Ultimate Gamer Arch Edition
I managed to Install Ultimate Gamer but I find it difficult to configure Discover to install additional applications.
To begin with I tried it's Gnome version which was released in January, 2025. Its image incomplete i could not install and after four attempts, I gave up and used the Plasma edition to install.
Installation went all right.
WiFi was finicky.
Plasma Desktop and KDE
A few minutes ago, I did a calculation to see how much Plasma desktop takes in memory.
It has no application and file manager Dolphin had to be installed separately.
However, I do like plasma for the same reason it does not have hundreds of tiny application I never use.
But akregator is not among them but which is a KDE application.
It takes a huge 1 GB, somewhat similar to LibreOffice.
Next one in line which takes, a lot of memory is Firefox (about 330MB for English edition).
Pingus, Tuxkart and Frozen Bubble also take large memory which is realistic since they are graphic intensive, games.
Pingus is my favorite.
In any case biggest contributor to memory drain or the hungry applications that drain memory are the games.
Over the years I used Dillo, Epiphany and Falkon.
Falkon which is KDE based takes up lot of memory which I call the unnecessary cookies
They are invariably bundled up with the browser.
I always used Firefox from the moxilla time, and I would never give it up since it is second nature to me and it has done yeoman service to me.
Linux Gamers Live, the Arch derivative is top of my list and Linux Ultimate Edition is close second and Knoppix 2008 December edition comes third and I could not find a new version of games in spite of Knoppix 6.7 was out and looks fantastic.
Knoppix cannot be installed on hard drive.
Why I choose Linux Gamers Live was simply
because its front-end just looks like Apple front-end and ready for
games with icons instead of names.
It also can be installed into hard disk now.
Now instead of trying to outscore these three edition which I have done a lot for Linux games, I will list my favorites below.
Even PCLinuxFuillMonty though, they have a place for Linux guys and girls.
Indirectly FullMonty comes fourth.
1. Number one is Super Tux 2 and I enjoyed playing hours and hours.
2. Close second is Pingus and its environmental theme is commendable.
3. Number three is Extreme Tux Racer which is sweet and relaxing
4. Number 4 is Super TuxCart (this is for the racing addict)
5. Number 5 is Tuxcart (This is for the training on racing)
6. Number 6 is Frozen Bubble
7. Number 7 is any of the 100 of tiny games
If any of the Linux distributions fail to introduce any of the top 5 of mine selection, I thought of giving them minus marks in my rating in future.
Mind you with Wine and get-edit, one can play Windows, DOS and Atari games of the yesteryear.
This was posted through Debian MATE.
I used used Akregator news reader which is a tiny Linux application and copied a Veteran Linux Guy's introduction to Debian Trixie.
Please do not bother him with queries.
Please respect his privacy.
Every two years Debian releases a new major version of its Stable series, meaning the differences between consecutive Debian Stable releases represent two years of new developments both in Debian as an organization and its native packages, but also in all other packages which are also shipped by other distributions (which are getting into this new Stable release).
If you're not paying close attention to everything that's going on all the time in the Linux world, you miss a lot of the nice new features and tools. It's common for people to only realize there's a cool new trick available only years after it was first introduced.
Given these considerations, the tips that I'm describing will eventually be available in whatever other distribution you use, be it because it's a Debian derivative or because it just got the same feature from the upstream project.
I'm not going to list "passive" features (as good as they can be), the focus here is on new features that might change how you configure and use your machine, with a mix between productivity and performance.
I have been a Debian Testing user for longer than 10 years now (and I recommend it for non-server users), so I'm not usually keeping track of all the cool features arriving in the new Stable releases because I'm continuously receiving them through the Debian Testing rolling release.
Nonetheless, as a Debian Developer I'm in a good position to point out the ones I can remember. I would also like other Debian Developers to do the same as I'm sure I would learn something new.
The Debian 13 release notes contain a "What's new" section , which lists the first two items here and a few other things, in other words, take my list as an addition to the release notes.
Debian 13 was released on 2025-08-09, and these are nice things you shouldn't miss in the new release, with a bonus one not tied to the Debian 13 release.
Have you ever had to download a file from your terminal using curl and didn't remember the parameters needed? I did.
Nowadays you can use wcurl; "a command line tool which lets you download URLs
without having to remember any parameters."
