Emmabantus 6.1

This is a message for Emmabantus users.

It is good distribution with plenty of applications. Once one configure the language and the locality, the rest is easy.

I just installed GNOME on top of LightGDM.

If one is installing GNOME, first GDM Display Manager should installed.

Then install Classic GNOME.

If one clicks GNOME only one gets the GNOME based applications without a desktop.

GNOME Boxes is available and one can test other distributions on a Virtual Machine.

Cellphones Utlities in Debian-UPDATE

I was wrong about cellphone utilities were available only in Forky. They are available in Trixie but I did not know.

They are mature enough to be installed using the Network Boot DVD.

I have Installed in both in my NUC and Laptop. On cannot use Synaptic Package Manager to install but rest including Internet and downloading and writing an Image on a USB are possible.

One can access the hard drive and work on any other file.

They are

Lomiri 

Posh

Use the Synaptic Package Manager to install them in your PC and have working relationship with your phone.

Password are necessary to access the hard disk.

Back to EasyOS-Puppy Linux

Image 7.4.1 the latest.

Since, I have finished the hard work of getting the NUC and my Old Laptop in good working order, I decided to Reinstall EasyOS on a 4GB old Patriot USB stick.

This is Deuvan and not Debian based.

I do not know what the INIT is.

It has Appimage and Flatpak support.

AbiWord is missing.

I am trying to Install Blender but it failed.

Failed again. It not the problem of PUPPY but the Flatpak which I hate and never use as Debian guy.

Synaptic Package Manager has everthing.

I am trying Scribus now.

Installation OK.

Installed Firefox and made my default.

Got the password right.

No Firefox.

SeaMonkey I love but Google is going to block it.

Lot of things failed but nevertheless, I am going to keep it safely.

Microsoft Windows SUCKS

I am qualified to say, Microsoft Windows SUCKS, since I have not used it from Windows 2000, for over 25 years.

This is my answer to guys who come from Windows background who say Linux SUCKS.

I am vocal enoigh to say UBUNTU is a cancer on LINUX probably paid by Microsoft cronies.

As long as Debian is there LINUX will rick the boat of Windows guys and girls.

I even used Solaris Open Office to write my University Thesis.

I did not use even, use LibreOffice.

It was not in existence.

I wrote all my books using AbiWord which was 8MB command line utility when I first used it. It has grown to 311MB and I am currently working on 5 books.

One  is "Commercial Enterprise of Meditation".

Focus is on Guys like Dr. Steven Greer and Darel Ankar trying to distort. Buddha Dhamma.

Othet book is on LINUX ESSENTIALS.

There is a book on DOGS.

That is my contribution to Puppy Linux.

I started with Puppy Linux and them migrated to Peppermint Linux and now on Super Debian GNOME.

BIG Linux Got Stuck on my Old Laptop

This time I got GNOME on top Plama of BIG Linux.

I won't tell you how.

I could not get GDM but I am OK with SDDM.

Well, I am going for good cup of CEYLON TEA.

I have got 10 Linux Distributions installed on my Laptop.

All boots well except BIG Linux.

Reason

I forgot the password for User.

This is most likely due to figure 8 virus inserting itself to my Password which I have overlooked.

Most of the distributions let one preview the password before pressing OK. 

This new distributions specially BIG eventhough play high with graphic play forget Simple Things.

Option was to ERASE it with Debian.

Luckily, I have a copy of its Image saved in my Debian Instance and I have to ERASE the image of Trixie to rewrite BIG Linux.

With only 4GB of RAM it is a slow process and I decided to pen this blog piece.

I am going to write down the password this time round. 

It is still writing the 5.7GB Image.

I am bit high since my NUC with 11 distributions including Peppermint Linux which was probably the beginning of my Linux Voyage 25 years ago.

I am going to write another piece Microsoft Windos SUCKS.

See you soon.

War and Peace

War and Peace 

Let me be forthright from the very outset.

I am writing this as a simple Buddhist who is totally against any war anywhere on this Planet Earth.

Hatred begets hatred.

Loving kindness brings harmony.

In Ceylon we had over 35 years of politica hatred under JRJ (UNP) and Sirimovo (SLFP).

These two parties and their collateral, ruined Ceylon. 

The breakaway offshoot parties from these two parties still carry hatred in Ceylon including LSSP, CP, MEP and JVP.

There are 80 odd registered parties in Ceylon and one is headed by a monk.

According to Buddha monks should not take part in politics or should not give advice to Kings, Queens and Presidents.

The latest in this development are Wira Wansa Associate Conglomerate and Champaka's new party of descent (Hate). 

These two are offshoots of the old JVP lead by Wije (Wira) Weera who started a armed revolution in this country when there was no need for such action

Then there was no racial animosity in existence.

He started hating India to begin with.

It is believed North  Korea was instrumental in creating this party of descent who used killing opponents in broad day light, as a political stunt and tool.

Now, I believe, India created both JVP and DJVP. 

Less I talk about LTTE is better and it was a party of HATE from its origin and it systematically  exterminated, all the other Moderate Tamil Parties.

TNA is the remnant collateral.

I have nothing but admiration for Mr.Sampanthan for his political stamina.

He is no more.

By the way, I do not understand how the Tamil political parties evolved in the North. They were obiviously created in India to begin with.

Muslim parties analogy is simple.

When two dogs fight, the small dog steals the flesh of politics.

Here is the entry point for CIA.

CIA used Indian RAW as its collateral in creating descent in Ceylon just like in Ukraine 

 India hated Ceylon and feared Ceylon would supersede Singapore as a power keg of the Indian Ocean.

USA was eyeing Ceylon as a military base.

I know it as the first hand information by coincidence since,  I protected the satellite in the surgical theater as a piece of surgical equipment not willingly but unknowingly.      

It was hidden as a surgical equipment when the previous doctor in charge was the head of the clinical unit. 

This doctor fled to United Kingdom fearing recrimination from the DJVP.

I was hanging around without a job during trouble times and I gladly filled his place. 

India created DJVP (second RAW creation and the earlier creation was LTTE) in 1988-89 to scuttle the launch of this satellite.

Indira Gandhi was the architect of the first but I am not sure of the second, may be Rajiv Gandhi.

Only difference in Ukraine was it armed the Neo Nazis and Bandera in Ukraine for over a decade (equivalents to JVP and DJVP).

Both Republicans and Democrats without exception helped to create Russophobia.

CIA and MIC (Military industrial Complex) were direct beneficiary but they have now met their nemesis called Russians who withstood Nazis, during the World War II. 

I have sympathy for average Ukrainians who are refugees in Poland and EU countries.

Of course, historically Poland had to stomach spill overs .

Coming to India and Indians they did not provide refugee status to Ceylonese Tamils.

In fact,  there is step brotherly treatment of Tamils of Ceylon but Indians gladly take their dollars.

The typical Political Duplicity of Indians.

Currently, India while buying cheap Russian fuels and selling them back to EU countries 3 times the stock price is asking for a seat in the Security Council.

It is the real Geopolitical Duplicity.

Pakistan and the rest of the neutral countries should oppose double dealing Indians, and there should NOT be a place in the Security Council for India.

China obliterated Tibet.

Dalai Lama is a lame duck. 

China fought two wars with India for a narrow stretch of land and should not be given a seat in the Security Council.

Instead South Africa deserves a place in the Security Council.

WHO is a colossal waste and should be abolished for the reason, allowing CIA to operate lethal viral laboratories in Ukraine to kill President Putin. There would have been over 22 experimental laboratories over there. When war broke out, the first thing Russians did was to take over these facilities with tell tale evidence and WHO is numb and dumb about these experimental laboratories which they have probably authorized, in the first instance.

One need not do anything to resurrect USA and UK personnel who suffer from radioactive injuries that they may have acquired while handling the Depleted Uranium. 

Let the guys/girls who masterminded these operations die of lethal cancers.

France should be allowed to have Nuclear Plants in every city but they should not be allowed to buy Uranium from outside sources, at all. 

They should dig and mine Uranium in France.

Not in West Africa.

No gas and fuel from Russia or any other country to France and UK until all the Depleted Uranium is utilized in the War Zone of their choice. 

Above points are raised to show not only India but all except a few EU countries are Duplicity Giants.

This piece is not complete unless I make some references to Israel and Muslim conflict. 

Both religions are essentially similar, 

God based. 

One branch arise from a legitimate child and other branch from an illegitimate child from same father. 

The father was called Abraham.

Their God, I think was an intermediary by creating another hybrid child for humans and gods. 

I am a guy who believes in, that the God has no relationship to human evolution.

