Moment Meditation

 Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Moment Meditation

If I am asked what is meditation?
I would try to answer it by saying,
Moment gained is moment lost in Meditation,
Moment not gained or lost is the the true
Focus of attention in Meditation.

Equally, it is not a void or an empty phenomena or vacuum,
But the height of intense attention
That is not measured in seconds
But by nanoseconds of intensity,
Which is very difficult to achieve
In a world of distraction.

One should try to see
Its own application
In a moment of meditation.

Buddhism and Meditation

Theravada

Hinayana

 

Teaching of the Elders

Chulahastthipadopama Sutta

Ceylon 

Thailand 

Myanmar

Laos

Cambodia 

 

Sila

Samadhi

Pangna

Goal is Arhath or liberation.

Written down after 400 years after Parinibbhana.

Vinaya

Sutta

Abhidhamma 

Mahayana

Great Vehicle 

Amithaba Buddha

Avalokiteshvara

Would not attain Nirvana until all the other beings are liberated from suffering.

Goal is Bodhisattva

Postpone Nirvana

 

Compassion the underlying theme.

 

This is the Bodhisattva Theme

Cha'n Buddhism or Zen

 

Every Individual has Buddha potential.

 

Adapted to the region and culture of the region.

It diversified with new meanings 

Tibetan

Japanese 

Chinese Cha'n or Zen

Vajrayana

750 CE

Diamond Vehicle

Bon Shaama's declared it as a doom

The King Failed to erect the Tibetan (Vihara) Monastery 

 

Most likely due to earth quakes of that time.

 

Padmashambhava

Tantric practice

 

My addition.

The Alien Aircraft crash landed on Tibet.

Some were saved back to the mother ship but a lot were left behind.

They were powerful and treated humans cruelly.

They gradually established there as a colony.

They eventually interbred with humans.

 

They unlike humans could live on harsh conditions and detested human encroachment.

Humans treated them as ghosts and daemons.

 

Meditative power and Tantric practices were developed to repel them.

Either these aliens were saved by their forefathers or were gradually vanished or integrated.

 

Some of them still remain as Spiritual Elders but rarely interact with humans.

They are able to see into the future.

 

Gradually coexistence instead of confrontation.

 

My Alien theory has a base.

Read Ana Blastikova.

Intense Meditative practice.

 

Enlightenment in this life.

Tibetans live long life probably due to genes of Aliens who had very long life.

Unless one has a long life one cannot travel in space.

 

One cannot preach Buddhism to these beings who believe that life is endless.

They have healing and repairing techniques of their own which contribute to their long life..

Their wish to return to their mother planet.

 

Chinese invasion in 1950 shattered this Tibetan ancient civilization.

14th Lama fled to India.

Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959.

 

This is why I hate China and Chinese.

 

They (Chinese) cannot be trusted

Rest of the Lama are scattered around the world and the rest of the Tibetan tradition is dying and fragmenting.

My Analysis 

Buddhism is not evolving but devolving.

Each traditional practice is losing it grip and getting diluted.

 

Even in Ceylon there is Niragamika Theme and Niragamika Party in power, it is total disaster for Buddhist Culture.

 

Within the last 7 months every attempt is made to belittle Buddhist Culture.

It is India/CIA/China, NGO cohorts. 

The operation is well advanced.

 

I think this cohort attempt may make a resurgence of Temporary Renaissance.

 Summary

1. Precision in Theravada

Analysis including Abidhamma.

2. Compassion in Mahayana

Universal Brotherhood.

One human species and Peace

No Wars.

3. Power of Meditation in Vajrayana

It is my wishful thinking, more and more effort is needed in spite of dilution and disruption tactics.

 

We must get rid of the current Regime in Power for Buddhism to survive in Ceylon within two years.

 

That is my message to the International Buddhist Forums.

My attempt

To protect Buddhism from attack from various corners, as much as it is possible.

 

By the way, I am away from Ceylon.

At this moment life is not guaranteed in Ceylon with lot of underworld elements.

 

Remember these guys and girls killed lot of civilians in Ceylon in 1971-1973 and 1986-1989. 

Their hands are blood stained.

1. Satara Satipattama

Four Foundations of Mind

Reverend Pnanapoinika

2. Dhammapada 

Most Reverend Narada Thera

3. Words of Buddha 

 Most Reverend Narada Thera

Bhikku Bodhi

4. Abidhamma 

Reverend Narada

Bhikku Bodhi.

5. 1000 Meditative Stances

Ana Pana Sati is only one of them

 

Vissuddhimagga

 

Path to Wisdom 

I practice "Metta Meditation".

I practice "Moment Meditation".

 

Five minutes in the morning.

Five minutes before bed.

Any available moment in between.

 

One does not need a retreat to practice "Moment Meditation". 

Sure recipe for good night sleep.

Wake up fully energized.

WordPress

 Sunday, December 12, 2010
WordPress
WordPress is a Open Source Content Management System (C.M.S) that provides a simple web application platform for web hosting.

If you a Linux geek you can download it and tweak it to satisfy your needs but the open license prevents you from developing new themes other than what is already agreed and known as the standard.

It probably developed from Ubuntu Turnkey applications and has a significant market share of web hosting for smaller companies.

My intention here is to let you know that there is www.wordpress.org that gives you a blog space like here in Google's blogspot that can be your personal web site before you mature into a Web Wizard.

Other reason for me to highlight it here is that it has support for Sinhala fonts and Tamil fonts for your web writings.

Do not wait till Government provides you with necessary infrastructure in IT including fonts, go and become a Web Star (not a Mega Star) by learning the basics with WordPress.

It is easy as a word processing program and you will ascend to greater heights once you master the Code.

A glossary of the Codecs are published elsewhere free for access.

It is free but once you are mature you can pay a nominal fee and upgrade your blog site which for me is almost a complimentary website without annoying advertisements that hide your creativity.

I downloaded WordPress some months ago but failed to write something about it since I was obsessed with Linux 100 Live CDs.

I still have the WordPress web site I made and it is not PUBLIC.

Now I am quietly delving into inner strengths of Linux and Open Source talking about WordPress is appropriate here.

The omission was a serious lapse on my part and my apologies for that.

WordPress is as important as Dropbox for new wave of web activity with cloud computing on the horizon.

Two Stories Worth Relating

Two Stories Worth Relating 

It is worth relating two true stories, here.

There were no cellphones but brick sized walkie talkies.

I packed the family to Ceylon and living alone in the hospital house in UK. 

I had a nasty night with lot of patients and wanted to catch up with my sleep. I came home around 1.30AM and there was a bit racket on the pantry door. I put the fridge, freezer and the dryer against the pantry door so that it won’t open. 

When I woke up 1PM, the next day there was no electricity to make a cup of tea. I gave a call to the telephone exchange to ask why there was no electricity. The lady there started laughing saying;

“You are hell of a guy! Slept through the worse cyclone in our living history. Open your door and see that your parapet wall is knocked down and the roof of the next door is blown off”.

