Emmabantus Debian 4 and 5

First let me dispense with Debian 12 and KDE plasma.

My basic Intel NUC with 4GB RAM with integrated Graph Card cannot boot Debian 12 from a USB stick.

However, it boots well with Debian 11. The old Debian 11 version cannot configure Wireless Network. 

It works only with a Ethernet input.

I have erased it and installed Sparky Linux Game Over in that partition (in fact, in a dedicated partition in 320 GB SATA disk).

I have Emmabantus 4 already installed in it but it does not configure Bluetooth.


However it is the only distribution which identifies the wireless Internet.

Currently only Emmabantus 4 identify all the distributions in my NUC and configure the GRUB file.

So if you have a working Emmabantus 4 do not think of upgrading to 5.

Besides Cairo Dock is no longer supported by Debian 5 version.

So I decided to install Emmabantus 5 which is derivative of Debian 12 as my Debian base.

Emmabantus 5 is superb and it took 48 hours for me to figure out its versatility.

1. It is not bulky and fits in a 4GB USB stick but for safety I used a 8GB stick.

2. It has Bluetooth.

3. It is single boot and ignores my Sparky Linux and Emmabantus.

4. It is multilingual.

5. Detect Wireless Internet effortlessly.

6. Mind you Linux distributions were historically Ethernet based utilities.

7. At boot time Emmabantus 5 lets you configure your system including which language to use, red light shift, desktop type (2) and importantly has a script to rewrite the GRUB File.

One does not have to manually configure the GRUB boot loader.

One has to tick the GRUB tool. Since GRUB did not recognize other distributions, what I did was to download Debian 11 Version and install it.


Presto!


Debian 11 Edition did recognize other distributions and updated the GRUB file and now all three (Debian 11, Emmabantus Debian 5 Edition and Sparky Linux) distributions can be booted.

Sparky Linux Game Over has lot of FREE games.

I did download Star Linux of Russia but did not try it on my NUC.

I have a USB stick with MultiSystem Utility.

Following cannot be booted (cannot form single bootable sfs file)

Sparky Linux.

OpenMandriva

Astra Linux

Ubuntu 23-04