If there was a hybrid child it would have been from an alien species who visited this planet millions of years ago having had sex with an evolving primate species.

By the way, the age of this planet is not 7000 years as according to the Bible and Quran but much more ancient and revising these texts according to at least the Sumerian artifacts, if not scientific is mandatory.

By the way, these two texts have many editions and are constantly changing with time.

Archaeologists and writers are born liars except for a few.

This comment applies to Bagawath Geetha, too.

I have a request for President Putin.

We took 35 years to end our war of attrition and we are totally bankrupt. 

He should end the War (attrition till next Presidential Election in USA is prudent) soon, on his own accord with a Strategic Bomb (ideally no Nuclear and that is how we finished the World War II in Japan). 

But here it is to avoid the World War III which is annihilation of all and sundry, near the border of Poland or on the head quarters of the Military Alliance of the EU, lest Russia too, go bankrupt with Esoteric Missiles of mass destruction.

Otherwise, MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction!

Postscript

Please note I am not in Ceylon currently and if I post this post in a local post I will be categorized as a terrorist.

All Ceylonese are by default born terrorists thanks to our robust constitution.

I think Ceylon should not have a constitution but let our monks deliberate Security Council Debates, on monthly basis in every village in Ceylon and the UNO should fund these rabid monks.

By doing so, (debating security) as rabid dogs,  fighting each other, they will exhaust their inbuilt anger and spent up steam, while the rest of the citizens can exercise their free and democratic rights only in their residential domains, if they possess any of their own but not rented out.

According to proposed amendments to the constitution tenants are terrorists with no legal rights.

In the alternative each monk should be provided with a Steam Deck and Drive with a big overhead TV to play "War Games" in preparation of the Security Council Debates.

By the way, Steam Deck iso was just today. It cannot be installed on a PC.

I have another proposal!

The rent for University Students should be raised by three times the local prices.

By doing so, we can reduce the number entering the Universities drastically and then having more dons than undergraduates in every university that fails to function with perennial strikes.

These perpetual strikes were crrsted by JVPm

The dons themselves can create creativity perpetually without students asking valid questions.

My Political Operations

My Political Operations

I was a practical man instrumental in getting rid of Sirima, N.M. and Peter Keinaman out of politics. 

It started when I was an Intern and it matured within 6 years to oust Sirima.

 

Ist Episode

Worked to Rule Campaign 

I was invincible in my work place and I did not behave like a rotten egg, generally speaking, which Labour Union guys are. 

 

I get activated after 9 P.M. when everybody is retiring to bed.

Work to rule campaign was initiated through messages through our telephone system.

 

Plot is hatched over night, without breaking the law of the country and patients were very well looked after by a skeleton staff.

This is not agonist the poor patients but the rotten government.

 

2nd Episode in UK

When I entered UK, 60% of the Doctors were from overseas. 

The majority were from Ceylon. 

We did not have a Union and I closely followed the Labour Union activity in Yorkshire and formed a primitive "Overseas Doctors Association" and got our U.M.T raised within six months.

Then there was a long drawn out action to get 1 in 3 rota.

I never got a 1 in 3 rota for 8 years and by that time I made a firm decision to return home due to many reasons.

 

British doctors were lazy and never did one in two rota at out time.

 

3nd Episode

Ousting Mahinda Rajapaksa

Plan was well executed and guys like Dulles Alahapperuma did not know from where we operated.

 

We even had a skeleton International Staff.

 

That is when he forgot the country and look after only the family and family members.

I do not mind party members left riding up beating the family.

Do not allow the son to rise up.

Let him remain at 10%.

He is a liability worse than Sajith. 

Already an Indian stooge. 

 

4th Episode

In New Zealand

I was getting the salary for three and that actually was very reason for my downfall. 

They could not sack me but reorganized the structure. 

I stuck to my contract but the one who offered me the job lost his post without compensation.

 

New Zealand doctors were the laziest and under Labour Law they never worked beyond 40-44 hours but I did over 82 (almost double) on one week.

I threatened to take legal action unless they keep the contract, I signed with them. 

Only think they could do was not to renew the contract.

 

Two weeks later I was back in Ceylon and of course,  

I did not want my wife to lose her job in Ceylon. 

She had taken only two years unpaid leave and she returned 8 weeks earlier in good time. 

If one loses a job in Ceylon it is very difficult to regain or recover.

 

That is the reality.

5. JRJ

 

I was lucky to be out of this country, for decade when he was in power.

 

I signed his last blood report and said I am signing a dead man's report and left Navaloka and when I reached Ragama by train, I saw the white flags coming up. I did not pay a visit to him and his final few days were supposed to be pathetic.

I was in Ceylon on holiday when his "Kalagedi Selllama" was on display.

Ever since, I hate this mechanism called referendum.

The distortion and ruin he brought to our simple one past the post system cannot be redeemed.

 

One crime of my life was voting for him once before leaving Ceylon. 

 

Of course I was instrumental in getting Sirimavo out.

It was not a "For Vote" but a " Protest vote".

I voluntarily removed my name from the "Voter Register" for over 20 years and renewed it only to get the passport to leave Ceylon for good.

The above piece is to show I had an active service in Ceylon and Abroad.

 

AVL Me and MX Linux.

To begin with I have learned a lot from MX Linux. I do not use it since it hasn't got an attractive Desktop.                              Having said that even CachyOS used its methology with its own curated applications. But CachyOS is modern and attractive.

MX Linux can even beat CachyOS, if its get of this old mentality that it is cayering for low resource computers. 

My Laptop which almost 9 years old is running 8 distributions except MX Linux.

It even has BiG Linux in it which is attractive and modern.

So asa compensation for MX Linux, I am Installing AV Linux Me and installed Enlightenment Desktop.

I have installed KDE, GNOME and Scribus, Blender and Inkscape on it.

It used 17GB of my /root partition and I have 4GB left.

Just shrug your shoulders and take a leaf out of BIG Linux and produce an attractive Desktop like BlueStar Linux has.

This problem is afflicted to Netrunner Linux, too, which used to be one of my favourite. 

Besides, you have Synaptic Package Manager and what is missing in MX Linux.

Try to emulate Windows and STORM the market. 

It is the right time.

That is my Vision for MX Linux.

My Sting at Nawaloka Hospital

There were two reasons, I joined Nawaloka Hospital Administration.

 

Before that I would have a slant on School Cricket of Yesteryear, JVP and Police.

Police First

Our Police Force was good before N. M. Perera and Sirimavo Bandaranayike regime.

 

DIG. C. C. Dissanayake, Sarem and Zoyza were convicted in 1962 of a coup to overthrow the government. I believe Catholic Church was behind this SAGA but things were hushed up.

By the time P. B. Herath became the DIG under Senior Premadasa, police was degraded to a very bad state.

Cricket Second 

T. B. Kelegamuva, G. S. Ratnanayake and S.U. Mendis (joined Air Force) were former cricketers who made Police Serviceman worth remembering.

JVP poisoning me at Undugoda Hospital

 

At Undugods we had a police officer (O.I.C) demoted for assaulting a  sitting MP. 

I think his name is N. P. Navarastne of ??

He had another case pinned on him murdering a local thug in Kegalle with the help of the School Inspector, Grama Niladhari and few others. 

This place was not under my jurisdiction and I was given summons which I could not refuse since others who were senior refused on flimsy grounds.

 

My first mission was another murder where army officer committing suicide after killing his wife and children. 

I reported sick on this occasion.

 

Well, I said OK but after I finish my clinical work and only after 4.30PM.

 

Well he is dead he can wait was my attitude.

 

The ploy was to send my PM assistant to the site and do the preliminary spy investigation. 

He told me it is blue murder.

 

Police wanted it to be accidental but I made it to be open verdict by my presentation in Magistrate Courts.

This officer came to meet me in the University to change my stance.

I told him if you see me again on this issue I am. going to make a formal complaint to the DIG. 

I never saw him again.

This preamble is to show how fed up, I was with the Department of Health.

I was finding a way to scoot off from Health.

The Undugoda Hospital was one which was occupied by the JVP for their injured carders. 

It was secured by police after a fierce fight. 

 

The first senior Tamil doctor left for his wedding and never returned.

The hospital had 100 beds and there were nearly 200 working staff. 
One per each bed and considering two shifts day and night.

The best ratio of the Entire World.

99% of the staff were JVP carder.

 

Their ploy was to bring bring fear to me and chase me out of the hospital.

Chief Clerk was a rogue and a money lender from Hospital cash.

I caught him first.

The Marketing Department Supply officer was another crook.

Dispenser cashed one rupee for every prescription.

Only the young pharmacist who was a Tamil I could trust and kept a proper record.