Any way, they quickly restored my electricity and the pantry gadgets saved the roof over my head.

The second story was less dramatic. 

On a Saturday, afternoon in New Zealand, I woke up on the floor next to my bed. There again, no electricity to make a cuppa.

I asked why from the telephone exchange?

With a laugh;

“You are hell of a guy, you slept though an earth quake of the magnitude of 7.2 Richter scale”

“ Well I am on the floor but no injuries”.

When I looked at the “Buddha in a frame”, it was still tilting!

 

Of course, computers were my addiction, even those days.

Macron is a Sick Guy to Tolerate Abuse in Public

I am a medical guy off practice over 25 years but still can identify a Sick Guy.

Tolerating abuse is even sicker.

I left UK long time ago, having seen even police officers in UK involved in abuse of kids. 

I did my part but deep underneath had the fear one day one these guys might come after me with violence unseen.

So, leaving UK, I have no regrets.

When I see three European heads abusing drugs in public and journalists remaining number, is an indication how deep the problem in Europe.

These are the very guys who are talking about Human Rights Violations related to our Internal Conflict.

I think Macron should resign.

I have given up my learning French and visiting Ifel Tower, one day in my twilight years.

Not worth the expense.

I might consider visting Russia, instead.

Only if Zelensky is disposed by popular vote. 

He is the guy who is dispensing "Potent DRUGS" to Ruling Elite.

What a scenario!

Linux Activator and Linux

 Saturday, November 6, 2010
Linux Activator and Linux
 

My approach to Linux 100 was purely academic but I never thought that lot of guys. especially the guys developing Linux would care to listen to my comments with any enthusiasm and would take them with good spirit and add utilities that I tend to like the most.

One of the utilities was PHP / MySQL Admin. since in my age and time I am tired of working on a terminal with poor eyesight and trying to work only on command line.

It is imperative that to encourage newbies that come from Microsoft background to get a hang of (good example is myself- having worked with SPSS and Access especially for my research work and trying to do some work only on terminal was anathema by itself) Linux before delving into commend line and scripts.

This is especially so when admirable utilities with graphic front has or being developed are available for wider use.

When these are incorporated in a distribution that make life easy for lot of users who are not full time administrators but have to get involved in administrative functions, especially database management ( for example in Medical Practice).

I thought only a few Linux guys especially the newbies would be interested in my comments as a way of grumbling and wining especially coming from the Windows background like a spoiled brat.

Judging by the Linux outputs recently my reservation was ill founded.

There are lot of guys /girls with a global picture and with lot of dynamism.

Another reservation is for us in the countries where download speed is hopelessly inadequate downloading a DVD is a nightmare and lot of little CDs are much better than a FAT DVD distribution with lot of utilities rarely used.

This is where PCLinux was a trend setter on its own right.

It is nice to see even Fedora 14 has taken a leaf out of PCLinux history and following its foot paths.

Sabayon is doing it (of course they have been doing it independently).

Salix is introducing Live KDE.

I never thought this will happen in my life time.

There is lot of convergence in spite of the diversity.

That is the beauty of Linux.

I hope I never made a comment to hurt any guy / girl doing hard work for Linux with shear dedication.

All my comments were in good spirit since I am a Linux fanatic by choice and not by descent.

If I had made any comments sharp, they were to tone the commercial trends and subtle insinuation by rival distributions to undermine the advance of Linux.

This is happening everyday.

Beware!

I believe in small is beautiful and small (bet on the strength of the hand but not what others have-re-rival companies) is powerful when chips are down and the stock market is tumbling.

It is nice to see UK stock market is following the footsteps of US stock market even 3 years later (US probably anticipated the crisis 2 years before the event, I guess!)

Partitioning with Magic Tools in Linux

October, 25,2010 

Partitioning with Magic Tools in Linux
Partition Magic is a commercial version now!
 

Gone are the days when I had to install Win98 and then Partition Magic and then partitioning which took ages and then install Redhat or Mandriva or Debian with dual booting.

 Nero was my writing tool in spite of Linux installed on my PC.

Suffice is to say Nero had done enough damage to my CD/DVD ROMs and Graphic Cards.

Then there was no K3B.

Beauty of K3B is it diagnoses the defective CD / DVD and reject them after examination without damaging the RAM or the CD/DVD ROMs.

Next stage is Live CDs starting with PCLinux-2007.

The transmigration and single booting with multiple Linux distributions in my computer network and liberation from proprietary components has given me opportunity to investigate partition tools in Linux.

My favorite partition tool is and was Partition tool in SuSe which is excellent and gave me lot of freedom and opportunities.

But then again I have to have SuSe installed to get full use of the partition tool.
Now SuSe Studio has spawned a KDE Partition Magic it is rightful I should mention about the others for newbies.

1. R.I.P (Recovery Is Possible) is one of my favorite Live CD which I use for partitioning.

2. Damn Small Linux and Gparted were the first of my choices those days.

3. Gparted live CD.

4. Partition Magic CD in zip format only a Linux distribution can decipher is the latest of my utilities.

5. PC Linux, Mandriva were my old friends but PCLinux has dropped DOS partitions (which I keep for spare storage) which is a bit of pain.

My only grouse now is most of the partition tools including SuSe limits partitions to 15 which is absurd with hard disks over 500 GB are on the market and guys like me who want to have several Linux distributions in one box.
 

If one distribution has failed in a trick I mount another and get the job done.
 

For example SuSe gives limited space for Thrash and it cannot delete a large (for example an image of 4GB) file.

Then I mount PCLinux and do the job of deleting the large file with its help.

Do not get fixed to one Linux distribution (especially Ububtu) since there are hundreds of out there with many utilities like blender, gambas, audio video (Media Box) and many more to have fun with.

To have fun and to have many distributions you need a partitioning tool and one has to master partitioning.

It is as chicken feed now unlike the days I was struggling to get everything right at least once a year in December before I recess for some holiday and relaxing.

Fortunately because my 100 Linux adventure (111 now) I can have a long holiday well before December.

Enjoy all partitioning tools they do not hurt the hard disks unlike Microsoft utilities.

Another Trick Exposed!

 Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Another Trick Exposed!

Richard Stallman is right, moment the market forces are introduced to Linux distributions, there is hardly any difference from Microsoft, Apple or Oracle and for that mater XandroS, Freespire, Mandriva, SuSe or ArtistX.

After many days of downloading what is said to be free distribution I am unable to keep a copy of Mandriva, Suse or ArtistX in my USB hard disk for safe keeping.

Thank god I did not bother to download DVDs in the first instance.

I was happy with CDs,

I have no intention of selling them.

I am interested in testing them and saying something good about them generally and expose some of their weaknesses as I see from a customer perspective so that next version can avoid minor irritations.

