such as multiple desktop environments, Flatpak support, a graphical package manager, and easy access to desktop configuration tools. Chimera Linux does not have a system installer, instead providing manual command line instructions to bootstrap the operating system from a live environment.

Cinnamon Desktop takes staggering 2GB

ARCH derivative REBORN OS takes staggering 2G (little over 1.9GB) to Install Cinnamon Desktop and has no applivations at all. I think it has USB Formatter and USB writer. 

This is the desktop used by Linux Mint.

Even Blender takes only 1.2GB.

I use to grumble saying Enlightenment Desktop takes 421GB but it is much more eligent as a Desktop.

But my favorite light weight Window Manger is IceWM which is 5.6MB when installed.

I think 4M Linux and Puppy derivative EOS litle over 1GB with lot of utilities. 

What a wastage of resources.

One can install Blender, Scribus, GIMP, VLC and Inkscape under 2GB on Debian GNOME.

Debian GNOME takes about 4GB space to install and with another 2GB one can have all the utilities.

Every additional desktop and Window Manager adds to this. Only Debian has Synaptic Package Manager with over 60,000 additional packages which nobody can say I have used all of them.

I just installed REBORN OS with 20GB /root partition and installed everthing including Cinnamon Desktop and I have 5GB left.

I standby my conviction that 20GB is enough for /root and if one has lot of Audio and Video files have a very big /home folder almost the rest of the hard disk.

It is advisable to have / boot, /var and / opt.

EFI partition of about 1.2GB to accommodate SuSe and FEDORA.

Debian GNOME takes about 728MB in the EFI partition. EFI is Essential.

Netrunner UPDATE

Netrunner was installed without a problem.

As expected everthing including LibreOffice seemed to a generation behind.

KDE 5 not KDE 6.

It has Synaptic Package Manager.

I did not make the mistakes I did 2 years ago. Instead of placing Gnome utilities I got Gnome, Budgie and several other Desktops installed.

Synaptic was frozen with the KDE and all the additional applications has to be installed under KDE. 

Things are bit strange to me due to primitiveness of the applications.

I am not sure how long I am going to keep it may be for few days until I got enough infirmation for my book on Linux Essentials.

KDE is an antithesis to me.

At least I manged to get GDM instead of SDDM which I do not like.

Yes, it days it is Debian 12.

I am well into Debian 13 which is fantastic.

However Phosh and Lomiri were available with synatic. I did not try them.

Most have to be done under root but I got a User Account for safely.

Gnome under KDE is big anomaly.

KDE on top of GNOME is smooth. 

This is the warning I am going to give KDE USERS. Even with Synaptic Package Manager is available it is one Linux generation (kernel) old.

PCLinux KDE-Lasted only 20 Minutes in my NUC

Yes, PCLinux lasted only 20 minutes on my NUC.

It advertised that it has Synaptic Package Manager.

It did not.

I looked at its repository.

It did not.

Installed AbiWord.

It assumed my NUC as a laptop.

Ruined my GRUB.

Erased it with REBORN OS, immediately.

I wanted see if there are other KDE dedktops better than BlueStar Linux.

PCLinux was the Ugliest of all KDE desktops.

Even KaOS and Trinity OS appear better for me. I am going to try Netrunner Linux now which was my favourite with Synaptic Package Manager in place.

However, from February 2025, no UPDATES (?Gone defunct), of its ISO Image. 

That is why I did not install it till today.

Netrunner still uses KDE-5 while KDE is now in 6.5 version. 

Most of the Linux Distributions except Debian and a few ARCH based distributions assume that only Windows exist. 

The guys developing so called XX Linux believe that there are no other Linux Distributions available to Test Drive. Besides KDE guys ask for money which annoys me.

If KDE is good people would be willing to pay. I wonder whether KDE guys put a RAW distributions with faults and gut money  for additional "Face Lifts".

Bottom line is KDE unlike GNOME lack software. It another Desktop only.

Redhat and SuSe also use this tactics to luvre clients.

PCLinux fall into this inferiority Complex. That may be the reason, I dropped it long time ago. It is still based on Madriva which has gone defunct.

I pity guys using PCLinux.

These distributions are the ones that bring bad reputation to Linux in general.

That is why I am critical of them.

Buddha was born in Ceylon

 

Buddha was born in Ceylon

බුදුන් උපන් දේශය ලංකාවයි 

I was looking for a free download of a book on "Buddha was born in Ceylon".

I could not find. 