Two Assistants

One Tamil RMP senior enough to call my father.

One AMP a Muslim guy.

Both had a rollicking Private Practice.

It was corrupt to the CORE.

 

My first appointment.

My mission was to leave this place soon before I was murdered.

 

1. First they put a rotten rat in to the overhead water tank. 

I got them to clean them until 3AM. 

 

2. Threatened me with a Chris knife.

I had enough witnesses.

He was sent off. I made sure he did not do that again until he kneel  down on me and apologize.

 

3. (a) Then they put poison in my food.

I survived with one month medical leave. 

This is after I had leave for Chickenpox infection. I had hardly any time for clinical work.

I got  my own cook and guard one and the same guy.

I got police squad to the a Police Squad to visit me on false pretext.

The guy who allegedly assaulted sitting MP Navaratne Banda of Minipe was transferred to a different location after the above incident and a guy who was in a Private Police Guard for Sirimavo Bandaranayake was sent as acting O. I. C.

I got advice from Daniel in Ratnapura Hospital, Chief atte4ndant where I did my Internship.

I was poisoned three times.

 

3. (b) Second one I detected after the first mouthful and investigated and made sure that she did not stay in my neighborhood. 

 

3. (c) Third time was in a private nursing home 

Nursing officer was caught and sacked. 

 

 

Do not trust these good looking nurses.

read Murder in the N.H.S. where one of my senior friends in UK was falsely accused.

 

I was not poisoned at Navaloka Hospital since except for a cup of tea at the director's executive lounge I did not eat there.

Continue on Undugo Hospital, I had a another strategy. This was the time Jaffna was rampant with Cholera epidemic. I got a Guy who visted Jaffna admitted with diarrhoea. 

I confimed it as Cholera.

Hospital was quranteened with only hospital staff and diarrhoea patients were admitted. It was an opportunity for me to teach the entire staff according to the WHO protocol.

I was a headache for S. H. S.

I used to visit him after court attendance. He said you have many complaints.

Are there any documented complaints?

So put those "JVP  කැලා පත්තර" to the dustbin and release me to the University on Seconded Service.

By this time, I secured a post in the University. Not one but several. 

The DHS then did not release me on flimsy grounds. Nobody wanted to take my place. By this time I had few informants from COLOMBO office. I used to get who is on Duty and specially acting secretary. He was a slimy guy. I went to him and said please do not send me to Department of Patholgy. I have to do filthy postmortems. Beside the professor is a nasty guy. He said come in 2 weeks. He got the letter signed by the DHS. 

I said thank You, Sir.

He wanted the doctors say thank in front of his subordinates.

Then my leave after 6 years serving the University on NO PAY Leave was due.

This was deliberately delayed.

I said I am already released and if you do not appoint me to Colombo General Hospital, I am buying a ticket to UK and leaving for good.

While this going on I made an appointment with the Permanant Secretary of the Health. He was a smart guy. 

One Dr. P. D. Silva (I am not sure).

He called the DHS and ordered him to apppont me to Colombo, General by 3PM.

He had many other complaints and I guess he was sacked subsequently.

I would continue this later.

I got to test Steam OS now. Steam OS stinks. It cannot be installed on a PC. They Valve guys are getting scared. Lot of Linux Game OSes are coming to the forefront.

Navaloka Hospital 

When, I joined as an administrator cum a duty officer of the laboratory, it was stingy mess.

Earlier I said I had two reasons.One to see how a private nursimg home works

Two to institute a Quality Control procedure so that Navoloka, is the first to get the National Quality Award.

Somehow, Chandrika Kumaranatunge got whiff of me and sent a note to me through a guy from Nittambuwa. 

To built and operation a Co oP Hospitals. 

I said 9 months only and accomplish that and immediately after joined the University on Permanent basis. All these time I was doing Temporary or Seconded services. 

I also said until the salary scale is above the private sector I would not join. I quietly put a word to Chandrika but she wouldn't budge.

Of course, we had to organize a work to rule under Mahinda Rajapaksa and he acceded.

Undugoda Hospital

 

Since politics is not interesting, I would insinuate this true story.

This story I have not stated here before.

I have agrophobia or fear of snakes which is long standing. 

I have even killed a tiny cobra under my bed with a ruler. 

I was only 3 years of age.

 

That would have been the reason for ongoing fear of snakes.

My first job as an Acting District Medical Officer was in Kegalle Province. 

It was called Undugoda Hospital and was occupied by JVP during 1973 insurrection.

The quarters was not occupied by a Resident Officer for a long time and was infested with lot of rats.

 

Low be hold!

A King Cobras did decide to reside on the roof of the quarters. 

It was not of  high roof but I could not locate its residential area after a week of inspection. This Cobra was very crafty and it did know where to hide. 

In the meantime, all the hospital staff said that this snake was nasty. 

Their plan was for me to commute daily from Kandy and without a car it was not a reasonable ploy.

I decided to stay put and bought a powerful torch. My bed was a high hospital bed. There was no problem at day time and this Cobra appears only after night, around 7PM.

I do a roof survey before alighting from the bed several times but never could locate the Cobra. 

The moment I step out of the bed I hear the noise of the Cobra alighting from the roof.

 

Now I know cobras do not hear but have a powerful proprioception up to 18 to 20 feet and they keep this distance by default and away from humans.

This is not true of young cobras and they are as poisonous as adults.

In the first few days I used to step across it's belly in the verandah.

I used to delay my exit from the verandah and then I see it crossing in front of me in the open yard.

This Cobra counted every step of me but never intended to harm me.

The Cobra was always ahead of me and never after.

After two weeks I settled down and hospital staff knew I was not going to leave.

 

The hospital staff tried several other intimidatory tactics but all failed and a few of them got transferred out the hospital. 

 

That was the only way, the Superintendent of Health Service could keep me in the station.

It lasted only 7 months and I used to see this Cobra daily but never a hint of harm but cohabitation in real style with rat problem solved without rat poison.

I left the hospital, telling the staff never to harm this King Cobra.

 

During the latter stages of my life I have had several Cobra Episodes.

Now with the election campaign fully on we would see real Human Cobras in action twisting and turning lies after lies. 

Swallow them with care.

I was lucky to be seconded to the University from where I did not migrate except to Colombo General Hospital.

Then abroad.

Then Private Sector.

Then University again until retirement.

AVL me UPDATE

I did not recommend AVL Me for a Laptop.

Many reasons but having tested it I  have no hesitation in recommending provied that you not install KDE Dedktop.

In 17GB /root partiion I have all the applications except Blender which is very hungry on disk space.

But, I have Blender on my old falme Manjaro. Manjaro boot OK with CachyOS now.

I have 11 working distributions on my NUC, I brought from CEYLON and 10 distributions on my Old Laptop, I bought for 35 US dollars in Singspore with the figure of 8 virus irritating me with number 8 when I enter a number in my password. 

I have learned to live with this number just short of a decade now.

I am going to use it on daily basis and won't drop it to a bin Thanks to Linux especially Debian GNOME.

My workhorse is my NUC and I got to finish my 5 books before October, when I take a long breal till New Year.

I haven't got any plans for 2027, yet.

It just past 7AM in Australia and after about the 7th attempt in about 3 hours I got Gnome Wayland, Nautilus, Dolphin on top of Old Liquorice Kernel of MX Linux base. I was up by 4.15AM and I had to do the big job and a hot bath (yesterday was very cold in Australia) to warm me but no water on my hair. I do not use a dryer to save the little growth left on my top.

Don't ask me how I did it.

It took 6 to 7 attempts (honestly, I did not count but 5 was certain) to get it to my require specifications.

I won't recommend it to a newbie since I had to struggle and did not know how MX Linux configure. UPDATES did not work.

I know guys in New Zealand Server block everything and Kernel is old.

This one of the many reasons I hate New Zealand. They are a paranoid lot from Old IRELAND from the Potato Famine. I worked there for 2 years from 1992 to 1994. However, my daughter loves New Zealand and they had a holiday there. Told me things are much expensive than in Australia. I know with ACC scheme lot of scams and Lazy Guys.

I need the followings.

CatFish 

BlueFish 

Stacer

Gparted (it was there hidden but I couldn't fish it out. Password for live is "demo")

USB Formatter

Synaptic Package Manager

Audacity and many Audio apps were already there.

VLC missing

Torrent Transmutation missing but Deluge was there.

Browsers except for Firefox, I do not bother.

AbiWord with missing Libs

GIMP missing

Blender available 

Enlightenment Desktop is about 412MB.

