Porteus

Hello, i have old Pentium M 1.6GHz CPU with Porteus 3.2.2 XFCE booted and all video files are jerky/torn (do not know right english word, simply do not play fluently by any means) and the CPU is exhausted (98%+). I think the main CPU process is xorg. When i play same video on Kali Linux (live), the ...

With the changes=EXIT cheatcode the /tmp folder is not saved. Along with several others. The main thing I like with the EXIT option is if I screw up some things testing I can bypass updating the save.dat file when rebooting. I got same issue as OP, and when used EXIT boot option as advised by Ed_P,...

Hello, i am noob Porteus 3.2.2 user having computer without HDD atm. I booted Porteus from FAT USB flash disk created in Windows by programs Rufus and Universal USB Installer. The result was always the flash disk that is not writable for persistence by Porteus thanks to the FAT/NTFS. Which is freque...

UPDATE2: Close the lid works Thx for the feedback Ed_P. In Xfce Power Manager (installed by default), the default action on lid close is to lock screen, so i set suspend and it suspended the laptop . Then on awake i see everything, but everything is frozen, except mouse cursor which change its shape...

Hello, in Porteus 3.1 i was able to suspend my laptop (Latitude D600), there was a suspend option. But in Porteus 3.2.2 i do not see this option. I tried to suspend it by command: sudo /usr/sbin/ pm-suspend but when pushed the power button to wake up PC, i seen a black screen with grayscale mosaic (...

Because of the unsolved obstacles mentioned above, i went the long way, booting Windows (fortunately had that option) and used Rufus app to extract the 3.2.2 .iso to the flash disk which i then successfully booted. Under Porteus 3.2.2 Then it took more than hour to update all USM databases. Then whe...

@brokenman I just tried to do it, but have an issue i described at: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=7229 @Ed_P Is there a /home/guest/.tor folder? No, it is not at that path. I also did: sudo find / -name configure.ac find: `/home/guest/.gvfs': Permission denied /usr/share/libtool/lib...

Hello, i have bootable flash drive with Porteus 3.1 made by Windows application "Universal USB Installer". Now i would like to upgrade my flash disk to Porteus 3.2 from within running Proteus 3.1 What is the easiest method? I renamed porteus, boot, uui folders on my flash drive and then used Porteus...

Or which command to use to decrypt this .dat file so i can access my data inside it please?

Hello, as a noob in Linux, i installed version 3.1 instead of 3.2, i think this should not happen and can be improved. Here is how i proceed: 1. http://www.porteus.org / Download / Desktop edition 2. find text: "You can download the ISO and other files for the desktop edition from any of our mirrors...

This link help fix the tor error? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19904 On that page i found the file "linkjig.patch" (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/19904/linkjig.patch). I googled how to patch, but it seems difficult for me to understand how to do it. D...

Did you update the USB databases before you did your tor search? thx, Yes, i think so. Now i just clicked USM/Updates/Update All , finished, told me i need to restart the app and refresh databases (unsure how). So i closed USM and reopened and searched for tor and found only the one i mentioned. i ...

Hello, when entering passphrase during boot upon mounting my porteussave.dat file the Cryptsetup LUKS can not mount my savedata.dat file saying there is no key that match my passphrase. "no key available with this passphrase" How can i generate the key, unsure what i did wrong, i think the Porteus s...

Hello, in Porteus Settings Centre / Porteus Changes, there are options: - Porteus Save Changes - Porteus Save Session from its description is not clear to me what is the difference. It would be helpfull to tell the example use in description or rephrase it so noob knows the difference. Also when the...

Hello, i wanted to run tor, so i can set my browser to use Socks v5, 127.0.0.1, port 9050. so i can have tor IP. I run Porteus 3.1 486 Linux porteus 3.17.4-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 12 16:04:56 Local time zone must be set-- i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux And...