This was made on the belief that Buddha was a FREE man and he did not advertise himself.

 

It is a different world and different ball game everything goes with the exchange of money/cash.

මම තීරණය කලා ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චි වෙනුවෙන් ඉන්ග්‍රිසියෙන් පොතක්‌ කරන්න. 

ඔහුට Royalties ලැබෙන ක්‍රමයක්‌ හිතන්න ඕන. 

එක වැඩේ ඉවර උනාම.

පෙර හුරුවක් ලෙස ඔහුගේ වෙබ් page එකෙන් page by page cut and paste කලා.

සිංහල අකුරු ගැන පොඩි අධ්‍යානකුත් කලා. 

Abiword ගන්නේ unicode පමණයි.

 

LibreOffice එකේ cut and paste විදියට Sinhala font ගන්න පුළුවන්.

පැයක් විතර ගියා.

පිටු 200 ට අඩුයි.

මීවනපලානේ ගැනත් පොඩි Forensic වැඩක් කලා.

මිනිහා කම්පුටෙර් වැඩ කාරයෙක් නෙවේ.

පොත් දෙකයි.

එකක් 2010.

අනික හරියට කියන්න බැ.

ජයරත්න පතිරරච්ච් නන් හරි clean.

Publication 2017 and 2018.

මීවනපලානේ නන්  පැහැදිලිව ඉට පස්සේ.

කෝපියක් වගේ.

ෆොන්ට් එක විතරක් වෙනස්

පොඩි ෆොන්ට්. 

එයාගේ කොල්ලෙක් කරලා දෙන්න ඇති.

I stop here for now.

Vegetarian Saga book is reaching 400 pages. 

I decided to put Sinhala Unicode in AbiWord and get the Table of Contents in both in English and Sinhala. 

It is coming all right.

Linux is coming to save me.

Celebrations without Microsoft for18 Years

Celebrations without Microsoft for18 Years

Monday, November 15, 2010
Celebrations without Microsoft from 2010
 

I stopped using Microsoft from 2007

I am celebrating the third anniversary without Microsoft, this Christmas.

Is there anybody other than Anuradha doing work only on Linux in Sri-Lanka?

Please post an email or comment below so that we can have a private party.

I was trying to catch 100 students (school leavers to train free) from Kandy.

That was a total failure (blessing in disguise for me) but welcome free time for me to enjoy life with my kids.

SuSe-Community and Making an Image

 

 SuSe-Community and Making an Image 

Edited on the 14th, March, 2011

I am not sure whether the comments I have made below is correct, since I have found the same problem with Debian 6. DVD. 

Unable to copy the DVD image. It is 4.3 GB (same size as SuSe) and Linux unable deal with a file size above 4 GB in one file and has to be broken into two which can be done only with torrent.

PCLinuxfullMonty has restricted itself to 4 GB and Gentoo with 4.4 GB has probably divided the file into two (32 bit and 64 bits ) and by doing that has accommodated above 4 GB.

I hope since the SuSe DVD has Gnome KDE, LXDE and Xfce by dropping one of the latter two SuSe should be able to reduce the DVD to 4GB in future so that image can be saved for posterity.

I hope somebody enlighten me on this issue.

SuSe community has the peculiar habit which they have acquired form Novel and Microsoft annoys me a lot, to say the least.
They let you download (which takes more than 36 hours or more from K-torrent in Sri-Lanka) a single copy of the image and and won't let you copy the image as an archive. In the final seconds of the copying it has a script to abort copying which only commercial companies can use as a ploy to protect the copyright (which I am in total support).
This is not a Linux Tradition even if they are commercially operational.
In fact violates the principles of FOSS and true spirit of open software and OS systems.
When it happened for first time I deleted the image and kept the DVD for installation. If I want I can copy the DVD but always have two copies one for use other one for safe keeping.
Mind you DVD cannot be kept indefinitely and if the image is copied to a external hard drive, a CD/DVD can be written if the DVD in use is damaged.
For example for an emergency but not for re-sale. I am not interested in copying and selling it to a third party.
My intentions are are academic and only for archival and retrieval purposes..

Unfortunately most of the old distributions are not in any archives or servers. The servers and linuxtracker included have the habit of deleting not used (frequently) distributions from the sever to accommodate space in the server for new distributions.

They write automatic script to do this house cleaning job without archiving them.

The point I am raising is relevant now. Currently LinuxTracker is down but gradually adding the images to it's servers and it cannot retrieve even the most recently used distributions quickly enough to get the system running in double quick time and it is a headache and lot of heart burns for many system administrators.