Simply call wcurl with one or more URLs as parameters and it will download
all of them in parallel, performing retries, choosing the correct output file
name, following redirects, and more.
Try it out:
wcurl example.com
wcurl comes installed as part of the curl package on Debian 13 and in any other
distribution you can imagine, starting with curl 8.14.0.
I've written more about wcurl in its release announcement and I've done a lightning talk presentation in DebConf24, which is linked in the release announcement.
Debian has become the first stable Linux distribution to ship curl with support for HTTP/3. I've written about this in July 2024, when we first enabled it. Note that we first switched the curl CLI to GnuTLS, but then ended up releasing the curl CLI linked with OpenSSL (as support arrived later).
Debian was the first stable Linux distro to enable it, and within rolling-release-based distros; Gentoo enabled it first in their non-default flavor of the package and Arch Linux did it three months before we pushed it to Debian Unstable/Testing/Stable-backports, kudos to them!
HTTP/3 is not used by default by the curl CLI, you have to enable it with
--http3 or --http3-only.
Try it out:
curl --http3 https://www.example.org curl --http3-only https://www.example.org
Starting with systemd v254, there's a new soft-reboot option, it's an
userspace-only reboot, much faster than a full reboot if you don't need to
reboot the kernel.
You can read the announcement from the systemd v254 GitHub release
Try it out:
# This will reboot your machine! systemctl soft-reboot
Are you tired of being required to run sudo apt update just before sudo apt upgrade or sudo apt install $PACKAGE? So am I!
The new --update option lets you do both things in a single command:
sudo apt --update upgrade sudo apt --update install $PACKAGE
I love this, but it's still not yet where it should be, fingers crossed for a
simple apt upgrade to behave like other package managers by updating its
cache as part of the task, maybe in Debian 14?
Try it out:
sudo apt upgrade --update # The order doesn't matter sudo apt --update upgrade
This is especially handy for container usage, where you have to update the apt cache before installing anything, for example:
podman run debian:stable bin/bash -c 'apt install --update -y curl'
powerline-go is a powerline-style prompt written in Golang, so it's much more
performant than its Python alternative powerline.
powerline-style prompts are quite useful to show things like the current status of the git repo in your working directory, exit code of the previous command, presence of jobs in the background, whether or not you're in an ssh session, and more.
Try it out:
sudo apt install powerline-go
Then add this to your .bashrc:
function _update_ps1() { PS1="$(/usr/bin/powerline-go -error $? -jobs $(jobs -p | wc -l))" # Uncomment the following line to automatically clear errors after showing # them once. This not only clears the error for powerline-go, but also for # everything else you run in that shell. Don't enable this if you're not # sure this is what you want. #set "?" } if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ] && [ -f "/usr/bin/powerline-go" ]; then PROMPT_COMMAND="_update_ps1; $PROMPT_COMMAND" fi
Or this to .zshrc:
function powerline_precmd() { PS1="$(/usr/bin/powerline-go -error $? -jobs ${${(%):%j}:-0})" # Uncomment the following line to automatically clear errors after showing # them once. This not only clears the error for powerline-go, but also for # everything else you run in that shell. Don't enable this if you're not # sure this is what you want. #set "?" }
If you'd like to have your prompt start in a newline, like I have in the
screenshot above, you just need to set -newline in the powerline-go
invocation in your .bashrc/.zshrc.
Tips number 6 and 7 are for Gnome users.
Gnome is now shipping a system monitor extension which lets you get a glance of the current load of your machine from the top bar.
I've found this quite useful for machines where I'm required to install third-party monitoring software that tends to randomly consume more resources than it should. If I feel like my machine is struggling, I can quickly glance at its load to verify if it's getting overloaded by some process.
The extension is not as complete as system-monitor-next, not showing temperatures or histograms, but at least it's officially part of Gnome, easy to install and supported by them.
Try it out:
sudo apt install gnome-system-monitor gnome-shell-extension-manager
And then enable the extension from the "Extension Manager" application.
After having to learn more about batteries in order to get into FPV drones, I've come to have a bigger appreciation for solutions that minimize the inevitable loss of capacity that accrues over time.
There's now a "Battery Charging" setting (under the "Power") section which lets you choose between two different profiles: "Maximize Charge" and "Preserve Battery Health".