Total installed space 11GB plus from 21GB /root partition 

10 GB left for me to add.

RAM use minimal with 625 out of 7GB

GNOME Desktop

About 500MB but total over 1200MB (did not count accurately) and most of is taken over by LibreOffice.

RAM may be 1.5GB.

KDE old Desktop 

May be 3000MB.

RAM over 4GB. 

This is why I HATE KDE.

I installed it to prove my point.

As a practising Buddhist that is why I have use Moksha Linux installed in my NUC and Laptop.

Not Too Little as a saint or a Meditator.

My book on "Meditation Enterprise" is in final stages to coincide with Poson Poya.

Not too much with KDE.

Middle ground and in moderation GNOME with Wayland on top of AVL Me fits the job for me. Only one cup of tea and the next at 9AM with some bread.

I had rice meal for dinner.

My gut feeling is RICE causes Early Morning Hypoglycemia and I put some sugar to my Ceylon TEA.

Winter is biting in style but not as bad as in UK. I am glad this mad PM is stepping down. I was a Labour Man from 1980s. 

He ruined the labour party.

There is no recovery possible.

Supporting Ukraine War by a Labour Party unthinkable in 1980s. 

I do not know our guy mother of all talks think about the episodes in UK.

I hope he enters the Parliament again.

Archi Chapara, Beechi Chapara, La La La

ආචි චාප ර බීචී චපර, බීචී චපර ලා ල ලා සින්දුව මතක්‌ උනා.

ඩෙස්මන් සිල්වා සහ සුනිල් අයියත් මතක්‌ වෙනවා.

ගජමන් නොනාගේ කාලයට වඩා දරුණු කාලයක්‌ මහ ජාතියට උදා වේලා.

එය කෙලුම් ජයසුමනගේ බුද්ධිමත් නුවනට ගෝචර වන විදිහට.

මෙය, හිස නැති කදක්‌ විතරක් ඇති නායකයෙක්, සිදින කලට වෙන උප්පර වැට්ටියක්.

මම දකින්නේ, Remote Control එකන් දුවන මෝඩ නායකයෙක්‌ ලෙස.

Remort Control එක තියෙන්නේ, ඉන්දියාවේ තමිල් නාඩුවේ.

I tried TuxedoOS which is worse than PopOS

I think it is UBUNTU based and I mounted it on Sinhala which is my current interest (SINHALA hand writing on my cellphone and Tablet).

It is simply transliteration and few glossary words.

The installation is on English

Uses Lukes file system.

I wanted it to be on ECT4..

It did not recognize my Partition Table and EFI and specially the SWAP partition.

Do not use it unkess you want to get trapped Lukes file system.

No different from Windows NTFS.

Old ACER Laptop with 9 Distributions

Yes, despite the figure of 8 virus and very small font size of the tablet display, I got 9 distributions  in 20 partitions. It was actually 19 partitions but I made it 20 by adding a new /home partition to make it a round number with 2 SWAP partitions to make good for low RAM of 4GB. 

Hard disk is 500GB non proprietary.

200GB was spent on 2 Debian Instances.

The old Laptop looks good.

In fact, as good as a new Laptop.

It is all due to excellent Software from Debian and GNOME of Forly version.

Only missing piece is Blender.

This time, all done during day time with an evening nap and lot of Ceylon Tea in between.

End Result.

Few mistakes.

One need a good night sleep and an evening nap at old age.

By the way, I discovered a new handwriting utility by Desh Keyboard.

The beauty is one get additional letters that are not accommodated in the basic version. Only downside was that instead of displaying the keyboard, a Text Selection Symbol hover round and tagged to the text. I had to restart the cellphone to get out of this annoying Text Selection Tool.

It is a Go To Loop, syndrome in CODING.

ගල් ලෑල්ලේ සහ අඟුරු කැබැල්ලේ වැඩ දැන් ඩිගිටල් වෙලා

අඟුරු කැබැල්ලලෙන් පටන් ගෙන ගල් ලෑල්ලටත්, වැල්ලේ සටහන් කල පිය සටහන් මැකී ගියා සේ ඒ සුන්දර අතීතය අමතක වුනත් මොලයේ යම් කොටසක ඒ අතීතය සටහන්ව ඇත.

දෙස් කී බෝඩ් එක එම අතීත සටහන ඇඟිලි තුඩුවට අපුරුවට ගෙනවිත් ඇත.

බොහොම ස්තුතීයි.

Welcome to MANJARO

I am back with MANJARO after 2 years.

It looks good and I am Installing GNOME Desktop on my Old Laptop.

I have huge 42GB Space expecting to add many other Desktops later.

WiFi is smooth.

Installation is quick.

I would try UPDATES and move to the next distribution install. I hope Manjaro won't have conflicts with CachyOS.

UPDATES were quick and would return later to add my choices including Cutefish.

Next is BIG Linux.

Installation going on smoothly and as I have stated earlier finding the Instal Script was difficult due to heavy graphic inputs

Pantheon Desktop is very attractive.

XivaStudio would not have any space im my Laptop. Reasons I have discussed elsewhere.

Next would be BlueStar Linux my favourite KDE Desktop. It would be given ample space for me to install Blender.

මොක්ෂා Linux ලිනුෂ් සහ සිංහල අකුරු

දැන් මොහොතකට කලින්, මොක්ෂා ලිනුෂ් සහ Enlightenment Linux  යන දෙකම මගේ Laptop එකේ ස්ථාපිත කලා. හරියට පොසොන් පොයට සතියකට කලින්. 

ඊටත් වඩා ඉහලයි, ගල්ලෑල්ලේ වගෙ ලියන්න පුලුවන් දෙස් කී බොර්ඩ් එක. නොබෙල් ත්‍යාගය හිමි විය යුතුයි.  

සිංහල බැඳි අකුරු ලියන්න පුලුවන් එක අති විශිෂ්ථ ව්‍යායාමයක්. කැලුම් ජයසුමන සහ ජයරත්න පතිරආරච්චි මේ සටහන අනිවාර්යෙන් ම කිව යුතුයි. ජිවිතියෙ සැන්දැ කාලය ගත කරණ මට මෙය හොඳ මෙවලමක්. 

ඉන්ග්‍රීසියෙන් ම රාජකාරිය කල මට සිංහලෙන් (ලංකාවේ මෙන්ම පිටරටත්), අකුරු ලියන්න බැරිව හිටියෙ. දැන් ඉතින් කරදරයක් නැතුව Google Blog Post කරන්න පුලුවන්. 

වැල්ලේ අකුරු ලියු මට එය ලස්සන හීනයක්.

 ස්තුතියි.

AVL MXe Installation

This I found bit difficult

Forsy Difficulty was to find the Iso Image.

AI was not helpful.

With trial and error I finally found the mirror. Downloading was easy only 3GB.

I got AV Linux Moksha (Bodhi Linux) version in additional.

All based on Mephis from where migrated to Debian.

Graphic installer with lot of valuable instructions and guidance.

I had lot of friction with Elive guys.

Enlightenment Desktop was my heart throb from 32 bit ERA.

It is mounting on its own on my Laptop.

I gave only 16GB for /root and no complaints.

THANK You guys and girls for the UPDATED version in 2026.

Keep Up the Good Works. 

It is very soothing on my eyes.

I could not configure WiFi on Live Session but it is on.

I  going to install AbiWord and Audacity.

Both successful.

I have 3.6GB remaining.

I would not fiddle any more.

I HATE Thunar File manager of XFCE but with Enlightenment Desktop on I won't complain.

Pop OS Stinks

In a way, I am thankful to Pop OS.

Because, it messed up with my System, I have got both Moksha Dedktop and Enlightenment Desktop running on my old Laptop. Moksha is Bodhi Linux Derivative with modified Enlightenment Desktop.

All these years I ran Enlightenment Desktop unfer the hood of GNOME of DEBIAN but it is now on its own.

Yes, Pop OS. It was out of my Radar from 32 bit ERA. It stinks.

It subservient to Microsoft and leave a 4MB Microsoft DATA LooP for Microsoft snoop on your hard disk. I have never given 3 hours of my time to any distribution. It cannot even configure SWAP. I had 3 SWAP partitions to supplement the RAM since my RAM is only 4GB. It can hold om to or format only one SWAP partition.

I only tried it because veteran Richard Stallman gave his thumbs up. I disagree.

I do not like its STORE.

Only can run Cosmic Desktop on CachyOS effortlessly.

My basic recommendation is minimum of 8GB RAM for a modern Linux Desktop. I should have bought another RAM stick of 4GB. Considering the today's prices they were damn cheap in Ceylon. Besides, with ENDLESS OS running SLOW I thought this Laptop was primitive to upgrade.