There should be a way of transferring the infrequently used into a system category away from the main stream and thereafter after a lapse of a period if still not used can be transferred to an archival medium. All these cost time and money.

I was once downloading BigDaddy (my favorite PCLinux's original successful version) from a server. If I remember right it was softpedia. Half way through my download (which takes ages from Sri-Lanka) it was no longer available and I was heart broken. I could not finish the downloading.

I made a humble request at PCLinux forum and one nice gentleman let me directed to a server and I quickly downloaded it for archiving. It is live and cannot be installed but I use it for demonstrating the humble beginning of very successful distribution.

Similar incident happened with Pendrive Linux. These was a defect (I got it downloaded from a Microsoft machine with Nero) in the image.

This was the first time I got a bootable Linux Image in a Pendrive. Now even Pendrive site does not have a copy of the Original Image and I cannot get it from distromania or from Linuxtracker.

It is like collecting old stamps and coins.

It has become a hobby and a pastime for me keeping the archives.

Coming from an academic (not commercial) background, simple thing like these matter a lot in the long run.

Commercial investors when they want to introduce a new system they begin by not supporting and then destroying the old system by default making the user vulnerable. Microsoft does this very well.

I cannot understand why Linux does this and good example is SuSe who has got under the fold of commercial CEOs.

Coming back to my story what I did was to make a copy of the image (this is something I used to do for old Distributions without an image but only a CD/ DVD for archiving) with K3B and saved it instead of deleting after the image is written to the CD/DVD.

When I tried and used the saved image for writing to a DVD it gives an annoying warning that the Image " file size is different from the declared volume".

Linux (K3B) checks the file size before writing and gives a warning before it writes to prevent one from copying a bad image and wasting a CD or DVD.

This warning or the deterrent cannot be true since the file image property goes as 4 GB.

These are some of the nuances of SuSe and Mandriva which are driving Linux fans or uses away from them. I cannot simply agree with this ploy and that is why I am moving away from Oracle, SuSe and Mandriva. A CEO with commercial interest makes these decisions and my concern is why can't they openly say DO NOT COPY but use these underhand methods.

Evolution of Gnome

Evolution of Gnome

Debian Live 9.12.0-amd64-Gnome.iso

This gave a Graphical Installer to install Debian, which I found was easy.

Partition table looked like this which I had no ides.

/root

/var

swap

/tmp

/home

I became aware of /var for variable data and I did not know how to use it.

Icon setup was primitive.

Only Ethernet and not compatible with wireless but whereas Ubuntu could (Emmabantus,too) configure wireless.

So installing new software was impossible and had to be stuck with what came with it.

It had LibreOffice.

Debian installer was clumsy and installing AbiWord was not possible and stuck with Emmabantus which had AbiWord

 These days I had fun with Apache Open Office.

Debian Live 10.12.0-amd64-gnome.iso

Similar to above comment but icon display was much better

Debian Live 11.6.0-amd64-gnome.iso

 Similar to above comment but icon display was much better but no ESP Grub

Debian Live 12 5 0 amd64 Gnome ISO

 This is the most elegant and has the new Calamara Installer.

Its ESP compatible and GRUB Loader is pretty good.

No problem with wireless connectivity.

This is my favourite and I use it on daily basis, it comes with Synaptic Package Manager (in fact Debian Package manger which is extensive) which I prefer to SNAP.

Ubuntu has gone SNAP but Synaptic Package Manager is still available for Ubuntu.

I am going to download all three of these isos from torrent files and see how I got addicted to Gnome.

I actually had the stable version installed in my very old PC and Live CD/DVD were collected for testing.

Yes, Debian 10 is the one who had a panel on the left side and dots on the right side when one sees whole lot of application items.

Ubuntu of cores successfully implemented live session with only a minimal of applications.

Al these images were less than 3GB and now they are nearing 5GB.

That is my conclusions, even Gnome getting bloated with each new version.

All these images had only one peer each.

Thank you to them.

BOX utility has made my life easier.

By the way, I have limited number of USBs and I have Ubuntu from 2020 version to 2024, for USB used up.

I did not do this with Debian since I had been using Debian fr over 10 years.

Nevertheless, I am catching up with Ubuntu.

Those days I had no interest in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Install was minimal and I got addicted it later since it had the best GRUB file.

Of course I had Ubuntu CD/DVDS from its version 6 in my CD/DVD collection.