On supported laptops, this setting is an easy way to set thresholds for when
charging should start and stop, just like you could do it with the tlp package,
but now from the Gnome settings.
To increase the longevity of my laptop battery, I always keep it at "Preserve Battery Health" unless I'm traveling.
What I would like to see next is support for choosing different "Power Modes" based on whether the laptop is plugged-in, and based on the battery charge percentage.
There's a GNOME issue tracking this feature, but there's some pushback on whether this is the right thing to expose to users.
In the meantime, there are some workarounds mentioned in that issue which people who really want this feature can follow.
If you would like to learn more about batteries; Battery University is a great starting point, besides getting into FPV drones and being forced to handle batteries without a Battery Management System (BMS).
And if by any chance this sparks your interest in FPV drones, Joshua Bardwell's YouTube channel is a great resource: @JoshuaBardwell.
Emacs users are already familiar with the legendary magit; a terminal-based
UI for git.
Lazygit is an alternative for non-emacs users, you can integrate it with neovim or just use it directly.
I'm still playing with lazygit and haven't integrated it into my workflows,
but so far it has been a pleasant experience.
You should check out the demos from the lazygit GitHub page.
Try it out:
sudo apt install lazygit
And then call lazygit from within a git repository.
neovim has been shipped in Debian since 2016, but upstream has been doing a lot of work to improve the experience out-of-the-box in the last couple of years.
If you're a neovim poweruser, you're likely not installing it from the official repositories, but for those that are, Debian 13 comes with version 0.10.4, which brings the following improvements compared to the version in Debian 12:
Treesitter support for C, Lua, Markdown, with the possibility of adding any other languages as needed;
Better spellchecking due to treesitter integration (spellsitter);
Mouse support enabled by default;
Commenting support out-of-the-box;
Check :h commenting for details, but the
tl;dr is that you can use gcc to comment the current line and gc to comment
the current selection.
OSC52 support.
Especially handy for those using neovim over an ssh connection, this protocol lets you copy something from within the neovim process into the clipboard of the machine you're using to connect through ssh. In other words, you can copy from neovim running in a host over ssh and paste it in the "outside" machine.
The bonus tip is not specific to the Debian 13 release, but something I've
recently learned in the #debian-devel IRC channel.
Did you know there are usable container images for all past Debian releases? I'm not talking "past" as in "some of the older releases", I'm talking past as in "literally every Debian release, including the very first one".
Tianon Gravi "tianon" is the Debian Developer responsible for making this happen, kudos to him!
There's a small gotcha that the releases Buzz (1.1) and Rex (1.2) require a
32-bit host, otherwise you will get the error Out of virtual memory!, but
starting with Bo (1.3) all should work in amd64/arm64.
Try it out:
sudo apt install podman podman run -it docker.io/debian/eol:bo
Don't be surprised when noticing that apt/apt-get is not available inside the
container, that's because apt first appeared in Debian Slink (2.1).
My advice to Newbies to Linux
This is to put a newbie on track.
Linux Mint-Update
Read what is posted year ago, below for details.
I decided to try Linux Mint after one year to see whether it would allow me to use Flatseal as an application. It doe not in a live session. Debian 13 Trixie does install it but like Gnome-Pie it does not open or function.
One plus point of Mint in a live session is it lets me install Abiword and Synaptic Package Manager. Those are the two items I check in addition to WiFi connectivity.
It passed those with flying colours.
I have basic Cinnamon Desktop, in one of my Debian instances. Linux Mint is cinnamon with some gloss padded up with proprietary which I do not support.
Installation is over, I hope my GRUB file is intact.
I report on Flatseal, later. Unsuccessful.
This time I installed it on single partition. Even though it is 2.9GB in the USB Iso image it expands it to over 5.5GB and I had 10GB in the /root partition.
Installation is pretty SLOW, but I can put up within it by blogging a running commentary.
Overall perfarmaoce was very bad and it filled up the 9.5GB in no time. Removed LibreOffice and Firefox to get some space and installed Dillo but I could not get Falkon.
I am going to install Debian Cinnamon Imde-6.
Before that I am going to try Fedora Silverblue-ostree.
Silverblue takes over the hard disk and I gave up.
Workstation edition let me select a Partition types. I gave EFI, /root and Swap it crashed. I wanted a /boot partition but I did not have free partition. Overall Fedora does not want to coexist. Additionally, it ruined the GRUB or formatted it by default. This is all corporate mentality and that is why I gave it up 30 years ago.
