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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Linux lovers
The Raspberry PI guys have built a distro, based on Debian, for desktops / laptops.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pixel-pc-mac/ Seems they put a heavy emphasis on supporting old low powered, by todays standards, desktops and laptops. Still in development so only runs as Live CD / USB drive, no installer. But they do have a switch for persistence so you can run it and save changes from boot to boot. I fired it up virtualized using Debian 7 as the base target, worked great.
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12-27-2016, 05:34 AM
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Cool. I may have give it a try. Ive been using Tahrpup for 2 years and its going to be hard to beat that.
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12-27-2016, 06:39 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: State of Failure
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Ubuntu has been great to me.
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12-27-2016, 07:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Started hating ubuntu 5 or so years ago when they let the udev system start changing the name of your network adapter based on its mac address. Granted my use case is fairly uncommon - my students install Linux to external USB drives so they can boot off USB on any computer and have a full system. No, a live DVD won't work - they need to create VMs in virtual box, install apps, change settings, etc. Then the gnome3/unity crap started.
Been very happy with Mint. Latest version runs fine on 7+ year old hardware, although the 10 year old desktop I have at work is starting to show its teeth - mainly in that while it is a 64bit cpu, it can't virtualize a 64bit system for me. Servers have been Debian for 15 years, ain't planning on switching... |
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12-27-2016, 07:25 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Calgary Alberta, CANADA
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I'm not sure I buy the idea of yet another distro with GUI.. There are over 100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions)
..and many of them have been out for years, This PIXEL is very 'basic' and may be another one that started as a good idea with good intentions but will run out of steam and will be abandoned (at least on desktops). I mean great that kids/companies have a Linux GUI for the Pi but frankly speaking, if you have a desktop Windows/Mac/Linux why would you change to PIXEL? And if you have Pi as the main computer.. you'll commit suicide in 2 hours of surfing or basic stuff like banking or youtube. I don't think we need more, those developers could work on improving KDE, GNOME, etc.. if usability is a problem...
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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Have not gotten in the Raspberry world yet. Arduino still does everything I need it too.
I do software development, one of the few open source teams in our company. Most of us run Ubuntu, the rest are Mint, with one Red Hat guy. |
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12-27-2016, 08:29 AM
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