Gnome BOX utility is fantastic and I am going to run these isos in BOX Utility and see how Gnome evolved.

Linux is steady and incremental, stable and not flashy like Apple and Windows.

The is for those YouTube Linux pundits, some of whom are hell bent on saying bad things about Linux having not tested Gnome.

All of them only test Linux Mint and do not talk about LMDE (Linux Mind Debian Edition).

I think Ubuntu which is a derivative of Debian became popular by adopting Gnome 10 desktop.

Less I talk about Arch and Manjaro is better for my sanity.

I have been trying Debian from version 6.0 but full adoption was probably from version 9 in 2015 when,  I retired fro the University.

5.0           Lenny         14 February 2009
6.0           Squeeze       6 February 2011
7              Wheezy        4 May 2013
8              Jessie           25 26 April 2015  
9              Stretch        17 June 2017
10            Buster          6 July 2019
11           Bullseye      14 August 2021
12           Bookworm  10 June 2023 

Distortion of Birth Story of Buddha

Distortion of Birth Story of Buddha

My mother wanted to go to Lumbini and I somehow raised the money. However, she did not utter a word after the return having seen the "naked Niganatayan". I was expecting her to ask me for a return journey but she did not. Of course, she visited all the "ata mastana" or 8 religiously important places in in Ceylon.

Later my mother in law paid a visit to Lumbini with my family but I did not. My brother in law foot the bill. She never uttered a word about "Naked Nigantayan" .

I did not join to look after our dog. I give thanks to our dog for not visiting Naked Nigantaysn in India.

I have revised my opinion having listened to Jayarathna Pathiraarchchci.

Born in Teldeniya now under water due to Polgolla dam. 

Attained enlightenment in Dambulla.

Parnibbhana in Anuradhapura.

Relevance of Mihintale is probably related to the Ravana Story. The "cock and bull story" of Vijaya and Mahinda Thera was also planted by Indians where colossal Ravana remnants and caves remained and the Indian owned them by default.

Yes, we have to revisit out history as stated by Jayarathna Pathiraarchchci.

This is stated in the "Gatha" my mother used to recite.

Now I do not believe in Pali at all since Pali a creation by Indians Buddhagosha and Mahanama.

"Yannam padaya Nadiya Puline Che Theire (Teldeniya)

Yan Sathcha Buddha Girike Sumana Che Lagge (Sripada)

Yannattha Yonaka Pure ( Makkama in Puttalam now under water) Munisocha Padan

Than (Three) Pada Lannchana Mahan Sirasa Namami"

 

Vijaya Story is a cock and bull Story

The facts, mentioned are hearsay and not documented. 

There is an emerging concept in Ceylon, with Stone edits or Sel-Lipi to support that Buddha was actually born in Ceylon. 

For that matter, I do not believe in the Vijaya Story on scientific reasoning.

Word of Buddha reached China 700 years after Parinibbhana and was memorized in Sanskrit.

It reached Burma and Thailand 1000 or more years later, probably by sea route and was memorized in Pali.

Nepal or the Magada State is landlocked and Buddhism did not reach Tibet until 1200 years or more.

One should assume that all these countries had some form of a belief system and were not conducive, if not antagonistic to imported form of ideas.

China is a good example.

Things were recorded in Matale, Aluvihara in Ceylon 1700 years later, after the passing away of Buddha. 

My point here is, with passing away of time and cultural influence and errors in memory chain, nothing called Pure Dhamma existed but colossal literature, that include Dhammapada, which gives an insight, to the Teaching of Buddha.

Buddhas are not born in a landlocked country, something so small as Magada. 

Buddha is born in Deepa or islands surrounded by sea and his teaching was spread by seas routes. 

Historically, land is divided and captured by warring parties for centuries in India which was not conducive for a religion which teaches Avihinsa or Metta. Aryans are not Indians but the migrated from Eurasian region may be from Tran-Iranian route.

 

The language of Magada in not Pali. 

 

There is no country having Pali as the mother tongue. 

 

I tend to believe Pali was invented by Indian scholars. Buddhagosha and Mahanama to distort the Dhamma from the original Sinhala or Hela (Akuru) Language.

This is where the finding of Jayarane Pathiraarchchi is relevant. 

He has written a book depicting, the old alphabet, to read our Stone Edits or Sel-Lipi. His claims are substantial and containing research over nearly a half a century. 

Besides,, Buddha won't use an arcane language to spread his teaching. 

His teaching is universal for the entire world. 

Dhamma should get stabilized in a country where, it would last long and conducive for future transfer.