For a change I am going to install Debian in a single partition to save the already existing instances and get the GRUB file in order.
Debian is always my saviour.
I could have used MX Linux but it still in the old kernel. I am saving 5 partitions for it's install, when it comes eventually.
I am going to install Debian Imde-6 instead on top of Linux Mint.
I am still waiting for the MX Linux New Version on Kernel 13 series.
MX Linux
I am Still waiting for Trixie version
I erased the MX Linux 23.6 expecting for it's new release and it is yet to come.
I installed Suse Leap 15.6 and Tumbleweed (both are the last version before emerging into Immutable version, which I hate), on top of it and not satisfied I installed MX Linux again.
It has all the browsers I need including Palemoon. I is the lightest browser I us d with Puppy Linux 30 years ago, and unlike Dillo, Epiphany and Falkon are not available in reposities.
Palemoon in Manjaro did not work.
I am currently installing both KDE and Gnome.
It has Synaptic Package Manager.
It always asks permission before installing a new application and one can abort to t a mistake is made.
Kernel is 6.1.... 38.1
I got Stacer back.
I am using Brave browser, now to post this.
Lot of application including Transmission has to be installed using Synaptic Package package Manager but Deluge was available.
One has to be quite competent and knowledgeable about Linux utilities, to begin with and derive full benefits.
MX Linux Revisited
There some problem with GRUB file and it did not recognize Reborn OS. I am reinstalling Reborn OS with a big /var partition for my additional applications.
It has finished installing.
I am currently installing MX Linux 6.1.0-35-amd64 Kernel.
It is almost two years.
I is using KDE desktop as its base.
I am installing Gnome desktop now.
Make sure one start with Gdm and not Sddm (one has to look for the type of desktop from the panel below).
I am used to the top right hand scheme of the Gnome.
Installation is very slow but everything is streamlined for a newbie with graphic instructions.
It is nice to see even Reborn OS use MX Linux methods.
I hope it gets my GRUB file OK.
Fortunately it lets me access my Gnome /Home folder to copy my books to MX Linux folder., in case I mess up with my Gnome.
I am well into Debian 13 series which bit refined and no complaints.
I have 2 Debian and one Reborn OS and MX Linux in my NUC with 320GB.
It has a 50GB NTFS folder which stores all my favorite Linux distributions that include Reborn OS,
Manjaro,
Bodhi 7.0.0.64,
Arch,
Antix,
Debian new and many more images.
I went back to Gnome Desktop and got Synaptic Package Manager installed.
Stacer, Gdebi, Gparted and USB writer and USB formatter included.
Yes, using KDE is a pain in the arxx>.
I do not need to respond to every OK approval now.
By the way it supports open office.
Monday, June 10, 2024
Mx Linux 23.3-Install
Since,
I have given up on Ubuntu, I decided to use another Linux distribution
on top of Debian, Gnome, with a Light Weight Desktop.
I am beginning to Love Light Weight Desktops where on can fiddle with icon and windows.
In Flushbox Windows can be taken out of the monitor screen but they do not disappear but come from the other end.
It reduces the clutter even on a giant monitor.
I have also decided to Install it on a USB, instead of writing on a USB to mount.
I want it to be persistent copy and not a Live session.
It has lot of options and it is finishing install with Efi partition and a SWAP partition, in case I mount it on a Windows Box.
I takes long time to install USB stick which is understandable.
It booted with a user password and root password for Synaptic Package Manager.
I am currently installing,
1. AbiWord.
2. Stacer.
3. Notepadqq
4. Ranger
There is no LibreOffice.
Efi
/root is just under 10GB.
/boot
SWAP
No additional partitions.
I have found a way to add additional partitions say /var or /tmp.
Lying is the Vehicle for NPP/JVP Politics.
"What are the four vices in conduct that one need eradicating?"
"The destruction of life, householder, is a vice and so are stealing, sexual misconduct, and lying. These are the four vices that has to be eradicated."
OpenSuses 15.6 Leap
Yes, I did install OpenSuse 15.6 Leap on my NUC.
I used Gnome Desktop.
It was bit of long process.
Only Reason, I did was it allowed me to select Gnome at install time.
Last time Tumbleweed took over the hard disk. This time I used Ext4 instead of Btrfs using expert option.
