Gnome and Enlightenment Desktop Tolls

Gnome and Enlightenment Desktop Tolls

My near enough estimate of space usage of Gnome is about 2,5GB out of which 500MB is for LibreOffice.

So it takes about 2.GB.

This was tested on Ubuntu based Linux Mint System, so how much of it is allocated mint desktop, I cannot say.

Instead of Cinnamon or Ubuntu display manager I changed to GDM or Gnome Desktop manager. Lot of this allocated to tiny games and wall papers and now I am going to remove all the unnecessary games to remove the clutter.

I am not going to mess with wall papers and last time I did with breeze (KDE) wall papers with MX Linux I could not get a logging screen to log in.

My estimate is Debian takes about 5GB for the kernel of the operating system part and nearly 2GB is for total language pack.

Total 9GB is enough for a operating system.

 

Enlightenment Desktop

Takes 400MB.

My Linux Distribution Selection (Top Five)

1. Debian Gnome

2. Linux (Debian) Mint Cinnamon

3. Linux Lite - Ubuntu Desktop which modified Gnome

4. MX Linux KDE but not Flushbox

5. Elive with Enlightenment Desktop

There are other desktops

6. MATE used by Parrot OS

7. Ubuntu Budgie which had limited applications but good for old hardware. 

I have limited experience

8. Unity Desktop

I have limited experience.

 

9. IceWM which is really beautiful on minimal resources.

 

10. Fswm which is new and pretty good.

A new discovery.

11. i3 did not work

12. Compiz of Wayland (Ubuntu) did not work.

 

Arch Based Distributions.

Most of them have Beautiful KDE Desktops. 

Use Calamara Installer which is easy on a newbie but one should try Gentoo, too.

 

1. Endeavour OS comes first. 

Unlike old Arch derivatives easy to use, just click the buttons.

 

2. BlueStar OS comes second

Unlike old Arch derivatives easy to use, just click the buttons.

 

3. CatchyOS third 

One has to find ones way round it.

 

4. Arco Linux comes fourth

 

5. Chimera OS comes fifth which was a Gamer Linux to begin with.

Others I have not used. 

It took some time for me to accommodate Arch since I was addicted to Graphic Based installers (coming fro windows background of Win 95 and Win 2000) but I hate Calamara Installer.

 

6. Manjaro experience was bit dicey and could not live with my Gnome.

 

7. ArchBang

 

8. BunsenLabs

 

ArchBang -2010 is minimal and is pretty good.
ArchEX -2011
Archman -2017
Arch Linux 32 -2017
Arch Linux ARM -2009, previously Arch Linux Mobile, PlugApps, PlugBox
ArcoLinux -2017, previously ArchMerge
Artix Linux -2016, previously Arch-OpenRC
BlackArch Linux -2014, previously ArchTrack
Bluestar Linux -2013
 

ChimeraOS -2019, previously GamerOS
Ctlos Linux -2017
Crystal Linux -2022
 

EndeavourOS -2019
 

Garuda Linux -2020 it comes from Turkey and I never liked it.
 

Hyperbola -2017InstantOS -2019
KaOS *2014
Manjaro Linux -2011, I have tried it but it has problems with GRUB File.
MSYS2 -2013
Obarun -2016
Parabola -2009
Parchlinux -2023
RebornOS-2017, previously Antergos Deepin. I have not tried this. Supposed to be good.
Snal Linux -2019 it is of snail pace.
SteamOS 3 -2022
SystemRescue -2019
TeArch Linux -2020
UBOS -2014

Gentoo has Unique features but for experts.

Why is Linux Mint is on TOP in Distrowatch

It is very SIMPLE.

1. The installation is user friendly based on Ubuntu.

 

2. It configures WiFi. In the good old days only Ubuntu did it correctly.

Even Debian got WiFi wrong and looks for a wired connection

Debian had overcome this problem.

This is not true with latest version of Mint Linux.  It could not configure the WiFi of my NUC. 

It aimlessly llok for the Available WiFi streams but could not detect any of them. I am ditching it and going back to Debian Gnome.

3. It looks for Multimedia proprietary at the beginning but could not configure my NUC.

Gnome do not use proprietary stuff which is it's strength.

4. It had Gparted for partitioning

5. It uses Firefox not Chrome Browser which is time tested.

6. It detects my partition table without errors.

7. It can use Btrfs, xfs, zfs and jfs but no Reiserfs of Knoppix.

 Btrfs is one single file system and is fixed to Redhat base. One (I) cannot explore it, so I ditch it at installation.

8. After administration installation one can add user and groups to the pool.

9. Installation is quick.

10. Above all background and foreground are clear and no clutter.

11. It is Cinnamon Desktop but I am going to add Gnome.

12. It's Snappac Software I do not like and very SLOW but going to add Synaptic for my use.

 

Groggy

 

The History of Grog

 

A rum distillery in Antigua. Way cleaner than it actually was.

The story of grog starts with William Penn. Not the one who founded Pennsylvania. His dad. Vice Admiral William Penn Sr. captured Jamaica in 1655, which was arguably a better move: it brought us rum. 

REPLACING SAILOR'S RATIONS WITH RUM

Before rum, sailors would cut their putrid water with beer or wine to improve the flavor. And because, you know, alcohol kills germs. With these two nowhere to be found on the island, Penn replaced the sailor’s rations with rum. It was damn strong, which meant it didn’t spoil - another bonus. 