Customer is the best judge and Linux guys are not trained to be good salesmen any way.

That is why the Linux guys with commercial interest fail.

That is true for Mandriva and SuSe.

The have hidden tricks up their sleeves.

They do not let you keep a copy for reference.

This scenario can be overcome by following methods.

1. Burn several copies of the CD and do not bother about the Iso Image like me.

2. Use K3B and make a image without burning a CD /DVD. 

K3B makes a Temporary Image in tmp and rename it. 

That is what I did with ArtistX. 

Then copy it to a CD/DVD or to a USB hard drive (but remember its temporary name).

3. Forget about using that distribution and select one out of the 100 and 1 distributions I have listed in this blogsopt.

4. Once you are comfortable with Linux avoid all commercial Linux.

5. Best solution is to have couple of Live CDs that have the applications you need.

When you try to copy, in the final few seconds they disrupt the coping process with a little script at the end that says it cannot be copied.

If they say it should not be copied it is a different matter.

Even if I sell a few copies I cannot become a millionaire.

This is absurd in the true spirit of FOSS.

They are no better.
Wolves in sheep clothing.
Take hard working Developers for granted.

Mandriva has the way of disrupting the last few MB which does not tally with total MB so that the would be newbie has to go and buy a copy.

If you are lazy it is far better to buy rather than download a Iso with missing files.

Like a good salesmen one must state the facts but not like an insurance agents or dealers who have hidden clause/s.

A clever customer can catch you and detect the faults unlike the gullible guy with lot of money and spare wallets.

It is like a bad dream or joke!

 

Feather Linux

Web site: featherlinux.berlios.de (not active)
Origin: United Kingdom
Category: Desktop, Mini Distribution
Desktop environment: Fluxbox
Architecture: x86
Based on: Knoppix
Wikipedia: Feather Linux
Media: Live Cd
The last version | Released: 0.7.5 | July 04, 2005

Feather Linux – a small, Knoppix based Linux distribution which fits in under 128 MB.
It boots from either a CD or a USB flash drive, into a Fluxbox desktop environment and works in live mode, but a hard drive installation option is also available. It can run on a 486 or higher, and requires 16MB RAM to run on the console, and 24MB RAM to run the X server.

Feather Linux iso image features a set of applications for many tasks, such as: Firefox, 

Gaim, 

AbiWord, 

MPlayer with all the needed plugins, 

XMMS with a handful of plugins, 

Sylpheed,

 AbiWord, 

Pidgin, 

Rox-filer, and a lot more.

Due it is based on Knoppix (and Debian), Feather offers Synaptic for package managing.

The founder and developer of the Feather Linux is Robert Sullivan.

FeatherLinux
Strangely enough this is 111 in my Linux List.

Like Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux the Feather Linux is a Beauty.

I always believed the concept "Small is Beautiful".
This is and example in addition to DSL.

I was DSL fan to begin with.

When I was new to Linux and when I first bought the Linux Bible by Christopher Naegus (I have three different editions now, latest one I bought few months ago after a 6 year Gap), and in those that booted from Floppy Disks, there were only a few Live CDs (Knoppix was there but I did not know about Puppy then-Puppy is one of my favorites now with over 25 varieties in my possession) that I copied form one of the CD/DVDs that came with the book.

I booted up live and enjoyed Linux and its utilities.

Just little over 100 MB one do wonders which 1000 MBs or 1GB cannot.
 

It is a Knoppix derivative by the way!
 

One thing they did best was if you are unable to get to the Internet they did it in double quick time (with a router easily but with with Sri-Lankan Telecom modems with some difficulty).

Today I used Dillo and I could not sign up with Google (that was basic test based browser without cookies) and bit fiddly with my keyboard too but I managed to post this in Firefox.

Abiword is there xPDF is there, Xmms is there and many more.

Pretty fast to boot too.

Today just for testing downloaded 700 MB of STUX (which STUCK) after half an hour of struggling it could not configure my NV Graphic Card and configured non existent devs and I was scared it will bust my Graphic Card all because it was trying to mount all its compressed files into RAM.

It could not give me a console (or consolation prize) to exit or a killall command.

I had to switch off the computer by getting into a null state (I call it null state) a non existent command in Linux (just wait a while and switch off the computer with the hand on your chest with gospel words in my mouth-but beware the graphic card and RAM-which I used burn those days and also mid night oil, learning Linux all by myself with no Guru to help).

Thanks a lot the Guys and Girls at Feather Linux.
Keep up the good work.

It is long time since I booted Feather Linux.
You will have lot of feathers in your caps.
Thanks again!

OH-GOD-Linux

 Friday, October 29, 2010
OH-GOD-Linux
If you a Christian newbie this is for you.

Now that I have secured an iso for myself and the full copyright of that iso's name as Go.Go-F.O.F. Linux I am thankful to God and all Linux Developers for providing me with the download facility of AOGOS Linux.

This is a Christian Slackware Linux which is fantastic to learn Linux Tricks.

It is a version that you can carry your Linux Distribution and the Bible in a Pendrive or a DVD.

I was bit unhappy that this was a zip image especially thinking that I have to learn the Bible to perform Linux tricks.

Being a Buddhist I was more than irritated.

Even though it was three (3 AM) in the morning I did not want to go to sleep without burning an iso.

I am safe doing this since all the other Buddhists are fast asleep now.


I went to Softpedia.

Looked at the page description.

This is a good web page and I could find the way to do it / make an iso.

1. Extract the zip file to a folder named AOGOS.

2. Then go to the boot folder and open it.

3. Find the make-iso.sh file.

4. Open a terminal window in Linux

5. Drop the make-iso.sh into the terminal window and hit enter.

6. Find the iso and make a boot CD in K3B.

Presto!
It writes an image in the download folder as a boot.iso.
It gives an option for you to give a name for the iso.

Please do not do that. just for now.

It took ages for me to find the name of the new iso (name is boot.iso) but I knew it was there since my download folder was almost full.

Eventually I booted up the DVD.

It is good as gold.

It is new NFlux box.

right click not writeclique and go to Firefox and then you are at FreeBible web site.

Well done Boys and Girls (Good Christians) who developed this iso.

Only downside is even the Christians in this country are poor in money affairs but not in virtues, they cannot afford a DVD drive and DVD (twice the price of CD).

I hope a CD iso can be made since nFlux is not heavy in its armaments (sorry, for my terminology this is a post military country now, habits are too ingrained and diehard).

Now let me tell you why I did not want you to name the iso file.

I renamed it as the Oh-GoD-Linux and saved it in my archives for any Christian friend of mine who asks for it will have it free if he or she gives me a blank DVD.

Or I can rename it as Do-Do Linux and give it to any friend of mine.

