Porteus

New year new update
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Modules here: Module Downloads
05-devel here: 05-devel Download
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Changelog:

• Packages updated to 2025-01-02 (and mirrorlists set to corresponding package archive by default).

• package archive set to archive2.artixlinux.org ..seems to be more reliable

• Kernel updated to 6.12.8 (thanks Blaze)

• an update(maybe pacman) broke pman, now fixed in the sense that it works, but for the moment multiple packages will be bundled and packages will not be retained (var/cache/pacman/pkg is not used)

• Cinnamon: "black mirror" desktop theme removed(broken) now using default "cinnamon"

• Cinnamon: was a problem with a conflict between gnome-polkit and cinnamon's new internal polkit authentication agent > internal one partially disabled for now

• Lxde: rebuilt lxpanel-gtk3 with a patch to fix the volume icon scrolling function

ToDo
move gnome-polkit out of 003-shared to only DEs that use it ie. xfce and maybe cinnamon (or not once upstream works it's stuff out)
clean up /usr/local/bin/psu for outdated stuff
fix pman properly or at least better :p
update the language modules
make some 'addon' modules for lxqt and xfce to enable wayland sessions.

I have Cinnamon up and running. If I fine any problems I will point them out.

I try to view the content of Nemesis-v25.01-CINNAMON-x86_64.iso. I try mc, nemo as guest and nemo as root and none of these would work so what will work?

This is how I make a bootable USB I been using this way for years with porteus version 3.2 to 5.01 mate.

Jack wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2025, 01:57

I try to view the content of Nemesis-v25.01-CINNAMON-x86_64.iso. I try mc, nemo as guest and nemo as root and none of these would work so what will work?

in nemo, i you right click on the .iso, there should be an option to 'mount' it, which should mount it in /mnt/loop
or open a terminal, su to root and type "mloop <path/to/the/ISO>"
(later, if there's no option in nemo to unmount it, open a terminal, su to root and type "uloop")
or try engrampa, the archive manager (nemo should offer this in the 'open with' menu somewhere) ...in fact, just double clicking on it should do that.

In Porteus Cinnamon's nemo double clicking on .iso files opens them in Archive Manager which allows me to view and extract files in the .iso.

Ed_P wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2025, 06:52

In Porteus Cinnamon's nemo double clicking on .iso files opens them in Archive Manager which allows me to view and extract files in the .iso.

That how I did it Porteus for years but it don't seem to work in Nemesis.

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2025, 06:09

Jack wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2025, 01:57

I try to view the content of Nemesis-v25.01-CINNAMON-x86_64.iso. I try mc, nemo as guest and nemo as root and none of these would work so what will work?

in nemo, i you right click on the .iso, there should be an option to 'mount' it, which should mount it in /mnt/loop
or open a terminal, su to root and type "mloop <path/to/the/ISO>"
(later, if there's no option in nemo to unmount it, open a terminal, su to root and type "uloop")
or try engrampa, the archive manager (nemo should offer this in the 'open with' menu somewhere) ...in fact, just double clicking on it should do that.

I use open a terminal, su to root and type "mloop <path/to/the/ISO>" and did this I open up mc and copy the files to a USB and ran the script to make it bootable and it work.

So Thanks for your help.

I just watch my Laptop MENU TITLE Nemesis-v25.01 so I change mind to show MENU TITLE Nemesis-v25.1. So if anyone want to change it just use your editor to do it.

A few days ago I had had problems with pmod and came to check on the forum and found this new nemesis update.
I should update even if today I retried pmod and it worked, so it is not related (it was just a coincidence).
I must say that I am a bit of a lazy person and generally prefer to virtualize a distro first in order to make me tempted to install it, would there be any alternative to virtualbox?
I have tried a portable version of qemu however once nemesis gets to the desktop it seems to be unresponsive.
I thought it was the appimage and tried tinycore which works instead.

This is the last command I tried with qemu: -I also tried the cinnamon version but I have the same problem.
It doesn't seem stuck, the clock in the menu bar keeps running, so I think it's just an input problem.
-Same problem using vnc instead of gtk and sdl display
-I also tried an old version of porteus (works) and one of porteux (doesn't load x)

I'll try to ask qemu's issue tracker:

Solved whit this commad:
./QEMU-git-x86_64.AppImage qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -enable-kvm -usb -device usb-tablet -vga virtio -boot d -cdrom ./Nemesis-v25.01-XFCE-x86_64.iso

vinnie wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2025, 11:20

Solved whit this commad:

.. when i tried your previous command it 'broke' even my host's inputs..

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2025, 01:26

.. when i tried your previous command it 'broke' even my host's inputs..

you say the one without “-usb -device usb-tablet” ?
In the internet I was able to find several people who have similar problem like this
I can't say what it depends on though since I can't get virtualbox working, having qemu working is a good thing, for now I have tried it little but activating kvm seems to work decently.

vinnie wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2025, 08:40

you say the one without “-usb -device usb-tablet” ?

yeah that one,
just tried your second one and that works fine..
what are using for your host?

Nemesis 24.06.
it is true, I am lazy and I skipped a version (actually I was trying it on another pc), however by now nemesis is my main distro (if you remember that's why I can't get virtualbox to run )
The thing is, that's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for:
1) a minimal distro
2) persistent live (I can choose what to save of my changes)
3) with packages that are installed at startup (immutable)
4) everything in ram if needed
5) a lot of packages (arch)
6) no systemd (and no musl)
7) that respects privacy (I tested with firewalls and virtual machines, only arch's clock communicates over the internet, nothing else unless required)
8) good community (small but good)
Why should I change? the truth is that I am me too lazy to go deeper into it otherwise it is a great distro.

then, I installed this version on my desktop pc and it works like a charm.

ncmprhnsbl wrote: ↑

05 Jan 2025, 00:31

an update(maybe pacman) broke pman, now fixed in the sense that it works, but for the moment multiple packages will be bundled and packages will not be retained (var/cache/pacman/pkg is not used)

trying to understand:
"multiple packages will be bundled"
do you mean when pmod asks you to merge the dependencies in only one xzm? if that's what I think I've never tried to not merge them.

"and packages will not be retained (var/cache/pacman/pkg is not used)"
okay, since I don't maintain a directory of changes, I guess I don't notice this problem either since I re-download everything from 0 each time