Big Linux does not boot from a USB
Yes, it does not boot from a USB.
It is probably a DVD Image.
Furthermore, it does not mount in Gnome Box utility. I never try install an image which does not mount on the Box utility as a habit.
I am also vary about non English Linux images. I do not want get stuck in the middle of an installation.
Barocera Image is bigger 11.3GB
Most likely they have added some additional games.
It did not play and Operating system saw the USB as a danger.
REDHAT LInux 10.1 Iso Image Download
I am trying to download 9.5GB Redhat trial version for 60 days and it gets frozen at 4.2GB.
I started my Linux career with with Redhad8 DVD I obtained from a Linux book cover.
I have only 10GB in my home folder and deleted everything stored there.
This will finish my Linux testing.
Finally I got the image.
If it takes over my NUC, I would not install it. Well it does not boot and days it is anaconda boot not EFI in it. I erased the Batocera USB image in the USB.At least I know that it won't work on my NUC.
These coporate guys and girls.
They are not EFI compliant.
Jayarathna Pathiraarchchi comes out with venom
Over 700 years from Muslim to Portuguese to Dutch to British distorted our True History.
Yes, my experimentation with MX Linux ended up with Gnome and IceWM Window Manager and no KDE.
Of course, I went below 1GB of remaining space.
I do not want to go back to reinstalling MX Linux, save space..
Simple solution.
Remove LibreOffice.
Remove Firefox and install Dillo.
I do not want to remove Firefox. I have two editions now.
ESR and the normal version.
That is good.
I usually go for Falkon browser.
I already have Opera, Brave and Vivaldi all of them take space that is how I lost space.
I have 1.2GB and that is enough, since MX Linux is not my working distribution.
By the way, I added Blender and it is working fine.
I got Plasma now not KDE.
I have tested and installed MX Linux beta stage to present stage, three times and I a sorry to say, it is disappointing, to say the least.
There are many but I won't list them.
I think, in the rush to publish it they cut corners.
To begin with the Repository in New Zealand is faulty.
I am sorry New Zealand, I worked there in 1990s, and I was about to buy my first computer but my wife stopped just in time. I used to read all the computer news (newspapers, then) and was involved in Linking all the hospitals using UNIX.
Basic problem is it is trying to develop its own package management system which does not work as it used to be.
Thankfully, it has Synaptic Package Management System, and I tried using the Australian repository and things did not tie together, there even.
I tried Gnome on top and it di not work.
I am ditching it to AntiX 25 beta from which MX Linux originated.
AntiX comes from from Greece.
I would report to you soon.
AntiX failed on the third attempt.
Tried boot repair using Control Centet but that did not help.
I even tried KIRO Linux that comes from Belgium which is horrible.
Bodhi Linux was an utter failure.
I am on holiday mood and try other options get AntiX running, so that I can give a feedback while recording those events in my book.
It is godsend and a useful delay that wad warranted.
I added 100 more pages making it 500 pages in total.
Final UPDATE.
Problem was with the New Zealand repository.
I got Gnome running on top of KDE which had been a long term problem in Linux.
KDE is a Desktop and not an Operating System.
Linux guys and girls always sort out problems in due course. That is there habitat. I report problems not as bugs. The CODE belongs to Linus Torvald and he does a good job.
Apart from Dedktops and Applications, this is the first time I found a Repository at fault.
Automation without cross checking is dangerous.
I think AI is at fault and automation with PYTHON can have missteps.
Bodhi Linux
By the way, AV Linux MXe has Enlightenment Desktop and it has ton of Audio Video application but it is Liquidize kernel (modified Debian Bookworm)
Bodhi Linux is a light weight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses an Enlightenment DR17 based fork called Moksha as its desktop environment.
The philosophy of the distribution is to provide, a minimal base system so that user can install the software he/she prefers.
Hence, the distribution includes, only the software that is essential for regular use, such as a File Manager, a Terminal Emulator and a Web Browser.
Bodhi Linux developers maintain a browser based application store with apturl tool to install programs.
I was a fan of Enlightenment desktop but never used Bhodhi as daily driver.
Bhodhi
is the Buddhist Concept of spiritual attainment, of non-attachment and
non-entanglement and this distribution violates that concept.