The most interesting part of this CD/DVD is that it has Laminin as a logo (in its desktop image ) that binds all the cells to basement membrane as an anchor) which is almost a replica of the Cross.

Unlike Buddhists who are deeply divided with all the Laminins broken this DVD and the Laminin will bind all the Christians of this country together.

It is a good Christmas Gift for kids.

P.S. (5-11-20100)
Sorry for the glaring mistakes in English which I think were corrected today (5th November).
Who cares for Queen's English in this country especially 3 A.M in the morning, me half awake and trying to burn an iso and run it to see its virtues.
Even the Telecom and the kids who say I am Sri-Lanka would be proud of my English.
When we begin to say "We are Sri-Lankans" but not "I am Sri-Lankan"

God save the Queen and her English!

Puppy_Linux_EliteOS

 Puppy_Linux_EliteOS

by l0wt3ch


Topics
    Puppy Linux, EliteOS, Lupu 511, l0wt3ch

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EliteOS is a Puppy Linux puplet by l0wt3ch and is based on Lupu 511 and uses kernel 2.6.33.2

more details here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60856

Added date -2013-07-06 21:10:43

Identifier- Puppy_Linux_EliteOS

Linux and the RAM

Friday, November 5, 2010
Linux and the RAM
It is not so long ago with 4 MB on board VG and 64MB RAM  I was able to boot Redhat 8. 

Mandrike, Debian, Xandros (no live CDs except Knoppix, I had not yet discovered the Damn Small Linux) with some difficulty SuSe in my desktop.

The Linux is somewhat bloated now.

Without at least 512MB RAM one is not able to boot and install Linux now.

This is not a good recipe for average Sri-lankan who cannot afford to eat rice with Pol Sambol now (due to surging RAM on Pol Pol Arrakku and Pol-Coconuts).

If anybody makes a Linux distribution called Pol Sambol Linux, nobody will care to try it even if it is given free of charge (nothing is free in this country liberated except daily headaches).

So RAM is important for a low budget person like me.

Let me talk about the type of RAMs before relating my story.

I started with 100 BUS SDR RAM.

Those days finding two 128 RAMs was extremely difficult especially 100 BUS speed.

I had to wait for years and hack them out of junk computers imported to Sri-Lanka.

Then came the SDR 133 (BUS) speed RAM and somehow I could find 256MB of RAM with an assortment of 128's and 64's.

This was just enough for me to boot all Linux distributions without a hassle.

Then came DDR 1, 2 and 3 and the RAMs were hefty in size.

The other day my daughter's computer with Linux installed was out (the reason was the usual overload and with 20 GB hard disk - over the last one year she had collected junk files (no viruses) and she does not want me to clean the junk files and she does not do it herself and one or two years of IDE hard disk is good throughput, anyway).

I dismantled the hard disk and put a new 80 GB hard disk that I have kept for future use.

I was trying to partition (not with DOS now) the new hard disk with PCLinux-2010 and I could not.

Then I tried LXDE and could not.

Finally I had to go back to DSL and later to Linux Partmagic to get the new disk prepared.

I did not enjoy all this at late night and gave her the computer with SATA 20GB and 80GB IDE (dual) with newly installed PClinux 2010-10 and downloaded, a few of the software she needed for her work.

This was also bought from a junk deal and of course I added 512 graphic card to get it in prime condition.

I asked her whether we buy a new one and she was not that keen on a new one (now that she is very much comfortable with Linux without viruses and dropping her bad Microsoft habits was a welcome change for me).
 

The new Linux (PCLinux 2010) distributions are cravvy on RAM and use the full 256 RAM and after that could not do anything useful including install.

This is why I call KDE the Gorilla Linux with some affection for Gorilla and the KDE (I am a KDE fan now except when I do repair work on old computers),

So if you are using Live CDs have at least 1 GB of RAM if you are thinking of installing the same.

Otherwise it will freeze during the installation process. 

This is true of Ubuntu 10.10 and SuperOs (DVD), too.

SuSe needs minimum of 512 (but ideally 1 GB) and that is also with CD and not DVD.

SuSe of course can be installed (very good feature) from the live CD without loading into RAM which most of the Linux Live distributions do not include or offer including PCLiniux.

Ultimately I decided to use the computer as a TV box in addition to using it as a web outlet with 1 GB RAM added.

Unlike those days there are plenty of unused second hand SDR RAMs in the market without buyers.

For Linux newbies and savvy this can be a Treasure House or Goldmine.

The Linux is far behind in configuring variety of TV cards now on the market and I hope developers will be looking to this aspect since it is cheaper to use a computer as a TV box instead of an expensive and flashy LCD TVS now in the market.

Linux on a low budget and RAM

 Friday, November 5, 2010

Linux on a low budget and RAM

I was somewhat obsessed with the variety of live CD distributions on offer that I have overlooked Linux on a low budget and computers both old and new with little or inadequate RAM.

There are many to list but I will mention a handful of them to conclude my investigation of user friendly tiny vinny distributions that I have come across.

1. Geebox come to my mind that is similar to gamebox or media player with needing 0nly 25MB.

2. My favorite is Puppy which is 90 to 120 MB and there are over 30 varieties.
The last of which I downloaded was EliteOS (with a commercial presentation included).
It is pretty good.
In the Puppy 5 series, the lupu is another celebrity.

3. Damn Small Linux (the one I use when I am in trouble booting and partitioning) is a beauty on its own with only 50MB.

4. Astrumi (120 MB) is another good one. I think it is a Polish distribution.
The older version cannot recognize LCD monitors.
New ones are coming by the dozens.

5. 4MLinux-Gamer is only 11MB and and the standard is 25MB.

6. Voyage is only 45MB.

7. xPUD a web browser and media player is 65MB.

8. The xin-v1 is only 52MB

9. SliTas

10. Tiny Me

11. Finnix is another

12. WiFiWay small 285MB and Standard 408MB (Spanish).

13. Minix is 385MB.

14. CRUX is 220MB.

15. NimbleX was less than 200MB but now is bit fatty and has doubled itself to 400MB.

16. Feather Linux is also another flag bearer (like DSL) of small and beautiful Linux.

Then come to the the partition tools, there are many and one does not need a proprietary software to do partitioning (I have dropped MS partition magic for good but it was the one that saved many hours of sleep (sleepless nights before that) in the early days of Linux experience)

17. gparted

18. partmagic

19. pmagic

20. R.I.P. Linux

20 is a magic number for me. 

In studies of evolution (my personal work) if there are 20 related species in a locality that 20 would circumvent any adverse climatic change at least temporarily but if that figure is 3 the species is critically endangered.

With the same context in time to come Microsoft is an endangered commercial species may be catering for other planetary systems in space.

The host of Ubuntu derivatives that come as TURNKEY should be the fitting end to my list.

The list is endless and my favorites are Puppy, DSL and Feather Linux.

