avlunux6.0.3-xfce410-pae-en.iso

avlunux6.0.3-xfce410-pae-en.iso 

Thank YOU very much for avlunux developer guys for leaving a torrent file in LinuxTracker.

It is in 32 bit but pae.

It was one of the best Audio Video Linux distributions.

It was hijacked by MX Linux and dropped in mid air for no reason.

Hope you come back strong with 64 bit version and EFI enabled so that I can install it instead AVL Mxe.

 

Sunday, July 4, 2010
32-AVLinux
The is the best Middle Weight (version 4) category (1.7 GB) of Linux distributions that I have downloaded so far.

Nealy 12 hours of downloading it (pay for 50 bits per second but it is snail pace of 15 to 20 bits-my Linux computer records it accurately) in Sri-Lanka it was worth the wait and the weight in MBs.

The version 3 has enough utilities and is only 1.0 GB.

It has all the utilities one needs to operate an old or new computer.
It has lots of Audio and Video packages and Blender too.
(XMBC which has problems with configuring the mouse and its resource craving make one feels light weight and happy with LXDE and AVLinux).

A Debian derivative once mounted (Live or Installed) one can download a Linux iso and use Unetbooting to make a distribution that can be mounted (OLD-computer without USB booting) with a USB drive.

It is important that one understand the working of Linux before one uses this distribution especially when using Gparted.

This is a distribution for a newbie as well as a savvy.
You can connect your iPod too.
This is something I wanted badly to promote in Linux community, if one cannot change iTunes to another format why not beat it (after having bought it).

Please do not confuse with aLinux which is a peanut Linux derivative which I tried several times but have my own reservation recommending to a newbie.

Note worth Recording
I downloaded Genitoo 10.1 Live CD of 2.5 MB and found that I could not install it on hard disk.
This is what I call Heavy Weight Distributions of no use.

If few MB cannot be allocated for the Installing it is an utter waste of downloading where it takes 12 hours (Electricity Bill Sky Rocketing) to download 1.5 GB (Sri-Lanka).
India may be no better.
I downloaded six months of toil in Sri-Lanka in couple of hours in Singapore, airport included.
I wonder where the foreign aid to develop our infrastructure is going?
Our Ministers cannot even mange Sports including Cricket.
IT they do not have the knowledge of 15 year old computer kid (Wizard).
So be it!

Go and download this distribution and send a contribution too, to the developers.

I have copied its introduction from Softpedia.
Please read the full content from Softpedia.

Directly copied.

AV Linux 3.0 is a LiveDVD ISO image that is a self-contained, full-featured computer Operating System.

It was created using the Debian GNU/Linux Testing branch and Remastersys.

This Live DVD ISO image can be downloaded, burned onto any DVD-R(W) and then booted and demonstrated on virtually any recent Windows PC without any effect on the existing OS.

If the user desires it can be installed to the Hard Drive either on it's own or "dual-boot" with an existing Windows or Linux OS. Once installed AV Linux transforms the users computer into a full-blown Audio/Video Workstation ready to use!

The User Interface features the very lightweight and efficient LXDE 0.5.0 Desktop Environment.

It's well-rounded program selection covers most every common everyday computer tasks, it features a full complement of the best F/OSS Multimedia Applications available allowing users to enjoy Multitrack Audio Recording and Mixing, Video Capturing, Editing and Converting, DVD Authoring and Creation, iPod Tools and much more.

AV Linux also contains Hard Drive utilities making it an excellent troubleshooting and rescue solution.
Keep an Older PC Productive:
Computer Operating Systems continue to become more and more resource intensive, many times people upgrade their Operating Systems in the hope of improving their system only to be terribly disappointed when their existing hardware isn't sufficient to even run the supposed "upgrade".
PC's have actually been powerful enough for Multitrack Audio and DVD Video Editing since the late 1990's but with the latest Operating Systems wasting precious CPU and RAM on superficial eye candy many potentially productive computers end up being relegated to closets, basements, garages and even worse to garbage dumps and landfills.
The chilling legacy of our "disposable" societal mindset is already evident in so-called "tech dumps" in rural China and many other places intentionally well hidden from the comforts of the developed world.
By combining the general efficiency of Linux and enhancing it further with a light Desktop Environment like LXDE I consider it an AV Linux mandate to keep older PC's in daily use.
I've personally encountered dozens of people who truly believe it isn't possible to build a home recording studio without buying a brand new Mac or PC and spending thousands of dollars on commercial software.
The AV Linux Live DVD serves to demonstrate that this is not necessarily true .
There is more to read. Pleas visit Softpedia download.

