Porteus

So Cad, for future reference, don't conflate EFI and Secure Boot together. Two different things. I run some modern hardware, that only allows you to turn off secure-boot, but otherwise, EFI booting is all you have. No fallback to legacy boot. Yet I still run normal installations for the most part on...

Turning compositing OFF fixed it! Thanks! Of course, I didn't try your suggestion first. Instead, I changed mice, changed ports, changed computers from an inexpensive hockey-puck pc to an Intel NUC (where there is no problem - and set specifically for uefi-only) Moral: take the advice of the devs fi...

Mouse droppings in XFCE RC 2 .. Noticed that on my modern uefi-only system if I hover over the filesystem icons, or any of the icons in the upper left, and move around, I'll notice some small video menu/icon degradation, most notably multiple / partial mouse icons getting left behind. The quick cure...

I had absolutely NO problems using Rufus to burn usb sticks for Porteus Kiosk on my modern uefi-ONLY machines. Here's a rundown of how simple it is. Reads like a lot, but once you do it, it is nearly second-nature. 1) Download the latest kiosk iso. 2) Download the md5 sum text file associated with i...

Options - because I've been there ... You may try using optional kernel bootcodes to find the ones that *might* tame the sdcard hardware, like noapic, nolapic, noacpi, etc etc, but might have performance implications elsewhere. And in the meantime during all this testing, you are successively crashi...

Jay - I apologize - I read the thread too fast to realize you are freezing with an SD card boot, not a usb. Unfortunately, a lot of sd card hardware can be flaky. For instance, my Intel NUC has no problem whatsoever booting and using sd cards with Linux. However, a very cheep-n-cheerful little off b...

Just for kicks to reduce variables, does it lockup with a corded-mouse instead of wireless? And later on at some point, dmesg will complain that you should probably run an fsck-vfat on that drive that gets shut down cold. I boot Porteus to ram, unmount the boot drive, fsck it. Here's where the EXIT:...

Rufus is a usb-stick burning utility. Without going too far off topic about it, if nothing else, it will properly recognize and format drives that windows won't recognize, or try to format with some strange capacity, like your 32gb stick windows tries to format to 12gb. :) Just use the non-bootable ...

NICE! Thank you!

I *do* use the original Firefox, but not on Porteus. I'm mostly offline with Porteus for the use-case I put it to. So ... this "light" browser was just an interest to see if all the junk they pulled out of Firefox like telemetry, pocket, and on and on, made any major reduction in overall download pa...

P.S. - I never tried using Rufus with Porteus before, and am glad to report that works just fine too. For my UEFI-only machines, I just made sure I used the "GPT" partitioning method, and the default iso burn worked fine. I never had a problem burning bootable drives from withing Porteus itself, and...

zahtar - in another thread indicated solved, that was done by following the most recent instructions in the iso (basically copying the entire contents of the mounted iso, which includes copying the EFI directory to the usb stick prior to running the porteus installer utility .. Now you won't need th...

Yep, some of the docs are a bit before uefi, so the instructions in the iso itself are the latest. Just copy the contents of the entire mounted iso to the flash drive before running the BOOT/Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe from the drive you copied the iso to. As a general reminder for windows use...

Just wondering if anyone has tried compiling Firefox-Light? Note that this is *different* from the android Firefox-Lite !! https://sourceforge.net/projects/lightfirefox/ Ok, so the last update seems to have been in 2016, but maybe as a low-key substitute for things like Dillo, Netsurf, etc? I'm thin...

No apology needed! I try, and often fail, to live up to the 2 rules about the code of conduct when I was involved in the Fidonet store-n-forward dialup network in the mid 80's. Saved me from decades of high-blood pressure, even though at times the very leaders seemed to ignore that code. :) So no sw...