They are the ones I have used comfortably and on a regular basis and I have used in demonstrations to show Linux prowess.

Sorry guys and girls that I have only mentioned your names only and they are much better and my GoGo. F.O.F. Linux which is still under construction with my workforce on extended Christmas holidays enjoying other Linux for relaxation.
 

They are allowed to copy any good idea free of charge or copyrights.

It is an understatement when I say that they are the most useful when one (I am in trouble) is in trouble or on low in RAM to do the tit bits (not bits and bytes).

Bye till new year!

Celebrations without Microsoft

 Monday, November 15, 2010
Celebrations without Microsoft
I am celebrating the third anniversary without Microsoft, this Christmas.

Is there anybody other than Anuradha doing work only on Linux in Sri-Lanka?

Please post an email or comment below so that we can have a private party.

I was trying to catch 100 students (school leavers to train free) from Kandy.

That was a total failure (blessing in disguise for me) but welcome free time for me to enjoy life with my kids.

Aragalya is a Criminal Offense and Guys and Girls should be treated with Criminal Law of the Country (Ceylon)

 

The bottom line is Aragalya is illegal.

 

Just compare the actions taken in America when they stormed the Senate House. 

 

Why there is a difference in Ceylon.

 

India, China and USA getting involved in Ceylon are also illegal.

Ambassadors only have diplomatic immunity. 

 

CIA covertly cannot operate in Ceylon.

  

Aragalya is a Criminal Offense and Guys and Girls should be treated with Criminal Law of the Country (Ceylon)

 

It is actually a conspiracy to oust the Legal Government by Illegal means. 

 

1. This include Police Officers who facilitated it.

 

2. Lawyers who defended these illegal occupants and who (including so, called lawyers) facilitated the uprising against the state for no reason at all.

Debt crisis cannot be taken as a reason but a civil issue.

 

3. Catholic Church and Priests and the Church which orchestrated the background and were instrumental in bringing it on.

 

The past dates I cannot remember and I was kid.

See what is below.

 

J.R.J. tied this Under Sirima.

Ozie Corea was in it.

 

Buddhist monks tried  (BuddhaRakkitha) under S.W.R.D. and they were taken to task legally.

 

So the present cardinal should be taken to task.

 

He cannot hide in Vatican.

4. Ranil Wickmasinghe for planning this outside the parliament. 

He is immune while inside or holding the post of President. 

The way he came to parliament was also illegal.

5. Any one could be legally prosecuted for deeds done when not holding a legal post (MP, PM, President etc)

 

6. Nobody is above the law of this country which has a solid constitution unlike in UK including Police officers violating the constitution by inciting the Aragalya or Outside Forces.

 

That include the film actors too.

 

7. YouTube guys and girls who incite violence are included. 

Free Speech cannot be used as a defense if they are Operating Against the STATE.

 

There is no "Free for All" scenario in Courts of Law.

7. My point is nobody is raising these issues.

I am a medical guy in retirement and I have had dealing in Courts of Law to defend my rights (Municipality violating my rights was one of them).

I won by perseverance.

 

But is is very difficult to run against Immigration Officers. 

Please KNOW that as fact.

Balty Gaseema Nohoth Monkey Dance

Sepala is the classic example of My Theory of Balty Gaseema.

 

There was a Ahikuntaka guy that used to come to Kandy with a monkey, python and a cobra. 

His daily expense was Rs.25,00 to 3000.

Monkey eats bananas.

Python needs beef.

Cobra needs eggs.

This was before Gas Queues of Ranil's Economic Theory and his current expense should be easily Rs.100,000.

300% increment or real inflation in Ceylon.

 

These guys in Colombo do not feel the pinch that an average villager feels.

 

1. Sepala worked for NPP.

 

2. Then soon after he became anti-NPP.

He is a balty KING.

That is to increase his patroon contribution to his cock and bull theory on YouTube.

He is like the Uraga Anselum who pretends to be a professor for Uragyas (snakes and scorpions) who was a laboratory technician when I was a meidcial student. There was another guy like him in the Medical Faculty at that time and his name I forget. 

He looks (external appearance) another version of bogus professor at least Anselem was good at dissecting cobras (I abhor violence to animals from my medical student days, to become a good doctor one should cultivate that empathy for all living beings not only humans) and putting rings around the belly of cobras (inhuman guy).

Sepala is like a swinging monkey.

 

Ready for bulty dance at any political turn of events.

 

3. Now he is supporting Ranil.

Why?

Nothing but dollars.

He is saying Ranil's has a white paper for education.

 

This guy had never gone to a proper school.

Ranil plan is to destroy Kannaggara Free Education.

Especially the University Education.

I am one who fault hard against the Ranil another monkey roll against university education (CIA agenda)

 

Kumar Gunatatnam and Pubudu guys are hard work at destroying university education and the money dish out in these "on the road actions" probably coming from Ranil.

 

My time these guys had only a fringe influence but Anura, the Game Ranil are accessories during Aragalaya which Ranil was the brain child.

 

I am interested to see how many provincial council seats UNP/Sepala Combo wins.

 

My Current Political Analysis of Ceylon

Ranil and UNP

Pragmatic and Painful

Anura and NPP

One Party Idealism and Self Created Political Roadblocks

That leads to ametuerism

Or try and see policy

Sajith and Harsha

Pragmatism and Free Dole

My Plan biased with Buddhist Outlook 

Middle Path of Buddha, not staying in the middle as in politics

Pragmatism

Live within means

Empathy

Current Outlook

World without Empathy is crude and physical one of the ways of Ranil.

Could kill a guy with opposing views as in Batalanda.

A police State.

JVP

Can kill due to jeslosy and caste base.

We are shifting from one extreme to the other without understanding the "Middle Way".

There is also CIA/India and anti-Buddhist undercurrent with a military objective with based in Colmobo, Trincomale, Mihintale and Sigiriya that "Soma Deva" guy proposing. I think he had got a big dollar cut to destroy Ceylon history by LTTE diasphora.

Track Record

Posted on February 10, 2011

Track Record 

 Track Record
We are a country very well known for very bad track records.
 

If we take the political fields and feedback we have from politics as a track record is a very vibrant democracy but unable to protect voting rights or for that matter exercise the vote intelligently.

We are even ready to sell it come elections and we have devised so many rackets involving voting and counting even the very old and ancient election commissioner does not know what really happens at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the process and his report comes well pass the deadline and perhaps after his retirement.

I am not talking about that record.

Then we have the track record of sending the biggest contingent of athletes to neighbouring India for Commonwealth games and come back empty handed and the gold won was disgraced by a registered practitioner.

This is not about that tack record, too.

Then we have a veritable track record in cricket but not for the past 10 years.

We have an appalling bad record of selecting the correct players for a tournament except perhaps with some reservation of the squadron for this time. 