Used Plasma 6 option and to see the games available.
Gnome took almost 5GB but Plasma only 4.5GB which was bit of surprise.
This time I was careful in my installation.Installation is on administrator level and one should make sure to click the administrator level option. If you did not select this option you may not be able to install it. It is at root level which is not a good option.
Immediately after installation, I selected a User level which was bonobo an African monkey.
It did not destroy my GRUB boot loader.
I could not install Synaptic Package manager which was not to my liking and I have to Go To Suse repository and the packages are in rpm which I hate.
I would try SOFTWARE and install AbiWord to begin.
A report will follow after a cup of tea and opening a file in AbiWord.
AbiWord was a rpm package and I managed to install it with my previous experience with Suse.
Audacious was installed using binaries.
Stacer is not available.
Rest of the packages I am going to install using Suse Package installer which include Audacity, Kdenlive and VLC.
Scribus, Inkscape and Blender all installed.
No Gdebi and no other browsers like Opera or Vivaldi but I got Epiphany and Falkon and no Dillo.
Using Gnome got Gparted, too.
No little games.
With all that I have used less than 10GB of DATA and I have 12GB left out 22GB for other installations.
Blender and Xournal (Texlive) took a lot space.
Summary
It took a long time to update 573 packages but after that everything went smoothly.
It is only in install version and not a live session which wastes, lot of my time.
Installing a distribution in Box utility is a pain.
This is true for Fedora with the exception of the image is very small and hardly any applications in the system. However Fedora has many versions and selecting one is a pain.
It is the last version before the new immutable version of Suse.
It is one year old and it was released in June 2024.
It is in Qt5 version and new Qt which is Qt6.
It is running 573 new updates on packages.
This for me to write a few line in my book "Linux Essentials" coming soon in Amazon books.
I cannot install an old kernel of Debian to coexist with Trixie and this (Suse) is the nearest I could keep to the old times.
It cannot write a Linux image to a USB.
Overall the experience was not bad but brought the nostalgia of using Linux 20 years ago when they were not proprietary.
Whatever the distribution Linux never failed me.
I am not a fan of immutable software and that is why I gave up Gnoppix.
AI installer drives me NUTS even though I use AI for looking for the correct definition when writing on a new topic which is better than Wikipedia.
Yes, I decided to Install Ragata OS on top of my MX Linux and it wanted 1 GB of EFI boot partition.
Linux Gamers Live, the Arch derivative is top of my list and Linux Ultimate Edition is close second and Knoppix 2008 December edition comes third and I could not find a new version of games in spite of Knoppix 6.7 was out and looks fantastic.
Knoppix cannot be installed on hard drive.
Why I choose Linux Gamers Live was simply
because its front-end just looks like Apple front-end and ready for
games with icons instead of names.
It also can be installed into hard disk now.
Now instead of trying to outscore these three edition which I have done a lot for Linus games, I will list my favorites below.
Even PCLinuxFuillMonty though, they have place for Linux guys and girls.
I
ndirectly FullMonty comes fourth.
1. Number one is Super Tux 2 and I enjoyed playing hours and hours.
2. Close second is Pingus and its environmental theme is commendable.
3. Number three is Extreme Tux Racer which is sweet and relaxing
4. Number 4 is SuperTuxCart (this is for the racing addict)
5. Number 5 is Tuxcart (This is for the training on racing)
6. Number 6 is Frozen Bubble
7. Number 7 is any of the 100 of tiny games
If any of the Linux distributions fail to
introduce any of the top 5 of mine selection I thought of giving them
minus marks in my rating in future.
Mind you with Wine and getedit one can play Windows , DOS and Atari games of the yesteryear.
The Latest Version is Superb!
1. WiFi configuration is smooth unlike BlueStar Linux.
2. Installation is smooth
3. GRUB is OK but as with All ARCH derivatives they cannot coexist with other operation. But have found a way and i would describe the methods in my book "Linux Essentials".
4. It is stable.
5. As with Reborn OS can install other desktops but I only tried Plasma and it is stunningly Beautiful.
6. It is the Only distribution that allows me to install Brave Browser in Graphic mode.
I do not use Terminal at all but I have found a very good terminal called Ranger.
7. Stacer is missing in all but 13 series Debian but there is more efficient System Analyzer. I like Stacer again recuse it has a very beautiful Graphic Interface. which I miss.