There is no Buddhism in India, currently.

There are no no Indian Buddhist monks.

In fact, Indians are hell bent on destroying Buddhism by all means, including writing it in Pali by Buddhagosha and Mahanama, or in Thripitaka to destroy its meaning or to hide the knowledge from the Indian masses. 

That was not the intention of Buddha and we are still in Buddha-Warsha. 

Ghoha came from India.

He came to destroy Buddhism (certainly not to alter Dhamma content) and Original Sinhala Language.

Pali was not a language belonging to a particular country. 

 

It was creation by Indian using extended Alphabet of Sinhala.

 

There was Baminitiya Saya or famine.

 

During this period Maha Vihara sector came into prominence.

 

They named him Buddha-Ghosha.

 Buddhagosha was a parasite from India.

He destroyed all Sinhala Ola Leaves after translating the Existing Sinhala Knowledge to Pali. 

 

 Indians were using Sanskrit, then.

 

Coming to Vijaya Story,

It is a Cock and Bull Story, after all.

This as hilarious as Sinhabhahu Story of Professor  Sarathchadra that Sinhalayos were born after sex with a Lion.

 

It is a genetically impossible scenario.

Just to make point, Indian are good at creating stories to propagate their ulterior agenda.

 

1. No credence is given to that the knowledge (Buddhism) could transfer in the opposite direction from Ceylon

India to Ceylon, one way traffic and Indian hegemony established in literature. 

 

2. Buddhism was transferred from Ceylon to India and subsequently destroyed by Hindus is very plausible.

 

3. Hilarious part is  Samana Mahinda came down from space using an Indian Vimana.

 

4. He landed exactly on Mihintale exactly when the Ravana King was chasing a deer.

 

5. Following discussion was a literary piece.

I would not waste my time here.

 

Buddha never used such a lengthy story to teach Dhamma.

 

6. Kuveni that was seduced was another vagrant story.

 

In actually fact, Vijaya was deported from India due to his sordid and inhumane activities. 

He accidentally landed in Ceylon and the original Ravana Clan fought violently but they were probably subdued by brutality but they were not decimated but retreated to the hill country.

You should read my piece on prehistory of Ceylon reproduced, here.

 

Prehistory of Ceylon

Current Ceylon history is a cooked up version with lot of gaps.

 

It does not say anything about the period between 5000 to 10,000 years ago even though evidence is there to suggest that there were prehistoric man living 125,000 years ago.

 

The ancient evidence was deliberately torched to ashes to establish the ownership of the new invaders or migrants.

I have developed rudimentary theory to explains the three peneplains of Ceylon.

 

My belief is that three or four (evidence are there in our moon) meteorites hit the large land mass called Ceylon (completely separated from Indian land mass) even before the formation of oxygen in the atmosphere (which later eroded the evidence of meteorite hits).

Never believe the written (modern) history is my way of looking at reality which is submerged with lot of crap.

Ceylon Prehistoric Data
 

Millions and millions of years ago, the continents of Antarctica, Australia, Africa, South America, and India formed a single landmass, situated somewhere near Antarctica.

This landmass, named Gondwanaland, then broke up.
India with Ceylon and Madagascar attached moved upward into Asia. 

My theory proposes a different context to the above mentioned statements.

Today, India and Ceylon stand on the same ocean shelf. 

The continental shelf has an average width of about 12 miles around the island, where the mean depth of water is only about 200 feet, beyond which there is an abrupt drop to 3000 feet roughly two miles from the shore. Within 10 miles it drops further to 6000 feet and eventually plunging deep to 18,000 feet.

About 12 million years ago, Ceylon started to separate from the Indian subcontinent due to fluctuations in the sea level. 

Siran Deraniyagala says that the sea level would have dropped on at least 17 occasions within the last 700,000 years.
The last separation from India would have occurred about 10,000 years ago.
During the Stone Age, Ceylon was linked to India by a wide land bridge across Palk Strait.
Today, the sea is barely 100 feet deep in the Palk Strait due to limestone deposition.
Prehistoric data are rudimentary in our context and a global picture cannot be made from the available archaeological data.
There are many reasons but for completeness, sake I would briefly mention only a few.
Number one is we never had the scientific inclination to record events accurately. 

The period before 2500 years is only a folklore and romantic tales of many inaccuracies.

