Distro-hoppers Anonymous

chameleon · 2012-10-16 13:04:46

siduction-noX 2012.1.7

http://siduction.org/

Worth a look if you want to build your system from scratch...

hinto · 2012-10-16 13:14:02

^ I installed #! but set the repos to siduction...
nothing but net

sqlpython · 2012-10-16 19:40:03

Lovin the BBQ !!

merelyjim · 2012-10-16 19:46:37

Will try Oyster soon...

In the meantime, Voyager Linux is pretty cool. And Xfce desktop, based off Xubuntu, but graphically stunning!

Like having a distro made from a Coffee-table Photograpgy book. Recommend loading it up just to see the wallpapers they've collected. smile

http://voyager.legtux.org/

machinebacon · 2012-10-19 04:47:14

"Bauchspeck" RC1 64bit is ready: http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=82#p82

It's a painfully snappy GNOME 3.4.2 base (Debian sid), for those users who want to add the bloat by themselves wink And it comes with a tool to create an ISO of your running system (at any time, with little tweaking even from a live session), so you can share it or use it on other computers. Documentation is included. No-nonsense, fast and fully functional. Have fun and roast your own!

iamnutz · 2012-10-19 14:27:25

Have I just never noticed or are you seeing more and more open-source apps being ported to the win-platform? Wonder if that provides some sort of monetary return,, hmmmm...

machinebacon · 2012-10-19 16:05:22

Open-source doesn't always mean "free as in beer" smile The poor programmers need to earn some bread big_smile

pvsage · 2012-10-19 16:25:45

^ Apparently open-source is where the jobs are right now. Exciting times ahead in the Land of Tux!

EDIT: I wonder how long it will be before some other upstart OS comes along and changes the playing field again.

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Digit · 2012-10-20 02:35:06

merelyjim wrote:

^
Nothing really special,

methinks that downplayed bbq's other features and configurations far far too much. i've not tried it yet, but from screenshots and discussions... it's well worth investigating and trying out for reasons beyond just it's glut of wm.

porkpiehat wrote:

Digit wrote:
i already have about that many installed...
Well aren't you special?

^_^ nope. anyone can.

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iamnutz · 2012-10-20 22:29:32

machinebacon wrote:

Open-source doesn't always mean "free as in beer" The poor programmers need to earn some bread

Does this mean I <i>wont<i/> be getting my free-beer-membership card anytime soon??? roll

merelyjim · 2012-10-20 22:43:40

^
The card is free, the beer we charge for...

iamnutz · 2012-10-20 23:01:50

pvsage wrote:

^ Apparently open-source is where the jobs are right now. Exciting times ahead in the Land of Tux!
EDIT: I wonder how long it will be before some other upstart OS comes along and changes the playing field again.

well, after a half bottle of Patron, listening to Bloomberg, reading IBM blogs, eyeballing trending stocks and piping Pink Floyd's "the machine" into my ears I start having dilusions of more than cloud services, as in cloud OS's and life on a "tablet" hmm ,, think OS/2 revival?

hinto · 2012-10-22 13:16:38

Another distro that helped me get into Linux.....

Slax

Has a new preview.

-Hinto

sqlpython · 2012-10-22 13:42:42

^ Latest Slax looks good.
Has always had a nice model and I kept one in my computer bag for years as a Recovery Disk.

chameleon · 2012-10-27 00:10:12

A really cool hacker distrolet my babies....

http://youtu.be/BFjDM_UE-7Y

I think this is showing a lot of COOLNESS cool

I guess there is more to come.....:/

hinto · 2012-10-27 16:56:02

PearOS 6 is out. http://pearlinux.fr/
-Hinto

Agnus · 2012-10-27 18:52:10

My first encounter with Linux was in late 1994 when I was in tech college. We were drilled in a lot of cool stuff there including 8085 assembler, C coding, digital hardware practises and UNIX. I immediately fell in love with both, C and UNIX. At that time, being a student, a single-user license for the x86 based "SCO UNIX" I was trained on was way, way beyond my financial situation. So my mentor borrowed me a "public domain UNIX" that had just caught his attention. That "public domain UNIX" turned out to be "SuSE Slackware", a box containing 50 3.5" floppy disks.

