Yes, it is, 3M.
3M in Medical Terminolgy stands for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
I had a 3M stethoscope which my brother bought me from UK. I had a Cardiac Stethoscope which I gave it to a younger doctor before leaving CEYLON but kept my regular Adult and Neonatal stethoscopes.
3M is old due to Old Age, lack of sleep and poor night vision.
Cold weather in Australian Winter wakes me to waje up at 5AM whether, I had the minimum 4 hours of Deep Sleep or not.
Then nothing else to do I fiddle with the Old Laptop which my son has lost interest, totally. It was in the attic, figuratively, speaking.
Poor night vision and small font make to make many mistakes.
I had this problem of many mistakes in 2010 when I was trying to download and test 100 Linux Distributions. Download speed was so poor I had to do that after midnight. By the way, I was busy with day time working in the University as a teacher.
I forgot PIN numbers for all my Bank Accounts for 3 months. I could not use my credit cards. Fortunately, I had a Savings Account in Peoples Bank and survived.
I designed an elaborate methods ehich included rank filth in Sinhala like "ඇකේ පුරියා රිට මදුනා" at Google Drive "මට ඌ ගැහුවා, ඌ මට ගැහුවා" like phrases.
To protect my account I won't disclose the details.
Now, the download speed here in AUSTRALIA, is fabulous.
What I downloaded in one year in CEYLON, I did it under one week, here.
So testing Linux became automatic.
Now current episode is due to me finishing my book on Linux Essentials, and I need to have a new chapter on current affairs in Linux. Mistajes one make during Installation is going to be a chaoter.
Every mistake I make I diligently investigate.
I have decided to drop the idea of 10 distributions and decided to install only eye-catching distributions.
ELive comes under my Radar and I am installing it now.
I am prepared to spend 3 hours with Elive, today.
It is 10.50AM and this time I got, EFI, / boot, /root and /home partition.
But at the end of the day ELive fiddled with the numbering order and destroyed booting of BIG Linux.
It is asking for donations and had I been in CEYLON, even with financial crisis in CEYLON, I would have obliged. I do not have an account here but I have my cheque book. Nobody writes cheques nowadays.
By the way, I got WiFi configured this time around which is a huge improvement.
Let me hope by 1PM, it is all done with Blender also installed.
With 3 distributions, already, there are 15 partitions. ELive started with partition 13. Hope it is not going to be Unlucky 13.
Its Music stopped long time ago.
Installation finished in 15 minutes which is pretty good.
It is configuring the system.
Opted outed from UBUNTUs SNAP but kept Flatpak.
If Synaptic Package Manager is there I am considering installing GNOME Desktop on top of the Enlightenment Desktop.
SWAP not used at all.
RAM 745MB out of 4000MB.
With 2 CPUs and 50% is usage, so it is 1 (one) CPU on standby
It looks like it would finish in 2 and 1/2 hours. I skip lunch even during Winter but take a heavy Dinner.
By the way, Black Terminal is on.
Full Trottle.
Disk usage is full and installing new software.
It wanted to overwrite BIG Linux which I objected. That was the last installed distribution. It did overwrite BIG Linux.
July 3rd is Go❤️D for me.
We say ජුලි හත when things go bad in CEYLON.
Deleting Language Packs which saves space.
CPU in full throttle.
Well I did not know Language packs are a burden on CPU and not RAM.
Not rusing SWAP is a trend of ARCH based distributions.
No wonder Microsoft 365 drains computer throroghput.
Setting Up Steam game machine.
Setting up fonts database.
Removing fonts.
Purging some configuration files.
Linking to Bookworm Repository.
So WiFi Connection was vital.
Finished.
User configuration now.
I got this wrong last time.
Gave a short password for user.
Generating GRUB and initram.
Finishing on terminal now.
GRUB should not take long time.
Only 3 entries.
GRUB in EFI mode.
Setting up users and configuration.
Congratulation to me.
Messed up GRUB.
THANK You Elive.
11.50PM.
I was patient today.
Image was on a SD Card mounted on USB (Stick) mounter.
Solution for this SAGA is to install AVL Linux Me.
It is very simple but I like AVL Moksha Linux with a modified Enlightenment Desktop.
GRUB gone haywire.
BIG Linux not booting.
ELive Deliberately installed on top of BIG Linux /root partiion.
I would install BIG Linux later there is enough Space in the Hard Disk.
How❤️ver, I got ELive booting OK.
At 15.15PM I am listening to Elive music at last. Video configuration is better than on my NUC with an Integrated Graphic Card. I think I ERASED the NUC installation because of that.
Thank You Moksha Linux for reorganizing the GRUB BootLoader.
Blender on ELive is pretty good.
I'll install AVL Linux Me now.
"Compromised Success", I call it.
I had put a TRAP.
The first partition is EXT4.
EFI is 4th partition in sequence and like UBUNTU and Bodhi it would have looked for Microsoft FAT Partition which I made VOID by my own design.
MANJARO is booting OK.
I am UPDATING Manjaro.
860MB upgrade.
BIG Linux installed in 12 minutes but with Btrfs file system. Connecting to Internet added few minutes.
MANJARO finished under 10 minutes, no power, no internet and consumed 2% of the battery. Again "butter fs' file system.
There is a caveat here both UBUNTU and MANJARO are subservient to Microsoft Windows and using FAT partition of 300MB to Boot.
I know Debian can boot from anywhere from the disk. One has to have a /boot partition in good old days but now the sophisticated EFI.
I always used it as the first partition.
It uses 1GB and won't let Virus to creep in after installation.
I already have a Boot Virus to cope with.
What I do now is Reinstall MANJARO on EXT partition and ERASE the Microsoft FAT partition of only (one) 1MB.
Microsoft guys see what am doing to You.
See whether Manjaro can boot from EFI.
It should.
First time in my life First Partition is EXT4 Partition.
It is working alright .
I am going to have a break now.
No evening Tea but a NAP I deserve.
Thanks to UBUNTU which I call a Linux Virus, I have discovered many fancy stuff of booting.
DEBIAN has finished.
Well, first time in my life I am booting without Microsoft dedicated FAT Partition at the beginning of the Partition Table.
I have to revise my advise on to have an INTERNET Connection while installing lm
If you do that Debian GNOME would resort to booting from USB.
I haven't tried it though, for a long time.
I got 24 partitions now and Debian second instance is installing with 3105 files. It has Cellphone Utilities which takes about 900MB.
Next will be CachyOS os or MX Linux KDE.
Last of all beautiful BiG Linux second instance. The first instance was deliberately dedtroyed by ELive my LOVE and HATE distribution.
By that time I am back to my serious Writing Mode.