Linux Programming Languages

I looked at my "Linux Essentials" and found a daring ommission.

No mention of Python and computer languages.

No panic.

Thanks to Google Blog site, I had collected tits and bits about  Linux Programming languages

15 of them are reproduced below. 

Gambas

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT a clone !). Read the introduction for more information.

With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and many more robust work

The Gambas project aims at making a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, so that the language is as easy as Visual Basic under Linux but much better and less bugs.

The phenomenal quantity of bugs and inconsistencies in Visual Basic had persuaded developer me to start a fresh project. It seems that Microsoft was aware of the poor quality of its language, as VB, dot-Net (.Net) was not made backward compatible with older versions of Visual Basic.

Gambas does not try to be compatible with Visual Basic, and will never be. Its syntax and internals are far better than the one's seen in its proprietary cousin.

The author who had very good understanding of Visual Basic from childhood, took from Visual Basic, the Basic language, the development environment and the user interfaces and dropped the bad practices in common use of Visual Basic program and made Gambas coherent, logical and reliable as possible.

Features

Below are the main features of Gambas and what sets it apart from the other languages.

Gambas is a Basic language with object extensions. A program written with Gambas is a set of files. Each file describes a class, in terms of object programming. The class files are compiled, then executed by an interpreter. From this point of view, it is very inspired by Java.

Gambas is made up of the following programs:

A compiler.

An interpreter.

An archiver.

A graphical user interface component.

A development environment.

The development environment is written with Gambas itself, so that I can show the abilities of the language and is useful for debugging.

What are the features that set Gambas from the other languages?

1. A Gambas project is stored under one directory. The archiver transforms the project directory structure in one sole executable file.

2. Compiling a project only requires the compilation of the modified classes. Every external reference of a class is solved dynamically at the execution time.

3. Gambas has a component architecture that allows it to extend the language. Anyone can write components as shared libraries that dynamically add new native classes to the interpreter.

Components can be written in Gambas too. The component architecture is documented in the Wiki encyclopaedia.

4. By default, the Gambas interpreter is a text-only program. The component architecture is used for writing the graphical user interface part of the language.

5. As the graphical user interface is implemented as a component, Gambas is independent of any toolkit!

One will be able to write a program, and choose the toolkit later : GTK+, Qt4, etc.

6. The graphical user interface is the Qt4 toolkit. The GTK+ component which is not finished will have almost the same interface as the Qt4 component.

7. Gambas projects are easily translatable, in any language.

8. Its object model is simple but powerful.

About the Author

Welcome to you, curious!

You're going to know almost everything about me...

My name is Benoît Minisini.

I am a French man born in 1972, living in Paris. Programming is one my passion since I was twelve, and is now my job for many years now. This passion started with the Basic language on a CPC Amstrad 464, and later on an Atari 520 STE. Of course, now, I am using many other languages, but I never forgot that I have learned and done a lot with Basic.

I was always fond of writing languages, compilers, assemblers, and interpreters. I wrote a Z80 assembler on Amstrad and an interpreted language that consumed all its memory.

Later, during my studies at the E.P.I.T.A., I wrote a Lisp interpreter under Windows. During six months, I discovered its stupid memory model, the Microsoft compiler, and its numerous bugs.

Today, I keep on raging with the Gambas

Thanks to my boss, I have a half-time job, so I have worked actively on Gambas for the last years.

But I have other passions too, that burns lot of my time. That is music .

I'm playing flute for a long time - and theatre.

So, the development of Gambas is not as fast as it could be.

I hope your curiosity was satisfied...

Acknowledgment

Gambas is build on top of many free software, and could not exist without them.

So I would like to thank every people involved in the following projects:

Linux

KDE

GCC and all of the GNU tools, of course.

The Qt4 toolkit.

The GIMP and its toolkit GTK+

Libre Office.

The MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite database management systems.

