Manjaro is Supurb

 Manjaro is Superb.

For the first time I got Manjaro Installed and the experience is superb. 

I had a marathon session.

Getting to Understand Manjaro took some time but to its intensive graphic assistance one can manage. One can do the things in command line but why bother.

It has three versions and I have decided to download Xfce image to test it on Box Utility.

More later.

On several occasions in the past few years ago, I installed it on my NUC but I could not installed software. 

More importantly Abiword.

Today I d got it installed and installed several others including, Blender, Scribus and Inkscape.

I have never used macOS but sure enough I have seen apple desktop others using and Manjaro desktop on Gnome base is fantastic.

 

Had I used KDE version of Manjoro I would have messed it up. 

Everything is graphic and the response to the mouse is almost immediate.

 

Besides, for the  first time NUC's Integrate Graphic Card looks something out of the blue.

Yes, do not blame the hardware when software is substandard. 

Well I am going to forget about Debian Gnome for some time.

I am still on a Gnome Base.

Latest Manjaro Runs Smoothly in Box Utility

Latest Manjaro Runs Smoothly in Box Utility

Just to make my ARCH entry is complete I downloaded Manjaro using Transmission torrent and tested both Gnome and KDE.

I do not fancy XFCE and did not download it.

Old editions have cinnamon, too.

They are just like other Arch derivatives but one has to master ARCH strategy.

Yes, I have got rid of both Firefox and LibreOffice

Yes, I have got rid of both Firefox and LibreOffice

In my 15GB Gnome instance, I have now have Falkon, Dillo and Epiphany.

LibreOffice is gone Abiword has taken its place.

Ihave KdenLive, Audacity and VLC installed and I have another 1.2GB in the /root folder for easy running and I won't get messages saying root is full.

Emmabantus Debian 5 Edition

As usual Emmabantus does not like to Coexist with other operating systems in my NUC. It erases the GRUB file written in Python which is not to my liking in the past and my dissociation.

However, I want to see what   methods it employs to install applications. 

XFC4 may have limitations with sandboxing.

Well I have to Reinstal one instance of my 4 other instances without formatting the /home partition.

Unlike Calamara Installer which takes ages to configure Old Drabin Graphic installer is pretty fast and gives a running commentary (not dumb like Calamara).

This is how I pick up nuances of Debian.

Unlike those days I forget things to install and I will browse everything in Emmabantus and add anything missing in Gnome. I bet Emmabantus mis my file Managers.

Unlike in the past Cairo Dock can be configured after install. It is not static but dynamic. This I learned from Arch BlueStar Linux.

Yes it is finishing installation of Debian, Gnome. I should go for a Cuppa.

I am going to do the unthinkable.

Install Gnome and if it mounts uninstall XFC4 of Emmabantus.

It all depends if Gnome Boots UP!

Emmabantus Debian 5 Edition

 

Emabantus has lot of applications bundled in.

Only problem is it comes in French and I had to log in with English.

I have used this in 32 bit time when I could not get any distribution to support Abiword, especially Debian at that time. 

Its GRUB is pretty good.

It now uses Calamara Installer which I am getting a hang of.

Wifi Configuration is pretty good.

Reason I am writing this is like Ubuntu it gives a running commentary of the running event in text mode.

I wanted see after installation what are the files deleted.

I was under the impression that the whole live image is copied like in Microsoft windows.

No.

It takes a long time to delete.

1. Live configuration file

2. Live boot file

3. Live init

4. Live grub

 

 

 

CutefishOS

CutefishOS does not run on Box Utility.

CutefishOS

Web site: cutefish-ubuntu.github.io
Origin: Poland
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Cutefish
Architecture: x86_64
Based on: Debian, Ubuntu
Wikipedia:
Media: Live DVD
The last version | Released: 0.8 beta | July 10, 2022
Zobacz po polsku Zobacz po polsku: CutefishOS

CutefishOS – an elegant, beautiful and easy-to-use Linux desktop operating system. 

It runs Cutefish Desktop based on Ubuntu and has a modern style design. Our goal is to provide users with a comfortable interface design, better user experience and a better choice.

It has a modern and efficient User interface for stunning user experience. It has a Modern Dock that gives users a convenient place to access apps and features.

Cutefish Desktop Environment – an astonishing Desktop Environment in the Linux world that is originally designed and maintained by Cutefish and Cutefish Community.

CDE consists of the Desktop Environment, 

Window Manager, 

Control Center, 

Launcher and Dock. 

CDE is a modern looking elegant desktop environment giving a different taste of desktop experience.

