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Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

nelz — Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:50 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:50 am

Or a cover disc devoted to Emacs

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:17 am

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:17 am

Somehow, I found OpenBSD a disappointment.
I was thrilled to see UNIX in any form available,
but having been one of folks who used UNIX on a
PDP-11/70 back in the late 70's, I was surprised
to find so much unchanged. Drivers with the same
name comes to mind... It was like taking a step back into
the dark ages. I did enjoy some of the old editors
on very early versions! "B-Zero-L-T was fine wiith me.
Some of the fixed font editors have features I sometimes miss.
Now there is something for a cover disk,
some distro loaded up with editors....

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

Paradigm Shifter — Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:38 pm

Author: Paradigm Shifter

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:38 pm

If I was going to pick a linux distro that emphasised security, it wouldn't be a linux distro - it'd be OpenBSD.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:19 am

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:19 am

That was a bit off topic - (China)
What distro is easiest to setup to protect what is inside our box?
Red Hat, Fedora seem to require too much tweeking.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

Ram — Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:17 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 7:17 am

heiowge wrote:

Haven't missed an issue since issue 100.

I missed Manjaro. I didn't spot it on the disc. Was it 32 or 64 bit? If it was 32, it could be why I didn't remember...

Aye it was, I put it on my Dell mini 9

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:29 am

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 5:29 am

Grammer, gramper, ah, oh, grammar!
Much ado about a linguistic nothing...

hey, how about about a cover disk addressing the
military assault on our computers from China?

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

heiowge — Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:06 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 6:06 pm

Haven't missed an issue since issue 100.

I missed Manjaro. I didn't spot it on the disc. Was it 32 or 64 bit? If it was 32, it could be why I didn't remember...

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

Ram — Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:43 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:43 pm

heiowge wrote:

oldpenguin wrote:

excuse my grammer!

*grammar

Grammar excused. Spelling not.

I'd like to see Manjaro on there.

heiowge - did you miss LXF167 ?

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

nelz — Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:05 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:05 am

Fair enough, but I don't believe that Gentoo works on cover discs (and having used Gentoo for nearly ten years and made cover discs for even longer, that's not a conclusion I came to rashly). As a distro in its own right, it really needs a decent Internet connection. However, as a construction kit for other distros it is really good, and some of those make good cover disc material.

I agree that we need more than the usual suspects.

Incidentally, the Gentoo live DVDs are both 32 bit and 64 bit on the same disc, it autodetects which kernel to use, but there aren't many of us left that are daft enough to run 32 bit Gentoo (I have it running on a small 486 box here).

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

heiowge — Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:37 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 8:37 am

oldpenguin wrote:

excuse my grammer!

*grammar

Grammar excused. Spelling not.

I'd like to see Manjaro on there.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:57 am

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:57 am

I was just looking for the full blown distro
without a long slow download. I've been a LXF
reader for years. Thanks NETZ, just suggesting
a cover disk that isn't Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, debian, etc.
All good distros... just suggesting a new flavor.
I was aware of the rescue dvd, which is good,
but not a full blown version.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

nelz — Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:02 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:02 pm

Just use System Rescue CD, it's what I usually use to install Gentoo. It even works with ZFS now, which was the one advantage of the latest Gentoo DVD.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:55 pm

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:55 pm

excuse my grammer!
I was looking for an executable LIVE CD 32 BIT.
thank you.

where do I find Linux for an 8080 processor?
I got 4 of em' ganged together.
<grin>

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

nelz — Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:44 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:44 am

There's no such thing as 32 bit or 64 bit Gentoo as far as the files are concerned, since they are only source code. The bittiness of the installed code depends on your profile and CHOST settings.

Re: what distros would you like to see on a coverdisc?

oldpenguin — Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:33 am

Author: oldpenguin

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:33 am

How about a double sided w/32bit Gentoo on that second side?