Elive is a better option for Enlightenment desktop experience.
I have changed my attitude towards Elive Linux after they went commercial
Its latest Image can be run on a USB as a persistent volume.
This persistent volume comes from Puppy Linux and EasyOS version 6 series run as persistent volume.
As
far as my testing goes, EasyOS (it is IGB), is the only distribution
that can fill the remaining part of the USB with a Ext4 partition for
regular use.
Bodhi is single user and works on root level and that is not to my liking.
I always have a not privileged user account.
It lets one remove Firefox and install Vivaldi, Opera and Brave.
How ever without installing Firefox on cannot install Waterfox.
In any case to promote Enlightenment Desktop, I keep it in my NUC system as a minimal desktop environment.
However, one can install Enlightenment desktop on top of Gnome but I prefer the Modern, Elive desktop with fantastic desktop effects.
Importantly no LibreOffice and got AbiWord installed.
I have not tried Bodhi Linux after 32 bit days.
Modern version 7.00 is fantastic with minimal applications.
It is based on Ubuntu and has Synaptic Package Manager.
Yes I have tried to install it my NUC.
It Froze and could not mount my 26 odd Ext partitions.
Tried it again and waited patiently and it mounted the hard disk.
It
is in final stage of installation and I love the old Ubuntu
installation style which I have gone through 100 of times or more.
Well I got to distribution with Enlightenment desktop Installed.
If one is a Buddhist this is the Linux distribution one should try.
I think Buddhist monks would love this Mokha Desktop.
Took about 600MB of my 8GB RAM but 1GB with Firefox.
591MB of my hard disk.
However the installation was very slow.
Yes it stands up to its claim of light weight and energy saving and not resource hungry.
Bodhi Linux Overview
A minimalist, enlightened Linux distribution
Bodhi is a minimalist, enlightened, Linux desktop.
Bodhi Linux is extremely lightweight and highly customizable.
Bodhi is suitable for both Linux newcomers and experienced users.
MX Linux has come with its NEW Version 25-Thank YOU
Yes, MX Linux has come out with a new version.
Trixie Kernel.
It looks impressive.
It has almost all the Word Processing programs if one wants to keeps away from Microsoft Words.
Its KDE has its own flavour, which I really like.
Its installer has its own idiosyncratic way which is Mepis Way.
I learned all my Linux tricks from Mepis.
It has no Synaptic Package Manager in the KDE image.
No Gparted.
I froze in installation.
I forgot to change the location to Australia.
It was on USA but I changed it during Installation.
Try again, only one big PartitionI am on holiday mood. It worked alright after location was fixed.
I am going to get Gnome first.
It took 17.5 GB with GNOME instslled.
It is the only distribution which has in-house script to install Opera, Brace, Vivaldi in addition to Firefox my favourite.
It has 12 in total.
I got Synaptic Package Manager instslled.
MX Repository is in New Zealand which did not respond several times.
I am going to switch to Synaptic Package Manager to get Gparted, AbiWord misding libraries, Transmission and GDebi.
Synaptic repository is in Australia and is absolutely fast.
I have 5.5GB and going to add Blender and few more misding packages.
That's it.
MX Linux is fully functioal now.
I have 3.5GB left and LibreOffice is 25.2 version. I am going to miss Manjaro Linux which was sitting there until midday. Well, I have tested Manjaro for a very long time but I have to give a feedback to MX Linux my old friend.
I looked at my "Linux Essentials" and found a daring ommission.
No mention of Python and computer languages.
No panic.
Thanks to Google Blog site, I had collected tits and bits about Linux Programming languages
15 of them are reproduced below.
Gambas
Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT a clone !). Read the introduction for more information.
With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and many more robust work
The Gambas project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that the language is as easy as Visual Basic under Linux but much better and less bugs.
The phenomenal quantity of bugs and inconsistencies in Visual Basic had persuaded developer me to start a fresh project. It seems that Microsoft was aware of the poor quality of its language, as VB, dot-Net (.Net) was not made backward compatible with older versions of Visual Basic.
Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. Its syntax and internals are far better than the one's seen in its proprietary cousin.
The author who had very good understanding of Visual Basic from childhood, took from Visual Basic, the Basic language, the development environment and the user interfaces and dropped the bad practices in common use of Visual Basic program and made Gambas coherent, logical and reliable as possible.