And any other libraries used by Gambas.

That is enough for as an introduction to language packages. 

My comment 

I pronounce it as Gon (a bull) Bass (is unskilled workman) in Sinhala which is the phrase we use when the workman does a shoddy job. 

But that reference has no slur on this wonderful package which love the most. 

Unfortunately only few of the distributions port it as is. 

That is why I was very expressive here.

It needs to be there for the young newbies to take root in Linux.

Linux Programming Languages

1. Vi was my beginning but later went to Vim.

 

2. PHP MyAdmin was my Samba and Server friend but I do not want to touch it in my old age.

 

3. Perl was my attraction

Being a Writer this was an attraction and quickly settle down on 28MB Abiword.

 

4. Lyx and Gambas (no more Latex now buts it's derivatives)

 

4. Abiword

Is a word processor with a command line functionality.

It is over 250MB and is my work horse and it has its development package but very few has time for it.

 

Debian 12.10- - - dropped it so, I will stick with 12.9--.

 

1. C

Linux is written in C and this where I started coding.

 

2. C++

I did not waste time on C++

 

3. Python

Python was the one which attracted to me on Linux in the book Joy of Linux. 

It is versatile but so long I gave up.

 

4. Java

Java I really liked when it had Java phones which one could manipulate. One cannot find a Java phone now.

 

5. JavaScript

JavaScript I hate because it is cross platform.

 

6. Bash/Shell

Bash/Shell is unique

I still read Linux Bible when I decide to look at a shell script for fun

 

7.  Perl

Perl was my attraction until I settled down in Abiword.

 

8. Go of Google

I collected its package in Ubuntu which was 1.2GB when it became 2.4GB I have it up.

It has over 75 at which level I stopped counting

Go is Linux based and BULKY.

 

9. Ruby

Ruby on rails was web development language which I had a flash when I first developed my first,

 Private Web Phase withWordProcess.com (not .og organisation which has gone commercial now) long before Google was born. 

I still have it and I have forgotten my Yahoo.Mail password (I am going to activate it when I am ready with my 5 books with slow progress. 

Linus fundamental is reaching 450 pages (it has gone above 500). 

I want to keep it as it is and do not want to post any there. It now active but one need to go searching for my web site’s name.

 

10. Rust

Rust is new and I have no knowledge except Ubuntu trying to Reinvent Linux is going to be a either flash in the pan or making money which was not the intention of Ubuntu Master GURU.

 

11. Swift

It is macOS which I have no interest.

 

13.  Haskell

Haskell and compiz compositor is supposed to be for Research Work with very little FAT in its CORE.

It is on black terminal and until it becomes with a simple graphic front I won’t try it.

 

14. R

R is the only statistical package for Linux.

It comes as Octave and is very large package.

I think it was developed in New Zealand.

not when I was roaming in South Island.

 

15. PHP

Server side scripting language which has become plump and may be a pest and takes over your system.

I have decided to quit Elive after 6 months

 

I have decided to quit Elive after 6 months

Yes, I am quitting Enlightenment and Elive.

Enlightenment does not add to my productivity.

Even installing AbiWord through Software was a pain.

 

I hate SNAP packages sandboxed.

 

Main reason for quitting is, it does not have Synaptic Package Manager.

 

I shun any distribution without Synaptic. 

It has enormous FREE Software Collection.

 

I am currently promoting ARCH Linux and I use my spare Gnome Instance to install BlueStar Linux and without it (Spare Gnome), I cannot experiment on new applications.

My workhorse is in partition-2 and I do not want to sacrifice it for testing but leave it as it is for True Stability.

 

It takes over an hour to install and configure Elive.

 

Before I could finish this peace with one finger typing Gnome installation is over.

Just under 20 minutes.

I do not want unnecessary packages like Firefox and LibreOffice bloating my work space with 2GB of software.

I need to add enough space for /var or variable partition for extra applications.

Partition Schedule goes like this.

/root 7.7GB full when installed

/boot

/home

/tmp

/opt

/var

Others like

/usr for server edition

/src for allocation of serviced users are not necessary for a single user computer.

Installation is over and need to add few applications, I regularly use Stacer and Notepadq and Gparted tops the list.

Good Bye Elive.