The prehistoric man probably lived in caves.
They had to share these caves with the big cats, if there were any.
It was probably the battle between the man and the beast.
Probably the man won most of the battles due to their shear numbers and the winning outcome provided meat for subsistence.
When the last of the colonizers arrived from India, there would have been pitch battles which were deliberately deleted from our history books.
Probably our real ancestors retreated and few probably survived as Vaddhas in the jungles and caves.
The colonizers probably brought in diseases with them including small pox, which would have wiped out many natives (almost to extinction).
I have some reservation about the current Veddhas.
There is hardly any difference from the main race except their rudimentary language. 

I believe they were drifters from the main stream who preferred hunting as opposed to rigidly imposed Buddhist way of life.
Then of course some of the Buddhist monks with the inclination for meditation practice occupied most of the accessible caves as their birth right.
They of course destroyed any evidence of or any remnants of prehistoric life for good.
Another conjecture here is that most of the caves of prehistoric importance have taken the name of Alu Lenas meaning caves with ash.
What it means may be that the prehistoric evidence were torched to ashes before converting them to temples by the occupants (mostly Buddhist monks).
I am puzzled why the new colonizers, the rulers, monks and civilians destroyed these artifacts.
One possibility was that they were scared of the demons in these caves and pulverized everything that was prehistoric.
I do not want to believe that scenario since Buddhist monks have Pirith or vocal recitals to protect them.

I am inclined to believe the destruction of any artifacts left, going back to 10,000 years was a deliberate act to conceal or suppress the unwritten history probably, the most intense warfare in Ceylonese history, the ancient man had with the new visitors from India.

They would have left bony evidence of violence and multiple fractures and pulverizing them to ashes was the only option left for the victors.
When the colonizers of the West came in 2000 years later they did not have any on record of the ancient man to write about.
The archaeological collections, I have extracted from various sources are stated below. 

One must take them with a pinch of salt. 

The interpretations, if not biased may be largely exaggerated. 

They are not my interpretations.

My Interpretations
However, I would like to go back to my theory of the Origin of Ceylon with some slant to the prehistoric findings.
There were evidence of sea shells found in the interior of the country such as Kitulgala (2000 feet above sea level) and Balangoda (2000 to 3000 feet above sea level) plain.
If I repeat the three uplifts of the landmass of Ceylon, it would appear that present Kitulgala and Balangoda would have been under sea water many million years ago.
The first peneplain formed after the original uplift due to the meteorite hit remained at 500 to 1000 feet.
This is probably the current lower plains of the coastal region from sea to the foothills.
The second uplift contributed another 1000 to 2000 feet making the second peneplain at a level of 1500 to 2500 feet.  

Kandyan Plateau at a higher level and Balangoda Plateau at a lower level.
The third or fourth uplift made the hills in the middle of the country with rugged peneplain that rose up to 8000 feet forming mountain ranges.
What it mean is that the final and the massive uplift due to the last meteorite contributed 4000 to 5000 feet of height to the landmass.

Now Kitulgala is around 2000 feet above sea level which is close to Ginigathhena Gap through which the road enters the hill country. This region could have been under water before second uplift of the landmass. The second uplift would have brought the seabed with it sea shells up and some of which got trapped between the two peneplains.
Kitulgala and Balangoda are located in the border zone where the gaps that leads to the upcountry are formed due to erosion.
Of course Ginigathhena was where the trade passed through from the coast to the upcountry. Any trader would have brought sea shells there. 

That is the explanation given by the archaeologists (see below).
 

My counter argument is by the time the sea shells were brought in from the sea (unless very well preserved) they would be rotten (once in Kitulgala).
Far better one eats them where they originated, in the coastal zone, instead of trading with the hill country folks.

Of course sea salt was one ingredient that came up through the pass even in the prehistoric time (for preserving food).

The word Bellan in Sinhala means shells.
The word Alu means ashes.
Archaeological excavations indicate that there were prehistoric settlements in Ceylon about 300,000 or even 500,000 years ago. 

There is firm evidence at present that there were prehistoric settlements in Ceylon about 127,000 years ago. The evidence comes from excavations in coast of Bundala, at Patirajawela, and Wellegangoda. 

Settlements of the prehistoric period, known as the Stone Age, dating between 125,000-1000 BCE, have been found at Pidurangala, Patana, Dambulla and Mapagala. 

Settlements of the proto-historic period known as the early Iron Age, dating from 1000-500 BCE have emerged at Ibbankatuwa and Pansalgodella. 