Features
Below are the main features of Gambas and what sets it apart from the other languages.
Gambas is a Basic language with object extensions. A program written with Gambas is a set of files. Each file describes a class, in terms of object programming. The class files are compiled, then executed by an interpreter. From this point of view, it is very inspired by Java.
Gambas is made up of the following programs:
A compiler.
An interpreter.
An archiver.
A graphical user interface component.
A development environment.
The development environment is written with Gambas itself, so that I can show the abilities of the language and is useful for debugging.
What are the features that set Gambas from the other languages?
1. A Gambas project is stored under one directory. The archiver transforms the project directory structure in one sole executable file.
2. Compiling a project only requires the compilation of the modified classes. Every external reference of a class is solved dynamically at the execution time.
3. Gambas has a component architecture that allows it to extend the language. Anyone can write components as shared libraries that dynamically add new native classes to the interpreter.
Components can be written in Gambas too. The component architecture is documented in the Wiki encyclopaedia.
4. By default, the Gambas interpreter is a text-only program. The component architecture is used for writing the graphical user interface part of the language.
5. As the graphical user interface is implemented as a component, Gambas is independent of any toolkit!
One will be able to write a program, and choose the toolkit later : GTK+, Qt4, etc.
6. The graphical user interface is the Qt4 toolkit. The GTK+ component which is not finished will have almost the same interface as the Qt4 component.
7. Gambas projects are easily translatable, in any language.
8. Its object model is simple but powerful.
About the Author
Welcome to you, curious!
You're going to know almost everything about me...
My name is Benoît Minisini.
I am a French man born in 1972, living in Paris. Programming is one my passion since I was twelve, and is now my job for many years now. This passion started with the Basic language on a CPC Amstrad 464, and later on an Atari 520 STE. Of course, now, I am using many other languages, but I never forgot that I have learned and done a lot with Basic.
I was always fond of writing languages, compilers, assemblers, and interpreters. I wrote a Z80 assembler on Amstrad and an interpreted language that consumed all its memory.
Later, during my studies at the E.P.I.T.A., I wrote a Lisp interpreter under Windows. During six months, I discovered its stupid memory model, the Microsoft compiler, and its numerous bugs.
Today, I keep on raging with the Gambas
Thanks to my boss, I have a half-time job, so I have worked actively on Gambas for the last years.
But I have other passions too, that burns lot of my time. That is music .
I'm playing flute for a long time - and theatre.
So, the development of Gambas is not as fast as it could be.
I hope your curiosity was satisfied...
Acknowledgment
Gambas is build on top of many free software, and could not exist without them.
So I would like to thank every people involved in the following projects:
Linux
KDE
GCC and all of the GNU tools, of course.
The Qt4 toolkit.
The GIMP and its toolkit GTK+
Libre Office.
The MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite database management systems.
And any other libraries used by Gambas.
That is enough for as an introduction to language packages.
My comment
I pronounce it as Gon (a bull) Bass (is unskilled workman) in Sinhala which is the phrase we use when the workman does a shoddy job.
But that reference has no slur on this wonderful package which love the most.
Unfortunately only few of the distributions port it as is.
That is why I was very expressive here.
It needs to be there for the young newbies to take root in Linux.
1. Vi was my beginning but later went to Vim.
2. PHP MyAdmin was my Samba and Server friend but I do not want to touch it in my old age.
3. Perl was my attraction
Being a Writer this was an attraction and quickly settle down on 28MB Abiword.
4. Lyx and Gambas (no more Latex now buts it's derivatives)
4. Abiword
Is a word processor with a command line functionality.
It is over 250MB and is my work horse and it has its development package but very few has time for it.
Debian 12.10- - - dropped it so, I will stick with 12.9--.
1. C
Linux is written in C and this where I started coding.
2. C++
I did not waste time on C++
3. Python
Python was the one which attracted to me on Linux in the book Joy of Linux.
It is versatile but so long I gave up.
4. Java
Java I really liked when it had Java phones which one could manipulate. One cannot find a Java phone now.
5. JavaScript
JavaScript I hate because it is cross platform.
6. Bash/Shell
Bash/Shell is unique
I still read Linux Bible when I decide to look at a shell script for fun
7. Perl
Perl was my attraction until I settled down in Abiword.