We love flying even if we do not understand any aviation matters and maps and routes except from Colombo to Katunayake, especially if it is paid by somebody else.

This is not about that track record and ticketing and seats for a flight abroad for the Cricket World Cup.

This is about the internet track record.

Even though, we have an enormous track record of downloading porn even from Nanasalas in Temples this is all about torrent track record on Linux.

It goes on like this.

Since I had a very poor service contract with our local Telecom, I was forced to turn to Torrents (the undercurrent of my exercise of the free franchise) by default and learn something about it.

Again there was nobody to tell me what exactly I should do and how to set about it.

So I did my own research having been trained to do research protocols for the university all alone.

And this is the track record of what I discovered from PCLinuxfullMonty’s K-torrent track.
 

PCLinuxFulMonty was my favorite, then. 

I do not use it now since it is slow to update.
 

It gives a nice graphic record of every file I download and its bits and pieces and chunks.

Unlike the Telecom it gives details to the nanosecond’s of time and I sit and watch the flow of events.

For Salix 13 download there were only about 10 seeders and not a soul from this part of the world.

One from USA. All the rest from European Community except that not a soul from UK (this is where we go to learn IT) and one Brazil and one Australian (Australia has embraced Linux well and I think ADIOS comes from there but not updated for the last 5 years or so).

For Fedora 14 the story is different.
There is nobody from Ceylon with so many Universities with IT training Centers all over the country.

There was absolutely nobody active (I am excluded by default being a leecher).

From India there were two souls.

Nobody from China or Hongkong or Taipei.

But come America there was plenty out there of about 250 seeders (mostly from universities) helping my download speed.

Rest were from European Community but England had only 3.

What is happening in IT industry and in Linux in this country?

In spite of all the capitalist views coming from USA it is the only country opening up to Linux.

Not only Universities but Federal Government and Stock Market, too.

These things were happening even before Obama came into the scene.

I do not give him the credit but I give that to people like Richard Stallman (demigod of Linux) and his followers.

In Ceylon can we give any credit to anybody?
 

Yes we can (Obama saying)

There is one way doing it and testing it.

I will not do it for sure. 

That is guaranteed.

Steps are below.

Only 5 simple steps to Nirvana in Linux.

1. One has to buy a rackety old computer.
2. Install Linux
3. Start Torrent
4. Go to your favorite porn site
5. Start downloading

Activate the graphic screen and start watching like one day cricket "ball by ball commentary" of the downloads and the sites.

This will be revealing for the politicians.
 

By giving a free computer and a fast internet connection they can easily win the next election by activating all the vibrant porn sites.

Now I know without doing any test why my computer is going at a snail pace in downloading.

But I will persevere and get all the Linux updates due in December by next July.

Or go to Singapore and do some hits there.

I must wind up with thanks to Linux Guys and Girls of KDE.

Please improve K-Torrent to get Indian spot-fixing (ball by ball betting) live for Cricket World Cup before it’s commencement day and let me know the details of, from where to download the distribution with the new K-Torrents.

Hurry up guys and girls that is where the money is for the next three months.

Gnoppix Linux

 

Gnoppix Linux

It comes in Gnome and KDE desktops and is around 3GB

Gnoppix is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux available in for amd64 and ARM architectures.

Gnoppix is a great choice for users who want a lightweight and easy-to-use with security in mind. Gnoppix was first announced in June 2003.

Currently we're working on a Gnoppix version for WSL, Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets as well.

Installing Manjaro

 Sunday, June 2, 2024
Installing Manjaro

I have never tried Arch except ArcoLinux briefly.

Today I decided to Install Manjaro on my NUC.

1. It is pretty good.

2. Its browser is Vivaldi which I begins to like.

3. Wifi Configurations is quick.

4. It has USB formatter.

5. It has Gparted.

6. GIMP is preinstalled.

7. It can be installed with Office package.

8. It has AbiWord but one has to download.

7. It has OpenOffice

8. Lets you use Microsoft office online.

9. It is a mature distribution.

10. Its software is Pakman

11. Installation is complete and need to see it pick up the Debian already installed (Ubuntu now shuns Debian).

It has some problems with my GRUB file, hence I use Reborn OS and BluStar Linux.

Stacer Utility

 Sunday, June 2, 2024
Stacer Utility

This Utility is something one should have on your desktop especially if you are playing games.

I am installing Ubuntu 24.04 for the Umpteenth time.

I see only the arrows and if I click the button on the right I get terminal activity.

But no idea about the CPU, Memory usage and Diska usage

This is where the Stacer comes.

It is sitting on the RAM and gives a running commentary.

1. CPU 65 to 70%.

2. Memory usage 1.5GB out of 8GB RAM.

3. Disk Usage is 350MB so far

4. Download speed is 0 bytes to 900 bytes

5. Upload Speed.  

I  tried Jitsi and it went up to about 500Kb/sec

6. My NUC has 2 CPU Cores

7. CPU usage 0 bytes

8. I started using Firefox, CPU went up to 90% usage and settled down to 65%.

9. I tried LibreOffice both Memory and CPU usage went up.

10. Finally I tried AbiWord it almost did not show any changes, may be a few MB of memory.

This is why I use AbiWord, it is a powerful Word Processor but uses minimum of resources. The Latest Debain update 12.10... deleted this utility.

I want use the update and perhaps its version 13- plus.

11. Still only 500MB filled of 3.7GB total usage of the disk.

I think I should go for a cup of tea.

Evolution of Gnome

 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Evolution of Gnome

Debian Live 9.12.0-amd64-gnome.iso

This gave a Graphical Installer to install Debian, which I found was easy.

Partition table looked like this which I had no ides.

/root

/var

swap

/tmp

/home

I became aware of /var for variable data and I did not know how to use it.

Icon setup was primitive.

Only Ethernet and not compatible with wireless but whereas Ubuntu could (Emmabantus,too) configure wireless.

So installing new software was impossible and had to be stuck with what came with it.

It had LibreOffice.

Debian installer was clumsy and installing AbiWord was not possible and stuck with Emmabantus which had AbiWord

 These days I had fun with Apache Open Office.

Debian Live 10.12.0-amd64-gnome.iso

Similar to above comment but icon display was much better

Debian Live 11.6.0-amd64-gnome.iso

 Similar to above comment but icon display was much better but no ESP Grub

Debian Live 12 5 0 amd64 Gnome ISO

 This is the most elegant and has the new Calamara Installer.

Its ESP compatible and GRUB Loader is pretty good.

No problem with wireless connectivity.

This is my favourite and I use it on daily basis, it comes with Synaptic Package Manager (in fact Debian Package manger which is extensive) which I prefer to SNAP.

Ubuntu has gone SNAP but Synaptic Package Manager is still available for Ubuntu.

I am going to download all three of these isos from torrent files and see how I got addicted to Gnome.

I actually had the stable version installed in my very old PC and Live CD/DVD were collected for testing.

