Pendrive Linux My Love

 There is a current Debian MultiBootLinux Utility to perform this simple job. 

It is a Python Utility. It works on Linux and I do not know about other non-Linux operating systems.

UnetBootIn has GONE DORMANT.

Reproduction of a Very Old Piece

Pendrive Linux My Love
The name Pendrive Linux has disappeared from the web scene but the www.PendriveLinux.com is there if you need some help for mounting any Linux distribution.
Long ago, I went in web search for 100 Linux distributions, my only aspiration (inspiration too) and last thing I wanted in my possession was to have a Linux booted from a 1 GB Flash Drive.

Flash Drives were expensive then and our download speed was hopeless  and only thing I wanted to bring home was a Mandriva  Globe Trotter and a Mandriva Pendrive Linux when I went  abroad on a different assignment.

By that time I had (with some trial and error) got a Puppy Linux on a Flash Drive but all the efforts of preparing a Pendrive Linux were not successful.
 

Then of course in one of my friends room abroad, I got my Pendrive Linux loaded well pass midnight and I still have it and it is still working.
All these were done on a Windows computer with Gemu (Gnome emulation) executive EXE file on board.

It was a huge achievement for me then.

But I ended up buying a Laptop without Linux for one third of the price then with hard bargaining and almost fighting with the dealer.
Doing this on a Linux was painfully long process for a busy person like me and I never tried it on Linux having got few of my favorite Linux distribution in few of the Flash Drives. 

The again everything on FAT partitions and  not on Linux partitions with /boot, /root, /home and root permissions.
My bad experience with vendors abroad got me into firm resolve to promote Linux Globally but not in this country (Ceylon) where they use pirated copies as a rule (which I detest as a simple Buddhist) and it is the Banana Republic's futuristic motto (Bana is daily sermon and Na is not following or listening but not the slippery plantain we eat to avoid constipation  by listening to the Bana of the politician who do not practice virtues but the voter has to do that on daily basis.

I am glad to see most of the visitors to this site are from abroad and many from USA and they get Linux and healthy dose of anti-capitalistic views which even Obama is pursuing for betterment of the down trodden masses.

My venture into Linux 100 was bumpy but and I am in a better position to talk about Linux and Cloud Computing.

All what you need is a CD/DVD and a Pendrive to be be cloud ready  a savvy or newbie guy/girl and not Android Craze or HP WebOS.

However the distribution I talk about need to shed some fat (client) and become thin clients.
 

Follow Me.

STEPS.
What one's needs are  CD/DVD and two (2) Flash Drives and little free time and one need not do that in one go.

1. Download CloudUSB DVD (1.2 GB).

2. Download your favorite CD/DVD of Linux distribution and copy as an Iso file not as bootable Live CD/DVD.

3. Find a  computer (ideally with USB booting to test your work) DVD writer.

4. Boot Up CloudUSB.

5. Use Boot DVD / USB creator; click and follow instructions.

6. Now you have a USB stick to clone many Pendrives.

7. Boot the Flash Drive with CoudUSB.

8. Go to UnetBooiIn click and follow instructions.

9. Load your favorite Linux CD/DVD containing Iso file into the DVD/CD ROM.

10. Plug in your Second USB Drive

11. Give the path of the CD/DVD Rom as to where the Iso file is.
Wait a while and in the second USB drive you have a new Live distribution of your choice.

12. Then register your company and start selling your products (Live Linux Distributions on a stick). 

But do not jack the price up like our Buddhist monks who sell Bana on a pirated copy of Microsoft CD.

I have not given the finer details which vary from distribution to distribution and why I used CloudUSB is that it promote Cloud computing in style including Ubuntu One and Dropbox  and it has all the utilities (FAT Client though).

In my case I use Ping Eee which has more laptop friendly utilities.

Puppy Linux Studio

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
 

Puppy Studio
Even though, I used PCLinux as my gold standard (it has some problem with its new partition tool-not recognizing some partition types) for live CDs for its versatility and the availability of many versions at disposal, the record for most number of CDs downloaded goes unquestionably to Puppy Linux (I have, more than 20).
Puppy Linux Studio is the latest I downloaded.
It has lite version which is 288MB.
The full version is 376 MB.

It is pretty good and has taken most of the useful packages from TeenPup and LeagcyPup.

Both over 650MB.

Puppy less than 200 is always in my front pocket even when I travel abroad.

I rarely carry a heavy Laptop.

 Even though I carry a flash drive (pen drive) I rarely use it for any problem solving.
Puppy is enough and it is amazing in doing simple and complex things.