8. Go of Google
I collected its package in Ubuntu which was 1.2GB when it became 2.4GB I have it up.
It has over 75 at which level I stopped counting
Go is Linux based and BULKY.
9. Ruby
Ruby on rails was web development language which I had a flash when I first developed my first,
Private Web Phase withWordProcess.com (not .og organisation which has gone commercial now) long before Google was born.
I still have it and I have forgotten my Yahoo.Mail password (I am going to activate it when I am ready with my 5 books with slow progress.
Linus fundamental is reaching 450 pages (it has gone above 500).
I want to keep it as it is and do not want to post any there. It now active but one need to go searching for my web site’s name.
10. Rust
Rust is new and I have no knowledge except Ubuntu trying to Reinvent Linux is going to be a either flash in the pan or making money which was not the intention of Ubuntu Master GURU.
11. Swift
It is macOS which I have no interest.
13. Haskell
Haskell and compiz compositor is supposed to be for Research Work with very little FAT in its CORE.
It is on black terminal and until it becomes with a simple graphic front I won’t try it.
14. R
R is the only statistical package for Linux.
It comes as Octave and is very large package.
I think it was developed in New Zealand.
not when I was roaming in South Island.
15. PHP
Server side scripting language which has become plump and may be a pest and takes over your system.
I have decided to quit Elive after 6 months
Yes, I am quitting Enlightenment and Elive.
This is how I learned Linux in 16-072011
PapugLinux
Dear PapugLinux users,
PapugLinux-11.1 is available for download, this is a major release in term of package update.
We choose to focus our additions on development tools for this version. The great Python language comes in 2 versions (2.7 and 3.1) and we also include Subversion and the very popular Git as version control systems. This could make PapugLinux a great bundle to start to learn Python or simply browse the open-source projects all over the world.
The live running-mode uses new tools and another compression format, this results in more content in a smaller size.
The desktop image credit goes to Flavio Takemoto from Brazil, this artist has a great portfolio of artwork.
Kindest regards,
Core
2.6 kernel
ALSA sound driver
X.Org X-Window server
Desktop
Fluxbox window manager
Mozilla Firefox web browser
AbiWord word processor
Gnumeric spreadsheet processor
Bluefish editor
Various CDR/DVDR tool
FR, PL, and US keyboard support
Server
Apache web server
Cups print server
ProFTP ftp server
Ssh server
Boot your computer with Papug Linux, then launch a terminal from the menu (RoxTerm, XTerm) and log as root (password papuglinux).
$ su -
You must create two partitions on your hard disk, if you don't plan to use the whole disk, be sure to backup your data. One partition will be used for the system and must be sized to 1.2GB or more. The other partition will be used for the swap and should be sized more or less the double of your RAM capacity.
The easiest way to do this operation is to use GParted as the file systems will be created in the same time. An alternative way using 'fdisk' and command line tools is possible in text mode.
# gparted
GParted will scan your devices, this can take a long time. Create the system partition using 'ext3' file system, most of users would also make this partition bootable. Then create the swap partition. Please refer to GParted website if you need more informations.
Note the partitions name used, it will be needed for later operations. Most of users should have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 or /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2.
After preparing your disk, you can proceed to the installation. This process will mainly copy the content of the Live CD to your hard disk, then perform some needed operations.
In the following code, be careful to correctly set the parameters, the first one is the system partition, the second one is the swap partition.
# cd /root/install
# ./install.sh [system_partition] [swap_partition]
(eg. ./install.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2)
Most of users will have to make PapugLinux bootable on their computer.
If you have another system installed on your computer (Linux or Windows) skip this operation, you need to manually set up the boot loader, you can email me for help if needed.
Once again be careful when typing the following code. The first parameter is the system partition, the second parameter is the disk id (mostly the same as the system partition except the last number which represents the partition).
# ./install-boot.sh [system_partition] [disk_id]
(eg. ./install-boot.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda)
PapugLinux should now be installed on your computer. Exit the terminal then reboot your computer. Remove the Live CD during the computer startup process.
Endless OS
There is a nice guy in America who dish out Gnome OS FREE and if YOU register under him with his KEY, YOU get ton of applications.