Yes, Debian 10 is the one who had a panel on the left side and dots on the right side when one sees whole lot of application items.

Ubuntu of cores successfully implemented live session with only a minimal of applications.

Al these images were less than 3GB and now they are nearing 5GB.

That is my conclusions, even Gnome getting bloated with each new version.

All these images had only one peer each.

Thank you to them.

BOX utility has made my life easier.

By the way, I have limited number of USBs and I have Ubuntu from 2020 version to 2024, for USB used up.

I did not do this with Debian since I had been using Debian fr over 10 years.

Nevertheless, I am catching up with Ubuntu.

Those days I had no interest in Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Install was minimal and I got addicted it later since it had the best GRUB file.

Of course I had Ubuntu CD/DVDS from its version 6 in my CD/DVD collection.

Gnome BOX utility is fantastic and I am going to run these isos in BOX Utility and see how Gnome evolved.

Linux is steady and incremental, stable and not flashy like Apple and Windows.

The is for those YouTube Linux pundits, some of whom are hell bent on saying bad things about Linux having not tested Gnome.

All of them only test Linux Mint and do not talk about LMDE (Linux Mind Debian Edition).

I think Ubuntu which is a derivative of Debian became popular by adopting Gnome 10 desktop.

Less I talk about Arch and Manjaro is better for my sanity.

I have been trying Debian from version 6.0 but full adoption was probably from version 9 in 2015 when,  I retired fro the University.

5.0           Lenny         14 February 2009
6.0           Squeeze       6 February 2011
7              Wheezy        4 May 2013
8              Jessie           25 26 April 2015  
9              Stretch        17 June 2017
10            Buster          6 July 2019
11           Bullseye      14 August 2021
12           Bookworm  10 June 2023 

Linux Mint Installation

Sunday, June 2, 2024
Linux Mint Installation
Linux Mint Installation is painfully slow but with Debian LMDE it is pretty smooth bit similar to Calamara Installer but different.

I do not know why?

Reasons may be;

1. It does not have world wide mirrors.

2. It takes ages to look for codecs.

3. It is basically the Ubuntu Installer padded up with graphic.

4. Unlike Debian Calamara Installer the panel cannot be expanded to see my hard disks partition which is 25 in number.

5. I think mouse pointer takes a lot of memory.

6. Deleting and making a new partition is pretty slow.

7. I have 7 partitions to review (for installation, no /var) before hitting the OK button but can see only 4 partitions.

8. I do not rush things, so it is not a worry.

9. Fortunately it does not direct me to its home page.

10. How it updates I do not know.

11. I only want to see how it configures the GRUB file.

It failed to configure GRUB and missed  both Manjaro and Debian and detected only Ubuntu.

I did reinstall Debian and got the GRUB file in order.

I think if one is having multiple distributions, Debian should be installed last to get the GRUB Efi in order.

12. I do not fiddle with Gnome basic or default configuration.

It suits me fine and why fiddle?

This so called customization is a gimmick for Newbies.

There is a father son file hierarchy and everything is organized.

I can understand it for a Server where resources have to be allocated equitably for better management.

In a desktop environment in a family set up if each individual is given a user name an a password of their choice, what matters is the applications available for their consumption.

I install several web browsers from light to heavy for my work. If one browser is slow I open a another browser and do my work on that.

What matters is the RAM. I have 8GB RAM (it was 4GB for a long time) and without playing games, it can handle numerous task one and the same time.

Daemon behind allocate resources as needed and with a healthy SWAP partition nothing get choked.

That is the strength and the basis of efficiency of Linux.

Microsoft Windows won't be able to handle this with padded up 64GB RAM.

That is the difference and that is why I use Linux.

There is no junk in my computer.

So I do not won!t a Snapshot of my Computer.

Each year by December, I take 6 weeks off the computer and look (Debian has two year cycle of update) new distributions and test them.

13. I tested the snapshot utility.

After one hour of copying it said there is no space for the snapshot.

I promptly deleted the half baked snapshot (save space for Linux mint).

The home partition has less than 1000 files or items and it is only 115MB. It has 17.3GB space from 20GB allocated to the home partition.

I always check this and if the (mainly due to iso images) if the balance space is nearing 2GB, I delete few of the tested images.

I use AbiWord for my books they are always less than 300KB and never in MBs.

That is the beauty of AbiWord.

So this customization is a big joke.

I just installed Window Maker in my Gnome Desktop and (it is a window manager) and fiddled with it with minimal strain on the computer RAM.

This game of windows within windows is not a creative concept.

One should use different Workplaces for different tasks not within windows.

Mint has only one workplace, I wonder whether I can make two work places.

I need maximum of 3 workplaces.

Any distribution without workplaces do not entice me.

14. I think my reporting of Linux would end with this.

Lot of Things I did not Know about Gnome Desktop

 Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Lot of Things I did not Know about Gnome Desktop

There is lot of thinks I did not know about Gnome Desktop.

I am a Gnome user and not a developer.

I am happy with it and I leave it at that.

Only thing, I worry about was AbiWord and it did not have it in its repository.

So I went to Emmabauntus simply due to that. It supported AbiWord.

Emmabantus has XFCE Desktop which I do not like.

I also liked the Cairo Desktop Panel like Mac Operation system.

Today I realized Gnome has Cairo dock but do not port it as a default application.

It has tons of applications.

It has most of the applications that are used in SUGAR Desktop.

Use Synaptic Package Manager and type Gnome and YOU can see all of them

I am currently downloading those I want including Latex type of editors.

I do not need to go for SNAP, Flatpac or RPM of Fedora.

Apart from its Operating System needs, it uses less than 100MB of my hard disk.

What matters is the RAM and all these works at run time on the RAM.

So one should only invest on RAM and as busy as today, it is now using 2.5GB of my 8 GB RAM.

If you have an old computer by some DDR4 RAM and they are getting cheaper since DDR5 is on the market and they are very expensive.

So do not buy a new machine unless it gives you at least 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

Debian Education

Is completely different Distribution of Debian which is packed with education material.

It used to be a CD but now 8.1GB twice the standard of size Debian.

1. It is a server system and one can install minimal to large.

2. It is a must for an educational system.

3. After all, Google uses Debian which is probably called gDeb.

4. It let's you select a number desktop type and server types, which include audio servers.

5. I am installing it on my spare 67GB left over partition.

6. I installed Debian in two setting and  it ignores the older installation and boots only the last installation.

7. I want one system for regular use and the other one for testing.

8. I hope because Debian Education is a server edition it recognizes the other two distributions in it's GRUB file.

It is still installing and I have to wait for few minutes.

9. It has 3825 files and most I have used is about 2300 odd files in standard Debian.

10. Unfortunately Debian Education did not configure My GRUB File.

So I am giving up Debian Education.