Features:
– Ubuntu Base System
– Cutefish Desktop Environment
– Beautiful Wallpapers
– Snapcraft
– Ubuntu Softwares and Repositories
– Supports Ubuntu PPAs
– Beautiful Desktop Experience
– Ubuntu Repository Mirrors

The project founder is Maksym Titenko.

Do not Run Short of Ideas in Linux

Posted on August 19, 2011

Do not Run Short of Ideas in Linux
 
This is the penultimate stage of my blog activity and I would now concentrate on marketing aspect and perhaps academic aspect later.

I must write few lines about OSDisc.com.
Hi Everyone,

After over 16 years, OSDisc.com has closed. If you've ordered from us, help is still available by email.

I started OSDisc to spread Linux and help new users get started. 

But providing DVDs today has little effect on the spread of Linux. I regularly see small distributions that provide tens of thousands of downloads, but few if any DVDs are provided by OSDisc. 

The vast majority of Linux users are downloading Linux themselves. 

And that's a great thing to see.

What we've accomplished:

    Shipped over 300,000 discs and USB drives
    Helped over 110,000 users get started with Linux
    Answered over 25,000 tech support tickets
    Given back over $200,000 to the open source community

Thank you to everyone for making OSDisc possible for the past 16 years.

Sincerely,
Ramsey Brenner
OSDisc.com Founder

 
It does some things which I would have liked to do myself in the Third World and in my country.

It sells live disc and live USBs of all the Linux distributions.
You do not have to do what I do.
Download and test and write something here.
You go to that web site and order what you want after having read some of my comments.
All the items are low priced.
One only needs a credit card.
It also does something very good part of the sale is contributed to Open Software development.
So every time you buy something you are indirectly contributing to the developers.
Mind you in this credit crunch and debt crisis which is global we must not stop innovation things.
Credit crisis should open for new innovation and not for grumbling.
This is where Linux is way ahead of the pack.
Web site is very simple and nicely organized and has ranking of sales which is good thing before purchasing.
It has book section also and if you wont one investment for all go and my choice is given below.
Mind you I have several copies of this book.
I have paste the product description below.

Product Description
The most up-to-date guide on the latest version of Linux Linux is an excellent, low-cost alternative to more expensive operating systems and its popularity continues to remain on the rise. This comprehensive resource offers more than 100 pages of the most sought-after Linux commands, provides new tutorial chapters aimed specifically at Windows desktop users and Windows administrators, and includes a new chapter on using Linux on gadgets. You’ll get up to speed with Linux so that you can install secure, fully functioning Linux server systems.

* Shows you what Linux is capable of, how to install it, how to make the most of its features, and ways to make use of its commands
* Provides step-by-step instructions for transitioning to Linux and explains how to choose which distribution is right for you, find and use the applications you need, set up the desktop to be the way you like it, and more
* Walks you through transferring your stuff (music, documents, and images) from Windows to Linux

Whether you’re making the transition from Windows or Macintosh and need to choose which distribution is right for you or you are already savvy with Linux and need a thoroughly up-to-date guide on its newest features, Linux Bible 2011 Edition is a must have!
 

Try out 18 different Linux distributions to see which is right for you
Inside many stock exchanges, mobile phones, and Internet servers is an operating system that many people haven’t even heard of—it’s called Linux. Today, you can run this open-source software on your personal desktop, on an Internet server, or as a programming workstation. In this complete guide from Linux expert Christopher Negus are all the instructions and software you need to install, set up, and use Linux.

* Install, set up, and use the latest Linux systems for desktops and servers
* Configure the perfect Linux desktop system for you
* Launch all your music, video, images, and documents in Linux
* Set up your own print, file, e-mail, and Web servers
* Get a stable and secure system using Linux security tools
* Create your own cool apps with useful programming tools

A total of 18 different Linux distributions are included on the DVD!

* To try out Linux, boot directly Ubuntu, openSUSE, KNOPPIX, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, BackTrack, and other live Linux distributions
* To keep Linux permanently, install those and other distributions to your hard disk

What’s on the DVD?

* Ubuntu Linux (live/install)
* Fedora Linux (install)
* openSUSE (live/install)
* KNOPPIX (live/install)
* Gentoo Linux (live/install)
* Slackware® Linux (install)
* PCLinuxOS (live/install)
* BackTrack (live)
* AntiX (live/install)
* INSERT (live)
* Puppy Linux (live/install)
* Debian GNU/Linux (live/install)
* Damn Small Linux (live/install)
* SLAX (live)
* System Rescue CD (live)
* Coyote Linux (floppy firewall)
* TinyCore (live)
* CentOS Linux (live/install)

System Requirements:

* All software built for x86 computers
* See chapters on each distribution for system requirements

Turn your PC into a Linux desktop system
Learn to use Linux as a system administrator
Find and install loads of free software apps

Why I hate Nosy, Bulky Browsers?