From the rum ration, it wasn’t too long before grog was born. Barrel-strength rum is a hell of a lot stronger than beer, so that pint ration could turn the ship into a 2AM barroom real quick. Plus, the stuff being made at the time was not exactly sippable. 

Vice Admiral Edward Vernon, AKA Old Grog.

ADDING SUGAR AND LIME

Vice Admiral Edward Vernon solved both of those problems, with grog. He decreed that the ration would be doled out cut with water, and sailors could add sugar and lime to make the stuff more palatable. No more “what to do with the drunken sailor,” no more scurvy, and a pretty damn good cocktail.

WHY GROG?

Why grog? Vice Admiral Vernon was a badass: not only respected for his valor in battle, but as an advocate for his fellow sailors. He was called Old Grog for the waterproof cloak he wore, made from grogram: a heavy silk/mohair/wool blend.

 

“The daily allowance of half a pint a man is to be mixed with a quart of water, to be mixed in one Scuttled Butt kept for that purpose, and to be done upon Deck, and in the presence of the Lieutenant of the Watch, who is to see that the men are not defrauded of their allowance of Rum.”

– Admiral Nelson’s Official Order

Grog spread quickly throughout the Royal Navy. Though no one recipe was the standard, everybody drank some version. You could express your preference in a very seafaring kind of way with the points of the compass: where N is rum and W is pure water, a Northwester is 50/50. Drink a couple of those and you may no longer be able to find your way back to the cabin.

PIRATES DIDN'T DRINK GROG!

Despite what one might think, pirates didn’t drink grog — unwilling to be associated with the drink of the British seamen, their usual was something called Bumbo: rum, water, and sugar, but with a bit of nutmeg instead of lime.

 American sailors didn’t stay with it either. After the Revolutionary War, they subbed US-made rye for Jamaican rum — a more patriotic version of the cocktail, which they called a “Bob Smith”. 

Lining up for grog after the call of “Up Spirits!” on the HMS King George, 1940

THE GREAT RUM DEBATE

The Royal Navy, however, kept the rum ration through 1970. “The Great Rum Debate” broke out in Parliament that January, and on July 30th, the last pipe of “Up Spirits!” rang out among the crew: a day known as “Black Tot Day.”  

The spirit of grog lives on. We call those Brits “limeys” because of grog. Australians and New Zealanders use “grog” as slang for practically any booze. Irishmen use it as shorthand for their vices — “All for me grog!”  Cheers to Admiral Vernon, Old Grog, for taking rum worldwide.

Geordie’s got the grog.

 

 

"2 parts Sailor Jerry Spiced rum
1/2 part fresh lime juice
1 teaspoon brown sugar
4 parts hot water
1 cinnamon stick
1 slice orange

Mix all the ingredients in a mug and garnish with a cinnamon stick and a slice of orange."

Caroline Mills reads, writes and drinks in Philadelphia. You can follow her at @carolinemills.

[Images via Wikimedia Commons]

Crafted in honor ofNorman 'Sailor Jerry' CollinsFather of the old-schoolTattoo1911-1973

Parted Magic

 Parted Magic

The "Parted Magic" software is currently owned and developed by Patrick Verner of Parted Magic LLC. Parted Magic is a Linux-based partitioning and disk management utility. Originally, the similar Windows utility PartitionMagic was owned by PowerQuest, then Symantec. 

Partition Table Linux and Gparted

Partition Table Linux

Partition Table is very important Linux.

It has a numbering sequence from 1 to 25 to 30 in my case.

Gparted is the utility coming from Debian or Gnome base. 

It is a tiny utility but robust in action, unlike magic parted which was FREE then is proprietary now. I do not know who bought it, may be Elementary OS developers. I stand to correction.

When I was installing Linux Mint in my NUC, I found one partition missing.

That was not to my liking.

It was the /var partition of Elive.

This damage was done by Suse and subsequently exacerbated by Fedora Official.

As a testing exercise I installed both of them as prelude to my book "Linux Essentials".

Both of these distribution do not support (corporate mentality) Gparted and have their in house partition tools which are faulty in my estimate. Both of them take over the hard disk just like Endless OS and do not like to cohabit with other Linux distributions which a fundamental violation of  Linux FREEDOM philosophy.

This is the very reason I ditched both of them 25 years ago. They have not improved or learned to recognize their own mistakes.

Well I booted Linux Mint and re-calibrated or re-partitioned my 320GB DATA disk and I got back the (my) missing partition.

I am afraid I have to install Elive first and after that Linux mint.

I will report on Linux Mint after the installation.

By the way, Elive is one of those distributions that support Enlightenment desktop and the other is "Bodhi Linux" which names it as Moksha.

Ubuntu Another Discovery

Ubuntu Another Discovery 

Ubuntu Desktop can be downloaded through Synaptic Package Manager.

Besides the Ubuntu Studio I discovered through Linux Lite is available from Synaptic.

All thanks goes to Linux Lite for reviving Ubuntu. 

I have now gone though the full cycle by Installing Linux Mint.

By the way, Ubuntu Studio is another Ubuntu Based distributions packed with lot of Audio/Video utilities and other software Like Blender, Scribus and Inkscape. 

It is about 2.9GB and is xfc desktop..