Other possible sites for early iron age settlements are Kadurugoda, Mantota, and Kelaniya.
People first settled in the coastal zones, and then moved up to fertile tracts and to locations, in the central hills where there were mineral resources.
Evidence of settlements could be found in Kitulgala, Karadupone and Ravana Ella, all entry points to the hills.

The central hills were mined for gems in the prehistoric period. 

There are remnants of camps, and caves in the wet zone. 

The camps were small, suggesting occupation by not more than a couple of nuclear families at most. Almost all were close to a stream or spring or were at the confluence of the tributaries with the main river. The network of footpaths that link the existing Purana villages today, pass through most of the sites identified. 

So it is possible that many of these footpaths were in existence during early times. The earliest villages may have been about 3 hectares each.
The occurrence of marine shells at inland sites such as Batadomba Lena (Diva Guhava) points to an extensive network of contacts (Batandomba lena is a pre historic cave system in Sudagala, 5 km away from the town of Kuruwita) between the coast and the hinterland. There is evidence from Belilena that salt had been brought in from the coast at a date more than 32,000 years ago.
The earliest form of cultivation was chena and kurakkan was the earliest food.  

Kurakkan came here in 10,000 BCE. 

It is a very hardy grain and was used as a substitute for rice.
There were many varieties of kurakkans.
Rice cultivation can be seen from about 250 BCE. Wetland rice cultivation in its early form was an indigenous development.
Excavations at Fa Hien Lena near Bulathsinhala, Batadomba lena, near Kuruwita, Belilena, at Kitulgala (Belilena is a famous large cave in Sri Lanka. It is located 8 km from the town of Kitulgala. 

It holds evidence of a lost generation of Sri Lankans some 12,000 years old.), Alu lena at Attanagoda near Kegalle, Bellan Bandi Palassa near Embilipitiya and Bandarawela, provided information on the early settlers and their habitat.
Fragmentary remains of an extinct race of Neanderthal Man were found in Fa Hien Lena yielded the earliest evidence of anatomically modern man in South Asia.
He was labeled Balangoda Man.
Balangoda Man was at an estimated height of 174 cm for males and 166 for females. The bones were robust, with thick skull bones. The teeth were conspicuously large. 

Balangoda Man appears to have settled practically every nook and comer of Ceylon ranging from the damp and cold high plains such as Maha Eliya (Horton Plains) to the and lowlands of Mannar and Wilpattu and the equatorial rain forests of Sabaragamuwa.
The camps were invariably small thus suggesting occupation by not more than a couple of nuclear families at most. They have eaten a very wide range of food plants and animals. 

They ate wild breadfruit and wild bananas.
 

They have gobbled up every conceivable animal, from elephants to snakes, rats, snails and small fish. Tortoises and terrapins probably had been consumed. The diet has been well balanced judging by the robust skeletal remains.
Balangoda man, like stone age man elsewhere, had succeeded in domesticating the dog, about 7500 years ago.
Remains of early iron age man had been found in just one site, Pomparippu. 

The biological anthropology of this Early Iron Age man is different to that of Balangoda Man.
Fossils of animals and plants from the Jurassic period (I have my doubt about dating this far into 65 million years) have been found at Tabbowa wewa. 

Fossil bones of rhinoceros were found in Ratnapura.  

Tigers inhabited Ceylon about 135,000 years ago. 

Their bones and teeth were found at Batadomba Lena recently. 

Fossils of hippopotamus, the ridge browed elephant, the Asian elephant, the buffalo, the gaur, (The gaur, Bos gaurus, also called Indian bison, is the largest extant bovine, native to South Asia and Southeast Asia) and the rhinoceros have also emerged.
The island appears to have been colonized by the Balangoda Man (named after the area where his remains were discovered) prior to 34,000. They have been identified as a group of Mesolithic hunter gatherers who lived in caves.
Fa Hien Cave has yielded the earliest evidence (at 34,000 years) of anatomically modern humans in South Asia.
Several of these caves including the well known Batadombalena and the Fa Hien Cave have yielded many artifacts that points to them being the first modern inhabitants of the island. 

There is evidence from Beli-lena that salt had been brought in from the coast earlier than 27,000 years.
Several minute granite tools of about 4 centimeters in length, earthenware and remnants of charred timber, and clay burial pots that date back to the Stone Age Mesolithic people who lived 8,000 years ago have been discovered during recent excavations around a cave at Varana Raja Maha vihara and also in Kalatuwawa area.
The skeletal remains of dogs from Nilgala cave and from Bellanbandi Palassa, dating from the Mesolithic era, about 4500 BCE, suggest that Balangoda People may have kept domestic dogs for driving game. 