But Debian Forky Proved, I was wrong.

It runs smoothly now.

I am going for another cuo of tea.

BlueStar installation is finishing but it takes time for its UPGRADE.

ඇගිල්ලෙන් ලියන්න පුරුදු වෙනවා

දැන් ඇඟිල්ලෙන් ලියන්න පුලුවන්.

වැඩෙ සුපිරියි.

සිංහලෙන් ලියන්න ගජ මිතුරා කුවුද?

Sinhala Desh Keyboard Developers have done a wonderful job.

මේ  මොළයට  Nobel Prize ඒක දෙන්න වටිනවා.

දැන් ඇඟිල්ලෙන් අකුරු ලියන්න  පුලුවන්.

අත් අකුරෙන් ලියු පණිඋඩයක් මෙය. 

වැඩේ අනගියි. 

කීබොර්ඩ් හදපු අයට මගේ ප්‍රනාමය.

මැරෙණ දෙරණක, සිටින උදවියට අත් සරණත් මෙය.

කී බොර්ඩ් අකුරු හොයන එක අපහසුයි.

මේක නම් සුපර් වැඩක්.

සුපිරියි.

ස්තුතියි.

ලකුණු  1000 ක් දෙනවා

ටැබ් එකට අපුරුයි.

පොඩි cellphone එකෙනුත් පුළුවන් නමුත් වෙලා යනවා.

දැන් ටැබ් එකෙන් ලියන්නෙ.

ටිකක් රූ වෙලා.

ස්තුතිය

නවතිමි.

Peppermint OS Installation

 Yes, I got Gnome on Peppermint OS.

Brings in old Nostalgia.

I really like the User and Group application since I did not like working on /root permission.

7.9 used with the base and few other I have 6.6GB left.

I am going to try Gnome boxes and it used only 200MB.

With Abiword, Firefox and 

Peppermint OS was my favourite during 32 bit Era.It went to hibernation after version 7 and I lost interest.

It has come back with a Debian version.

It is minimal and not even a browser.

Has Synaptic Package Manager.

I have a partition of 16.7GB and it is the ideal choice.

It comes from Britain.

I like the dog in the opening Plymouth Window.

WiFi is OK but takes a long time to install unlike ARCH based distributions.

But is nevertheless a Debian based XFCE.

I would mount GNOME soon.

Installer is distribution independent Calamara.

Thank YOU very much girls and boys of Peppermint Development Team.

I am back and an ardent Synaptic Package Manager Supporter.

මුන් බොරු විප්ලව කාරීන්ය

ලංකාව ගිල ගැනීමට බලවේග, 3ක්‌ පොර කනවා.

පළමුව අමෙරිකාවෙන් 

දෙවනුව ඉන්දියාවේන් 

තෙවනුව චීනයෙන් 

මේ අතර මුලු ලෝකයම මුස්ලිම් කිරීමේ ප්‍රයත්නයට කතෝලික පල්ලිය බයට පත්වී සිටිනවා. 

ලෝකයේ මුදල් එකක වලින් ගත් කල දුප්පත්ම රට ඉරානයයි.

ඉරාන මිල ඒකකය ගැන, මට වැටහී තිබුනේ නැහැ. 

මුදල් එකක ගැන වෙනම සටහන් මෙහි තිබෙනවා. 

එය කියවා බලන්න.

මුදල් නොතිබුනාට, ඉරානුවන් අති බුද්ධිමත්.

 

ලංකාව ගැන කියද්දී, මොවුන්, රට බිදින බෙදුනවාදීන් සහ ඔල මොට්ටල මාර්කස් වාදීන්, පසුගිය අව්රුදු 50 ඇතූලත, බිහි කලා. 

දැන් දැන් කතෝලික පල්ලියත් තලු මරනවා, ලංකාව යටත් කර ගන්න.

ඉහත සන්ධර්බය තුල මගේ ටිකක් දිග ලිපිය කියවන්න. 

කාරණය ටිකක් බරපතල නිසා, මගේම ජිවිතයෙ, සුන් බුන් ටිකකුත් ඇතුලත් කලා.

නිහඩ, ඉවසුම් ගති ඇති බෞද්ධ ශිෂටාචාරය බිද දැමීම ඔඋන්ගේ උපාය මාර්ගයයි.

උක්ත කාරණයට අදාලව, මීට පෙර ලියන්න හැදුව මේ දිග ලිපිය Google AI එකේ, අගිලී ගැසීම නිසා අවසන් කිරීමට නොහැකිවිය.

මට කියන්න අවශ්‍ය වූයේ, ලංකාවේ මිනිස්සුන් හොදින් ඉන්න කාලේ වෛරය වැපුර වුයේ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ කියලා ය.

දමිළ විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ බිහි වීමට එය අත් උදව්වක් උනා යන්න, මගේ මතයයි.

1971, මම තුන් වන වසර වෛද්‍ය ශික්‍ෂයෙක්‌ ලෙස සිටින අවදියේ, යටි රැව්ලක්‌ වවා ගෙන ලා නිල් පැහැති කමිසයකින් සැරසී අද්‍යාපන කටයුතු මගහැර, බොරු දේශපාලනයක්‌ මවා පාමින්, පටන්ගත්ත ව්‍යාපාරය 1988/89 වන විට මිනී මරන්නට පෙළබුනා. 

මරු අයගේ පුරුෂ ලිංගය ලී කණුවල ගසා ප්‍රදර්ශනය කරන්න තරම් කුහක උනා..

එතකොට ඒ අය හිටියේ ඉන්දියාවේ RAW එක යටතේ, මරු විකාරයෙන්.

මාව මරන්නට RAW එක DJVP එකට, කොන්ත්‍රාත්තූවක්‌ දීලයි තිබුනේ. 

එම කෘමන්ට්‍රනය උපාය මාර්ගයෙන් මා ගැලවුනා. 

I was 4th in their death list.

ඉන්දියාවනුවන්ට, මාව මරන්නට උවමනා වූ හේතුව, IMMI නැමැති ජාතියන්තර Water Management ආයතනයක, මා සේවය කිරීමයි. 

එහි අමෙරිකානුවන් සිටීම තමයි මට විරුද්දව වෛර බැදීමට හේතුව. 

දැන් ඉන්දියාව අමෙරිකානු ගැත්තෙක්.

ඉරාණයට විරුද්දව නාවික එකකයක ස්ටානය CIA එකට දැනම් දුන්නේ ඉන්දියාව.

ලංකාව කේන්ද්‍රගතව චන්ද්‍රිකාවක් (satellite) ගුවන් ගත කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර තිබුණ නිසා, ඉන්දියාව බිය පත් උනා.

එතකොට ඉන්දියාව තාක්ෂනය අතින් ගව් ගණනකින් පැරණියි.

 

Satellite එක ආරක්ෂා කලේ මම. 

Surgical Equipment එකක් හැටියට Operation Theater එක ඇතුලේ සඟවා ගෙන තිබුණා.

ඒ ව්‍යපෘතිය බකල් කිරීමට ඉන්දියාවට ඕනෑ කම තිබුණා. 

දැනුත් RAW operativesල 3000කට‍ වැඩිය ගණනක් ලංකාවේ ගැවසෙනවා.

Digital ID  ව්‍යාපෘතිය (වියාපාරය) මේ උප්පර වැට්ටියේ කොටසක්.

ලංකාවේ සිංහල නිකමුන් ටිකක් ඉන්දියානු සල්ලි දීල බා ගෙන දැනටම එම ව්‍යාප්‍රතියට.

DJVP ඒක RAW විසින්, ඒ සදහා යොදා ගත්තා, ලංකාවේ මිනී මරණ සංස්කෘතියක්‌ බිහි කරන්න.

DJVP සාමාජිකයන් 80 වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් මගේ ගෙදෙර වටකොට මට සහ මගේ පවුලට තර්ජනය කලා. 

They did a rank stupid thing. 

They came to collect the Personnel IDs. My guess is they belonged to a particular caste. By there given names that particular caste could be identified by the police.

But the sinister plan was to have several bogus IDs by declaring lost IDs. The top rank guys had several IDs snd several bogus birthdays. May be to snow one is more senior. Seniority would have been a criteria for filling cadres becoming void due to death or disappearances.

I don't know.

I am not privy to their 5 introductory classes.

But this stupid plan, it was easy for the Intelligent Services to round up the real JVP guys. Police only apprehended the guyd with an ID. We just had to we lost ID as a family. I immediately reported to my base Grama Sevaka and the police and got IDs replaced within 6 weeks.

I had the opportunity to have my Third ID card which was age appropriate. I used to keep copy of those photos as a souvenirs.