Instead of Elive I am installing Enlightenment Desktop which takes 400MB for minimal display of Enlightenment Effects.

I am going and Wayland and Compiz,too.

First time round I am going to look at Haskell programming languages and it's window stacks.

Of course in this process I get Emac,too.

 

No Gambas and Lyx.

 

Emac is Richard Stallman creation and was a simple text editor.

It now has a graphical (GUI)editor, Client and a Terminal.

 

Xmonad and Wayfire do not have log out script and one has to reboot the computer which is to say the least is annoying.

Need keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Alt+ F1.

 

Since, I did use keyboard shortcuts for 30 years ago, I have to lookout for additional keyboard keys.

Windows Key was not in existent, then which is a pain in my neck.

 

FVwm3 is a new but elegant window manager.

 

IceWM is my love.

 

Window Manager was the beginning.

By the way, Xmonad and Wayfire are not supported by Gnome. 

 

May be I am missing some libraries.

My the way, I use gdm and not sddm.

I am going to use even ratpoison which I think is keyboard driven (no mouse use) window manager.

Cinnamon and Nemo are In.

Base installation is about 8GB and with all the utilities added it amounted to about another 4GB and I have 6GB left in the /root folder of 18GB, allocated at partitioning 

So leaving 20GB for /root folder is more than adequate BUT have a huge /var partition, if you add lot of applications outside Gnome, say from KDE.

I have do far used only 2GB of 8GB /var partition.

By the way except for Falkon and Konqueror from KDE I have nothing from KDE. 

Both are browsers, by the way.

PapugLinux

This is how I learned Linux in 16-072011

PapugLinux

Dear PapugLinux users,

PapugLinux-11.1 is available for download, this is a major release in term of package update.

We choose to focus our additions on development tools for this version. The great Python language comes in 2 versions (2.7 and 3.1) and we also include Subversion and the very popular Git as version control systems. This could make PapugLinux a great bundle to start to learn Python or simply browse the open-source projects all over the world.

The live running-mode uses new tools and another compression format, this results in more content in a smaller size.

The desktop image credit goes to Flavio Takemoto from Brazil, this artist has a great portfolio of artwork.

Kindest regards,

Core

2.6 kernel

ALSA sound driver

X.Org X-Window server

Desktop

Fluxbox window manager

Mozilla Firefox web browser

AbiWord word processor

Gnumeric spreadsheet processor

Bluefish editor

Various CDR/DVDR tool

FR, PL, and US keyboard support

 

Server

Apache web server

Cups print server

ProFTP ftp server

 

Ssh server

Boot your computer with Papug Linux, then launch a terminal from the menu (RoxTerm, XTerm) and log as root (password papuglinux).

$ su -

You must create two partitions on your hard disk, if you don't plan to use the whole disk, be sure to backup your data. One partition will be used for the system and must be sized to 1.2GB or more. The other partition will be used for the swap and should be sized more or less the double of your RAM capacity.

The easiest way to do this operation is to use GParted as the file systems will be created in the same time. An alternative way using 'fdisk' and command line tools is possible in text mode.

# gparted

GParted will scan your devices, this can take a long time. Create the system partition using 'ext3' file system, most of users would also make this partition bootable. Then create the swap partition. Please refer to GParted website if you need more informations.

Note the partitions name used, it will be needed for later operations. Most of users should have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 or /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2.

After preparing your disk, you can proceed to the installation. This process will mainly copy the content of the Live CD to your hard disk, then perform some needed operations.

In the following code, be careful to correctly set the parameters, the first one is the system partition, the second one is the swap partition.

# cd /root/install

# ./install.sh [system_partition] [swap_partition]

(eg. ./install.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2)

Most of users will have to make PapugLinux bootable on their computer. 

If you have another system installed on your computer (Linux or Windows) skip this operation, you need to manually set up the boot loader, you can email me for help if needed.

Once again be careful when typing the following code. The first parameter is the system partition, the second parameter is the disk id (mostly the same as the system partition except the last number which represents the partition).

# ./install-boot.sh [system_partition] [disk_id]

(eg. ./install-boot.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda)

PapugLinux should now be installed on your computer. Exit the terminal then reboot your computer. Remove the Live CD during the computer startup process.