Porteus

I think the most technically interesting and least dramatic pros and cons comes from a view from the outside - Benno Rice of FreeBSD about it. Of course BSD can't use it, but he is very interested in Cgroups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo Probably the most intelligent talk about it I'v...

Ok, one more and I'll stop.... Unix was up to SIXTEEN installations. Still written in assembler but transitioning to being totally written in C. PIPES !!! It was a time for experimentation and exploration. Just like this video of early Roxy Music that will STILL scare your parents if they hear you p...

Great subject, particularly the strategy! For me, no matter what rig you are running, don't cheap out on the monitor! You can't replace your eyes, so if you are running a $35 RPI, don't feel weird with a $350 monitor behind it. Power: unless you are running an heirloom or museum quality computer, ho...

Preaching to the choir I guess, but here goes .. It only took two day before the fingers went magneticaly to the donate button. But not just because everything works on my low end Intel NUC (NUC6CAYH) - plenty of stuff does - but I found that Porteus seems well-engineered for it's use-case. For a vo...

A tribute to Keith Emerson (rip) from Rachel Flowers when she lost her muse, mentor and friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb7G_K5iRBk Sad, but she keeps moving on .... To lighten things up, how about a recent version of King Crimson' Starless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhKJgqxNDD8 Heh, s...

Wow - I didn't realize it uses a pretty recent version of Busybox. That's not too far behind the very latest, especially compared to most major distros that seemed stalled at a version from about 6-7 years ago. I use Busybox in some other projects, so I'm stoked to see it in use with Porteus. This i...

Hi gang - new guy question about the default version of the vi editor on my 64 bit Porteus 4.0 ... Is it an older busybox-vi type of thing? NVI stripped down, or what? Not a huge deal - I love the vi editor, but I don't always feel the need for vim xzm. The old nvi did just fine for me, or compiling...

For me it was the apostraphe key driving me batty with the dead-key behavior. One other solution that worked for me was that since my system identified with a flag for US English in the toolbar, I clicked my way to happiness with: Settings > Keyboard > Layout and checked [x] Use system defaults Good...