 Posted on October 5, 2011

Why I hate Nosy, Bulky Browsers?

I will list them first for easy browsing and relate an incident that happened only yesterday.

1. They are FAT.

2. The have what are called cookies. These cookies are very oily full of Cholesterol.

3. They are Lazy as a result of eating FAT Cookies.

4. All of these I can excuse.

To be fat is no crime. To be Lazy is  a Ceylonese pastime and I can excuse that too.

5. But I cannot tolerate FAT person being nosy.

All these browsers are Nosy.

In fact, like  FBI and KGB they are paranoid and watch every move you make out there in the Web.

There is nothing called privacy.

6. You may say I have a password when I read my mail.

It is just a joke.

Your password is remembered for posterity.

You might or yeah, it saves me typing a cryptic password.

But if the search engine remembers it how can it be a password?

Coming from Linux background this is violation number one.

Who gives permission to the browser?

Nobody but like a school principal the browser assumes the authority.

7. Some cookies do eavesdropping for advertisers especially porn.

8. Where does one end up with?

Your boss is angry with you.

Try to find an excuse to sack you.

You inadvertently forget to log off and close the browser and pretend to be doing some mundane work.

He excuses for a minute and sit in.

Goes through the history.

Copy the history and sends an email to himself with a date tag.

He does this for a month or so and asks you for an interview.

Some paranoid bosses may have even surreptitiously opened your email (DID NOT LOG OFF BUT ONLY CLOSED THE BROWSER) and BROWSE YOUR PRIVATE MAIL TOO).

You have no defense and fired.

Whom to blame not your boss but the BIG FAT BROWSER?

What is the end result.

Your boss is paranoid and you too are paranoid and the productivity comes down drastically.

9. Same scenario can be in your home unless you have a little network like what I have at home.

Everyone has a computer terminal (Linux not Microsoft) and the guests also has a terminal for an emergency.

Even if one does not have anything to hide like a simple Buddhist monk every individual deserve some space of privacy.

Breaking that is violation of a fundamental right.

10. What can one do?

If you use Linux you can have a Pendrive with your favorite distribution to boot up.

That is the cheapest way.

Otherwise have your own netbook or laptop which is bulky to say the least.

With tablets coming the weight might come down a little.

Apart from other reasons, this is one reason I strongly support tablets with variety of android clones and in time to come Anti-Android from Singapore.

Story

I wanted to show JoliCloud to a young guy.

I logged in his computer with my password.

Browser Chrome.

Operating system Microsoft Win 7.

I tried to log off the cookie wasn’t there.

Tried several times, searched every godforsaken little menu but could not log off.

I log on to JoliCloud, it starts again to my cloud space without asking for the password.

No logging off dialog box.

Finally we had to erase the one hour of our activity to erase the cookies remembering my password for future sessions.

Had I left without logging off he would have had the access to my data and if he devised (he was a nice guy and I was pretty sure he would not do that) a method to change my password, I will lose my ability to log in next time.

The story is different if the guy is like your paranoid boss.

I signed off from him saying there is no privacy in the Web.

He agreed without reservation.

Mini Browsers Gone Defunct

 Posted on October 8, 2011

Mini Browsers Gone defunct

Gecko and his territory and FAT Browsers needing Diet Cola 

 

Diet Cola
Gecko and his territory
I wanted to write about the Gecko, the Firefoxe’s background engine thinking it is a little browser.
It is not.
It is a layout engine for multiple browsers that originated in the fold of Linux background.
It takes the content and formatting information and displays on the browser's bland screen.
Gecko has been known previously by the code names “Raptor”
I have decided to support the lightest browser in the line of Abiword as the lightest but a very powerful word processor.

I faintly remembered about its Linux origin. Most of them are defunct except Dillo.
 

Currently I favour Midori, IceApe, Dillo and SeaMonkey and not Firefox.
FireFox is light on its own but easily get bloated over 100MB with cookies.
 