Yes, it not the principle of Linux to duplicate applications.
8. Having said that even though, I am a Firefox convert I promote all other browsers.
9. Do not forget Epiphany and Frozen Bubble. only two gamer utilities i use. But I miss many of the old ones Tux, Tux Racer and Tux cart.
10. Do not forget Catchy OS which has its own browser.
I have now 10 in total including Epiphany of Gnome.
Having at least two browsers is very important to a guy like me who is a Multitask Guy.
That is the beauty of Linux.
Please note this (my) comment all developer guys and girls.
Thank YOU all of YOU including LinuxTracker for providing readily available images.
Manjaro Linux
Thank YOU Manjaro Developer Girls and Boys.
After long lay off I installed Manjaro and it is pretty good.
This is posting from Manjaro instance.
I used to use Gnome Software for installing additional packages.
Gnome Software is taken as an application and it has a limit for its application install. I do not like flatpak which is bulky and Gnome Software has a common library. I could not Install GIMP. I could not install Gnome Box.
But Manjaro Software let me install Box as flatpac.
My advice is use ONLY Manjaro Software.
No problem configuring my GRUG boot loader.
Manjaro is a superb distribution and my finicky Gnome behavior is the fault.
In any case gnome is going to be a new distribution on its own and I am watching its development in the future.
I am a Debian Guy and Gnome comes on top of Gnome.
I have no intention of leaving Debian.
Incidentally I installed Debian 13 Testing Gnome and it's application package is fixed and I am unable install even AbiWord as an additional package.
The biggest Tank or Wewa is in Horrowwa Pathana.
Next biggest is the Colombo Wewa.
It is occupied the Navaloka Hospital, Navam Mawatha, Hunupitiya and Gangaramaya during Portuguese times.
Colombo Wewa was not given to Portuguese but they were given Kalpitiya where fishing community has many Portuguese names.
Kalpitiya subsequently was used to dry fish.
I used purchase them at Halawatha or Puttalam to be taken to Kandy
Kolon Newa means had a bath from Kolon Wewa.
I worked in Negambo for a short time.
During L.T.T.E. upsurge Tamils from North came to buy products from Colombo.
Guy in Karapitiya helped them.
One day a guy from Karapitiya came and paid Rs.10,000/=. I asked him to sign on the register but he did not. I knew he was LTTE guy and he could not speak in Sinhala. I told him do not come again in English and I might get landed with the police. Notes were brand new and if I remember right the water mark was missing.
I told the manager to dispose them as quickly as possible and send a word of mouth message to Prime Minister Premadasa that forge noted are coming through Karapitiya.
Police in Negambo was clueless of forged notes.
I trained our staff to examine notes carefully before accepting money lest we get caught by the Bankers.
Then of course sons of Presidents started printing forge money and it was common occurrence.
I never accepted any notes I considered forged.
My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe
My Position Regarding Citizen Rani Wickramasinghe is clear.
He was rejected by the general public twice and as an old man he should retire and become an ordinary citizen, again.
He is good for an ornamental political coffin or ideally a political dustbin.
Making him a hero is not good for our politics.
He did not settle any of our long standing loans but delayed payment until 2028.
We have to pay back the loans with accrued interests which is worse than paying it now itself.
He should be treated like any other citizen and he does not deserve any special treatment at all.
If there is a legal provision to prosecute him it should not be delayed. If there is any legal procedure against a politician it is dragged inordinately until that government is out of power. A case against Senior Premadasa came out 12 years after his death.
So far only one minister had seved his sentence and two others went to prison.
Ranil should be in this list if he had done punishable deeds politically or otherwise.
Along with Gaminie Lokuge, he was involved in disappearances of Students of the Peradeniya Univesity, when I was young Medical guy working in the university
seconded from the Department of Health.
Equally one of my friends Nagahawatta who was an army volunteer officer was killed by NPP/JVP guy in 1987/89 in the university and dumped into Alwis Pond.
I was witness to the killing of our vegetable vendor in Digana village.
He was not allowed to come to my clinic which was right across the road. A few children under my care died because they were not allowed to attend my clinic at Digana.
138 bodies were dumped into Manikhinna Hospital. They were killed because they were forced to parade against the police in Manikhinna and Digana. Our hospital team was asked to join the parade and I stopped them going there, lest they would have been among the 138.