I have very old laptop (2009) and it has Endless OS in it.
It has DDR3 and is very slow.
After I got two NUC (mini computer) computers with 8GB RAM, I never looked back.
It has 5 operating systems.
1. Two of Debian, 13 Trixie, the latest.
2. Manjaro on a single partition.
3. Most beautiful BlueStar Linux
4. Cachy OS, top of the www.distrowatch.com
5. I did try AVL MXe ( Liquorix Kernel - bookworm based) multimedia distribution for a while. I hope it comes out with the Trixie Kernel version.
Less I talk about Pop OS and Cosmic Dedktop, better for my heslth.
Tuxedo OS does not fit the bill of a Linux distribution.
It is only a bloated up KDE Desktop.
Desktops and Window Managers are chicken play for a Linux guy or girl.
It is based on Ubuntu and no Synaptic Package Manager.
It has Discover but no applications to download.
This is a commercial distribution tailored for a commercial equipment.
Do not get caught, YOU are caught for both for the computer and the software.
Name Tuxedo that comes Tux is a gross miscalculation of Free Software Foundation.
Yes, there are stupid guys who get caught up by commercial propaganda.
One can assemble two or three computers for the price of one, if one knows about computer hardware and there assembly.
When I was in UK, a Young Guy started assembling computers in his garage (I did it after returning to Ceylon, in mid 1980s), since the gadgets were expensive then.
He became a multimillionaire and sold his company.
Dell Technologies Inc. is an American multinational technology company that has been headquartered in Round Rock, Texas since 1994. It was formed as a result of the September 2016 merger of Dell and EMC Corporation. Dell Technologies ranked 48th on the 2024 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations based on its 2023 revenue; its products include personal computers, servers, monitors, computer software, computer security and network security, as well as information security services.
AV Linux is a versatile, Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of audio and video production software. Additionally, it also includes a custom kernel with IRQ threading enabled for low-latency audio performance. AV Linux can be run directly from a live DVD or a live USB storage device, though it can also be installed on a hard disk and used as a general-purpose operating system for everyday tasks.
The multimedia content-creation focus AV Linux
has provided since 2008 is now combined with the powerful versatility
of MX Linux! AV Linux MX Edition (AVL-MXe) comes with a high-performance
Liquorix Kernel and the beautiful and efficient Enlightenment Desktop
Environment. In addition are a whole host of useful tools including the
venerable ‘MX-Tools’ paired with the convenience of specialized custom
utilities. This system is tuned out of the box for fast low-latency
Audio performance, seamless PipeWire integration and optional support
for Windows Audio and Plugin applications through Wine-Staging and
yabridge. Currently AV Linux MX Edition is recognized by MX Linux and
utilizes its Build tools and Packaging but is not an official MX Linux product.
Computer System in a Nutshell
Google which has only minimal of Linux Code and simple Graphic Front End and a powerful Search Engine with the Chrome Browser now dominates the world.
The three components of Google are
1. Kernel borrowed from Linux.
2. Graphical Front End.
3. Browser based powerful Search Engine.
Unlike Firefox, it does not have to waste time in development of the browser but only has to worry about the advertisement component tagged with the browser as Java Components embedded within.
Winners with minimal contribution to the Linux Code at large.
The core team of Google saw the potential and I do not envy them.
Of course, Goggle has jumped into hardware in the name of Android and the variety of cellphones.
Now take Apple in general.
It has Unix
It has Hardware.
It has Safari Browser.
It has applications bound to it's operating system.
All are closed source and one has to pay a fortune to acquire all of them.
User becomes a prisoner even though, he or she pays a fortune to become a prisoner.
Any attempt to change the Code of Apple is considered to be Jail Breaking.
Microsoft Windows come to capitalize on this framework and I would not make any comments about Microsoft’s strategy except to say, if not for Linux mankind would have only two operating system to contend with.
Then comes the visionary figure but I call him a philosopher for good reason.
He would be long remembered but the other guy who was known to have associated with Epstein would be remembered with pain and disgust.
Richard Stallman saw what was coming and decided to put breaks in the name of Free Software in 1980s.
But he did not have a kernel to port it.
In comes Linus Torvalds with a microcode but open source in 1992.
Put them together a new Open World of Software was born.