I still do not know why they targeted the Digana Village. Whe they tapped the door to collect the ID some of them lost consciousness, I was told. I heard lot of foot steps behind our big house. I was concerned of my fish tanks with variety of fish and they were brought from our base house. I was intereted in ornamental plants and we had a very beautiful garden. I did lost touch with the aesthetics at the time of daily or perennial stress. By the way, I only drove my rackety Peugeot car. I bought it for Rs. 25,000/= from a Frech Diplomatic guy who was a resident at Dolamvala. They were instructed to evacuate and reach Colombo.

Not only I had the Diplomatic Immunity but I drove a car with DPL label and I was never stopped when I drove alone. Later I did do six months of learning French in Alliance de France in KANDY. I could never master the phonetics but I could read and understand. This beautiful language has feminine and masculine gender incorporated in every phrase. I have forgotten a lot but brought a single book for travellers to Australia. I do not know where I kept it.

I had a plan to land in Paris and come to London through Channel Tunnel and speak only in FRENCH accent to hoodwink the BRITISH custom guys and girls. 

I hate all custom officers who are a paranoid lot.

පසුව, මගේ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන් ආරක්ෂා තැනකට යවා මම makeshift joint එකක සිට ක්‍රියාකාරී උනෙමි. 

We had an ample supply of foreign liqueur. They were labeled with medical terminology to hoodwink the chief accounting officer who was a drunkard.

A few lines about the hospital team of 10 with whom I worked. They were drafted from a Navy Volunteer Force and were a dedicated lot. Only fault they had was drinking with one Simple Law.

No drinking during working hours.

I forget their names except the Mr. Fernando and Mr. Sinnappa who was our supply officer.

Mr. Sinnappa made sure of the supply.

Mr. Fernando did the medical labelling.

Eveybody was entitled with one monthly suppy of Free Items.

I did the prescriptions signed legibly.

The accounting officer could not punch a hole in our medical jargon.

I only ordered myself milk and milos and no liqueur.

All of them were given a handsome rechenment by my order for keeping this secret ploy operational until we were made all jobless. 

One of them, I recruited to our Private Nursing Home in Negambo who was pretty good but lacked medical knowledge.

Coming back to Digana, patients used to come from Mahiyanggna and over 40 miles distance. Nobody was sent without a diagnosis. I was very good at making a diagnosis by looking at the "Blood Picture".

Choloquine Resistant Malaria was emerging and I had a my own protocol of treatment for Malaria which significantly varied from Department of Health proticol.

I followed them up rigorously.

Dogs Killimg

My only regret was signing the "Death Order" for "Stray Dogs".

Rank Poisoning.

I used to delay it as much as possible and take the annual leave having appointed a guy to my post. 

My wife tells me this guy who was much junior to me died recently.

How I do not know?

ඊට අමතරව 32කට වැඩි Computer ප්‍රමාණයක් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට සිදු වුණා. ලංකාවට පළමුවෙන්ම ආ computer 50න් කොටසක්. ඉතිරිය  කොළබ diplomatic Mission වල තමයි තිබුණේ.

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සියළුම උපකරණ ටිකින් ටික කොළබට ගෙනියන්න මා උදව් කලා. 

රෝගීන් ප්‍රවාහනය කරන විදිහට. 

වාහන 32කට අදික ප්‍රමාණයක්‌  තිබුනා.

වාහන රියදුරන් 40 අදික සේවක පිරිසක් සිටියා. 

මම එක driver කෙනෙක් එක පාරට වැඩිය පාවිච්චි කලේ නැහැ. 

RAW එකේ මරණ තර්ජනයෙන් බේරෙන්න.

මගේ මරණය වාහන අනතුරක් වෙන්න ඉඩ තිබුනා.

මගේ ඥාති සහෝදරයෙක්‌ JVP සාමාජිකයෙකු වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටමට් තෙල්දෙණියට පැමිණියා. මට දැන්ගන්න ලැබුනා පොලිසිය ඔහුව ලුහු බදින බව නඩුවට පසුව. ඔහුගේ වාසනාවට දිවා ආහාරය ගත්තේ අපේ ගෙදර. 

කඩ ඔක්කොම වහලා තර්ජන නිසා.

පොලිස් කාරයෝ කොලොබින් ආපු අය.

පොලිස් කාරයෝ දිගන නිවාස සංකීරනය ඇතුලට එන්න බය උනා.

ඔඋන් නුවරට යනකන් හිටියා.

මැණික්හින්න පැත්තේ හොර පාරකින් මගේ ඥාතියා කොළොඹට ගියා හිමින් සැරේ.

මේ අතරේ මට Robert McNamara මුණ ගැසුනා අහම්බෙන්.

IMMI  එක සුදූ අලියෙක් වෙලා තිබුනේ ඒ වෙනකොට. සේවකයන් 168 වැඩි ගණනක්‌ අතිරික්තයක්‌ කියලා අස් කලා. 

ඔඋන් වැඩි හරියක් සේවය කලේ Restaurant එකේ. අස් කිරීමට විරුද්ද වන්න කරනා තිබුනේ නැහැ.

JVP එක උඔන් බිලබා ගැනීමට මාණ බලමින් හිටියෙ.

මම ඇමති බන්දුල ගුණවරධණ contact කරන්න බැලුව. ටෙලෙෆොනය answer කලේ නැහැ..පණිවිඩයක් වත් යවන්න බැහැ. 

JVP එකට හොද මිල සුත්‍රය.

JVP පස්සේ ගියොත් මම උදව්ව කරන්නේ නැති බව‍ මගේ ස්ටාවරය.

දීර්ග සාකච්චාවකින්  පසුව  Sirට කරන්න පුළුවන් දෙයක් කරන්න කියලා කොලයක අත්සන් කරවා ගත්තා.

Robert McNamara අමෙරිකාවේ සිටම තීරණය කරලා අඩුම ගණන දෙන්න. 

මගේ උපාය ඔහු දැන ගෙන හිට්යෙ නැහැ.

ඔහුව පිළිගන්න මගුල් බේර සහිත පෙරහැරකුත් සංවිධානය කලා.

Right Royal Treatment.

මගේ වාසනාවට, මගේ කොළොඹ මිත්‍රයකුගේ ඥාතියෙක් ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටියෙ. ඔහුගේ සහය ඇතුව පැයක මීටීමක් රොබර්ට් මැක්නමාරා සමග.

After the initial courtesy calls and Ceylon Tea we sat down. I was facing him on the opposite site.

Smillingly, he asked.

Doctor what have you got?

I said nothing but I studied your proposal.

I suggested you double it.

He was amazed.

He flatly refused.

Then, I said if you did not come here and saved your passage we could have given them 3 times as much.

After little deliberatation with the Government Colleague he agreed and said this is the shortest Meeting I have had and said Thank you.

What for you.

Please, keep the contract agreement and pay that in dollars.

Why in dollars?

When with these activitues Rupee will plummet.

Deal clozed.

Then I gave over to the Thanking Giving Speech to a Government guy.

I said at the end we have a gala dinner set for you and your team.

Bar එක තිබුනෙත් එක ඇතුලේ හෝටලය ඇතුලේම.

බාර් එක බාර මට. 

පොලිස්යත් එනවා අරක්කු ගන්න. හැබැයි Uniform පිට බොන්න දුන්නේ නැහැ මම.

IMMI join කිරීම අහන්බෙන් උන දෙයක්. එහි රාජකාරි කළ හැම කෙනක්ම වාගේ පිටරැට්යන්. 

Dr.Silva married with kids was the first to leave. He was a GP from UK. 

He declared a Jumble Garage Sale at දිගන before leaving.

මමත් එකට ගියා. 

මම එංගලන්තයෙන් ආවේ 1988. 

ඒක මගේ ජිවිතේ මෝඩ තීරණයක්. 

රස්සාවක් නැතිව ගෙදර ඉන්න මට බැහැ. අලුත් රස්සාවක් සොයමින් සිටියෙ.

අවශ්‍ය සියලු දේ TRICO එකේ හින්නිඅප්පුහාමි මහත්තාට  පිං වතාට, පිං සිදු වෙන්න ලංකාවට ගෙනල්ල තිබුනේ. මේ පිං වතා පසුව ARPICOඑක බාර ගෙන එය දියුණු කලා.

දනසිරි මුදලාලිගේ මත් පැහැන් සැල තිබුනේ එතන.  

ඒක ජරා ජෝඉන්ට් එකක්. 

බේබැද්දන්ගෙ ගුහාව. 

එකටත් JVP පිස්සන් පහර දුන්නා.