Why carry a laptop when one can avoid it.

Before I buy something I load Puppy and see whether everything works before paying in foreign currency. If Puppy fails I do not buy that f0r sure however much the market hype.

As far as I am concerned I categorize (like any other Live) Live CDs based on Puppy MBs.
Is it less than 200 MB?
I love the ones below 200.

NimbleX is one of them. 

NimbleX has become bit fatter recently but still less than 500MB.

The next category is 200 to 500 MB (little less or more).
CRUX, Peppermint and many more out there now.
What annoys me is why try to compress into 700MB CD which is impossible unless one use compression used by Knoppix.

If it goes beyond 700 MB might as well double it to 1500 and go for a decent DVD like Mint rather than no man's land.
There is another problem with trying to compress into 700MB.
Unless one has 1GB RAM, live session is slow and painful.
Many people do not have more than 512MB RAM.
Many of the old machines can be revitalized with 500MB input.
I am glad to see Linux distributions are catering for these machines.

Having said that with or without your own machine all Puppies are adorable.

I will be with you on Pendrive Linux soon.

Linux History

Linux History

Chronology

1991:

The Linux kernel is publicly announced on 25 August by 21-year-old

Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds.

1992:

The Linux kernel is re-licensed 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

that same year, the Debian project is established. Today it is the largest

distribution community.

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 the Sun SPARC systems. 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 multi-processing (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 were 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 began developing the graphical user interface KDE.

1999:

A group of developers began work on the graphical environment GNOME, destined to become a free replacement for KDE, which at the time depended on the then proprietary, Qt GUI toolkit. 

During this year, IBM announced 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:

2004:

The media reported, “Microsoft killed Dell Linux.”

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 free distribution from Novell’s community. In addition, the project OpenOffice.org introduces version 2.0 which then started supporting OASIS Open Document Standards.

2006:

2007:

Oracle releases its own distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 

Novell and Microsoft announce cooperation for better interoperability and mutual patent protection.

Dell starts distributing laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed.

2009:

Red Hats market capitalization equals Suns, 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.

 

I have posted here the Debian releases which were missed by the Statistics of Ubuntu version distributions for France.

My belief is Ubuntu sources deliberately suppressed the information of Debian.

2021 Linux kernel 5.10 L.T.S

32-bits PC (Intel x86) operating system

Mageia 8 (DVD) Linux 5.10 (Release 28 February 2021, end of life 31 august 2022)

64-bits PC (AMD64) operating system

Mageia 8 (DVD) Linux 5.10 (Release 28 February 2021, end of life 31 august 2022)

Please do not confuse Debian Version with Kernel version.

Debian Version 11 in August 2021

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Media, Mafia and Political Mirage

This piece is short.

1. One can form a party and sell that party at many time the cost price.

This country has over 80 parties.

None of them serve the voter or the citizen.

They serve the party first and citizen last.

I leave it at that.

2. Media is different.

I think Chandrika auctioned the band widths to the highest bidder.

She was stupid and did not buy a piece for future investment.

She has become a victim of her own stupidity.

Like political parties these band widths can be sold not at cost price but at inflated rates.

This is where black money is made legal money. They buy an established media outlet.

Regarding journalists, there are only a very few Independent journalists.

Most of the independent ones were killed (Lasantha, Richard Zouza, Eknaligoda and many more) or abducted and physically threatened.

Those who remain are either stooges or have become comedians (only a few have become successful as comedians).

a) LTTE has a channel of their own in Ceylon.

b) Diaspora invest their money on local and Indian Media

c) One channel is own by Indian interests.

Their income is supplemented by healthy advertisements and reality shows.

d) Media is a global industry and they are owned by major parties and their proxies.

Most these Media create Faked News on daily basis.

e) Donald Trump and Kennedy have no Media Power.

Elon Musk is a Media Mogul who supports Donald Trump.

f) The story in Ukraine is different.

Media is owned by CIA and it's Bandera Proxy. 

Their plan is to interfere with a sovereign nation, called Russia.

3) The woman who leads the EU is the proxy of America.

EU nations have no severeign rights.

4) I have no understanding of Media in Communist regimes. 

It must be similar to our JVP/NPP combo. 

Propaganda to come to power and remaining in power eternally.

5. Alternative Media

One example is MOAT.

Mother of All Talks.

There is a sinister move to suppress Alternative Media.

Ranil bought legislatures to remain in power but failed.

Google has Global Power through YouTube.

Rumble and few others are trying to raise their heads but do not have global coverage.

