Monday, December 8, 2025

I found Two Cellphone Compatible Linux Distributions

They are like Window Managers in Linux.

1. Lomiri is the better one.
I can log off and also run applications installed in my NUC. 

2. Phosh
Portmanteau of phone and shell.
One can swith cellphone mode to desktop mode effortlessly.
Elaborate schem
Slides up and down.
I did not know how to use it but fiddling with the mouse got the two mode.
Log out icon is there on top right hand corner
It goes into sleep mode instantly and with the mouse click activate to cellphone mode or desktop mode. One can access any application installed on the PC.

Both are available in Synaptic Package Manager.

One is over 750MB.
Other is at least 500MB.

I am going to fiddle with them and learn.

Much better than UserLand utility.

Now I know Morph Browser was developed for Linux cellphones and now has migrated to Linux desktop. Light weight and is similar to Dillo but lighter than Dillo.

Reborn OS UPDATE

Reborn OS is one of the easiest to install only rivalled by Manjaro. One should give a reasonable large /var partition perhsos over 10GB. My standard is 6GB but I run into problem filling it up. This does not happen, never with Debian Gnome. Debian knows how to allocate space. 
Reasi being applcations are fireign to REBORN OS allocate space in the /var partition.
Be mindful.

I got BlueFish from Software Center

Firky is becoming innovative.
Missing applications are stored in Software center.
It tookbonly 5.8GB to install GNOME.
I am trying angelfish browser, now.
Unlike Synaptic Package manager 
I must go for catfish if not cutefish.
Cutefish is not there but catfish is available.

Tried Installing Linux Excalibur but Failed

I tried installing Excalibur on a dysfunctional 3 EXT4 partitions.
It failed.
Its instalation only took 5 minutes.
Preparation took one hour.
All in Text Mode in a Terminal.
It uses only 3 partitions.
Boot, Root and Home.
No Vat and Tmp or Opt.

Ruined my  GRUB Boot Loader.
It is only 1.9GB Iso Image.
Desktop is Xfce which I hate.
Experience is no different from SOLUS. Saga and almost identical.
If anybody wishes to experiment with Excalibur he or she is on personal peril.

I am a doctor in retirement and was an Ace Problem solver in active life both in CEYLON, UK and New Zealand.
Australia of course I pretend not to be a doctor. Long time ago, I wished to work on Northern Territories of Australia and I did not have money for tickets and VISA fees and gave up until I moved to New Zealand for a health payment but a very heavy job.
Once I worked 172 hours on two weeks.
Their labour regulation was 40 to 44 hours for a week. I was doing twice the workload and was covering for 3 recedent doctors and the OPD Emergency care during weekends. 
I threatened to sue the administration for violating their own labour regulations.
After I left, nobody joined the hospital and the local GP who was very smart guy was appointed and he saved his bills for his dispensary expenses.
It was a Win Win situation for him.
I returned home and joined the University with a very poor salary.
I became very active politically and plan was to send Rajapaksa Regime home unless they remedy our salary anomalies.
It was a 3 year long struggle and we sent him home. The plus side was he approved out saraly 3 months before my retirement and I did not get a red cent in salary increase. Not even my due promotion.
My promotion interview was held 3 months after my real retirement.
In the interview I said I would never walk into the University again.
Interview was over in 5 minutes before I let my steam out which I used to do if I am not going to be selected.
Yes, I did that at Central Bank of Ceylon 48 hours before the LTTE Bomb Blast.
I said Central Bank deserved it in a metaphorical sense not on literal sense.
I wrote this while reinstating my GRUB not on terminal but on graphic mode.
It is finishings and I am back to normal.

Last part is to say I do not go into Panic mode in Linux.
Just multitasking.

Linux Installation Simplified

With Debian GNOME

With all the applications I may need installed, I have used 13.3GB, leaving 12.2GB remaining in my/root file and I would not get any warning, saying there is no space in any of my /EXT files including /var and /tmp.

I prefer /tmp instead of Calamares /opt which gets filled up quickly in REBORN and MANJARO.

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Hard Drive Space 

/root 25GB and 30GB is more than adequate.
/home 15GB
For EFI, boot, var and tmp or opt 10GB.
50GB is ample.

SWAP now optional but I leave 16GB.
Twice the RAM was the old recommendation.

40GB NFFS partition for storing Windows files, say doc files.

100GB is enough and the rest is for the storage, say  storing GAME files purchased.

In my case no games but 5 different distributions and at least 2 ARCH derivatives.

B
At least 5 USB sticks for writing Iso images.

C
Software 
USB Formatter 
USB Writer

D
Spare Time

E
Do not Listen to YouTube guys, 99% of them  come from previous Windows or Apple background and hardly know how Linux operates.

F
Good Passwords for root and user.

AVOID 
Ubuntu
Zorin
Pop OS
Tuxedo 
Elementary OS

I
SOFTWARE applications
Synaptic Package Manager
Avoid SOFTWARE that is bulky with sandbox applications.
But if an application is missing in Synaptic one should look for in SOFTWARE.
Bluefush is not available in Forky Synaptic but is available with SOFTWARE.
Now Bluefish is available in Synaptic Package Manager

J
Applications
Depends on one's needs.

Please do a web survey to begin with.

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