මම ආප්ප ගන්න එතෙන්ට යනවා කවදාවත් එතනින් මත්විත පානය කෙළේ නැහැ. එතකොට බොන්නේ Wine පමණයි.

එතන විශාල පැරණි ගසක් තිබුනා. එය කපා දමන වාට මම විරුද්ද උනා. 

වැඩක් උනේ නෑ. 

ගසේ මුල උදුරන්න මාසයකට වඩා කාලයක් ගියා. මම මුල උදුරන එක Video කලා, පරණ cellphone එකකින්. 

තාමත් ඒ පින්තුර මා ළග තියෙනවා.

ARPICO එක පසුව දේශපාලන බලධාරින්ට නතු උනා.

පවුලේ අනිත් ඟාතින්ට තිබු උනන්දුව නිසා තමයි මම Jumbo Sale එකට ගියෙ.

මම සියල්ලටම ගෙවන්නම් ඕනේ දෙයක් තෝරා ගන්න කියලා Dr.Silva එක්ක පොඩි කයිවාරුවක් ගැසුවා. 

තවත් කෙනෙක් පත් වෙනකම් එයාට England යන්න බැහැ කීවා. 

මම ජොබ් එක බාර ගත්තේ නැහැ එවලේම.

ගෙදර ඇවිත් ඇහුවම සියල්ලම එපා කීවා.

Priyantha Wijesekara කියලා තරුණ ජවයක් ඇති පුද්ගලයෙක් මා දැන ගෙන සිටියා. මට මතක හැටියට ඔහුට මා මුදලින් උදව් කලා. 

ඔහු අදුනා ගත්තේ එංගලන්තේ සිට කොළොඹට ගොඩ බස්සා ගත් බඩු නුවරට ගෙන්න ගන්න. මට මතකයි පොඩි කාලේ අම්පිටියේ ගෙදරක කුලියට හිටියේ. 

පොඩි ළමයි.

ඔහු Tyre Bussiness කලේ.

මම ඔහුගෙන් ඇහුවා ජොබ් එක බාර ගන්නද කියලා. 

ශනිකව ඔහු හා කියන්න කීවා.

Thank you Priyatha.

I accepted the job with diplomatic immunity. 

මේ JVP කාලකන්නින් නිසා, එම රාජකාරිය කල හැකි උනේ මාස 9යයි. 

ඔඋන් කොළොඹට ගියා. 

මට කොළොඹට එන්න කීවා.

 

නමුත් පව්ලේ උදවිය තනිකර කොළොඹට යන්න මා මෝඩ උනේ නැත.

පේරාදෙණිය Exchange එකේ Transformer 3ක් බෝම්බ වලින් පුපුරුවා හැරිය, මේ නරින්. 

මගේ parallel batch mate, කෙනෙක් වන ඉන්ගිනේරු මැතිනිය ඒවා නැවත සවි කරන්න උදව් උනා.

3ක්‌ම පිපුරුවට පස්සේ ආයේ දෙන්න transformer නැහැ.

මේ අන්තිම එක අරක්ෂා ක‍ර ගන්න කියලා කීවා.

ඊට පස්සේ තමයි JVP එකට විරුද්දව ප්‍රසිද්දියෙ පාරට බැස්සෙ මම.

There was an extensive Sports Complex at Digana with a swimming pool. The foreigners feared Infectious Hepatitis and the doctor had to chlorinate it on 6 weekly intervals with daily addition to maintain the PH. We had a guy employed for that but I had to supervise the major overall.

The cost was prohibitive easily over          Rs.500,000/= on the major overall.

It was a huge sum even in 1980s. 

This compex was taken over by a local Film Agency. I went there before leaving  CEYLON and the pool was poorly maintained. Under my instruction nobody was allowed to jumo in.

My main attraction was the Billard Table. 

I never lost a game except the last one. 

I did not have a partner and I trained a guy. He picked up the game quickly and I told him as a good student you have to beat the master. Besides, you have to train a guy to partner you. I myself learned the tricks from Punchi Banda of the Medical Faculty canteen. 

We had a autoplay Music Center there.

The Chinese හොටෙල් in KANDY also had one in which, we had to pay for each record played. 

I used to go for a mixed plate of chicken and beef. I stopped eating beef and chicken but settled down on fish plate later. 

One of the Chenese guys was murdered there that resulted im police investigation and prolonged closure of it.

We used call it the Chinese Chu ( චු ) Joint. 

There was no place in KANDY for a loo, loo even now. 

This place was closed and was on sale notice for a long time. 

I stopped going there altogether except for daily bread.

When I visited the Medical Faculty these JVP Medical Boys were using the Billard Table to eat their Lunch. That shows their poor knowledge about sports. It costs a lot. I do not know how much now.

The Music Center was no more.

Most probably Stolen by Wal Amare.

This guy was chased out from the Department of Patholgy. 

He was stealing microscopes.

I did the full investigation, even though,        I was a Seconded Officer from the Department of Health. 

He was sent to Maha Ilukpallama as a punishment transfer. 

My Guess is that he is still posing as a Lecturer in Agriculture.

He may be having several wives there.

The canteen toilets were awful.

How could they teach hygiene to the masses?

Coming to sports, I was beaten daily on Squash by a very tall Guy. 

Yet, to keep me physically fit I played half an hour but never full 90 minutes. 

He never played a Billiard game with me. 

He was too, tall for the Table. 

All the sports items were auctioned and I did not have a big room in our house to accommodate a Billard Table. 

I was given all the accessories and the cues for free. Without my knowledge, my mother in law had given my favourite cue to the Mason Bass for levelling work.

It's smooth surface was gone, for ever. 

I did not say a single word of nonsense as a complaint to annoy her. 

I used to go to Suisse Hotel in KANDY or Hotel Mahaveli Reach Hotel in Dodamwala for a game. The cost was Rs.2500/= a game but there were no guys to partner. 

I just used to practice my game. 

Here in Australia, I am yet to find a decent Billiard Table in an average hotel. 

I am told there a few Clubs in KANDY where one can play a game for Rs. 500/= to  Rs.800/=.

I haven't been to any of them. 

No food but beverages are served.

ඊට පස්සේ  දිගන සිදු උන මිණි මරම් ගන්න සුළු තර නෙවෙයි.

ඊට වැඩිය වැදගත් කාරණය එය නොවේ.

Che Guverra ඒ කාල යේ මගේ වීරයෙක්.

මමත් චේ කට් එක වැව්වා. 

මගේ අයියා ඊට විරුද්ධව තදින් ආවවාද කලා. පසු කාලේක, ගාල්ල විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ Professor of Medicine උනු Ampitiya ගම්මානයෙ පුරවසියෙක් උන කෙනෙකුත් ඊට විරුද්ධ උනා.

මම ගණන් ගත්තේ නැහැ.

මගේ කාමරේයෙ සිලිමේ පුපුරන ද්‍රව්‍ය සගාවා මම JVP කාරයෙක්‌ කියා Army Search Party එකට ඔත්තු දුන්නේත්, මේ ගොබ්බයන්ම තමයි.

මගේ වාසනාවට colonel මගේ පාසැලේ මිත්‍රයයෙකු නිසාත්, පාසල් කාලේ සිට JVP එකට විරුද්ද වූ නිසාත් එම රාජකාරි සෙබලුන් මාව උත්සන් ගියේ නැහැ, පුනරුත්ථාපනය සදහා. 

එසේ නුනානම් මම අද මේ සටහන මේ විදියට ලියන්නෙ නැහැ.

මම Rebirth Connection කියන්නේ එවැනි සිද්ධියන්ට.

ගාමිණී වියන්ගොඩ මට හොදට මතකයි.

ඔහුගේ එකල නම වෙනස් එකක්‌.

Aniddha (අනිද්දා) පත්තරේන් ගොඩ ආපු පොරක්, පේරාදෙණිය භාෂාවෙන් කීවොත්

කලා ශේෂත්‍රයේ යහලුවන් ගොඩක් මට සිටියා. එයින් සමහරක්, පසු කාලයක, ලංකාවේ සහ පිටරට විශ්වවිද්‍යාලවල මහාචාර්ය වරුන් බවට පත් උනා.

පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය බුද්ධිමතුන්ට තෝ තැන්නක්‌, ඒ කාලේ. 

එයත් විනාස කලේ වෛරය පැතිරවූ ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණයි.

පරම සත්‍යය එයයි. 

පේරාදෙණිය විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය කුලිසුනාටුවලින් පමණක් නොව, ශාස්ත්‍රිය මට්ටමෙනුත් ගොඩ නගා ගත යුතුය. 