Since then I've been using the following selection of distros for daily work (but tried out way more along the way): SuSE Linux (1994 -1998), RedHat Linux (1998-2000), Gentoo Linux (2000-2002), Debian Linux (2002-2005). Between 2005 and 2012 I've been kind of a schmock as I've been using various Apple Macintosh systems (Mac mini G4, iMac 24", iMac 27") as desktop systems (my two laptops, at that time, were Ubuntu based and my servers ran and still run CentOS). The Mac was quite a comfy ride down UNIX avenue but content restrictions, stupid lawsuits and Apple's ever-growing ego drove me back to good old Linux in June this year.

Now I'm with Ubuntu 12.04 on my primary disk and #! on my second disk. The latter serves as POC for the final switch to #! in favour of Ubuntu.

P.S.: at my day job we just use licensed RedHat Enterprise Linux, which is OK if you run the Linux dept. for a not-so-small international player.

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jmad2011 · 2012-10-29 18:59:58

<---has cured himself got the bright idea to do a gentoo install on my main system after all this i think it will be staying (!# is still on my file server where the important stuff resides)

cl00t · 2012-10-29 20:25:46

jmad2011 wrote:

<---has cured himself got the bright idea to do a gentoo install on my main system after all this i think it will be staying (!# is still on my file server where the important stuff resides)

I got 2 hours into a gentoo install once, then I asked myself why I was making life hard for myself then set my backup re-installing & went to the pub big_smile

dgz · 2012-10-30 05:15:06

Agnus wrote:

Apple's ever-growing ego

i see what you mean. it's funny how a whole company can have an ego. well done for kicking the apple habit, also.

will be jumping back into #! with two feet tomorrow, the laziness of windows has been numbing my mind so. right now i'm using debian/awesome-wm but i'm starting to miss the bells and whistles of #!. good to have a reason to keep posting here too.

might also install livarp to see what it's like.

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hinto · 2012-10-31 13:23:24

LVM has really put the brakes on my distro hopping sad .
I had a machine that came pre-installed with LVM.. I should have taken the time to repartition at the get-go, but I wanted to give that distro the good ole "college try".
So now I have an LVM partitioned installation, but I'm looking to hop. Are there any other distros out there with LVM support built into the installer? I know I can add it later with chroot, etc, but I was looking for the "quick fix".
I know siduction allows to install into and existing LVM partition, and I imagine any RH distro. Are there any others?
Thanks.
-Hinto

jmad2011 · 2012-10-31 15:10:00

hinto wrote:

LVM has really put the brakes on my distro hopping .
I had a machine that came pre-installed with LVM.. I should have taken the time to repartition at the get-go, but I wanted to give that distro the good ole "college try".
So now I have an LVM partitioned installation, but I'm looking to hop. Are there any other distros out there with LVM support built into the installer? I know I can add it later with chroot, etc, but I was looking for the "quick fix".
I know siduction allows to install into and existing LVM partition, and I imagine any RH distro. Are there any others?
Thanks.
-Hinto

i install sabyon about a week ago and its defualt install using whole drive lvm

hinto · 2012-10-31 15:27:18

^oh nice... I've been keeping my eye on sabayon for some time.
How is entropy as compared to synaptic/apt?
-H

merelyjim · 2012-10-31 15:42:37

^
Last time I used Entropy on Sabayon was about six months ago, and search for a packages was dead-easy - loved it - but updating or the equivalent to dist-upgrade took forever.
In the end there were just too many Debian-based tricks I had picked up that wouldn't work there...

hinto · 2012-11-01 17:58:03

Just installed Fuduntu and the tremors (and the voices) stopped wink
It is quite nice.
-Hinto

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