Police dumped several bodies for public display in Digana.
I am not defending neither police nor army.
I did not think Airfoce guys were involved and their training seems to be different.
I was a temporary lecturer (not as officer medical officer but a teacher) in the University and I resigned from my post with two kids to feed when my friend Nagahawatta was killed. He was from the Arts Faculty.
I was without a job for six months and joined the Private sector and ended up at Navaloka Hospital. I worked for Quality Control in Hospital Management and Navaloka was awarded the National Quality award.
Incidentally, J.R.J was warded with terminal illness, I never went to see him but I signed all his reports as part of the Quality Control (there was no need for me to countersign) work.
I signed his last blood report most likely taken after his demise, and I made a "verbal comment" that this guy ought to be dead.
Sure enough, I saw white flags when I passed Ragama railway station.
Ragama railway station, on my train journeys I have never alighted but has a special memory in my mind. A rouge guy threw a stone at the railway and it hit my forehead narrowly missing my left eye.
Without alighting at Peradeniya, I went to Kandy station and reported this incident. I made sure this guy and several others were caught.
Then, there was a gang of pickpockets who board from Ragama and steal things from train passengers. After six months of investigation with the help of a forensic medical guy we rounded them up.
The number if I remember right was between 25 to 30.
In actual fact, his wrist watch was snatched by these pickpockets at the Panideniya Junction.
Regarding my injury, I went to Peradeniya hospital (the place I was trained and also worked as a teacher) for a X-ray and I was kept until midnight for the wound toilet.
Again a shoddy job.
It took nearly three months for it to heal and the sand particles or the silica particles to come out on their own accord. Had I not taken antibiotics on my own accord (hospital did not dish out any), I could have been dead by a nasty meningitis episode.
Renukane Chanda Wimala and my boss during my internship Dr. S.S. Drahaman were hospitalized along with J.R.J. but neither recovered from the illness. I of course, went to see Dr. Drahaman but he was desperately ill and couldn't recognize me.
Just to say, Private hospitals are no better.
This is just for Sepala to make a note why I am now in Australia but would never come home.
I did my part today for "Australia Clean" and dumped all the rubbish where it belonged, which included recycling material.
Ceylon will never regain its glory of the time of Dudley Senanayake.
I wish not be born again in Ceylon, having seen Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi's YouTube presentation where he had to do the cooking (for his wife), which included cleaning up little fish Salaya.
I would advice him to a take protein rich diet to regain his composure.
He looks deficient in B Vitamins. May be related to the toddy he drinks. For his own health he should gradually stop drinking which I did over three years and totally free of alcohol now for 10 years, of course after my retirement.
I stopped drinking since it affected my memory ( short term memory).
Cooking is far better than making a YouTube presentation to grab some money from gullible viewers.
Rarity of Humanoids
Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.
The assumption here is there are only 5 types of humanoids in only five planets.
Why I do not use a Raspberry Pie?
With Microchip Industry at its peak it is not worth investing on technical gadgets.
If I am given the chance, instead of a Raspberry Pie, I would have made my Mini Computer on a Simple Keyboard by integrating the CPU and RAM of my NUC on the keyboard base.
Just stick the NUC circuit board and mini RAM to the keyboard.
Instead of a TV monitor, a Liquid Crystal Display would function as my digital reader cum monitor, ideally folded into two halves.
It is humanly possible to make, such a device and it would be much cheaper but these Corporate Giants would never consider such a venture.
By the way, the keyboard would be bit bigger, thicker and heavier.
The Corporate Giants target is profits.
I started with 4MB Video RAM and 128MB chip RAM to begin with.
Full sketch of my "Globe Trotter" design would be given in my book "Linux Essentials".
Cell Cycle Events
1. Man and many advanced animals have 50 cell cycles in their life time.
2. Up to 42 cycles are used up by the age of 18 months of age.
3. About 42 to 45 are cycles are consumed by about 15 years of age.
That means for puberty 3 cycles are used up.
4. After puberty one is left with only 5 cycles.
3. There is a condition called progeria where babies are born in advanced stage of cell cycle and rapidly age and die young.
4. If we take a somatocyte from (with mutated genome) a case of this condition one can modulate few more cell cycles to be advanced by culturing under correct conditions with sexual maturation and bald head.