The Ceylon hound is similar in appearance to the Kadar Dog, the New Guinea Dog and the Dingo. It has been suggested that these could all derive from a common domestic stock. 

It is also possible that they may have domesticated jungle fowl, pig, water buffalo and some form of Bos (possibly the ancestor of the Ceylonese cattle which became extinct in the 1940s).

The Balangoda Man appears to have been responsible for creating Horton Plains, in the central hills, by burning the trees in order to catch game. 

However, evidence from the plains suggests the incipient management of Oats and Barley by about 15,000 BCE.

The transition in Ceylon from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age has not been adequately documented.

A human skeleton found at Godavaya in the Hambantota district, provisionally dated back to 3000 - 5000 BCE was accompanied by tools of animal bone and stone.

Iron Age
A large settlement appears to have been founded before 900 BCE at the site of Anuradhapura where signs of an Iron Age culture have been found. The size of the settlement was about 15 hectares at the beginning but it expanded to 50 hectares, to a 'town' size within a couple of centuries. 

A similar site has been discovered at Aligala in Sigiriya.

History and Prehistory of Lanka

I am more interested in prehistory since we now possess tools to go beyond 10,000 years of history.

Both genetic and radioactive tools are available.

What we are lacking is materials or specimens of significance.

Let me dish out the written history to begin with.

It dates back to only about 2500 years or so.

Even the Bible writing extends the mankind's existence to 7200 years or so.

Both Bible and Koran are not old enough to study human existence in scientific sense. Both were anti-scientific and religious dogmas thought to be sacrosanct.

 

They are no longer not sacrosanct in scientific sense.

 

Let me come to Lanka and forget the rest of the world.

 

Our Buddhist monks (Mahanama to begin with) cleverly erased the prehistory of Lanka and introduced a mythical history of 5000 years to Lanka.

 

How the name Lanka came I do not know but I feel it means an island.

 

I have devised a hypothesis that Lanka was a much bigger island which went under water due to at least three or four meteoritic hits that devastated mother earth including the Jurassic extinction story.

This country has at least series of three (fourth is under water due to the effect of sea erosion) uplifts according to Adam's and Wardia.

If we had prehistoric man evolving in this massive land the meteorites send them to oblivion except a traces in the north part of the island left after the series of meteorites hits.

Moon landing has recovered at least evidence dating back to 4.6 and 1.6 million light years (evidence).

Moon does not have an atmosphere to destroy evidence but earth atmosphere destroys all the cosmic evidence of meteorites.

We have to collect traces from the space which the current space scientists are exploring.

 

Going back to Lanka for the last 5000 years this country was known for its immense population of elephants.

 

Indian elephants were driven to almost extinction by Roman War efforts.

 

They probably migrated here from India and survived since local indigenous population were not hostile to them.

 

They were mainly in the hill country and the British drove them to the dry land due to hunting and expansion of the tea and coffee plantations.

 

There were at least three prehistoric humans dating back to 125000 years in and around this island.

 

According to my hypothesis they also migrated from Indian subcontinent or Africa.

 

Any existing ones were destroyed by the last meteorite hit, 65 million year ago (Jurassic extinction).

 

So the last 5000 years visitors came here to capture elephants.

Mind you all my theories end up with elephants and their plight to current day.

 

In fact, I dig into prehistory because of my interest in elephants not because I want to become a prehistoric historian.

 

It was a marathon effort since finding data was extremely difficult.

 

So, Vijaya migration was also one of those elephant expedition went expeditiously wrong for both elephants and indigenous traces of man who inhabited Lanka.

 

Our Buddhist monks erased our prehistory to ashes and build “Alu Lenas all over Lanka.

 

For 5000 years this country was plundered of natural history and a modern history dating back to 2500 years was transplanted.

 

My grouse with Paranavithana and Deraniygala is that they never were true archaeologists.

 

They narrowed their sphere of activity to 2500 years, the legacy left behind by Buddhist monks.

 

So, instead of rewriting our Mahayana or Ramayana history there is lot left to be explored in this country in scientific sense.

 

There are lot of gaping holes.

 

The exit of British from this country was a true scientific loss since their traditions were not followed after our political independence.

 

Our politicians including dead and moribund leftists were rank stupid and ignited an ethnic war still simmering under the ashes which our history is famous far.

 

They think by turning things to ashes the truth can be kept hidden for ever.

 

There is always microscopic, forensic and genetic evidence left behind to explore.