I support Alternative Media as a viable option to counter Media Moguls.

Ceylon has a few alternative Media and most of them are substandard political organs.

They work as proxies for JVP/NPP combo and claim or pretend to be independent.

All in Sinhala and none in English. 

How they are financed is not transparent.

I do not think that Patreon contribution are substantial.

True Independent Media for me is a Grand Pipe Dream.

6. My blog post is of course is a Store House of my Random Thoughts. 

I have blocked advertisements and have not claimed a red cent from my site.

It was started to promote Linux but has not made any inroads to make Linux a global entity.

It became a political organ in the past to get rid of Rajapaksa Regime (I have removed almost all of those political pieces).

It has only 3000 pieces.

It has had 300,000 hits over 15 year period and I believe 200,000 are my own hits.

Currently it hits 30 a day and about 500 per month.

5. When I decides to write a book I gather stored material from my blog posts.

Assimilate them in a working order.

Edit and publish a book in about 3 months.

But my book on Linux Essentials took almost 9 months.

It is mature enough to be published.

The beauty is I learned a lot about Linux during preparing this book.

By the way, I already have several books on Linux at Amazon Books.

Myths, Mirage and Marriage

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Myths, Mirage and Marriage

 It is said married life with kids (not without) prolong one´s life of existence.

I reproduce here posted in asokaplus at wordpress where no one visits.

I cannot remember when I posted this or whenever had I written this, being a married man.

All the same it is worth repeating with some editing and formatting.

The 3Ms here have common ancestry.

None of can be achievable and each one of them is shrouded in mystery.

For example one who is lost and disorientated in desert sand would not know for certain whether he is arriving at a water hole or not.

Myths of can be expanded to any direction or dimension one who is seeking the miracle go to any extent to believe what in reality is not achievable and where the reality is the major casualty.

Some common practices and beliefs merge into day to day life sometimes almost imperceptible to reality.

Marriage is an institution that has gained such a reputable credence that writing anything against is amounting to desecration and sacrilegious.

That is the myth I am going to expose and explode.

There is no intention of disrupting any healthy harmony that may exists in any relationship or institution.

Healthy relationships can exist and lasting friendships can be developed without this institution existing its power over individuals but when something is institutionalized and when it is bound to the common law and practices and finely tuned with ethical and moral practices of a culture aforesaid myth and mirage also will get entangled with it.

Idea here is to disentangle certain myths associated with marriage.

1. Marriage is a perfect union

2. Marriage works because of give and take

3. Marriage is a stable institution

4. There is freedom in marriage

5. It does not grow old but remain live

6. It gives security

7. It has common goals

8. It makes life complete

9. Without this institution human relationships cannot be developed

10. Everyone must commit to this institution at one stage of his or her life

This list can go on but suffice is to disentangle the entangled myths.

These arguments are not for one who is already entangled since with the wedlock there is a legal deadlock.

This is for one who leaps into deep water without addressing his or her own issues.

The first casualty in war is truth.

Similarly the first casualty in marriage is freedom.

If you love freedom and lot of hobbies thinks twice before taking the plunge.

1. The first casualty is your hobbies.

2. The second casualty is your friends.
If you have lot of friends and love their company think twice.

3. Third casualty is one’s finance (unless both are bankers with good investment funds for life like the Murdoch).
If you cannot manage finances alone two of you will not mange it better.

4. Fourth myth is the stability and security.
There are no institutions in this world which is stable and secure.
Even the best banks can bust. 

The Uncertainty Principle rules.

In marriage finances would bust first, especially when the kids come home.

5. It makes life complete is the biggest myth of all.
It makes simple life more complicated in marriage life and you never complete the set targets or your obligations, even if you live beyond 100 years.

That is why I have set my target at 80. 

Living beyond 80 is a burden to this planet.

6. In marriage more you give in more you have to give and less you have to take. 

One never get a chance to take in, if you are the giver.
It is like putting water into a bucket with hole in the bottom.

7. Marriage does not get old.
It is not true it is the institution that gets older by the minute.
Moment you tie your nuptials and finishes the honeymoon it is old enough to be called a marriage.

That is why we have so many marriage jubilees from its inception. 

This is written with the impending royal wedding in mind.
You know what happened to Diana.

As long as you are a commoner please do not do what royals do.

Remain a commoner for life and you may advise the royals (couples) in trouble.

Better still you become a divorce lawyer.

Hope the royal couple reads this one day after the honeymoon (too late by then).

I wish Good Luck to them all the same.