 

ඒ  සදහා කාලය එළබ ඇත.

Yes, I got GNOME on top of Big Linux

I am a crafty guy on Linux base and I would not last a day without GNOME.

I figured out how BIG Linux works. I learned all these tricks from BlueStar Linux. THANK You. BlueStar Linux would not let me Boot GNOME on its Simple Disk Display Manager or SDDM Plymouth. Then I introduced GDM to BlueStar and booted GNOME. Only problem was BlueStar Linux let me install new application while on GNOME Desktop since Octopi package manager cannot sit on top of GNOME. Minor irritation but I go back to KDE and INSTALL and come back to GNOME.

There is a Global efforts to undermine GNOME Desktop but KDE cannot stand alone for another decade is my prediction. Reinventing the wheel is my catch phrase for KDE Desktop Developers.

It is bulky at the base of a proverbial Pyramid Structure of the base. The broader the base is more likely it is to collapse on its base is my Physics's Projection.

THANK You to Prof. Osmond Jayaratne our veteran professor emiratus at Peradeniya University who figured out how lightening develops even without a parachute.

Coming to BIG Linux of Brazil I come to good things first. 

I want Brazil to WIN World Cup in America.

1. It has integrated Google Drive with Linux base but one has to have a Gmail to open it. I have 15GB there and have used only 3.45GB for over 20 years. This is why I refused pay Dropbox and WordPress a premium for their so called services.

Small is Beautiful is my catch phrase and advice for BIG Linux.

2. Its Desktop pantheon is very attractive.

3. Third is the most important. 

I have given up on MANJARO on many reasons. 

It has revived the MMANJARO base which is admirable.

I have now CachyOS, REBORN OS and BIG Linux. 

XivaStudio failed on my NUC. It takes over the entire /root partition and there is no space to install even AbiWord of 311MB.

4. The Graphical Installer Add/Remove is easy on Newbies.

5. Its GRUB is Beautiful and neat.

Only CachyOS can outsmart it.

My only regrets are on Endeavour OS and Omarche OS who cannot coexist with other Linux Distributions. Just work on the GRUB Boot Loader.

CachyOS had this problem and listened to the base and a bery SMART ❤️ Developer guy helped it to overcome this problem.

Just listen to the USER base and adopt consensus.

DEBIAN Forky is FAB on my Old Laptop

My old Laptop look Good as Brand New after I installed Debian Forky. It took only 1917 files with 2 cellphone applications.

One need only Net Install DVD1 on a USB stick which is less than 1GB.

Fast WiFi is mandatory.

Basic Gnome install with Cellphone utilities tskes 7.5GB out of my 16.3GB /root partition.

My frequently used application took 7.6GB. AbiWord takes 311MB, a gismt leap from command line utility that used only 8MB during, 32 bit Era.

The next most important is the File Manager is Dolphin takes 200MB which I used from my early start with old KDE Desktop which has become unmanageably BULKY which now I HATE. It is worse than CINNAMON Desktop which haslovely Nemo File Manager.

This commercial dedktop with godly name is Beautiful but not functional as GNOME.

There a lot Big Linux and XivaStudio has to learn from Debian and GNOME Desktop.

I have 9.6GB left on which I cannot install Blender which is not available in Forky but if you have been using Blender in Trixie the data can be accessed. I have no Blender files which I left in CEYLON.

GNOME takes about 1.5GB out of 7.4GB RAM available but with Cellphone utilities in use it only jumps upto 3.6GB which is only roughly 50%.

I think KDE uses are a STUPID lot like Microsoft cronies.

I have Falcon, Epiphany and Dillo and I am going to install FireFox my favourite now. The English UK edition is only 273 which is less than my favourite AbiWord.

I have Trixie Installed for comparison.

Only missing application is Blender.

By the way, I could not install XivaStudio and Big Linux guys blocked it.

Why I do not know.

Their drivers must be faulty.

Big Linux installed without a problem but Synaptic Package Manager is not supported.

They have their own Application Store which I did not bother to investigate.

All these over before Poson Poya.

I am going to try XivaStudio on my NUC now.

By the way Big Linux is logger head with Debian GNOME. GRUB Boot Loader is incompatible.

Finally, I got XivaStudio INSTALLED om my Old Laptop. I figured out that the problem was related to 4GB RAM was not enough for XivaStudio but OK for Big Linux. It consumes s lot of RAM in its live Session, it could not mount the INSTALLER. 

The moment I figured it out I closed all those bulky graphics instructions and installed it.

I tried it on a 15GB partition in my NUC and it failed even to mount its Desktop.

I ditched it to install DEBIAN prioritized to cellphone utilities. Cellphone utilities cannot boot up without a nominal Linux Desktop. What annoyed me with XivaStudio was even at base level, I could not have private home partition which is fundamental to Linux USER Experience

Big Linux and XivaStudio are bulky and that is why I prefer Debian Network Install and what I need I INSTALLE after the basis INSTALL.

This is a good distribution for Newbies because of its intensive graphics usage but make sure you have at least, 16GB of RAM and 100GB Disk Space.

Protonicat2 Mini PC

I am referring to the Photonicat 2. 

It is an open-source, portable ARM-based mini PC and smart router designed for travelers, homelab enthusiasts, and in-car use.

 Processor: Rockchip RK3576 octa-core processor, delivering up to 3× the performance of the first-generation model.

Memory & Storage: Up to 16 GB LPDDR5 RAM and 128 GB of eMMC storage.

Battery Life: Runs for up to 24 hours via its 49Wh internal battery (made of 4 × 18650 cells), which also functions as a UPS.

Connectivity: Features dual Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, and built-in 4G/5G module support (e.g., Quectel RM520N-GL or Fibocom FM350-GL).

 Expansion: Includes an M.2 2230 NVMe slot, USB-3, USB-C, HDMI (4K 60Hz output), and a micro-SD slot.

Display: A built-in front-facing LCD screen to monitor network status, data consumption, and temperatures.

OS Support: Pre-installed with OpenWRT, but supports Debian, Ubuntu, and Android.

 Pricing

 Photonicat 2 Base (No 5G): ~$165 USD

 Photonicat 2 Global 5G Versions: ~$399 USD

Photonicat2

Photonicat 2 is designed to provide seamless connectivity anywhere you are,. long battery life, expandable antennas and OpenWRT / Debian / Android. Connected ...

 

2025 — Portable 8‑core ARM Linux/Android mobile computer: 

24h battery, 

5G, 

dual WiFi & NVMe – for work, travel, car & homelab. Created by Photonicat.

රුපියලේ අවපාතය සීග්‍රයෙන්

ඉන්දියානු රුපියලක්‌ = 3.50

US Dollars = 345 

British pounds =460

Iranian Ryal 0.00025

Israel  Sekel =115

Australia Dollars = 245

New Zealand = 200

EU =  390

Russian Ruble = 5

South Korea=1750

Japanese Yen = 2

Chinese Yuan = 50

Swis Frank = 460

Canadian dollar =240

Bhutan =3.50

සල්ලි ආච්චු ගැහුවත් නැතත් අන්තිම පිච්චියට වැදිලා තියෙන්නේ.

ඉන්දියාවේ නිගන්වටයන්  වන්දනාවේ යන්නේ නැතුව, ලංකාවේ වෙහෙර විහාර වන්දනා කරනු මැන. 

කව්රුත් දැන් අහන්නේ නෑ,

දැන් සැපද කියලා.

අනේ අනිච්චන්.

Thank You Big Linux from Brazil

I Revisited Big Linux after almost two years and installed Generation Z Desktop on my old Laptop. 

My Laptop looks modern and fantastic.

I gave up since it did not configure GRUB on my NUC. Unlike other guys I have at lease 5 distributions running parallel and GRUB is Grand Unifyer.

I choose the smooth curved  edges.

It is a new experience and KDE Desktop.

There is lot of help after installation but before installion there is nothing figure out which Image to download. I am a one who is antagonistic to KDE and tinkering after installation. 

I do not like tinkering after installation being an avid user of Debian GNOME.

But what stand out compared other distributions is that the selection is done before the installation.

I do not think Guys and Girls can match Big Linux Desktop.

It is MANJARO based and I had a big animosity with them since MANJARO could not figure out how I set about with my Partition Table.

I mess up with the partitions and EXT let me do that without inhibition. 

These Elive guys said that I have to run ones (1) and zeros (0). I haven't done that since 1995 of Windows era.

It annoyed me and I have ditched Elive jusy like UBUNTU.

If somebody wants a modern dedktop go and get the Iso Image that suits you and install Big Linux.

Big Thank you to Big Linux.