Porteus

Bicephale wrote: ↑

30 Sep 2021, 07:23

Chop! Chop! Chop!

A Dana Carvey reference? That seems a bit dated.


Otherwise, it seems pretty nonsensical. And rather a waste of any reader's time. hmph.


Cheers!

hi guys. sorry for the late late late reply.

i don't really recall what happened. i think i was using it to do surgery on a windows box. and then got hit w/ O/T at work.

in any case, your advisories are much appreciated, and i hope you all are well!

Cheers!

i don't have the package manager. can anyone assist me with that? i understand the distro i installed didn't come with it. please help. [edit] i know that's no way to behave in a forum like this. i am old and haven't done this in a long time. i'm just excited over how slick this distro is! Can anyon...

and i'm not being tracked (as much as a person can legitimately expect to not be tracked these days) and i don't have to worry about any bs. this is exactly what it needs to be. :applause: very well done, ladies and gentlemen.

So. it just doesn't make sense how nice and fast and no messed up nonsense this is. i really didn't want to have to learn a new way of installing packages, but... i dunno man. this is super awesome.

porteus-5.0 is binary compatible with slackware(current and eventually 15.0) packages and has tools that can convert them (eg. txz2xzm) there are various web based tools that can be used to find them eg. slakfinder.org or pkgs.org or packages.slackware.com (dependency resolution is manual) Excellen...

[EDIT] Thanks for your replies!! regarding the software manager which isn't in this version of Porteus, would you recommend I install an earlier release to better understand how to use it? If so, please advise. Currently it will be run on a Lenovo IdeaCentre K330B (8G RAM). my installation info: ~$ ...

Reading through this forum, I learn that I can use USM. I have no USM in my Menu. I have typed sudo usm -u all std out is "usm: command not found" I am running the presisten version, which gives me the "guest" user and my files from previous sessions are saved. Did it not install correctly? I don't ...

Greetings. I am new to Porteus and xzm. I am sure I will learn a lot here. Thanks for reading. My primary question as a newbie is: where do I go to find available software that's supporting by the community? All of my web searches are listing results that bring me to this forum. I'm writing this pos...

Hi there. Just installed Porteus to a USB stick, and it rocks! I can't believe how smooth and fast it runs... and i'm not even running it from RAM! Now I just have to decide if I, starting out with Fedora mid 2000's, gravitating toward the 'buntu's, then mostly Mint so I'm mostly familiar w/ Debian ...