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Post#1 by raja » 15 Feb 2021, 03:39

A new avatar of nemisis, a media center edition is presented . Hope this will meet expectation of media enthusiasts. Thanks to porteus team of developers

https://mega.nz/file/AX423aSK#h4GFtNzgF ... SAM0ptn4fA

md5sum:e756145174244e1a9855a5be40cbd475 portix-media-center-v1.0-x86_64.iso
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Post#2 by raja » 15 Mar 2021, 02:08

Removal of openshot has found to have broken another application.

Portix Media Center has been upgraded to include Openshot Video Editor and Great Little Radio Player.

Portix Media Center

md5sum:44297cf7d353a2ff3082b860d5d012dc portix-media-center-v2.0-x86_64.iso

Applications in PMC-v2.0:

Mousepad
Screenshot
Xarchiever

Fluid
Geany

Gimp
Ristretto Image Viewer

firefox
Netsurf

Audacity
Great Little Radio Player
Guvcview
Kodi
Linux Multi Media Studio
MPV
OBS Studio
Openshot Video Editor
Simpe Screen Recorder
SM Player
SM Tube
Youtube-dl

Abiword

All Applications are current version.

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Post#3 by francois » 15 Mar 2021, 22:51

Great idea.
Bravo!
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Post#4 by raja » 18 Mar 2021, 10:42

Portix media Center boots to Desktop with all those applications in 13.6 seconds in an old desktop pc with Intel Pentium G620 processor.

Could cut a few seconds with current I3, I5, I7 processors. CPU mitigations are on.

Base and Modules are compressed in ZSTD with Xcompreesion-level 19.

Great little Radio Player has 80 streaming stations. A screenshot of glrp..

https://i.imgur.com/TD8gI9Q.png

conky is placed in optional. Firefox current had many tab crashes (pocket news) . So gone back to v79.0

kodi needs api key, client ID and client secret for youtube. But smtube can fetch youtube and play in sm player. youtube.dl is placed in /guest/bin.
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Post#5 by francois » 18 Mar 2021, 11:18

You should introduce your installation on kodi forums. I am sure this would be a hit. The speed of nemesis makes it a great contender to host kodi. Don't you think? :)

I would be frankly very happy that nemesis could clone into all sorts of flavor. This basic artic-archlinux distribution is very fast and polyvalent. :happy62:
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Post#6 by raja » 22 Apr 2021, 05:56

Now, a preview video for Portix Media Center is available for public viewing.

Preview

Tor Browser,Sub Title Editor appearing in menu are not available in the ISO.

I have mistakenly placed .kodi folder in /home/guest/.config. please cut and paste it in /home/guest for using available addons, before starting kodi.
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Post#7 by raja » 21 Apr 2022, 10:05

Portix Media Centre with Libre office

Image

Portix media centre-21042022-x86_64-v4

Size:1.0gb

md5sum::c850f6929e43d4c7e04457fff22c1032 portix-21042022-x86_64-v4.iso

All Applications::

Accessories

Arichives manager
Galculator
Image Viewer
Screenshot

Education

Libre Office Math

Graphics

Gimp
Inkspace
Libre Office Draw

Internet

Firefox
Netsurf
Opera


Office

Abiword
Gnumeric
Libre Office
ePDF Viewer

Programming

Geany

Sound & Video

Ardour
Audacious
Audacity
Avidemux
Great Little Radio Player
Kodi
LXMusic Player
OBS Studio
Pulse Audio Volume Controller
Simple Screen recorder
SM Player
Guvcview
MPV

System Tools

gparted
Task Manager
Conky
Create live USB Disk
On/Off conky

Linux kernel:5.17.2

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[guest@porteus ~]$ uname -a
Linux porteus 5.17.2-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 11 17:18:16 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# Booting device:
/mnt/sda8

# Porteus data found in:
/mnt/isoloop/portix


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Post#8 by francois » 15 May 2022, 00:52

Do you use portix always fresh or with save changes option?

Downloading portix now!

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Post#9 by raja » 15 May 2022, 10:00

I never use changes option. I change my settings as I want, create a module out of it, install all applications in one go and leave it at that.

Arch libraries/applications are updated frequently, and they will mess with our applications, if we decide to add anything new.

I left APPEND changes=/portix/changes, uncommented in porteus.cfg and should work , if the folder is in ext4 partition. In case of trouble # that line. Thanks.
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Post#10 by lucdeluc » 03 Jun 2022, 04:02

first of all, good morning
im really interested in your portix, tried to download from mediafire, but an error in mediafire ( it continue restarting generation of a new key) prevent to download
can you help me maybe with a different link of download?
ty very much

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Post#11 by raja » 03 Jun 2022, 09:28

No idea what is happening with mediafire..

Shall upload to mega.nz when I get good upload speed , sometime in the night and share link. Thank you.
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Post#12 by raja » 03 Jun 2022, 11:52

Here it is. Link from mega.nz

Portix media centre-21042022-x86_64-v4
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Post#13 by lucdeluc » 04 Jun 2022, 05:28

ty very much.
im testing...
it seems very promising, i use to boot ventoy method, boot perfectly in two pure efi pc, and run very vell , in an other pc that can use efi and legacy boot , cannot boot nor efi nor legacy , have to try generating a different usb not ventoy based.
what about printing support?
i tried to install xzm modules that works in porteus mate v5 but without success
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Post#14 by raja » 04 Jun 2022, 09:45

Porteus Artix(portix) is based on Arch Linux. Slackware based porteus modules will not work.

I do not have a printer and no way of testing for printer support.

However I made a module for printer support. You can test and report.

After booting with portix-printing.xzm, you will have to start printing service and update for rc status.

commands:

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su
toor
rc-update add avahi-daemon default
rc-service cupsd start 
rc-update add cupsd default
and find if printing service is on

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rc-status
Hope this works.

portix-printing-module

Thanks for your feedback and happy to know that portix-media-center booted flawlessly in your EFI only machines. It works same way in legacy pcs also.
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Post#15 by lucdeluc » 05 Jun 2022, 16:16

very strange situation , have updated ventoy to last version and with it i can boot without problems now in all my efi pc, but not in legacy boot, ends in black screeen whit this error:failed to load ldlinux.c32
tried to generate a boot usb in different way
1 using create liveusb included in your portix
2 using yumi efi that works normally without problems for all linux distro i have tested
3 using rufus
noone solution works nor bios nor efi
what method do you suggest to create a working usb in bios and in efi?
ah tried also to boot directly iso file in virtualbox as livecd without success, the same in qemutester.
for the moment the only solution is use your iso in ventoy usb and it works as expected but only in efi boot
ah tried also to redownload iso file this time from mediafire ( that now works again)( in case it was corrupt) compared the two files ( one from mediafire , the other from mega.nz) and crc 32 and sha 256 are identical so it cannot be the problem. :wall:
my best reguards

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