IceApe
Download size: 10.27 MB
Installed size: 29.44 MB
Package filename: iceape-browser_2.0.11-5_i386.deb
Source package: iceape
 

SeaMonkey
Download size: 19.65 MB
Installed size: 48.37 MB
Package filename: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Source package: seamonkey-2.4-1.el6.src.rpm
 

Dillo
Download size: 441.81 KB
Installed size: 1.04 MB
Package filename: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.i386.rpm
Source package: dillo-2.1.1-1.ssl.src.rpm
 

wget
Download size: 480.73 KB
Installed size: 1.79 MB
Package filename: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.i686.rpm
Source package: wget-1.12-1.4.el6.src.rpm
 

Lynx

This is probably the oldest one.
Download size: 1.38 MB
Installed size: 5.15 MB
Package filename: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.x86_64.rpm
Source package: lynx-2.8.7-7.fc16.src.rpm
 

Links
Download size: 1.81 MB
Installed size: 2.87 MB
Package filename: links-2.2-13.fc15.i686.rpm
Source package: links-2.2-13.fc15.src.rpm
 

Midori

I loved this unfortunately gone defunct.
Download size: 53.20 KB
Installed size: 599.80 KB
Package filename: midori-devel-0.3.6-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
Source package: midori-0.3.6-1.fc15.src.rpm
 

I could not find a single article in the web stating their download size (compressed) and installed size.

This information is mandatory when new releases are made and they should also give a breakdown of the size of the cookies allowed when fully integrated.

BrowesrLinux401

 Posted on July 18, 2011

BrowesrLinux401
 
Browser Linux should be better known as Browser Pup and is a Puppy lupu 510 derivative solely for the purpose of web browsing an is much better than Webconverger8.
It boots up quickly connects to the internet with a warning to use proper Puppy if one needs word processing and other features.
It is less than 100 (92 ) MB and cleverly disguises lot of utilities including Gparted and mount all the partition at boot up. it can be installed in a USB stick.
It can be used only for downloads and web browsing but if know how Puppy works lot of other things sometimes dangerous in wrong hands.
One good feature is it has a firewall that can be configured to ones advantage.
If you are web frantic this is for you and I have saved it in my Dropbox for sharing with Linux guys and girls especially Puppy fans.

XO-Pup-1.0

Posted on October 6, 2010

XO-Pup-1.0

After an year old development thread XO-Pup is available for download for One Lap Top Per Child (O.L.P.S) platform.
It in tar.gz format only a Linux box can expand and extract it to a fat partition or U.S.B.
 

Thanks Guys and Girls.

I will soon be downloading it.

PuppyLinux-Series-5-62

Posted on August 14, 2010

PuppyLinux-Series-5-62

 
The best thing that happened to me apart from getting into Linux is downloading a copy of Puppy Linux.

Puppy Linux did everything that one needs in less than 100 MB in its series 4.

It can be loaded into a Flash Drive or external hard disk.

Loaded to the RAM it does amazing things.
In its latest series Puppee has Google Chrome and Puppy series 5 has net-serf web browser which is amazingly fast.

Puppy has spawned many other versions Wolfe and Quirk and many more.

Puppy Studio 3.1

 Posted on October 5, 2010

Puppy Studio 3.1-107

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.

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 for sure however much the market hype is.
As far as I am concerned I categorize (like any other Live) Live CDs based on Puppy MB.
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 500 (420MB).

It is based on KDE and uses OpenOffice-03 and not Abiword..

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 700 MB which is impossible unless one uses compression used by Knoppix.

If it goes beyond 700 MB might as well double 500 to 1000 and go for a decent DVD like Mint rather than remain in no man’s land.
There is another problem with trying to compress into 700MiB.
Unless one has 1GB RAM, live session is slow and painful.
 

Many people do not have more than 512 RAM or DVD.
Many of the old machines can be revitalized with 500MB input.
 

I am glad to see some 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.

PuppyBrowser

19-09-2010

PuppyBrowser 

PuppyBrowser-100
It is fitting to arrive at 100 with two Puppy editions.

I am booted now with Puppy Browser. 

It is 5.1. and I started with 4.1 and I have a large collection of Puppies now.
The other that I downloaded a few minutes ago was PupItUp, the music Puppy.
Both connects to the web instantaneously.
If not setup it configures the Ethernet in seconds.

I am afraid Microsoft pets cannot even bark.

Well done.

You cross the line at 100 with flying colours.

Don’t worry Guys / Girls, I think I have made several entries for R.I.P and would add a few more than the 100 already in store.

I would to remain until 2011 for R.I.P..
I should now concentrate on Puppy to entertain me when big fat DVDs take a long time to download and test.

Guess, 4 more days of downloading for Suse and then Mandriva before they metamorphosis.

For record ArtistX has an erratic boot loader.