11. In actual fact, I have 4 Debian Systems in my NUC now and all are working fine with tons of applications.

Finally I decided to install Devuan.

Devuan is a Debian Derivative which used different but simple a Init (? Init V5) system.

It has Live version and I could not get Desktop version downloaded.

I installed it but it is finicky.

It uses only 3 partitions.

/root

/boot

/home

I am going to erase it has limited packages.

I won't recommend it to newbie,

By the way, I decided to keep it and try Gnome Desktop on top of it.

It failed to install Gnome Desktop.

Synaptic Package Manager is enormous.

Annoying thing about is it says libraries are broken but even after, installing them an d the package running live, it keep say it.

The problem is it has a poor Internet Utility and does not wait for the file to download.

It has no SNAP or Flatpac.

Debian Linux Update-Live DVD Version

 Thursday, June 6, 2024
Debian Linux Update-Live DVD Version

I have been Using Debian from Version 8 on a regular basis, even though I have tested it from version 6 in the 32 bit time.

Version 12 is fantastic and there is no other distribution to rival it.

It comes in two year cycles and is stable.

One need not update it daily like Mint or Manjaro (sleek but finicky).

One need not save a copy or a Time-shift, fearing fragmentation.

Corporate guys like Redhat and Suse fear fragmentation and that is their nature and they are worried about their commercial outcome.

I say, use the useless Microsoft Windows or very expensive Apple.

Linux fragments only one fiddles with its original intentions.

That intention is FREE SOFTWARE for the WORLD and the human consumption from East to West and North to South.

Coming to Debian, I finally got two version of Debian in my NUC computer of 320GB.

It consumes little over 100GB with a handsomely large /home folder (with 10 partitions including Efi partition).

Of course it can reside on a single partition like Endless OS. and a boot partition, that is OK for a an old laptop, which I have. 

It is working fine.

I use two version for two reasons.

1. One is my workhorse which I do not fiddle with after getting my applications installed. 

I come to applications in a little while.

2. The other version is for fiddling round. 

Currently I am fiddling round with various Desktops, especially the light weight ones, including SUGAR for old computers which can be used productively.

I of course had a network of 14 to 16 IBM computers discarded from America in our home network and quickly disbanded them when our electricity bill went up. 

I was nearing retirement and and it came down to 3 one for the family and other two exclusively for me.

Currently two basic NUCs but only one is connected to the Internet.

Other is for my son who is not interested in computers now.

In the good old days, I had two versions of Debian, one running the older version and the other the latest version. 

I cannot remember whether Debian had a two year cycle, then.

3. I use only Gnome and said good bye to KDE and Plasma (consume lot of memory in the boot up itself, even before doing some work).

I tried PCLinux and erased it after 24 hours.

It is clunky.

Same thing with Devuan (probably an European version of Debian derivative), not worth trying.

4. Now to the applications

1. I do not use bulky LibreOffice.

Of course, LibreOffice has a database management system for storing films, videos, etc.

I have not tested this fully.

Instead, I download AbiWord my favorite Word Processor.

It used to be 28MB when mounted but has expanded to 250MB to accommodate various worldly formats.

2. Stacer

3. Notepadqq a new conversion

4. VLC as old as my Linux conversion

5. GIMP

6. Htop a terminal

7. Audacity as old as my Linux conversion.

8. Box Virtual Box (not proprietary Oracle Virtual Box)

New adventure to test new Linux distributions on a virtual machine

9. Xournal (not Vim or Emac ), my old favorite but haven't used for a long time!

Xouranl has both text editor and hand writing tool which are amazing

10.  Firefox and several other web browsers (Falkon, Opera, Dillo)

Firefox is my fovourite browser with Thunderbird as the Linux Email client.

11. Of course, Bluefish, just in case I need to do few lines of Code.

It has Python, PHP and Perl and lot of Code Breakers.

12. Gnumeric is for money matters

Joplin I believe is proprietary and Rednote is a worthy note taker.

Excuse my Typos and I am back to my writing mode and occasional testing of a new Linux Distribution,

Four books on various topics.

Box Utility of Gnome

 
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Box Utility of Gnome

I am testing Parrot OS and Endless on Box Utility.

Parrot OS has done a clever thing.

It has a Home edition and a Security edition.

Home edition has almost everything one needs to work.

Security edition is for penetration testing.

Endless OS has nothing (in a way it is good for a guy like me who wants nothing and would build up on the base) in its base iso.

It directs straight to SNAP application store which I do not like for many reasons.

I decided to download Debian testing image.

It is taking time.

Mind this all done not on root level but on a user level permission.

I have given root permission to download Debian Testing.

Box Utility wanted Express Install on my NUC Box  which I declined and decided to write on a USB.

Be aware of what one is doing.

Box would have destroyed my two Editions of Debian in my NUC!

Download speed of box utility is slow, it often breaks down if one is downloading torrent file simultaneously.

I prefer torrent downloads.

It is far better download the image separately to your download folder,

Each member of the Linux box has his or her own /home and a download folder.

That is the beauty of Linux.

I decided to download Debian Testing and I will Install it.

I have never done this before, since I use only the stable edition.

Installation failed.

I think it did not have the KDE multi-language package to install, so it stalled.

Without KDE, my installation went on smoothly.

MATE desktop booted up.

It had everything but Synaptic Package Manager wanted CD/DVD to install AbiWord.

More importantly GRUB file missed my Regular Gnome Edition.

The Testing Gnome was OK.

Well I have to Instal Debian Regular again.

In summary,

1. WiFi configuration was OK.

2. Clock configuration was OK.

3. It has introduced few more desktop types including Gnome X11.

4. My current Debian image is 6.1.-.....and the new image is 6.7......

5. It had nearly 3000 files at least 300 more than the stable versions.

6. I realize if I use Gnome, Gnome Flashback and MATE it saves me 1500 files (nearly half of the total installation).

7. KDE takes the most that is why I do not use KDE or Plasma.

Besides it takes shorter time to install.

8. I always make a point to be connected to home site and they have free permission to scan we hat I do and no virus attacks at all.

9. LibreOffice takes to the bulk due to its multi-lamguage support.

10. Testing guys should test one desktop at a time.

Then report to the Debian base instead of bashing in the YouTube for Patreon contributions.

11. Reporting on individual file may nelong to a specific group of people.

12. Please note Linux supports (voiced installation) visually handicapped and they do not need a Glossy Desktop.

MATE is a light weight desktop which Parrot Linux prefers.

By the way, I tried sddm (do not know what it is) instead of light gdm.

These new 300 odd packages have to be text edited line by line.

Kernel itself has of million lines.

This the answer to the Young Guys who wanted the latest but untested software.

Even for an Old Linux guy there is something to do for the first time.

That is the way, life is all about strange associations with reality.

I am going to Install it again but my gut feeling is it will fail again.

I have the two working Debian images not harmed.